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The green school movement under various names (Eco Schools, Enviroschools, Green Schools, Sustainable Schools, ResourceSmart Schools etc) began as a response to needs identified at the 1992 United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development, or even longer ago if the schools that participated in the OECD ENSI projects are included. The movement focuses on a whole school approach, which aspires to include everyone (students, teachers and the local community), to improve school environments (including resource usage and the school’s environmental footprint), to motivate students to seek resolutions of environmental problems, particularly at a local level, but also thinking globally, and to improve students' attitudes and behaviours as part of developing a sustainable mind set. This seminar will discuss work-in-progress findings from an international project which seeks to collect stories of the impact of the green schools movement in nineteen countries around the world (including six Asian nations) with a focus on the impact of the movement on the development and implementation of education for sustainable development in each country. In particular, each country’s story explains the history of the movement there, its current status, achievements, obstacles and broader impact.

The phenomenon of the maintenance of Aboriginal English despite significant counter-pressures in the wider society, shows an unwillingness, on the part of its speakers, to allow themselves to be linguistically identified with Australian English.

This presentation explores elements in the indigenization of English by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speakers in Australia, relating to the way in which the speakers drew selectively on the varieties transported by the colonizers, and to the way in which they used English to embody essential cultural conceptualizations.

Apart from being an essential communication medium in an English dominant society, it is suggested that Aboriginal English serves at least three culturally significant functions for its speakers: authenticity, creative expression and cultural continuity. Malcolm, Ian G. (2017) “Terms of adoption: Cultural conceptual factors underlying the adoption of English for Aboriginal Communication.” In Farzad Sharifian (ed.) Advances in Cultural Linguistics. Singapore: Springer, pp. 625-659. Malcolm, Ian G. (2018) “The representation of Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations in an adopted English.” International Journal of Language and Culture 5 (1): 66-93. Rusho, Dima (2018) “Cultural conceptualisations of language and country in Australian Indigenous languages.” International Journal of Language and Culture 5 (1): 94-111.

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 emerging artists from the UWA Woodwind Program perform works by Mozart, Krommer, Spohr, Weber, Rossini and Schumann. These young artists have received coaching from Institute of Advance Studies Visiting Fellow and proud UWA Graduate Nicola Boud, who returns to UWA for a residency with the Irwin Street Collective.

Free entry, no bookings required.

As part of Choralfest 2019, The Winthrop Singers and Piñata Percussion lead a Palm Procession, followed by a Mass at St Patrick's Basilica, including a new setting of St Luke's Gospel by Nicholas Bannan.

Further information from choralfest.org.au

This four hour workshop is a great practical opportunity for Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Unit Coordinators to experience redesigning your existing unit using best practices in learning and teaching.

As the Unit Coordinator, you will participate in a three-step collaborative process assisted by an EEU Learning Designer. This active learning workshop will allow you to explore ideas to constructively align learning outcomes to compliant assessments and develop learning activities for the face-to-face and online learning environments.

The workshop starts at 10:00am and finishes at 2:00pm. There is an expectation that participants will be present for the full four hours. Please answer as many of the questions at the point of registration. This extremely valuable information will be used to coordinate the best team to assist you at this workshop and during follow-up opportunities.

A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.

This week we welcome UWA Graduate and celebrated period clarinettist Nicola Boud to present 'An Introduction to Historical Clarinets'

Despite being a relative latecomer to the woodwind family, the clarinet has it’s own fascinating story to tell. Its mechanical evolution greatly varied throughout Europe since the 18th century, with each step of its development, together with distinctive variation in stylistic language differing from one country to the next. These historical elements shed light on performance considerations that we face today

Born in Perth, Nicola obtained her Bachelor of Music with first class honours from the University of Western Australia in 1999, and was awarded the Edith Cowan Prize for performance and musicology. During her studies Nicola began to play with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on modern and historical clarinet. Her curiosity in early music took her to the Netherlands, where she completed her Masters in historical performance at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague with Eric Hoeprich in 2004.

