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Displaying from Monday, October 28, 2013
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October 2013
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Monday 28 |
18:00 - EVENT - Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia Group : Treatment Group RSVP Essential
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Do you or someone you know live in fear of needles or blood? If so, read on...
Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia is a fear that is triggered by seeing blood or an injury, or by receiving an injection or other invasive medical procedure. People vary in the way they react to situations (...)
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Tuesday 29 |
17:00 - CANCELLED - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Tess Tsokos: Gesture and response in the primary children's choir - CANCELLED
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Tess Tsokos: Gesture and response in the primary children's choir
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Wednesday 30 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - How to prevent depression in later life. : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Depression is a common and disabling disorder that affects people of all ages. The causes of depression are not well understood, but consistent information about risk factors is available.
These include familial predisposition, certain lifestyle choices, clinical morbidities and (...)
16:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Lipid Membranes of the Past and Future : Public talk with visiting Artist/Researcher Juan M. Castro (Waseda University, Tokyo)
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Life in all its diversity, as we know it today, could not have developed without an organic membrane. All living cells are surrounded by this outer wall or soft boundary. This talk presents an artistic and multidisciplinary perspective on the organic membrane and its potential as a media of (...)
A public lecture by Professor Stefan Theisen, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics and 2013 IAS Short Stay Visitor.
Register: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/theisen
Experimental physics explores natural phenomena from the smallest to the largest length scales, covering (...)
19:00 - PERFORMANCE - Callaway Series : Ethnomusicology Concert
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Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00.
Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.
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Thursday 31 |
From almost the first moment of colonisation in 1829, the question of how to best harness and make use of Perth's riverfront setting has taxed the minds of its citizens and administrators.
To develop or not to develop, to reclaim or not to reclaim, to retain the broad green doorstep created in (...)
12:00 - Community Plant Sale - Friends of the Ground Community plant sale : On Thursday 31st and November 1st at the Taxonomic Garden - Greenhouse 5
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Friends of the Ground Community Plant Sale
On Thursday 31st October and Friday 1st November from 12 - 2pm
Most plants will be under $5 with plenty of herbs ,exotics and some natives. Also plants are suitable for indoor pot plants. Cash only.
Please support the (...)
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Carbonate Deposits in Roman Aqueducts : a Data Source for Archaeology, Palaeoclimate and Archaeoseismology
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A public lecture by Cees Passchier, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany.
Carbonate deposits in aqueducts are a new high-resolution data source for palaeoclimate, spring hydrology and earthquake occurrence.
Ancient aqueducts are also a promising archive for archaeoseismic (...)
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November 2013
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Friday 01 |
Experience the sights and sounds of Africa through the lens of world-renowned ethnomusicologist John Blacking. Music Dance Landscape Image uses the John Blacking Collection, housed at The University of Western Australia’s Callaway Centre, to provide snapshots of performances that Blacking (...)
14:00 - SYMPOSIUM - The Longevity Dividend Symposium : Health, ageing, creative expression and cultural engagement in later life.
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The Longevity Dividend is a symposium on a variety of issues related to health and ageing, including the potential for and benefits of creative expression and cultural engagement in later life.
Presented by the Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing (WACHA) and the UWA (...)
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Monday 04 |
The UWA Health & Rehabilitation Clinic along with UWA Uniswim invite you to join our launch of a gym and swim program for over 50's.
The program will include a 40min gym session working on strength, function and balance. Plus a 40min swimming session working on cardiovascular (...)
The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Cell therapies for lung cancers and mesotheliomas" by Dr Sam Janes. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
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Wednesday 06 |
16:00 - EVENT - A microscope-in-a-needle: New technologies to image disease : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Optical coherence tomography is a recently developed imaging technology, capable of high resolution in vivo imaging of tissue. It is analogous to ultrasound, but uses near infrared light instead of sound waves.
It is used clinically in ophthalmology, and is rapidly gaining importance in (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - **CANCELLED** Cultural Heritage Keepers: digital technology and musical instrument repatriation
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A public lecture by Jennifer C. Post, ethnomusicologist and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, UWA
**Unfortunately this event has been cancelled**
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Friday 08 |
15:00 - PRESENTATION - Striving for 5 year Survival with Glioblastoma : Neuro-Oncology Tumour Collaborative Presentation
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Dr Lindy Jeffree was inspired to specialise in surgery of brain tumours by working with Prof Andrew Kaye at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Dr Charlie Teo in Sydney.
Her research experience includes glioma research at the University of Sydney, an MSc in electrophysiology at the University of (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Science Cafe : Science on Trial: The L'Aquila Earthquake. Should scientists be jailed for manslaughter?
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In the early morning of 6 April 2009, the town of L’Aquila in the Abruzzo region of central Italy experienced a Magnitude 6.3 earthquake. In the aftermath of the event, 309 people were killed, 1,600 were injured and thousands were made homeless.
Six days before the earthquake and after several (...)
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Sunday 10 |
This lecture by Professor Michael Crawford, Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, is a part of the 2013 ‘Celebrating Oceans Initiatives’ co-sponsored by the UWA Oceans Institute and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies, the WA Museum and the Maritime Museum.
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Tuesday 12 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Delusions, Positive Illusions and Jumps to Conclusions: Understanding Departures from Rational Belief
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Rational belief formation involves holding beliefs with the firmness that the evidence warrants. Unfortunately, humans are known to fall short of this ideal, being prone to various forms of “misbelief”. Such deviations from rational belief range from “healthy” (yet potentially destructive) (...)
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