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Displaying from Wednesday, November 10, 2010
 November 2010
Wednesday 10
18:00 - SCREENING - Film Screening - Our Generation: Land Culture Freedom Website | More Information
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 (...)

18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - �Melanoma Unplugged� Website | More Information
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 (...)
Thursday 11
16:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar Series: Egg-ceptional ancient DNA preservation : How fossil DNA can provide insights into the extinction process Website | More Information
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 Website | More Information
The UWA Combined Friends Groups 2010 Annual Friends Mixer Event “Catalina Conversations” – Remembrance Day reflections of the Catalina Sea Planes on the Swan River.
Friday 12
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar> The Descent of Man : Speaker: Tarsh Bates Website | More Information
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 (...)
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 Website | More Information
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 (...)
Tuesday 16
18:00 - ORATION - Warren Jones 2010 Oration: Living with complexity : Oration followed by cocktail reception from 7:00pm More Information
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 (...)
Wednesday 17
16:00 - SEMINAR - Centre for Water Research Seminar : Water Resource Management: Connecting With Nature and Community Website | More Information
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 (...)
Friday 19
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Listening at the Nanoscale . . . : Speaker: SymbioticA masters student Joel Ong Website | More Information
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 More Information
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.
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 Website | More Information
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 (...)
Tuesday 23
12:00 - SEMINAR - Where the big ones are : Body size patterns in fish, birds and humans More Information
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 More Information
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 (...)
Wednesday 24
9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - School of Earth & Environment Symposium on Sustainability : The Geography of sustainability: global patterns of success and failure More Information
Some people are rich and others are poor. Some countries are rich and others are poor. Explaining the unequal global distribution of economic wealth has been a major goal of economists since the eighteenth century or earlier, yet there is still no generally accepted explanation. Are most of the (...)

9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - School of Earth & Environment Symposium on Sustainability : Sustainability: Reducing the production footprint of agriculture More Information
Carbon and water are critical natural capital stocks. Climate-change concerns are focussing public attention on them through the development of footprinting protocols to alert consumers of the emissions of carbon and the consumption of water in the production systems of products they eat and wear (...)

16:00 - SEMINAR - Centre for Water Research Seminar : Intrusions generated by the benthic boundary layer flux in a stratified deep alpine lake Website | More Information
Intrusions generated by boundary mixing may be an important mechanism to redistribute mixed fluid away from the boundaries and into the lake interior. Much of our understating of the Benthic Boundary Layer (BBL) dynamics, and consequences of near - boundary mixing for the rest of the (...)
Friday 26
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Dissecting Australian Biodiversity: Surprising Patterns? or Not? : The Biodiversity, Socioeconomics, and Culture of Australia Website | More Information
Dissecting Australian Biodiversity: Surprising Patterns? or Not? or could we change it to...The Biodiversity, Socioeconomics, and Culture of Australia - Exceptional? or a Mirror for the Rest of the World?

As the Flattest, driest continent, with a bizarre assortment of plants and animals (...)

13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Curator's Talk with John Barrett-Lennard : Getting off the boat - the impact and influence of an Australian art collection Website | More Information
Alan Edwards, Professor of English at UWA and a key figure in the Tom Collins Bequest acquisitions, suggested in the early 1950s that 'it would be a very good idea if this University had a really good contemporary Australian painting. Then people would get off the boat to have a look at it when (...)

16:00 - SYMPOSIUM - unruly ecologies: biodiversity and art symposium : Exploring the possibilities and difficulties of the diversity of life through critical investigations in art, ecology and action Website | More Information
A SymbioticA Art and Science symposium exploring biodiversity and art with speakers from the sciences, humanities and arts from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 November 2010 in Perth and Lake Clifton, Mandurah.

The ecology of biodiversity is based upon an uncertain definition, incomplete (...)
Monday 29
0:00 - COURSE - China Study Tour : An intensive study of Chinese language in Zhejiang University and Beijing Institute of Education Website | More Information
The China Study Tour 2010/2011 is an intensive nine-week course of study in Chinese language which includes eight weeks of classes and one week of independent travel. The study tour is opened to adults aged 18 and above regardless of Chinese Mandarin background (from absolute beginner to native (...)


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