Now based in Europe, Nicola tours and records extensively, and is in demand as principal clarinet with various orchestras and ensembles. Nicola is also an active chamber musician, regularly performing with the pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, and the Cambini and Edding Quartets, and has performed at many prestigious festivals. Nicola returns to UWA for this week-long residency as an Institute of Advanced Studies Misha Strassberg Fellow.

Free entry - no bookings required

A public lecture by Dr Gilad Rosner, founder, Internet of Things Privacy Forum and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

How many cameras do you have in your home? How many microphones? The Internet of Things, smart homes and connected devices are becoming commonplace concepts, but what do these technologies mean for intimacy? The home, classically cherished as a private space, is becoming more transparent to a myriad of commercial interests. Do you have to have ‘something to hide’ merely if you want to avoid the penetrating gaze of your Things? Or, is it still appropriate to imagine people are making ‘trade-offs’ when they exchange some of their privacy for services, even if they paid outright for a device and it’s installed in the home for long periods of time?

In this talk, Dr Gilad Rosner will explore the technologies, business relationships, regulations and social concepts implied by bringing listening and watching devices into the home. He will discuss the overlapping ideas of privacy, data protection, boundary management and consent, examining both the emerging challenges to intimacy and some of the more promising frameworks to address them.

A public talk by Mr Robert Hollingworth, Reader in Music, University of York and Director, I Fagiolini.

Robert Hollingworth will present a new CD of choral music from his much acclaimed vocal ensemble ‘I Fagiolini’. With Leonardo Da Vinci expert Professor Martin Kemp, Robert has selected music from the 15th to the 20th centuries, inspired by and reflecting images and ideas of Da Vinci. The title track is a new commission bridging a gap between the early 21st century and Leonardo, on the 500th anniversary of his death. In this lecture Robert will discuss the project, show the pictures and play some of the music.

2019 marks the 90th anniversary of the teaching of Italian language and culture at The University of Western Australia.

In 1929, Francesco Vanzetti, an idiosyncratic and popular Venetian, offered the first courses in Italian. This was the first appointment of a lecturer in Italian in any Australian university.

This lecture series, supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies and by Italian Studies in the UWA School of Humanities, celebrates aspects of Italian language and culture, past and present.

To communities heavily impacted by natural and man-made hazard induced events, cultural heritage provides a sense of identity and continuity in the aftermath of a disaster. Often a source of revenue and livelihood for communities, cultural heritage and its associated industries are vulnerable to hazard events, however, is often unaddressed until the latter stages of emergency response, impacting the effectiveness of recovery initiatives amongst affected communities. First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAC), aims to identify areas of joint programming between culture and humanitarian sectors, integrating the protection of cultural heritage into emergency response procedures in cooperation and coordination with other mainstream emergency response actors. Preparing and providing emergency actors and local communities with the ability to assess risks to cultural heritage and reduce the impact of hazard-induced events, FAC works to ensure that affected communities can become active contributors in their own cultural recovery.

Born in Perth, Nicola obtained her Bachelor of Music with first class honours from the University of Western Australia in 1999, and was awarded the Edith Cowan Prize for performance and musicology. During her studies Nicola began to play with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on modern and historical clarinet. Her curiosity in early music took her to the Netherlands, where she completed her Masters in historical performance at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague with Eric Hoeprich in 2004.

Now based in Europe, Nicola tours and records extensively, and is in demand as principal clarinet with various orchestras and ensembles. Nicola is also an active chamber musician, regularly performing with the pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, and the Cambini and Edding Quartets, and has performed at many prestigious festivals. Nicola returns to UWA for this week-long residency as an Institute of Advanced Studies Misha Strassberg Fellow.

The culmination of a week-long residency, Nicola will perform alongside members of the Irwin Street Collective in a concert that will feature Mozart's beautiful Kegelstatt Trio and a rare performance of Beethoven's horn sonata played in a contemporary arrangement for basset horn.

Free entry, bookings essential | trybooking.com/BASWT

This active, hands-on workshop is designed to build your knowledge, skills and confidence in creating and using marking rubrics.

You are welcome to bring along your own marking schemes for reflection and feedback afterwards, time permitting.

