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Events for the public
 July 2012
Wednesday 04
13:00 - FREE LECTURE - Crossing Country: Jimmy Pike and his Artline drawings Website | More Information
Join Dr John Stanton, Curatorial Director of the Berndt Museum, for a talk on the current exhibition - previously unseen works on paper by distinguished Walmajarri artist Jimmy Pike, c.1940 – 2002.

Pike is best known for his paintings in acrylics on canvas. He also produced a large number of felt-tip pen drawings on paper. Desert Designs reproduced some of these on fabric; others remained in sketchbooks and have not previously been seen. The works on display are a fraction of the collection held at the Berndt Museum. They were created between 1990 and 2000, in the heat and wind at Kurlku outstation, and at a table on the verandah at his home in Broome.

Dr Stanton will also talk about Pike’s upbringing in country to the far south of Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley – an area the Kardiya (white man) called the Great Sandy Desert, but to the Walmajarri was home and a good place to live, thanks to the Beings of the Jumangkarni (Dreamtime). A number of works in the exhibition focus on the activities of the Dreaming Beings at these places.

Free event.

16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Planning and Environmental Impact Assessment of Large-Scale Coastal and Marine Infrastructure Developments in WA. Website | More Information
Western Australia is undergoing a significant ‘mining boom’. The primary commodities driving that boom are iron-ore and oil and gas. These commodities are destined for export by sea and require the creation of new ports in green fields sites, and expansions of most of the existing ones.

The scale and pace of these developments is staggering and presents challenges on a range of fronts, not least being those related to the environment. This presentation will provide insight into the contemporary issues associated with the planning and environmental impact assessment of large scale marine infrastructure proposals in Western Australia. The focus will be on the tropical northwest of WA and use the Kimberley LNG precinct as an example.

Bio,

Dr Ray Masini is a marine ecologist with nearly 30 years experience working in Western Australian marine ecosystems, with particular focus on the temperate and tropical arid ecosystems of the central-west and north-west coasts.

He holds an adjunct professorship in the Centre for Ecosystem Management at Edith Cowan University and for the last 16 years has held the position of Manager, Marine Ecosystems Branch in the now Strategic Policy and Planning Services Division of the Office of the EPA (OEPA). This group develops marine environmental policy and provides technical advice to the Environmental Protection Authority and Government generally on the impact and management of marine-related development proposals including aquaculture, desalination and industrial discharges, petroleum-based exploration and production, and port development and expansion. Ray also sits on a number of expert groups and State-based committees (including the Coastal Planning and Coordination Council and the Executive Advisory Group for Marine Oil Spill response) and has been involved in the planning and management of a range of multidisciplinary marine-scientific studies around the State’s 13,000 km coastline.

He was centrally involved in the planning, site selection and assessment of an LNG precinct on the Kimberley coast. More recently, he has been instrumental in establishment of a dredging science initiative that uses over $10M in environmental offset funds to better predict and manage the impact of dredging in tropical coral reef communities. Ray is also involved in environmental management strategy and policy formulation at the State and National levels.

PS* This seminar is free and open to the public & no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****
Thursday 05
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - The Biological Portrait : Public talk with SymbioticA Director Oron Catts Website | More Information
Oron Catts, Director of SymbioticA, will present a lecture on biological portraits at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, during which attendees will find petri dishes into which a personal flora of bacteria will be collected from each interested participant and cultured for a week in the laboratory. Viewing of this biological self-portrait will be conducted one week later at SymbioticA’s lab room 222 on Thursday 12 July between 2- 3 pm.

Location: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Cnr Fairway, Crawley. When: Thursday 5 July, 3.30–5pm. (Then Thursday 12 July 2012, 2-3pm School of Anatomy and Human Biology Lab Room 222).

Bookings: Places are limited. Please RSVP to [email protected] by 5pm on Monday 2 July 2012. Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected].


18:00 - SCREENING - The Quest of Jimmy Pike (1990, 51 Minutes, G) : Free Film Screening More Information
The Quest of Jimmy Pike demonstrates the extraordinary life of internationally renowned artist Jimmy Pike, a Walmajarri man who became an artist through the most unlikely of circumstances. The film depicts Jimmy Pike’s introduction to art and the story behind the man that became an Australian icon.

The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery will be open in the evening from 5-6pm for a special viewing of the exhibition prior to the film.

Limited seating, please RSVP by Friday 29 June to Alexandra Tough on [email protected] or (08) 6488 3079
Friday 06
18:00 - EVENT - Portraits in Guitar Website | More Information
In celebration of the magnificent exhibition Beyond Likeness: contemporary portraiture on show at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, join Western Australia’s own guitar specialist John Casey and his guitar ensemble in an intimate conversation that explores the aural portraits created by composers. Don’t miss out on this intimate and fascinating journey.

