What's On at UWA

The Prospective Students Office is providing a guided walking tour of UWA's Crawley Campus on the long weekend (3 June 2013).

These tours are for prospective students (and their parents) who would like to find out more about studying at UWA whilst taking in the beautiful gardens and buildings at the Crawley campus.

The tour finishes at the Admissions Centre & Prospective Students Office where you will be able to collect course brochures.

Tours run for approximately one hour. Please bring a jacket and wet weather gear if necessary.

Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.

A public lecture by David Simpson, Distinguished Professor of English, UC Davis.

Terror and catastrophe are commonly distinguished as (respectively) man-made and natural phenomena, but there is increasing evidence for seeing them as historically related. There is also a strong case for attempting to devise a theoretical model that takes account of the history of both terms in political and aesthetic discourses. Without such theoretical efforts, we risk remaining the passive consumers of a rhetoric deployed in the service of vested interests.

Cost: Free, but RSVP essential. To register a place http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/simpson

Each year The UWA Institute of Agriculture hosts an annual Postgraduate Showcase where selected postgraduate students in Agriculture and related areas present their research.

The Postgraduate Showcase brings together some of UWA’s best PhD students at an advanced stage of their research. It highlights relevant research and progress being made in the area of Agriculture and Natural Resource Management at UWA.

This afternoon event will be opened by Hon Ken Baston MLC, Minister for Agriculture and Food WA, and promote interaction and networking between industry representatives, prospective employers, funding bodies, UWA staff and postgraduate students undertakling research in agriculture and related areas.

RSVP (for catering purposes) by 27 May.

A public lecture by James O’Byrne, NOLA.com.

Katrina brought into high relief the role of journalists as first responders, as integral to disaster response as police, fire and rescue personnel. The unprecedented nature of the collapse of the Federal seawalls protecting New Orleans, and the ensuing human, social and environmental catastrophe, burdened journalists with extraordinary challenges personal, ethical and professional. How does a journalist function when he is both a victim of, and a witness to, disaster?

What are his or her ethical responsibilities as a human being, and how do those responsibilities interface with his job, when there are so many people in direct and immediate peril? What is the role of storytelling in the aftermath of a disaster?

These questions become even more crucial when one considers the precipitous decline in the business model of print newspapers, and leaves open the question of who will provide this critical coverage when there is not a professional class of journalists willing to run toward danger? Many of these issues were explored in a short 8-minute video culled from more than 10 hours of interviews with journalists from The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans and the accompanying news website, NOLA.com. With less than three years to the 10th anniversary of that devastating storm, a fuller, documentary-length exploration of the media in Hurricane Katrina is envisioned.

This lecture is part of the International Workshop ‘Investigating Catastrophe: Commemoration, Accountability and the Public Record of Disaster’ supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies at The University of Western Australia and The Australian Research Council.

Cost: Free, but RSVP essential. To register a place: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/obyrne

UWA CPD Health presents a Multidisciplinary CPD seminar on Saturday June 8th 2013. In association with the Diabetes and Endocrine Health Network and Diabetes WA, UWA CPD Health is presenting a unique education seminar on Diabetes: Priorities, targets & the annual cycle of care. The event represents a great opportunity to understand patient management from all perspectives and strengthen collaboration and develop referral pathways between health care providers. Open to ALL members of the multidisciplinary health care team. This seminar is eligible for 6 active learning hours for CPD with optional assessment. Seminar attendance is fully catered for at the UWA Club OR online access is available through the Universities' Lecture Capture System.

“As the Arab Spring enters its third year, new Arab democracies are struggling with a myriad of serious issues, which could impact the future success or failure of democratic transitions in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, and other countries in the region. These issues include governance; Islamic politics; social complexity and diversity of Arab society; human rights and women’s rights; and continued violence and repression in Syria, Bahrain, and elsewhere. A key challenge revolves around job creation and entrepreneurship. The new Arab democracies will have to adopt creative economic policies and promote economic growth to provide jobs for the millions of Arab youth in the new democracies. In the final analysis, an employed population is the backbone of a democratic society. Furthermore, economic prosperity will be critical for the stability and social peace of the new democracies in the Middle East. The presentation will highlight the lessons, challenges, and opportunities for the region and major foreign powers.”