By the end of this workshop you will have learnt: * What a rubric is * Why you should use a rubric * How to create a basic rubric * How to mark using a rubric * How to create a rubric in Turnitin

This active, hands-on workshop is designed to build your knowledge, skills and confidence in creating and using marking rubrics.

You are welcome to bring along your own marking schemes for reflection and feedback afterwards, time permitting.

By the end of this workshop you will have learnt: * What a rubric is * Why you should use a rubric * How to create a basic rubric * How to mark using a rubric * How to create a rubric in Turnitin

In this session you will learn the rationale and process for moderation and standard setting at UWA. A three stage cycle of moderation will be discussed, with examples that can be applied in different contexts.

You will develop ideas for strategies for your own teaching area, and come up with a plan for moderation and standard setting for your next teaching cycle.

In this session you will learn the rationale and process for moderation and standard setting at UWA. A three stage cycle of moderation will be discussed, with examples that can be applied in different contexts.

You will develop ideas for strategies for your own teaching area, and come up with a plan for moderation and standard setting for your next teaching cycle.

Facilitated by an experienced Learning Designer, this one-day workshop is a great practical opportunity for both NEW Unit Coordinators at UWA to experience the unit design process, OR Unit Coordinators who are developing approved NEW units for their majors to be delivered from 2020.

You (as the Unit Coordinator) and assisting teaching staff can participate in a number of sequential collaborative tasks which will allow you to explore ideas for active learning as well as map out and plan the face-to-face and/or online elements for ONE unit you want to specifically focus on for this workshop.

The workshop begins at 9:30am sharp and finishes at 4:30pm. There is an expectation that participants will be present for the full day. Please answer as many of the questions at the point of registration. This extremely valuable information will be used to coordinate the best team to assist you at this workshop and during follow-up opportunities.

The idea that ‘for Aboriginal people in Australia, time is cyclic’ has been floating around for a long time, mostly as a folk commonplace, but also occasionally in scholarly contributions. Reference is regularly made in these contexts to the concept of ‘Dreamtime’, which is supposed to encapsulate a distinctive Aboriginal conception of time (e.g. Goddard & Wierzbicka 2015; Austin 1998). Often, language is called upon as evidence, based on the assumption that linguistic structures reflect speakers’ shared conceptual representations (Whorf 1956). Beyond folk theories, the hypothesis that linguistic structures in Australian Indigenous languages reflect the ‘Dreamtime’ concept of time both lexically and grammatically has also been proposed (Austin 1998:4), albeit not developed. These views deserve further discussion, as it is not clear what it means for a group of people to hold a ‘cyclic conception of time’; equally, the relations between language and thought can be argued to be much more intricate than the above claims suggest. In this talk, we will examine both lexical and grammatical categories in different Australian Indigenous languages in order to assess firstly, whether we can make sense of the notion of cyclic time from an ethnographic point of view; and secondly, whether linguistic structures can tell us anything about a concept of time.

This conversation between Sarah Maddison, the author of 'The Colonial Fantasy', and senior Noongar woman and scholar Colleen Hayward, will consider why settler Australia persists in the face of such obvious failure and why Indigenous policy in Australia has resisted the one thing that has made a difference elsewhere—the ability to control and manage their own lives.

Sarah Maddison is Professor of Politics at the University of Melbourne and co-director of the Indigenous-Settler Relations Collaboration.

Professor Colleen Hayward AM is a senior Noongar woman and former Pro Vice Chancellor at Edith Cowan University.

Sarah’s book 'The Colonial Fantasy: why white Australian can’t solve black problems' will be available for sale on the night, courtesy of Boffins Books.

In this seminar Juliana La Pegna will be presenting on her PhD Proposal (abstract below) and Nina Savic will also be outlining her Honours research project.

Juliana’s presentation:

Title: Beyond ‘Dullsville’: An Interpretive Policy Analysis of Culture and Arts based Policy surrounding the Perth CBD’s Identity and Growth, 2008–2018.