Presented by the UWA School of Music and the UWA Cultural Precinct.

Standard $35 Friends of UWA School of Music/Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery $30 Tickets at BOCS www.bocsticketing.com.au or 9484 1133
Monday 09
9:00 - EVENT - Campus Challenge : An exciting experience for year 11 and 12 students to experience life at uni More Information
Campus Challenge aims to provide high school students with the opportunity to experience different aspects of university life through participation in academic, sporting, recreational and social activities on campus at The University of Western Australia.

The main objective of the event is to enable students to make vital decisions about their future tertiary education by exposing them to all aspects of university life.

Places are limited.

Please contact Kerina Puttman at [email protected] to receive an application form.

16:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - "India�s Enigmatic Policy towards Iran" by Professor P.R. Kumaraswamy : For close to a decade Iran has emerged as the most controversial and contested dimension of India’s foreign policy. The bonhomie that was visible following the end of the Cold War gave way to disputes, tensions and above all excessive US intervention. More Information
Synopsis: While some of the problems were external and hence beyond the control of both these countries, Iran has not been an easy customer and India’s ability to pursue energy security relations with Tehran has been compounded by a host of bilateral disputes and tension. Until Iran resolves its dispute with the wider international community, the Indo-Iranian relations would continue to be uneven and unpredictable.

17:30 - TALK - Biosecurity and Biosafety - The Balance Between New Knowledge and Dangerous Research More Information
Dr Harvey Rubin will present a seminar on bioterrorism (what is it and how do we recognize it?) and illustrate the ethical considerations for the modern scientist when conducting your own work. In his talk he will consider if changes to our current governance should be considered necessary for the safe and ethical conduct of research in infectious diseases which would enhance public safety and security but that could occur at the expense of scientific curiosity. Dr Rubin is the director of the Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response (ISTAR) at the University of Pennsylvania. His research in microbiology involves investigating the pathogenesis of dormancy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and understanding the enzymology and cell biology of serine proteases and serine protease inhibitors: His lab is also involved in biomolecular computation, a new endeavour in which complex computational operations are carried out using biomolecules, in particular using DNA to create reversible logic gates. This seminar is supported by the West Australian branch of the Australian Society of Microbiology. Light refreshments will be available at this event. Parking is available at the Medicine and Dentistry library or in Hampden Rd.

17:30 - SCREENING - Scarlet Road (Director's Cut) Screening and Q&A : Sex Work, Sexual Citizenship, Disability, Urban Planning Website | More Information
Scarlet Road follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specialises in a long-overlooked clientele – people with disability. This screening will feature the Director's Cut of Scarlet Road (70mins) and will be followed by a Q&A session featuring Rachel Wotton, Dr Gareth Merriman (WA Sexology Society) and Dr Paul Maginn (UWA, Urban and Regional Planning). The Q&A session seeks to highlight and explore the various public policy issues, especially urban planning, health and law, that surround sex work, sexual citizenship and the sexual aspirations and needs of people with disabilities.

There is a cost to attend this event with all proceeds being donated to Touching Base Inc and the Fred Hollows Foundation. Tix can be purchased from - http://www.trybooking.com/BPCK
Tuesday 10
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Faces of Family: A Conversation with Julie Dowling Website | More Information
Join renowned Western Australian artist Julie Dowling and Lee Kinsella, curator of Julie Dowling: Family and Friends, as they talk about Julie's auto-ethnographic approach to portraiture and the stories that resonate behind the works in the exhibition. Free event.

19:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - Friends of the Library Speaker : Passions for Learning More Information
Passions for Learning and of the Unreasonably Learned in the Eighteenth Century

The Dutch physician and Latin poet, Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (1728-1801), published in Groningen in 1790 an expanded edition of his Latin didactic poem on ‘the health of men of letters’ (‘De valetudine literatorum’), which he originally composed as a medical student in Paris some forty years earlier and published in 1749. Heerkens’ work belongs to a long tradition of humanist theorising and worrying about the occupational safety of the learned. In the years between the first and second editions, Samuel Auguste André David Tissot (1728–1797), Lausanne physician, professor, and public health advocate (best known to posterity for his writings on migraine and masturbation) had also published a Latin academic oration on ‘the health of men of letters’. Heerkens does not neglect to assert the priority of his own ‘De valetudine literatorum’. It must have been galling for Heerkens to see that Tissot’s oration stigmatised as pathological precisely the sort of life of learning -- and life-long learning! -- in which Heerkens himself was engaged. In my lecture I shall review his Heerkens’ rather testy engagement with Tissot, his defence of the passion for learning, and advice to the learned on moderating their passions. Were scholars and scientists inherently unreasonable?

