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Displaying from Wednesday, October 31, 2012
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October 2012
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Wednesday 31 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series : NAPLAN: Driving school improvement or doing the work of the devil?
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Controversy continues to surround national student assessment in Australia. However, I argue that testing is neither good nor bad: the devil lies in what people – teachers, school, systems and even parents – do about the tests and the data they generate. I report the experiences of principals (...)
South-western Australia was a part of Gondwanaland, and some of the most ancient parts of the Earth’ crust can be found here. Other parts of the landscape originated more recently from calcareous marine deposits [1]. Therefore, the soils of Western Australia are amongst the most heavily leached (...)
18:00 - PRESENTATION - 'Becoming an Engineer with UWA' info evening : Prospective students and their parents are invited to attend one of our info sessions to learn more about how to achieve an engineering career with UWA.
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Prospective students are invited to attend one of our info sessions to learn more about how to achieve an engineering career with UWA. These sessions will explain course details, career opportunities, prerequisite subjects and how to apply, as well as providing the opportunity for attendees to ask (...)
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November 2012
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Thursday 01 |
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Free Lunchtime Concert: UWA Flute Choir and Wind & Brass Ensembles
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Be transported away from the everyday with our exciting line-up of Thursday 1.10pm, free lunchtime concerts. This year's revamped Lunchtime Concert series features the best of our students in solo and small ensemble performance.
17:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - From Convicts to Carrollup: a history of Fremantle Prison art : Guest Lecture - Fremantle Prison Curators
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In the late 1970s pioneering art teacher Steve Culley transformed the Fremantle Prison art program from traditional watercolour painting into a course where ‘ideas unfold in the mind and lock into the creator’s hands, as each pursues his own style of art.’ (Shackles prison newsletter, Spring (...)
18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Evensong for All Saints' Day : Evensong with the Winthrop Singers at St George's College Chapel
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Evensong for All Saints' Day featuring Britten's Hymn to St Cecilia
Introit: Victoria O quam gloriosum
Responses: Smith
Canticles: Noble in b minor
Anthem: Britten Hymn to St Cecilia
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Friday 02 |
10:00 - EXHIBITION - "In my beginning is my end.." : Perth Arena design and Perth Entertainment Centre demise
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Rare insights into the demolition of the iconic Perth Entertainment Centre and the intriguing ideas behind the design of new Perth Arena will be revealed at an exhibition at UWA's Australian Urban Design Research Centre for the month of November.
As the Perth Arena begins to host its very first (...)
16:00 - ORATION - 2012 WESFARMERS HARRY PERKINS ORATION : Opportunities and challenges for cancer research and treatment - perspective from a cancer centre
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Professor Trapani is a world leader in cancer research. His research interests include the immunopathology of viral and auto-immune diseases and cancer immunotherapy. Professor Trapani has published over 230 research papers.
Professor Trapani’s address will focus on the future of (...)
16:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents: Music Ensembles Concert
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The School of Music invites you and your guests to join us as we celebrate the musical achievements of students from across UWA, who have chosen to broaden and enrich their degrees with music!
In a concert that will take you on journey from the heady lights of Broadway, to the carnival (...)
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Tuesday 06 |
A public lecture by Ashley Stevens, President, Focus IP Group, LLC Lecturer, School of Management, Boston University.
Over a decade ago, the President and Trustees of Yale University woke up one Monday morning to find themselves portrayed in a very unfavorable light in the lead story of (...)
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Wednesday 07 |
0:00 - CONFERENCE - THE TWENTY-FIFTH PhD CONFERENCE IN ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS : Annual PhD Conference in Economics and Business
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The annual PhD Conference in Economics and Business attracts national attention and has significantly enhanced PhD studies for a large number of students.
The Confererence was established as a response to the widespread feeling that PhD students could benefit from interacting with their (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Hydrological and biogeochemical pathways in hillslopes of coastal plain catchments: How does seasonality affect phosphorus fate and transport processes?
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Nutrient loss from terrestrial ecosystems causes nutrient enrichment in receiving waterways (eutrophication) threatening their water quality and biodiversity values. The Peel-Harvey estuary (WA), RAMSAR-listed wetlands and their contributing waterways in coastal plain catchments in the Peel-Harvey (...)
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Thursday 08 |
A public lecture by Dr Jeremy Hill, Head of Research, The British Museum.
Following the internationally successful British Museum & BBC Radio 4’s History of the World in 100 Objects, JD Hill offers a rare behind the scenes look at the making of this series. JD led the team who (...)
18:00 - ORATION - The Lloyd's Register Educational Trust Oration, Australia : Geotechnical engineering on and off the North-West Shelf of Australia
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The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust (The LRET) funds education, training and research programmes in transportation, science, engineering, technology and the safety of life, worldwide for the benefit of all.
The Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems carries out fundamental research (...)
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Friday 09 |
'It is one of the singular weaknesses of our mind that we can’t judge objects and see them in the clear light of day unless we place other objects next to them.' - Alexis de Tocqueville
Cultural institutions such as galleries, archives and museums can have long or short histories, but (...)
13:30 - SEMINAR - Kimberley Marine Science Seminar 9 November : Free seminar about current and planned marine research in the Kimberley
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The final of 3 FREE seminars on past, current and planned research in the Kimberley
Afternoon tea provided.
SEMINAR 3: FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER
Dr Chris Simpson (DEC)
The WAMSI Kimberley Marine Research Program: A once in a lifetime opportunity
Recent resource (...)
There are two extreme positions traditionally taken with respect to the relationship between art and morality; one is autonomism, or aestheticism, which is the view that it is inappropriate to apply moral categories to artworks, and that only aesthetic categories are relevant, while at (...)
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Tuesday 13 |
19:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Friends of the Library Speaker : Shakespeare: Anonymous or Synonymous?
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“Shakespeare: Anonymous or Synonymous?” is a presentation developed in response to a fairly recent film entitled Anonymous in which the authorship of Shakespeare has been challenged. In the nineteenth century, when very little was known about Shakespeare’s life, a number of theories grew up (...)
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Wednesday 14 |
12:30 - PERFORMANCE - Free performance - Ramayana: Indonesian Dance-Drama
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Combining music, dance and story-telling, this performance will be an unforgettable opportunity to experience the riches of the Balinese performing arts.
Featuring some forty musicians and dancers from the Indonesian Institute of Arts, Denpasar.
Presented as a free ticketed (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Numerical modeling of the Long-term transport, dispersion, and accumulation of Black Sea Pollutants into the North Aegean coastal waters.
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The present ecological situation of the Black Sea in relation to increased shipping from ports in the Black Sea, the prospect of considerably high tanker traffic carrying Caspian and Central Asian oil through the Aegean and the excessive loads of nutrients and other harmful substances flowing from (...)
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