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Displaying from Wednesday, September 26, 2018
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September 2018
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Thursday 27 |
Facilitated by experienced Learning Designers, this one-day workshop is a great practical opportunity for new and current teaching staff at UWA to experience the unit design process.
You and your colleagues can participate in a number of sequential collaborative tasks which will allow (...)
The City of Perth Library, UWA Institute of Advanced Studies and Boffins Books, are delighted to present Gillian Triggs on 'Speaking Up'.
As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs advocated for the disempowered, the disenfranchised, the marginalised. She withstood (...)
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October 2018
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Tuesday 02 |
A public lecture by Michael Corballis, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Auckland.
From the Bible to Chomsky, language is a miracle, unique to humans, and emerging as a single event, initially in a single individual, within the past 100,000 years.
In this lecture (...)
18:30 - FREE LECTURE - UWA Music presents: The 2018 Callaway Lecture with David Elliott : What is music, and what is education?
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The Callaway Lecture is one of the most prestigious events in the calendar of the Conservatorium of Music. In collaboration with the Kodály National Conference, we are delighted to welcome Professor David Elliott, author of ‘Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education’ and Professor of (...)
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Thursday 04 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar : DNA of the invisible: A genetic approach to study past interactions of people and fauna
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When our ancestors migrated out of Africa 100,000 years ago, a highly perfected killing machine was unleashed on the rest of the world, catching the local fauna off-guard. Wherever we travelled since then, we left a trail of destruction behind us: species have gone extinct on every continent that (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - A Scandalous Empire : The 2018 Fred Alexander Lecture by Professor Kirsten McKenzie
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The 2018 Fred Alexander Lecture by Kirsten McKenzie, Professor of History, University of Sydney.
A serial imposter swindles his way through the colony of New South Wales claiming to be a British lord. An activist lawyer is lauded for exposing illegal slave dealing – until he is (...)
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Friday 05 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar : “How do you think learning Korean will shape your future?" A Q methodology study into university student’s future language selves.
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Being able to speak a foreign language is often considered a valuable skill for university students, and to make foreign language learning at the university level more relevant to student’s future careers it is important to understand what learners want to do with the language and how they see (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar Series : Reference and the dynamics of discourse: The expanding function of null subjects in Kriol
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Kriol is an English-lexified creole spoken throughout the northern regions of Australia. Relatively little is known about the structural features of the language, and a comprehensive description of the language is yet to be produced. In this talk I will present the research I have undertaken as (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR : Desiring the Modern Boy: Beauty, Modernity and Masculinity in Interwar Japan
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This paper problematises the visual representation of the Modern Boy (mobo) in 1920s Japanese popular media as a site of contestation over what constituted desirable masculinity in early twentieth-century Japanese society. On the one hand, the mobo’s image as a beautiful commodified male points (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Happily Single? It May Depend on Where You Live: how families shape single women�s well-being in three East Asian cities
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A public lecture by Lynne Nakano, Professor, Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
The age of first marriage has been rising around the world but nowhere more rapidly than in East Asia. In contrast to patterns of (...)
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Monday 08 |
8:00 - CONFERENCE - In The Zone Above: The Indo-Pacific Era in Space Conference 2018 : As the investment centre of gravity related to space shifts towards leading economies in the Indo-Pacific, we must think together about shared opportunities, challenges and risks around the 'Zone Above'. This year's In The Zone Conference will focus on the Indo-Pacific era in space and the opportunities and challenges ahead of us.
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Tuesday 09 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Political Science and International Relations : The Nation and The Nature; The Power and Practice of Assembling Military Environmentalism on the Borders of India.
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This paper empirically examines and debates the specific governmental intervention of military environmentalism that set out to improve and protect the disputed Himalayan borders of India. Through employing the analytic of assemblage to study military environmentalism, the paper focuses upon the (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Postgraduate Opportunities: Arts Q&A + networking : Join us for Q&A session followed by networking with academics.
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Discover more about your postgraduate study options in Arts, Business, Law and Education and have all your questions answered.
Postgraduate qualifications have become an expectation in a global workforce and can be the defining factor in your future career pathway. Find out how you can (...)
Blasphemy and Islam
by Sajid Hameed, Research Fellow, Al-Mawrid Global
Blasphemy is a long-standing issue of debate across cultures. However, in 2005, when a Danish newspaper published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the topic became a major global controversy. What (...)
17:30 - EVENT - Postgraduate Opportunities: School of Design information session : Explore your postgraduate options in Created and Creative Environments.
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Discover more about your postgraduate study options in Arts, Business, Law and Education and have all your questions answered.
Postgraduate qualifications have become an expectation in a global workforce and can be the defining factor in your future career pathway. Find out how you can (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - A day in the life of Sinead � how technology makes all the difference
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A public lecture by Sinead Quinn, Occupational Therapist / Assistive Technology Consultant.
Come and listen to how Sinead, an Occupational Therapist and a person who has low vision, is using technology to make everyday life easier. When it comes to every day activities such as accessing (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations Annual Lecture 2018 - What has the #MeToo movement achieved?
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The proliferation of global #MeToo movement, and its sister hashtag, #TimesUp, has been a watershed moment, capturing the global imagination and breaking a longstanding and deafening silence on how those in senior, influential positions across all areas of society – politics, business, education (...)
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Thursday 11 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : "Excavating Prehistory’s Past: Some Themes in Investigating the Historiography of (Francophone) Archaeology in the Pacific"
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In this talk I present some of the most accomplished themes I have been exploring as part of the ARC Laureate Project ‘The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific’ (CBAP), led by Prof. Matthew Spriggs at ANU. CBAP is the first consolidated research program to investigate the (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Heritage and the Politics of Recognition
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This talk addresses work I am doing for a new book that, as part of its thesis, investigates the utility of theorizations in political philosophy around diversity and redistribution for understanding the political power and consequences of heritage. The politics of recognition is an attempt to both (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar Series : Morphological encoding in language processing
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This talk will be about how we plan and produce speech. More specifically, how do we put together words and sentences and what are the linguistic units that need to be activated and retrieved from long-term memory. Words can consist of smaller meaningful elements called “morphemes”, e.g. the (...)
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