About the Speaker

Yasmin Haskell is Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. She has published on neo-Latin literature, the early modern Society of Jesus, and the history of psychiatry. In the Centre for the History of Emotions she is co-ordinating projects on ‘Jesuit Emotions’ and ‘Passions for Learning’. Her most recent (edited) book, 'Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period’, is published by Brepols.

Free parking is available via Entrance 1, Car Park No. 3

If glass door is unmanned, please enter via spiral staircase to 1st floor, then go downstairs to the ground floor meeting room.

Members: Free, Non Members $5 donation
Wednesday 11
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : A multi-dimensional approach to unraveling nonlinear internal wave dynamics Website | More Information
Nonlinear internal waves (NLIWs) travel long distances from their deep water generation sites in lakes and oceans, ultimately breaking where they shoal upon sloping topography. NLIW breaking leads to localized turbulent mixing and sediment resuspension, which influence biogeochemical cycles, and it remains desirable to include these effects in Reynolds-averaged water management models. However, NLIWs are nonhydrostatic features that are below feasible model grid-scales and their direct simulation remains difficult.

This presentation provides an overview of recent process-based research designed to unravel NLIW dynamics. High-resolution two-dimensional direct numerical simulations are applied to model idealized NLIW shoaling and resuspension over no-slip boundaries, while massively parallel three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged simulations reveal NLIW-topography interaction in real systems.

Results from this research show that NLIW propagation is fundamentally three-dimensional and breaking dynamics are strongly dependent upon the no-slip boundary condition.These findings make it unlikely that NLIWs will soon be included in Reynolds-averaged management models.

PS* This seminar is free and open to the public & no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****
Friday 13
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Taking the non-human Other seriously: exploring alterity through the aesthetics of care : Public talk with Biological Arts PhD candidateTarsh Bates Website | More Information
Tarsh Bates is a PhD candidate at SymbioticA. During this seminar she will present her proposal for her PhD research in which she will describe her intention to explore the complexities and contradictions of human relationships with two non-vertebrate organisms, bees and the single-celled yeast, Candida albicans. Bees and candida are of particular interest as they are both domesticated organisms, requiring care, and are intimately connected to our well-being, yet can pose some threat to that well-being. Recent critical theory has investigated the nature of relationships between humans and other animals. However, the vast majority of this research ignores encounters with non-vertebrate species, particularly those with which we live intimately or have domesticated. Non-vertebrates such as insects, fungi and bacteria are by far the most prevalent organisms which humans encounter, yet these creatures are often disregarded; unlike mammals and other vertebrates, they are difficult to recognise as kin as they do not look back at us. Nevertheless these organisms are critical to biocultural diversity and environmental survival.

Tarsh’s PhD research follows on from her recent Master’s project, in vitero, which involved her living with and taking care of eight scientific model organisms for a period of seven months in a laboratory and public art gallery. Like this project, her PhD research will be undertaken through critical artistic inquiry, combining theoretical and philosophical inquiries with aesthetic and phenomenological research. Tarsh’s current project aims to extend the notion of alterity, which philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas described as a phenomenological mode of negotiating Self and Other, from strictly human relations into those between humans and non-humans. Tarsh hopes to facilitate understandings of human encounters with non-vertebrate, non-human Others through artistic explorations and conscious self-experimentation with bees and candida.

Feedback on the presentation is encouraged and welcomed.

19:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Brass Feast More Information
In collaboration with The University Club of Western Australia, The School of Music proudly presents Brass Royalty and World Artists Robert and David Childs. Joined on stage by Perth’s own Royal Agricultural Society Brass Band of WA, these world-renowned Euphonium players are both in high demand across the world.

Robert Childs is a leading figure in the world of brass music. For over thirty years he has performed at the highest level giving solo performances in many of the world’s most prestigious venues. He is now the Musical Director of The Cory Band.

David Childs has emerged as one of the finest brass soloists in the world today. Since winning the brass final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2000, he has not ceased to wow audiences with his astonishing technique, extrovert musicality and engaging stage presence.

Don’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to see father and son together in performance.

For bookings please contact the University Club of Western Australia: Telephone 6488 8770 (Monday - Friday 9.00am - 8.00pm)

Price (includes canapé reception) Standard $65 Friends of UWA School of Music $60 The University Club of Western Australia Member $60
Tuesday 17
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Role of the Ocean in Human Evolution, History and Future Website | More Information
A public lecture by Professor Carlos M. Duarte, Director, The UWA Oceans Institute.

In this lecture, Professor Duarte will develop a case for the existence of a long relationship, at the deepest possible level, between humans and the ocean and submit that the depth of this relationship can be best understood as a close evolutionary connection between humans and the ocean.

