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April 2019
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Thursday 18 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Reducing Risks to Heritage in Times of Crisis
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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 (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Centre Stage | Nicola Boud and The Irwin Street Collective
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 23 |
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 (...)
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 (...)
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Wednesday 24 |
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 (...)
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 (...)
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Friday 26 |
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 ( (...)
11:00 - EVENT - Linguistics Seminar Series : Debunking urban myths Language and conceptions of time in Aboriginal Australia
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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 (...)
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Monday 29 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Colonial Fantasy. Why white Australia can�t solve black problems.
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 30 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Media and Communication Studies Seminar Series : PhD Proposal and Honours Research Project
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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 (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Music presents: Callaway Centre Seminar Series | Nicholas Bannan : Did the voices of men and women evolve to sing in harmony?
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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 (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - UniverCities: Investigating the influence of student accommodation on global cities
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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 (...)
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May 2019
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Wednesday 01 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - Seminar: Behind the Islamist Carnage: Sri Lankan Ethno-Religious Democracy in Disarray
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A bunch of highly educated and religiously inspired middle or upper-middle-class Muslims belonging to the extremist National Tawheed Jamaat based in the township of Kattankudy and linked to ISIS has carried out a highly coordinated attack on Christian churches in Sri Lanka killing nearly 300 (...)
A public lecture by Dr Nicolo Zingales, Deputy Director, Centre for Information Governance Research, University of Sussex and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Personal Data Stores aim to help individuals and communities to be the beneficiaries of insights from their data (...)
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Thursday 02 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Path of Pain – Truth telling, Acknowledgement and The Bernier and Dorre Island Lock Hospitals
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Let us tell you about one of the stories that has been swept under the Australian carpet for far too long…….
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were removed from their homelands and interned in medical and government facilities (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - NTEU Federal Election Forum 2019: The Future of Tertiary Education in Australia : The 2019 Federal Election is almost upon us and the NTEU WA Division is hosting a free public forum to hear first-hand major political party priorities for tertiary education in Australia.
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Join us at 5.30pm on Thursday 2nd May in the Murdoch Lecture Theatre (Arts G58) at The University of Western Australia.
The forum will feature NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes and guests:
Senator Louise Pratt
Senator Pratt is the Shadow Assistant Minister (...)
17:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: WASO International Artist Masterclass Program : Andreas Ottensamer
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UWA and WASO have a relationship that brings together the highest-quality music education with some of the State’s most talented and experienced professional musicians.
In 2019, the International Artist Masterclass Program continues to welcome world-class visiting artists as they (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Humanitarianism, �Aboriginal Protection� and the Politics of Reform in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire : The 2019 Tom Stannage Memorial Lecture
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The 2019 Tom Stannage Memorial Lecture by Amanda Nettelbeck, Professor in History, University of Adelaide.
The desire for humanitarian reform had multiple targets in the post-abolitionist British Empire, and its impacts on imperial policy have been subject to considerable recent interest (...)
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Friday 03 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : The Religious Entrepreneurship of Humanistic Buddhism Theo Stapleton
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The Religious Entrepreneurship of Humanistic Buddhism
This dissertation explores the concept of religious entrepreneurship in the context of the
Humanistic Buddhist movement. Religious entrepreneurship as a theoretical framework facilitates
a focus on the production of religious capital (...)
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Free Lunchtime Concert | The Darlington Ensemble
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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.
The Darlington Ensemble are one of Perth's premier chamber music ensembles, offering a full palate of chamber music (...)
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