Dr. Nakhleh is an expert on Middle Eastern society and politics and on political Islam. He is a memeber of the Council on Foreign relations and a Research Professor at University of New Mexico. He previously served in the Central Intelligence Agency from 1993-2006, first as a scholar in residence and the chief of the Regional Analysis Unit in the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis and subsequently as director of Political Islam Strategic Analysis program. Since retiring from the US Government in 2006, he has been consulting with different US government entities and departments on national security issues,

Deciding what subjects to study in Year 11 and 12 can be a daunting process, particularly you are not yet sure if university is the right pathway for your future goals.

Our information sessions will provide advice on UWA's courses, entry requirements and other helpful subject selection tips that will allow you to keep your future study options open.

You will also find out about the various events and activities we offer on campus for Year 10 and 11 students throughout the year.

UWA staff from the Prospective Students Office will be available to answer any queries you may have after the session.

Western Australian Clinical Oncology Group presents keynote speaker Manuela Malaguti-Boyle, who is a qualified Clinical Nutritionist with professional experience in the field of integrative oncology. She provides consultations to cancer patients throughout Australia and abroad on evidence-based dietary, nutritional and botanical support to complement conventional cancer care. She is also an independent consultant to oncologists, naturopaths and other health care providers working with cancer patients. As part of her PhD, Manuela is conducting a randomised double blind placebo controlled human clinical trial on cancer patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck undergoing radiotherapy treatment. Her presentation will cover theoretical models of carcinogenesis, herbs, nutrient chemotherapy interaction and the importance of clinical nutrition for cancer patients and survivors.

Expert Panel Discussants: Dr Kevin Jasas – Medical Oncologist, SCGH Dr Nik Zeps – SJOGH Pathology, Member – NHMRC Homeopathy Working Committee Jedda Clune – Senior Dietitian SCGH Michael Cain – Oncology Pharmacist, SCGH Moderator: Paul Katris – Executive Officer, WACOG Chair - Clinical Oncological Society of Australia: Complementary and Integrative Therapies Advisory Committee

This event is free and is open to all interested health professionals.

RSVP essential for catering purposes to [email protected] or at http://www.eventbrite.com.au/event/6686133405

Deciding what subjects to study in Year 11 and 12 can be a daunting process, particularly you are not yet sure if university is the right pathway for your future goals.

Our information sessions will provide advice on UWA's courses, entry requirements and other helpful subject selection tips that will allow you to keep your future study options open.

You will also find out about the various events and activities we offer on campus for Year 10 and 11 students throughout the year.

UWA staff from the Prospective Students Office will be available to answer any queries you may have after the session.

Presentation Synopsis

John Winthrop Hackett and the Hackett Memorial Buildings

John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916) was born in Ireland, emigrated to the eastern states of Australia, and then moved to Western Australia. He became a member of the Legislative Assembly, worked to achieve federation, and with others achieved the creation of The University of Western Australia. He was knighted in 1911, by coincidence in the year in which an Act of Parliament established this university. After his death his estate was ably managed by Alfred Langler, and in 1926 the sum of £425,000 became available to build the Winthrop Hall and associated buildings. The architectural features of these buildings are described in the recently published book The Hackett Memorial Buildings at the University of Western Australia, written by the speaker, and will be illustrated in this lecture.

About the Speaker

Emeritus Professor John Melville-Jones, a graduate of Cambridge University, was appointed to a lectureship in Classics and Ancient History at UWA in 1957. In addition to teaching the regular courses in Classics, he developed an interest in ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture, and taught courses in that area until 2011. His research has been concentrated on the coinage of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Geologists and geophysicists have to deal with a wide range of data sets and image types acquired from a variety of sources. This talk will give an overview of the image analysis and visualization work being conducted in the Centre for Exploration Targeting.