This lecture is part of the ‘Ocean Solutions for Humanity’s Grand Challenges’ lecture series, presented by UWA’s Institute of Advanced Studies and The UWA Oceans Institute. This series of lectures will explore the ways in which safe and sustainable uses of our oceans can open a pathway of wealth and well-being through what is, in effect, our last frontier.

Cost: Free, RSVP your attendance to [email protected].
Wednesday 18
12:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - UWA Extension - Lunch with Richard Ford : Sponsored by the the Faculty of Arts and the Chair of Australian Literature, UWA Website | More Information
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of the Sportswriter trilogy, Richard Ford over lunch as he discusses his latest work, Canada. In Canada, Ford has created a masterpiece. A visionary novel of vast landscapes, complex identities and fragile humanity. It questions the fine line between the normal and the extraordinary, and the moments that haunt our settled view of the world.

$79 per ticket - price includes a two–course lunch at the University Club, UWA. Beer wine and soft drinks included. Books will be available for sale. Places are strictly limited so please book early.

“One of the true works of art of our benighted era” John Banville, Irish Times on The Lay of the Land

“My great book of the year ... so wonderfully written in every breath of every sentence” Hermione Lee, Guardian

“A massive, ruminative, poignant and cathartic novel ... it is a masterly account of a modulating adult life. Ford's canvas is huge, but his wealth of subtle detail remains astonishingly vivid” Independent on Sunday

“Wistful, bittersweet and often very funny ... seems to locate all the quiet despairs and hopes of the human condition with exquisite precision” Daily Telegraph

THINGS TO KNOW Seating for this event will be in tables of ten. To ensure you are seated together you must book together. Parking restrictions apply. There is paid visitor parking at the Club and on Hackett Drive.

16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Environmental Engineering in the Oil and Gas Industry Website | More Information
The size and complexity of exploration, development and production of oil and gas lends itself to numerous opportunities for environmental engineers to influence engineering design in order to minimise the impact on the environment. This presentation will discuss the lifecycle of a typical oil and gas development and discuss the potential environmental risks and the role of environmental engineers in influencing engineering design to ensure these risks are managed and/or mitigated.

Bio

During this time at UWA, Geoff Wake completed undergraduate degrees in Science and Environmental Engineering as well as PhD in the field of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.

Following completion of post graduate studies in 2004, he worked as a Research Associate on a range of industry focussed projects until joining Woodside in 2007. Since that time he has worked in a number of large onshore and offshore oil and gas projects and presently holds the position of Lead Environmental Engineer for the Browse Downstream Project.



PS* This seminar is free and open to the public & no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****
Thursday 19
13:30 - EVENT - The UWA Institute of Agriculture Industry Forum 2012 : Foreign ownership of Australian agricultural land and agri-business: challenges and opportunities Website | More Information
Join us in an afternoon of information and debate about one of agriculture's hottest current topics: Prominent industry leaders will discuss foreign ownership of Australian agricultural land and agri-business, its challenges, opportunities and its potential impacts on farming families and agricultural industries. For program details and speakers click on the link below.

14:00 - GUIDED TOUR - UWA Crawley Campus Tour 19 July 2012 : An enjoyable and informative walking tour of UWA's Crawley Campus Website | More Information
The Prospective Students Office is providing a guided walking tour of UWA's Crawley Campus in the July School Holidays (19 July 2012).

These tours are for prospective students who would like to find out more about studying at UWA whilst taking in the beautiful gardens and buildings at the Crawley campus.

The tour will include a stop at the Admissions Centre & Prospective Students Office, where you will be able to collect information and course brochures, and find out more about what life is like for our students.

Parents are also welcome to attend.

Tours run for approximately one hour and are available at various times throughout the year after business hours, in the school holidays, and on public holidays, so there is bound to be a time that suits you and your family!
Friday 20
11:00 - SEMINAR - New Insights Into Effective Social Programs Website | More Information
Abstract:

Professor Jeff French will review new insights emerging from behavioural economics and social psychology and the tactical implications for delivering more effective social programmes. The presentation will cover a number of approaches, including the use of framing, priming, salience, fear of loss and social norming.

The Presenter:

Professor Jeff French is the Chief Executive of UK based Strategic Social Marketing Ltd.  He has extensive experience of developing leading and evaluating behaviour change projects, social marketing programmes and the development of social communication strategies at international, national, regional and local level.  He has published over 90 chapters, articles and books in the fields of behaviour change, social marketing, community development, health promotion and social communication. Professor French has over 35 years' experience at the interface between governments, public, private and the NGO sector, with a broad practical understanding of national and international health and social development issues and how they can be tackled and evaluated. He is a visiting professor at Brunel University and Brighton University and a Fellow at Kings College University London. For more information: http://strategic-social-marketing.vpweb.co.uk/Prof--Jeff-French.html

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