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Displaying from Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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September 2011
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Tuesday 27 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Works for performer and live electronics
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Christopher Tonkin, Associate Lecturer, School of Music, UWA and a leading composer discusses some of his recent works.
We invite you to join us for this final lecture by Kevin Goss in his role as head of Future Farm Industries CRC.
This public address is a reflection on the wicked, unintended consequences that can arise from rapid economic development, the high cost of government policy inertia to deal (...)
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Wednesday 28 |
Essential Skills for a Successful Career in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, Law and Education. A workshop for postgraduate students and early career researchers.
UWA's Institute of Advanced Studies and the Office of Research and Research Training invite you to participate in a (...)
12:30 - FREE LECTURE - Paintings and Emotion: The stuff of mind and spirit : Lecture by Winthrop Prof. Jane Davidson, Callaway/Tunley Chair of Music, Program Leader of the ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions.
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Professor Davidson will examine works from the UWA collection which form the current exhibition, Recent Past, interrogating her emotional responses to the works.
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : “Losing Our Endemic Sense of Place: Solastalgia in South West Western Australia.”
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We are living in a period of ecocultural disintegration. The complexity and diversity of culture and ecology (ecocultural diversity) is being removed and/or homogenised by powerful forces all tied to modernity, global development and now, climate change. In some respects we are now all in the (...)
18:30 - Forum - UWA BUSINESS SCHOOL 2011 FORUM : Global Financial Crisis II: The Case for Optimism?
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With the possibility of a double-dip recession in the US and sovereign debt crisis facing the EU, UWA experts in finance and economics will assess the case for optimism and answer your questions on the future of the local, national and global economy at an open public forum. Find out whether there (...)
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Thursday 29 |
12:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture : Clinical conversations in healing, relief of suffering and finding meaning
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Emeritus Professor Eric Cassell from New York Presbyterian Hospital has a distinguished international reputation in the field of moral problems in medicine, with special focus on the care of the dying and the nature of suffering. His widely cited works include: The Healer’s Art, The Place of the (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Tadeusz Kosciuszko: Poland's National Hero in British Art and Literature
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A public lecture by Thomas McLean, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, University of Otago, New Zealand.
Most Australians know Kosciuszko as the name of a mountain. But Tadeusz Kosciuszko was one of the most important figures of the late eighteenth and early (...)
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Friday 30 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Exploring elements of an effective disaster recovery process: Lessons from recent New Zealand events
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Effective recovery from disasters depends not just on the physical impacts of the event but also on how the societal environment supports the complex and protracted processes of recovery. Research highlights the importance of not only strong local government capacity, but also of a cohesive system (...)
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October 2011
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Saturday 01 |
Mozart's Requiem has an almost mystical status within the canon of Classical choral music. The Perth Undergraduate Choral Society (PUCS) is delighted to present "Genesis of a Requiem," a concert which explores two masterworks which were among the key influences on Mozart's composition: (...)
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Sunday 02 |
10:00 - EVENT - Perth Upmarkets : Perth Upmarket is Perth’s premier quarterly market for original and handcrafted wares
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Perth Upmarket is Perth’s premier quarterly market for original and handcrafted wares. The market brings together over 150 of Perth’s most talented artists, designers, craftsmen and gourmets all under one roof at the University of Western Australia’s Winthrop Hall. Incorporating a dedicated (...)
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Monday 03 |
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Islam in Africa: from the GWOT to the Arab Spring : Free public lecture; ALL WELCOME!
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Professor Jeremy Keenan is currently a Professorial Research Associate in the Department of Social Anthropology and Sociology at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies.
Professor Jeremy Keenan will explain events in North Africa from 2003, the year in which the US launched its (...)
The Confucius Institute is running our last intake of the year. We offers an ongoing series of Chinese language classes from beginner to Advance levels.Our language courses are designed for those with an interest in travel, business and friendship. Our teachers are qualified Chinese language (...)
The Confucius Institute will be running our 4th intake of our Chinese Language courses. We offers an ongoing series of Chinese language classes from Beginners to Advanced levels and our NEW Business Chinese. Our language courses are designed for those with an interest in travel, business and (...)
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Tuesday 04 |
11:30 - PUBLIC TALK - 7 Minute Speeches : Four panelists from culture and the arts are challenged to present a 7 minute, short speech on a painting of their choice from the Recent Past exhibition at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
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Dr Darren Jorgensen, writer, researcher and Assist. Prof., Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, UWA, Dr Ric Spencer, artist, writer and curator at Fremantle Arts Centre, Dr Tony Hughes-d'Ath, writer, cultural historian and Assoc. Prof., English and Cultural Studies, UWA, and Thomas Hoareau (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Performance Practice Values in the Twentieth Century Early Music Movement: Initial Findings
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Eva-Marie Middleton, PhD candidate, School of Music, UWA presents an exciting and innovative research project involving multi-methods including the evaluation of recordings made in the last 80 years.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Looking for meaning in all the wrong places : screening of Kurosawa's Ikiru and lecture by Michael Levine
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Akira Kurosawa directed and co-wrote Ikiru in 1952. Filmed in black and white, it ostensibly tells the story of Kanji Watanabe, a bureaucrat and section chief who spends virtually his entire life working in a city office. Neither Watanabe nor anyone else in the office actually does anything much (...)
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Wednesday 05 |
7:00 - EVENT - Breakfast by the Bay : Breakfast by the Bay with Jonathan Holloway : Festivals Mean Business
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Join Jonathan Holloway, the Artistic Director of Perth
International Arts Festival 2012-2015, as he outlines the
benefits the Festival will provide to the Perth arts and
business community in the coming years. He will discuss
how he was instrumental in the transformation of the
Norfolk and Norwich (...)
The Postgraduate and Honours Expo showcases a host of opportunities for further study, including honours and postgraduate coursework and research possibilities.
Discover the courses each faculty has to offer, learn about postgraduate scholarships, attend information sessions and talk to (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC TALK - "Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media" : Public Talk on the book "Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media" ; All Welcome!
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Nahid Afrose Kabir has recently taken up a position of Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, University of South Australia. Currently, Dr Kabir is an honorary senior fellow in the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University (...)
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