Abstract: Using the City of Perth as a case study, this research project explores competing discourses about the CBD. According to Susan Galloway and Stewart Dunlop (2007) “the arts and culture have been subsumed in a creative industries agenda” with the effect of bolstering support and justification for culture based agenda in a knowledge based economic climate. This trend, known as “The Cultural Policy Moment” (O’Regan, 2002) describes a situation where culture and arts policies intended to improve liveability and lifestyle within spaces have become part of a creative industries agenda, driven by economic imperatives. Drawing on these understandings of cultural policy, the objective of this research is to understand how discourses surrounding the Perth CBD have changed through the shifting of policy strategies to represent new political agendas around culture. These changes reflect feelings of uncertainty, anxiety and often competing visions for what the city should become are widely represented within the ways in which the city is talked about, which do not align with cultural policy agenda discourses represented within and through policy and its related artefacts. Using Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) established by Dvora Yanow (2000) this project will identify discursive trends within policy documents, annual reports, planning documents, newspaper articles and interviews which highlight the various and often contradictory feelings about the changes happening within the CBD space. The context of this research is considered to be a crucial moment in time for the Perth City space, as it is experiencing unprecedented and rapid growth and change.

Nina Savic’s Honours presentation:

Title: Examining the Relationship Between Televisual Rape Depictions and Rape Myth Acceptance in Television Viewers Brief: Through the lens of post-structural feminism, I examine the rape myths enforced through television rape narratives, particularly in the HBO series Game of Thrones. Three major rape scenes will be evaluated for their presence of rape myths. Using Stuart Hall’s (1980) Encoding/Decoding audience reception theory, I investigate viewer responses to rape narratives and the myths they enforce. By assessing comments made on online forums surrounding each major rape scene, I will allocate each participant to the Dominant, Negotiated, or Alternative reading group. This shall make inferences into the viewing attitudes of a wide section of viewers.

A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.

Since Darwin, evolutionary explanations of the role of vocal communication in the development of human cultural universals have received fluctuating levels of attention. While during the early 20th Century ethnomusicologists such as Sachs and von Hornbostel sustained an interest in the distribution of musicality as an inseparable feature of the human condition, little progress was made for more than a century after Darwin in examining the material evidence for musical origins. A key feature of this from an animal behaviour perspective – especially in terms of the application of Darwin’s sexual selection model to human musicality – is the gendered nature of the anatomy that permits us to engage in music. Comparisons across species indicate considerable sexual dimorphism in terms of such features as: range; role; interaction; and purpose. Humans, like Pied Butcher Birds, have equal and complementary capacities for musical generativity and participation, with a clearly superior role for the female in employing music in child-rearing. Studies in linguistics have remarked on the assumed universal whereby the vocal ranges of human adult males and females lie on average exactly an octave apart: a feature plainly evident in cultural practice. Yet an explanation for this in the voice and music literature is strangely absent. This paper reports on the initiation of a research project aiming to address this lacuna in the research landscape, and to set out some of the definitions and other factors that need require consideration.

Further information at music.uwa.edu.au

A public lecture by Dr Mark Holton, Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

Accommodating university students has become one of the most pervasive forms of contemporary urban change, with increasingly mobile networks of higher education students altering, beyond recognition, the landscape of UniverCities – cities that host universities – across the world. This is particularly pertinent in relation to how students access and engage with institutions and their term-time host communities and initial UK and US-centric studies in the 1990s and 2000s sought to understand how students’ lifestyles might re-shape residential neighbourhoods. More recently, and as a response to increasingly neoliberalised global higher education networks, the appetite for student accommodation provisions has become somewhat ‘vertical’. This is witnessed in UniverCities across the world through the proliferation of large-scale purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) developments that package and marketise ‘student experiences’ through high quality hotel-style living. Drawing on an analysis of PBSA-sector literature that compares various global histories and contexts of student accommodation provision, this lecture recognises Australia specifically as an important emerging contender in the globalised higher education market – a location where domestic students predominantly live at home but that is witnessing increasing internationalisation. This literature has identified some of Australia’s main achievements in this sector to be the initiation of effective branding of PBSA developments and recognising students as a sophisticated consumer group. A key message here for other emergent and established PBSA markets is that increasing investment into the quality and accessibility of higher education institutions through strategic partnerships, developing overseas recruitment strategies and increasing student accommodation provision is fundamental in increasing the appeal of a UniverCity as a global education destination.