Image processing topics will include automated detection of linear structures and circular porphyry features in aeromagnetic data, identification of regions of structural complexity, and mapping of outcrop imagery.

Visualisation topics will include presentation of high dynamic range images, use of effective (and ineffective)colourmaps, and visualization of tensor data. Also presented will be a number of image blending tools that we have been developing as a means of integrating information from multiple images or for interactively exploring image parameters such as scale.

Short Bio,

Peter Kovesi is a Research Professor in the Center for Exploration Targeting at UWA. He has been with CET since 2010. Prior to this he had earlier careers in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, and in the School of Mechanical Engineering at UWA. His research interests are in computer vision and visualisation.

PS* This seminar is free and open to the public & no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****

The Business School is hosting an information evening for its Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) programs.

We invite you to attend the upcoming information evening which will give you the opportunity to learn about the programs on offer, to discuss your study options, meet Business School staff and have all your questions answered before applying for your chosen MBA course.

The event starts at 5.30pm with the following format

5.30-6.00pm: Meet the current students and professors 6.00-7.00pm: Presentation 7.00-7.30pm: Individual question time

Register now to attend http://www.business.uwa.edu.au/school/news/infoevenings/register

Join curators Ted Snell and Sally Quin for an informative tour of the exhibition ORIENTing on Saturday 15 June 2pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

ORIENTing presents a rare opportunity to see important works by Ian Fairweather from public and private collections in Western Australia and runs from May 4, 2013 until 13 July 2013.

This event is FREE to attend. Please RSVP to [email protected] or 6488 3707

This exhibition tour is part of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery public program. Visit the gallery website for more information and similar events.

Dr Sophie Davison is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at the Clinical Research Centre, North Metropolitan Area Mental Health Service in Perth WA and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences at The University of Western Australia. Her research interests are the mental health of prisoners. She completed her basic training and advanced forensic psychiatric training at The Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College in London, UK. She has worked in a number of settings including Broadmoor High Secure Hospital, the community and in men and women’s prisons. She has published on the topic of women’s mental health, drug addicts in police custody, offenders with personality disorder, prisoner mental health and the mental health of detainees under anti-terror legislation. She was previously Co-Director of the Mental Health Teaching Unit at the King’s College London. She is currently chair of the RANZCP Forensic Faculty WA Branch committee

Prisoner populations have poor physical and mental health. This has wide public health implications. Women offenders have particular needs which are often over looked in the research literature and in clinical practice because of their relatively small number in relation to men who offend. I will report on our research which aimed to determine the nature and extent of mental health and substance misuse problems in WA reception prisoners as well as detailing their health, clinical, social and functional needs. We have just completed data collection on the women and I will report on the preliminary data from this part of the study.

Why do people owe political and legal obligations to each other? Why, for example, can I be prevented from punching you or burning your house down? Political and legal thinkers generally agree on the nature of the answer to this question, even if they disagree on the details. The answer focusses on the state and the community. But in this talk, I argue that this answer is wrong. What is more, I will suggest that you already know it is wrong, or at least that you knew it was wrong before you were programmed to think otherwise. We will also discover that many other people knew this, though most of them have been dead quite a while. The talk will suggest a better way to understand the political, the legal (especially private law) and our own relations with other people.

Allan Beever is a professor of law at the University of South Australia. He has previously held positions at the Universities of Southampton, Durham and Auckland, and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg. He has also held a visiting position at the University of Ottawa. He has won numerous awards for his research including, in 2007, the runner-up for the Birks prize by the Society of Legal Scholars for the best legal scholarship that year in the United Kingdom for his book Rediscovering the Law of Negligence.

Professor Beever has a rare command of both deep legal theory combined with a depth of knowledge of many cases, His recent articles include ‘Barclay v Penberthy and the Collapse of the High Court’s Tort Jurisprudence’ and ‘Kant on the Law of Marriage’. Date & Time: Tuesday 18 June from 6-7.30pm Venue: UWA Law School, Masters Seminar Room (Room G30 in Law Link Building)

Join members of the Judiciary, Bar, Legal Practice and the Academy for this seminar. Wine and cheese will be served.

