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May 2012
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Monday 07 |
13:00 - STUDENT EVENT - 2012 Teaching & Learning Month Event - Excellent Teaching at UWA: student sound bites : Screening daily 1.00-2.00pm
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"Student Sound Bites" will be shown daily from Monday 7 May - Friday 18 May between 1:00 - 2:00pm on public screens around the University. Come and hear what students have to say about teaching at UWA.
A public lecture by Ruth Seifert, Professor of Sociology, University of Applied Sciences, Regensburg, Germany.
Rape and sexual torture of women in times of war and crisis is not a new phenomenon. However it was only recently, following reports of mass rapes perpetrated during the (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
10:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - 2012 Teaching & Learning Month Event - Guest speaker Martin Dougiamis : A Flexible LMS developed on educational principles
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UWA's new Learning Management System (LMS) uses the Moodle Software. Martin Dougiamas is the creater of Moodle in its humble beginings as a PhD project designed to put educational principles of social constructionism into a learning management system. Now Moodle is a rapidly expanding, world-wide (...)
UWA's new Learning Management System (LMS) uses the Moodle Software. Martin Dougiamas is the creater of Moodle in its humble beginings as a PhD project designed to put educational principles of social constructionism into a learning management system. Now Moodle is a rapidly expanding, world-wide (...)
17:00 - PERFORMANCE - Distinguished International Guest Lecture Series : Dr Una Mcllvenna
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Dr Una Mcllvenna of the ARC Centre of Excellence for History of Emotions will explore emotional responses to public execution in the early modern period, looking specifically at the use of song and verse in broadside and pamphlet accounts of crime and execution across Europe.
A public lecture by Professor Serhiy Kvit, President, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Ukraine.
In 2005 the Orange Revolution in Ukraine made international headlines, with the streets of Kyiv teeming with people protesting the result of a presidential election that (...)
19:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - Friends of the Library Speaker : Why Gallipoli
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Each year we are reminded of Gallipoli and the ANZAC tradition. But have you ever wondered why we were there fighting the Turks? Come along and hear the intriguing, sad and little known story.
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Wednesday 09 |
16:10 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Public Lecture by Professor James Chin on The Upcoming Elections in Malaysia : The upcoming general elections in Malaysia, expected to be held in the next few months, will see the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) trying to regain its two-thirds majority. What are the chances of the BN regaining this majority, and what role will Prime Minister Najib play in this process?
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Professor James Chin will address these questions in his lecture.
Prof. James Chin is Head, School of Arts & Social Sciences, at the Monash University, Malaysia Campus. His current research interests include minority rights, elections, ethnic politics, democratization and political and economic (...)
A public lecture by Donna Riley, Associate Professor of Engineering Picker Engineering Program, Smith College.
Professional ethics for engineers as traditionally conceived focuses narrowly on the decisions and actions of individual professional engineers, leaving little room for (...)
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Thursday 10 |
13:10 - EVENT - Lunchtime Concert : Violin Cello Duo: Sophie and Jasmin Parkinson Stewart
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Sisters Jasmin and Sophie Parkinson-Stewart, winners of the People's Choice Awards in last year's Vose competition, perform a selection of duos for violin and cello.
15:00 - SEMINAR - Classics & Ancient History/Archaeology Joint Seminar: Dr Ueli Brunner : The Gardens of the Queen of Sheba: Irrigation and hunt in ancient Yemen
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Visiting scholar Dr Ueili Brunner has spent many years working in Yemen and shares with us his insights into the Sabean culture.
A short introduction sheds light on the environment and characteristics of the Sabean culture. The wealth of the Sabeans was generated by trade but the (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Dr Amara Lakhous - "Reforming Islam from the Outside" : Multi-Award Winning Author Dr Amara Lakhous is an Algerian-born Muslim writer. He is the recipient of the Italy’s Premier Literary Award.
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Born in 1970 in Algiers in a Berber family, Amara Lakhous is the sixth of nine children. He studied at Koran school for four years where he learned classical Arabic. He learned French at junior school. He was influenced from an early age by authors like Mahfouz, Flaubert and Hemingway, and after (...)
The UWA Winthrop Singers perform choral Evensong on Thursdays at 6pm during semester. These currently take place at St Thomas More College chapel.
This week's service features an extraordinary work for triple-chorus by 16th century Italian composer Andrea Gabrieli, and music by Gustav (...)
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Friday 11 |
9:00 - SEMINAR - Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series: UVR-induced vitamin D: essential for immunoregulation?
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Dr Shelley Gorman from Telethon Institute for Child Health Research will give a talk on "UVR-induced vitamin D: essential for immunoregulation?" in the Microbiology & Immunology Seminar room, Friday, 11 May 2012 at 09.00am. Vitamin D is synthesised in the skin after exposure to (...)
15:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Dr Anthony Dillon : Political correctness is not helping indigenous Australians
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The disadvantage suffered by Aboriginal people in this country remains a high priority for all. An assumed major barrier to addressing the needs of Aboriginal people are cultural differences. Difference between groups, whether they be groups based on race, gender, age, location, etc. (...)
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Monday 14 |
13:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - 2012 Teaching & Learning Month Event - Distinguished Visiting Teacher Public Seminar - Professor Pip Pattison DVC (A) University of Melbourne : “Students' experiences of the new curriculum at the University of Melbourne"
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Professor Pattison will review the impact of significant curriculum change at the University of Melbourne, with a particular focus on students’ experiences of new undergraduate and graduate courses. She will describe how students have reacted to new courses and reported on their experiences, and (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Will Australia's Personal Electronic Health Records Improve Your Health?
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A public lecture by Associate Professor David Glance, Director, UWA Centre for Software Practice.
From July 2012, Australians will be able to register for their own Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR). The PCEHR will potentially allow consumers to have access to a (...)
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Tuesday 15 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Secrets of the mind : International health expert will reveal causes of brain degeneration in dementia
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Although the risk of developing dementia increases with age – in most people with dementia, symptoms first appear
after age 60. Dementia is not a part of normal aging. It is caused by a fatal disease that affects the brain. Dementia
is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Secrets of the Mind: The challenge of unraveling the causes of brain degeneration in dementia
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A public lecture by Peter Passmore, Professor of Ageing and Geriatric Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast.
Once considered a rare disorder, dementia is now seen as a major public health problem that is seriously affecting thousands of older Australians and their families.
Al (...)
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Wednesday 16 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Maximising the economic value of biosolids: creating catchment and waterway restoration, climate adaptation, and business improvement – all at once!
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Robert Humphries1, Tom Long1, Katrina Walton2 and David Allen3
Water Corporation of Western Australia1, Chemistry Centre of Western Australia2, MBS Environmental3
Most Australian water utilities strive to direct stabilized wastewater sludges, or biosolids, to beneficial uses. However (...)
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