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Displaying from Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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August 2011
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Tuesday 30 |
13:00 - FREE LECTURE - Collaborative Scholarship in the Digital Humanities : International Research Seminar by Professor Harold Short (King's College London)
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The Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences presents an International Research Seminar led by distinguished visiting scholar in digital humanities, Professor Harold Short (King’s College London).
What are the particular challenges faced by scholars engaged in collaborative (...)
17:00 - CANCELLED - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Student Research Seminar Presentations
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
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Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Victoria Rogers, School of Music, UWA these seminars are presented by the School’s honours-level students.
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Wednesday 31 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Tropical cyclones, floods, droughts and fires: are these the climate hazards of our future? : The 2011 Joseph Gentilli Memorial Lecture
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The 2011 Gentilli Memorial Lecture will be given by by John McBride, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Bureau of Meteorology, Centre for Atmospheric Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne.
It is often stated that the effect of climate change will be felt through its impact on extreme (...)
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September 2011
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Thursday 01 |
Dr. Alan Lourens presents works on his 1934 Elkhart Conn Double Belled Euphonium.
Works by Jan Bach, Arthur Remington and others.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Future of Disability Policy in Australia: Improving the Lives of People with Disability, their Families and Carers
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The 2011 Disability Collective Lecture will be given by Senator Jan McLucas, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers.
This lecture is co-sponsored with the Institute of Advanced Studies and Equity and Diversity Unit at UWA and the Western Australian Disability Collective, a (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Reconstructing an Iconographical Program of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos: New Wall-Paintings and their Interpretation. : Classics & Ancient History, UWA, present the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Visiting Professor, Prof. Jack Davis, the Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati and Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
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"Reconstructing an Iconographical Program of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos: New Wall-Paintings and their Interpretation."
Carl W. Blegen, excavator at the Palace of Nestor, designed an admirable program of publication for his finds, most of which was completed during his (...)
20:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music: Music Students' Society - Contemporary Music Concert
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The UWA Music Students' Society presents an evening of contemporary works performed by UWA music students.
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Friday 02 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Adapting to Living with Bushfire and Earthquake Hazards: Integrating household, community and societal influences : This seminar discusses empirical findings regarding why people decide to prepare or decide not to prepare.
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Despite the efforts and resources committed to encouraging people to prepare, levels of readiness remain low. Neither living in high risk areas nor providing people with information about risk and preparedness ensures that people prepare. This presentation argues that it is not information per se (...)
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Monday 05 |
Quit Smoking Successfully!
The Robin Winkler Clinic at The University of Western Australia will be conducting a SMOKING CESSATION treatment program commencing on Monday 5 SEPTEMBER 2011. The group will meet for two hours each week for ten sessions, with a follow-up session one month after (...)
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Tuesday 06 |
17:00 - CANCELLED - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Student Research Seminar Presentations
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
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Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Victoria Rogers, School of Music, UWA these seminars are presented by the School’s honours-level students.
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Thursday 08 |
Almost 1 in 20 Australians will be diagnosed with a malignant melanoma.
Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to find out how scientists and clinicians
are waging war on melanoma and using new treatments to halt the rising tide
of fatal melanoma cases.
World expert, Professor Grant McArthur is (...)
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Friday 09 |
9:00 - SEMINAR - Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series: Functional characterisation of a novel murine cytomegalovirus gene complex : Final PhD Seminar
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a betaherpesvirus that persistently infects the majority of the population, resulting in severe disease in individuals with compromised immunity such as HIV/AIDS patients and congenitally infected infants. We have identified a novel gene, m15, in murine cytomegalovirus that (...)
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Sunday 11 |
8:00 - CONFERENCE - Rebuilding Harmony 2011 : 9/11 Ten Years On: Rebuilding Harmony - One-Day Conference Organized by CMSS@UWA
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The terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 catapulted the world into a new era of interstate and global relations. The lexicon of terrorism and counter-terrorism entered the vocabulary of policymakers, analysts and ordinary citizens. The subsequent years and continuing militant (...)
15:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Concert: Keyed Up! GALA Concert and Cocktail Party
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Nikolai Demidenkos passionate pianism is in demand worldwide. Russian born and trained, Demidenko has steadily built an international career of the highest calibre, playing concertos with many of Europes greatest orchestras and conductors, and playing a landmark series of recitals in Londons (...)
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Tuesday 13 |
17:00 - CANCELLED - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Student Research Seminar Presentations
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
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Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Victoria Rogers, School of Music, UWA, these seminars are presented by the School’s honours-level students.
19:45 - VISITING SPEAKER - Friends of the Library Speaker : Surgeon, Soldier, Scriptwriter
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The story of a man who entered the regimental life, graduated in medicine, but was not allowed to practice, studied and wrote drama, and died young. His fame grew after his death. Come along and find out who this story is about.
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Wednesday 14 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) - the Arts of Pioneering in Nineteenth-Century Natural Science
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A public lecture by Professor Mary Orr, Professor of French, University of Southampton, UK.
The website of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences offers a rare glimpse of Sarah’s exquisite drawings and her life devoted to natural science:
‘Sarah Bowdich (1791-1856) (...)
18:00 - FREE LECTURE - Masdar, World's First Carbon Neutral City? : Free lecture by Sasha Ivanovich
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Sasha Ivanovich has travelled to the UAE to study the amazing city of Masdar, hailed to be the world's first carbon neutral city.
The lecture will be followed by drinks.
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Thursday 15 |
A three day event bringing together early modern theatre historians to discuss and perform 'old emotions on the New Fortune stage'. It includes a free performance of Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV, directed by Dr Rob Conkie (La Trobe), at 2pm on Friday 16th September on the New Fortune stage.
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14:00 - EVENT - Talk and poetry reading: As is Painting, so is Poetry. : Discussion on the perceived relationship between painting and poetry by leading WA poets.
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Assoc. Prof. Glen Phillips (ECU) and John Ryan, PhD candidate (ECU) examine the relationship between painting and poetry through a discussion of two works from the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery's current exhibition, Recent Part: Sydney Nolan's 'The Snake' and 'Flower panels [Paradise Garden]' (...)
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