The Agency in Movement symposium employs a variety of disciplines to explore the complex relations between movement and vitality. Motion is observed by attaching a frame of reference to a “body” and measuring its change in position relative to another reference frame. Therefore, movement is relative, means ever changing and is perceived as visceral and “alive”. The Symposium will include invited speakers from diverse disciplines (art, performance, biology, biophysics, biomechanics, and philosophy) who will explore and interrogate the conceptual and technical relations between life (biological or artificial), movement and perceptions of "vitality”, with the hope that some interesting meeting points and/or negations will emerge.

The symposium stems from an Australian Research Council project exploring the use of skeletal muscle tissue which is grown, stimulated and activated in a techno-scientific surrogate “body”. This moving twitching (semi) living material evokes, makes unease, and asks, in sensorial and theoretical means about issues of aliveness and agency. The project is concerned with onto-ethico-epistemological (Barad 2010) questions about life and the affect created through the phenomenon of movement.

We will be probing into the (sometimes) uneasy and undefined areas of shifting perceptions of life, heralded by developments in the life sciences and applied technologies, coupled with the introduction of engineering principles into life sciences. In the light of ‘new materialism’, ‘agential realism’ and when life is becoming a raw material to be engineered, we will examine the position and role of movement as agency.

Speakers include: Monika Bakke, a philosopher who interrogates cross species and non-human communication at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.; Andrew Pelling leads the Laboratory for Biophysical Manipulation at the University of Ottawa, which experiment with in vitro muscle cells and with artists. Elizabeth Stephens, a science historian from the Centre for the History of European Discourses. Elizabeth will analyse some historical discourses and understandings in relation to vitalism. Tony Bakker and Gavin Pinniger, Muscle Physiology, the University of Western Australia. Stuart Hodgetts, a biologist from UWA will contribute to the understanding of the neuromuscular interface. Chris Salter, the Director of the Hexagram Concordia Centre for Research, whose artistic research explore the performative, focusing on dynamic and temporal processes over static objects and representations. Jennifer Johung, will contribute her perspective on performance and agency in art (Art History, the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee). Oron Catts, SymbioticA’s Director, will discuss the demonstrable in science and the arts. Gabrielle Decamous, will look at semi-living material as a device in undermining the polarized understanding of the world (Kyushu University, Japan). Miranda Grounds of UWA provide her extensive knowledge in the cell biology aspects of skeletal muscles. Ionat Zurr will explore an artistically grown and induced semi living movement which attempt to reintroduce a sense of agency. Stelarc, an Australia artist and Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmith University UK, will be reflecting on these issues in the closing panel.

There will be something for everyone at this year’s Wine Show by the Bay as we help celebrate The University of Western Australia’s Centenary year.

Enjoy a fabulous day sampling a wide variety of local, interstate and international wines, expand your palate at a series of master classes hosted by experts at the top of their game, tantalise your tastebuds at a series of cooking demonstrations presented by some familiar faces in the culinary scene, enjoy the high life at the Chandon lunch in the Club Restaurant hosted by Moët Hennessy or enjoy a rustic Long Table picnic lunch in the Club Colonnade.

General Admission

Entry to Wine Show by the Bay is $20 for Members and guests. Price includes entry to the tasting fair featuring over 40 exhibitors, and a monogrammed tasting glass.

LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "New approaches to prevent airway inflammation in early CF lung disease – from mummies to MetaGex" by Clin/Prof Stephen Stick, Head, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children; School of Paediatrics and Child Health, UWA. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.

Join DMA candidate Karen-Elizabeth Sekararum on Monday 24 June 2013 - 5pm in the Tunley Lecture Theatre, School of Music, UWA

An Exploration of English Language Sung Poetry as presented in the Recital Srimaya's FAll from the Demon's Circle

DMA Lecture-Demonstration