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Displaying from Monday, May 13, 2019
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May 2019
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Tuesday 14 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Venice and the Ottomans: a visual artistic journey between the Serenissima and Istanbul : Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Italian Studies at UWA
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A public talk by Dr Stefano Carboni, Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia.
The celebrated Venetian painter Gentile Bellini was sent by the Serenissima Republic to spend two years at the court of Mehmet II the Conqueror in Istanbul in 1479. This important moment in the cultural and (...)
19:30 - TALK - "Edmund Gurney and the Power of Sound" : Friends of the Library Talk
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Edmund Gurney was a late-nineteenth-century polymath who is today best remembered for his writing on music and listening, and for his research into ‘psychical’ phenomena such as telepathy and ghosts. He wrote an influential book in 1880 titled The Power of Sound (1880), which is customarily (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Enrich | Percussion Carnival
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The vision of the UWA Conservatorium of Music is to enrich all lives with music. Through UWA’s broadening units, all undergraduate students have the opportunity to engage in practical music-making as part of their degree.
Enrich! brings together these students in vibrant and dynamic (...)
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Wednesday 15 |
A public lecture by Jon Blundy, Professor of Petrology, University of Bristol and 2019 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow.
In this public lecture Professor Blundy will discuss how our concept of volcanic systems has evolved in the light of recent geophysical and (...)
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Thursday 16 |
16:00 - PERFORMANCE - Moved Reading: The Tempest : All welcome for a participatory performance on the New Fortune stage
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The new season of moved readings is upon us and we are delighted to present our offerings for first semester 2019.Overseen by BrÃd Phillips (project director) and Steve Chinna (staging director and much else!) with educational input from Kathryn Prince, the Renaissance Moved Readings Project (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Archaeology Seminar Series : Murujuga Petroglyphs – Rock Art Narratives
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Murujuga, Burrup Peninsula, comprises one of the
world’s greatest petroglyphs assemblages. Spanning
many tens of thousands of years, displaying a myriad
of styles and subjects; this rock art provides many
stories. Correspondingly, the discipline of rock art
research has a number of paradigms and (...)
Join us for the Anthropocene Sea Change Seminar Series talk with the UWA Oceans Institute as Jo McDonald from the UWA Centre for Rock Art Research + Management discusses recent research from Murujuga (the Dampier Archipelago).
Murujuga (the Dampier Archipelago) juts into the Indian Ocean (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Centre Stage | The Irwin Street Collective and Concordia Vocalis
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17th-century Italian nuns had no contact with the secular world outside of their convent, yet their fame as composers and performers spread throughout Europe and attracted visitors from far and wide to hear their music. Join us as we present chamber and choral works by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (...)
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Friday 17 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Semiar Series : Understanding academic cheating in senior secondary schools in Indonesia and its possible relation to the country’s corruption problem.
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The lively public discourse on academic cheating in Indonesia is focused on the
National Examination, which is a standardized test organised for Year-9 and Year-12
students. However, since the focus is too narrow, other behaviours that may actually
have developed into a pervasive cheating problem (...)
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Free Lunchtime Concert | UWA Guitar Studio
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Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from within the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.
This week, the UWA Guitar Studio will present a free concert of solo and chamber repertoire, featuring some very (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology/Sociology Seminar Series : This week’s seminar consists of an Honours’ completion presentation and an early stage PhD presentation
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Transnational Students, Gentrification and Urban Subjectivities: An ethnography of transnational Chinese student residents in Perth, Western Australia.
This paper explores urbanisation processes of gentrification as they intersect with Australia’s international education industry (...)
18:00 - EVENT - Isabelle Lake Lecture 2019 + movie screening : The lecture aims to raise public awareness about gender matters. Joleen Mataele, the main protagonist in the film Leitis in Waiting, will speak at the 2019 Isabelle Lake Memorial Lecture
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Each year on IDaHOBIT (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, lntersexism and Transphobia), UWA and the Equal Opportunity Commission co-host the Isabelle Lake Memorial Lecture in memory of Isabelle Lake, a UWA student and trans activist who passed away in 2012 following a battle with (...)
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Sunday 19 |
10:00 - WORKSHOP - UWA Music presents: Junior Con | Day of Electronic Music
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Chair of Electronic Music and Sound Design, Chris Tonkin leads a day of workshops and production masterclasses in electronic music for students in Years 10–12. Participants will be fully engaged with beatmaking, song-writing and mixing using Ableton Live and the Ableton Push 2.
Fee - $2 (...)
14:00 - WORKSHOP - UWA Music presents: Musica Viva Masterclass | ZOFO
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Musica Viva and the UWA Conservatorium of Music offer you the opportunity to attend a Masterclass with piano duo ZOFO (Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi).
You are invited to observe the duo working with talented UWA music students, learning techniques to perfect their craft in (...)
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Tuesday 21 |
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Enrich | World Percussion Fiesta
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The vision of the UWA Conservatorium of Music is to enrich all lives with music. Through UWA’s broadening units, all undergraduate students have the opportunity to engage in practical music-making as part of their degree.
Enrich! brings together these students in vibrant and dynamic (...)
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Wednesday 22 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Great Impressions � Rembrandt and the History of Printmaking
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A public lecture by Dr Susanne Meurer, School of Design (History of Art), UWA.
Rembrandt features amongst a select group of artists whose work proved influential across various media. He was never “just” a great painter, but also a prolific and innovative printmaker. Over four (...)
18:30 - FREE LECTURE - UWA Music presents: The 2019 Callaway Lecture : Presented by Paul Rissmann (UK)
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In collaboration with WASO, we are delighted to welcome passionate music educationalist Paul Rissmann to present the 2019 Callaway Lecture, one of the most prestigious events in the calendar of the Conservatorium of Music.
‘The Jamie Oliver of animateurs’ Neue Muzikzeitung
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Thursday 23 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Vessel of Globalization: The Many Worlds of the Edwin Fox, 1853-1905
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The merchant vessel Edwin Fox was exceptional for being unexceptional. It was old fashioned even before its keel was laid down in Thomas Reeves’s shipyards near Calcutta in 1853. It was neither large nor fast, and had none of the prestige of the great tea and opium clippers that captured the (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - UWA Music presents: Museum of Sound Series : Seeing is Deceiving: The Non-visual Aspects of Rock Art
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Do you remember the sound of dial-up internet? What about the whistle of an old kettle or a wine cork popping? Sounds, noise and music are fundamental to our lives.
Join us to explore our sonic past and present and learn how our lives are shaped by sound and listening. Presented in (...)
The passion for music and the exceptional ability of young emerging artists creates an extraordinary experience for concertgoers. In 2019, some of Australia’s finest young musicians will take to the stage in four outstanding orchestral and choral concerts, taking you on a musical journey from the (...)
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