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July 2013
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Monday 22 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Medical Research Seminar Series : "Understanding childhood susceptibility to otitis media: genetic and environmental risk factors"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Understanding childhood susceptibility to otitis media: genetic and environmental risk factors" by Dr Sarra Jamieson,
Genetics and Health Division, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30p (...)
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Tuesday 23 |
8:50 - SYMPOSIUM - Symposium of WA Neuroscience : Free symposium for neuroscientists, clinicians, students and the public
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The Symposium of WA Neuroscience (SWAN) will be held in association with the Neurotrauma Research Program of WA on Tuesday the 23rd of July, 2013 at The University of Western Australia in the MCS lecture theatre (G33).
This year SWAN will comprise four sessions. The first of these is (...)
18:00 - ALUMNI EVENT - The 2013 George Seddon Lecture : Is Central Perth Getting Better? – A View from Seddon Perspectives
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The Annual George Seddon Lecture series will be presented this year by Peter Newman, John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University.
The lecture will present perspectives on the liveliness, greening, residential qualities, regeneration projects, foreshore and (...)
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Wednesday 24 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Identifying performance benchmarks in Ghanaian agriculture through efficiency analysis.
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Agricultural production in Ghana is mainly carried out by smallholder farmers on a subsistence basis. Smallholders constitute about 95% of the farming population and produce 80% of the annual output.
This study investigates the level of technical efficiency of farms using a sample of 294 (...)
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Friday 26 |
14:00 - ORATION - Three Minute Thesis Competition Final : An 80,000 word thesis would take 9 hours to present - their time 3 minutes!
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The task for the 10 finalists is to give an engaging talk on their PhD topic and it's significance in language that everyone can understand - in just 3 minutes. The audience will vote for its People's Choice.
18:00 - EXHIBITION OPENING - HERE&NOW13 : An exhibition of 11 contemporary Western Australian artists
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Join the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 26th July 2013 at 6pm for the opening of HERE&NOW13 - an exhibition of 11 Western Australian artists with disability.
Featured artists include Katrina Barber, Patrick Carter, Clive Collender, Aquinas Crowe, David Guhl, Tim Maley, Julian (...)
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Wednesday 31 |
18:00 - PRESENTATION - Becoming an Engineer with UWA - 31 July 2013
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'Becoming an Engineer with UWA' info evening: Prospective students and their parents are invited to attend one of our info sessions to learn more about how to achieve an engineering career with UWA.
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August 2013
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Thursday 01 |
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - FREE Lunchtime Concert : Visiting Alumni Artist: Ashley Smith (clarinet)Buffet-Crampon Artist
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Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
18:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - 2013 Salek Minc Lecture : Engaging Possibility: Access Programs at MoMA
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Carrie McGee from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will present the annual Salek Minc Lecture for 2013 on Thursday 1 August 6pm at the UniClub Theatre Auditorium.
Carrie McGee and her colleagues at the MoMA have won international respect for their unique efforts to make the MoMA’s (...)
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Friday 02 |
13:00 - SYMPOSIUM - HERE&NOW13 Disability and the Arts Symposium : Enabling people with disability access to, and involvement in the arts
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As part of the HERE&NOW13 exhibition program, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery is hosting the 'Disability and the Arts' Symposium on 2nd and 3rd of August.
This two-day symposium brings together a range of Western Australian organisations to discuss the importance of enabling people (...)
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Sunday 04 |
15:00 - EVENT - Chamber! Julianne Baird (soprano) : What passion cannot raise and quell!
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Julianne Baird has been hailed by the New York Times as ‘possessing a natural musicianship which engenders singing of supreme expressive beauty’. She is recognised internationally as a musician whose virtuosic and expressive vocal style has made her the ‘unsurpassed mistress of late (...)
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Tuesday 06 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Australian agriculture and global food security : 2050 Food - Lecture Series
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A public lecture by Winthrop Professor Kadambot H.M Siddique, AM FTSE, Director, The UWA Institute of Agriculture.
Cost: Free, Register: http://2050food.eventbrite.com.au/#
Australia is currently a net food exporting country and about 70% of the food produced is exported. The (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture : John Kinsella will speak on Randolph Stow's Unselected Poetry
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The Westerly Centre (UWA) and St George's College present the second Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture. Acclaimed poet, critic, novelist, essayist and editor of the recent volume of Randolph Stow's Selected Poetry, 'The Land's Meaning', John Kinsella will present this free public lecture. Wine and (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture : Professor John Kinsella will deliver a lecture on the uncollected poems of Randolph Stow
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The Westerly Centre and St Georges College will present the second annual Randolph Stow memorial lecture on Tuesday the 6th of August.
Wine and cheese will be served after the lecture.
18:00 - MEMORIAL LECTURE - The Randoph Stow Memorial Lecture : Guest speaker UWA Professor John Kinsella will present the Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture.
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Guest speaker Professor John Kinsella, in association with the Westerly Centre for Australian Literature, will present the Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture and will talk about Randolph Stow’s Unselected Poetry.
All are welcome to attend.
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Wednesday 07 |
The UWA Student Guild has its 100th birthday this year. Prosh Days past, political militancy, protest marches, the campaign for female equality... it’s been quite a ride.
Among many other centenary events, we invite you to an exhibition called The Guild Museum; curated by 2011 Guild (...)
A public lecture by David Konstan, Professor of Classics at New York University
Lucretius’ poem On Nature presents a detailed overview of ancient atomic physics, as developed within the school founded by Epicurus. It has some remarkable features: not just atoms, but tiny, non-detachable (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Blush of the World: Bonnard's Nudes and the Disembodied Look
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The Blush of the World:
Bonnard’s Nudes and the Disembodied Look
This lecture sets out to provide a framework within which one might begin to look at Bonnard’s canvasses depicting his wife, Marthe, in the rituals of washing and bathing. It suggests that the most common way of (...)
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Thursday 08 |
Professor Ronald E Bontrop is an immunologist and editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Immunogenetics. He leads the Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) in Rijswijk, The Netherlands and is an expert in the field of comparative Immunogenetics.
Professor Bontrop’s current (...)
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - FREE Lunchtime Concert : Students: Naomi Smout (piano) & Marco Lombardi (piano)
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Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
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