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Displaying from Tuesday, November 02, 2010
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November 2010
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Tuesday 02 |
9:00 - COURSE - Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling : An introduction to the use of SEM with AMOS
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The course is designed as an introductory, applied course in the use of SEM using the Amos7 or Amos16 program. SEM is used widely by researchers in a diverse array of fields (including business and management, economics, epidemiology, education, marketing, nursing and health sciences, psychology (...)
Eighteen graduating students of the 2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts programme will present their final exhibition, a culmination of three years of study at UWA's ALVA Faculty, marking the end of their journey as undergraduate students and their emergence into the art world.
The 2010 (...)
An IAS public lecture By Dr Betty McLellan, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work and Community Welfare at James Cook University, Townsville.
The principle of Freedom of Speech is much valued in democratic societies, but is it free for all?
Do all (...)
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Thursday 04 |
17:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture - Professor Michael Chandler : Self and cultural continuity as a hedge against suicide in Aboriginal comunities
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Professor Chandler is a developmental psychologist, Professor Emeritus, and Distinguished CIHR Investigator working in the Department of Psychology at the The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His research interests include socio-cognitive development, young people’s developing ‘theori (...)
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Friday 05 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar> The conditions of visibility of Artworks and their Affect : Speaker: Dr Laura D’Olimpio
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SymbioticA Friday Seminar>
Title: The conditions of visibility of Artworks and their Affect;
Speaker: Dr Laura D’Olimpio;
Time & Location: 3:30-5pm @ SymbioticA;
"Affect, in aesthetic theory, denotes the impact of an artwork upon the viewer. At a subtle level we engage (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
This symposium is open to all clinical and academic researchers and will be an opportunity to hear from some of the world’s experts in Melanoma clinical and academic research. With the 7th Annual International Melanoma Congress being held in Sydney this year, we have been fortunate to lure (...)
19:45 - EVENT - Friends of the Library talk : Taming the tyranny of distance
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Taming the tyranny of distance:visiting the world's great archives from the comfort of home.
One of problems facing researchers in Australia who need to access archives about the middle ages and early modern periods is finding the time and the funding to travel abroad, to Europe or the USA, where (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
Our Generation is a powerfully provocative film that clearly outlines the undeniably devastating effects of the NT intervention, as told by the Galiwin’ku people in the remote far north east Arnhem Land, NT.
It looks at Australia’s ongoing policies of paternalism and assimilation (...)
SKMRC - Scott Kirkbride Melanoma Research Centre
If you are concerned about melanoma this is a valuable opportunity to hear a talk by Professor John Thompson, a world leader in the
subject and the Director of the Melanoma Institute of Australia,
one of the world’s largest melanoma (...)
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Thursday 11 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar Series: Egg-ceptional ancient DNA preservation : How fossil DNA can provide insights into the extinction process
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Fossil eggshell has widely been regarded as being 'devoid' of DNA, however Charlotte Oskam from the Ancient DNA Laboratory at Murdoch University, with the help of microscopy techniques at CMCA, has isolated fossil avian DNA from eggshells. Charlotte will discuss insights into extinction processes (...)
17:00 - EVENT - UWA Combined Friends 2010 Annual Mixer Event : UWA Combined Friends Groups Annual Event
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The UWA Combined Friends Groups 2010 Annual Friends Mixer Event “Catalina Conversations” – Remembrance Day reflections of the Catalina Sea Planes on the Swan River.
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Friday 12 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar> The Descent of Man : Speaker: Tarsh Bates
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SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Speaker: Tarsh Bates;
Title: 'The Descent of Man';
Time & Location: 3:30-5pm @ SymbioticA;
"The aid we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the (...)
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Sunday 14 |
17:00 - EVENT - CTW End of Year Celebration with The Winthrop Singers : Viewing of artworks, a talk 'Who was Tom Collins' and a recital by The Winthrop Singers
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The UWA Centenary Trust for Women invites you and your guests to join them at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery for a viewing of artworks in Tom Collins and after: a bequest and its legacy, a talk by distinguished Poet and Critic, Winthrop Professor of English & Cultural Studies and Chair of (...)
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Tuesday 16 |
18:00 - ORATION - Warren Jones 2010 Oration: Living with complexity : Oration followed by cocktail reception from 7:00pm
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Following the enormous advances in the understanding of health and disease that marked the closing decades of the 20th century and continue unabated today, our capacity to deal with scientific (and social) complexity may determine the future of the medical sciences and, perhaps, our species through (...)
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Wednesday 17 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Centre for Water Research Seminar : Water Resource Management: Connecting With Nature and Community
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Historically water resource management has been concerned with water supply, sometimes waste water disposal and in some instances with flood control; in brief the domain of the civil and sanitary engineer. Then in the 1960's, water resource managers and planners had to include the concept of "e (...)
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Friday 19 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Listening at the Nanoscale . . . : Speaker: SymbioticA masters student Joel Ong
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SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Speaker: Joel Ong;
Title: Listening at the Nanoscale . . .
Time & Location: 3:30-5pm @ SymbioticA;
In the leadup to his final project, SymbioticA Masters student Joel Ong will present the developments and foregrounding ideas of his sound installation “N (...)
18:30 - EXHIBITION OPENING - Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts (ALVA) End of Year Exhibition
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The official opening of the End of Year Exhibition featuring the works of ALVA Faculty Architecture and Landscape Architecture students.
This event is open to the public - please RSVP for catering purposes.
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Monday 22 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Merchants of Doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
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In this lecture, Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, will discuss her book Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury 2010, co-authored by Erik M. Conway).
In Merchants of Doubt, Oreskes and Conway roll back the rug on the dark corner (...)
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Tuesday 23 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Where the big ones are : Body size patterns in fish, birds and humans
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Professor Michael A. Huston is an Adjunct Professor at the UWA School of Earth & Environment. He has been an IAS Professor-at-Large in 2008 and 2009, and this is his third visit in this capacity at UWA.
Professor Hustons research is focused on understanding the causes of observed (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - Soil carbon and the development of international carbon footprinting protocols
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Carbon gives life to soil. It acts to sustain the soil functioning which enables soil to provide the ecosystem services which are essential for human well-being. Beyond this role there is growing interest in soil carbon because of its ability to sequester, or emit carbon, and the impact of these (...)
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