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Events for the public
 August 2013
Tuesday 13
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Hand: Gesture, Touch & Emotions : Public Lecture Website | More Information
Speakers: Farah Karim-Cooper (Head of Research, Shakespeare's Globe) "Reading Tactility in the Early Modern Playhouse", and Ian Donaldson (Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor ANU, CHE Advisory Board) "Noli Me Tangere: Interpreting a taboo"

17:00 - FREE LECTURE - Women and Social Justice in Islam : Professor Anis Ahmed will provide an insight into women's status in Islam More Information
The lecture will explore Islamic approaches to gender discrimination and gender justice. It will highlight the Qur'anic view of gender justice, human rights and legal status of female evidence in Islamic law. Professor Ahmad is the Vice Chancellor of Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, IIU Malaysia and as Vice President of the International Islamic University Islamabad.

17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Chris Wortham and Julianne Baird: All�s well that ends well Website | More Information
The UWA School of Music Tuesday Seminar series runs every week in the Tunley Lecture Theatre (G5) at 5.00 pm. The series mixes visiting lecturers and presenters with presentations by the School's own research students at Honours, Masters and Doctor level. The focus and topic of presentations represents a flexible and attractive mix of conference-style papers, lecture-recitals and more informal sessions. The series makes a significant contribution to the musical and academic output of the School, as well as to the sense of community shared by staff and students alike.

19:00 - TALK - Friends of the UWA Library Speaker : The Calling: reflections on today and yesterday More Information
About the Speaker

Susan Prescott is Winthrop Professor at The University of Western Australia and a practising paediatrician at the Children’s Hospital in Perth, where she specialises in treating children with asthma and allergic diseases. Her research in this field is internationally recognised, and she is author of ‘The Allergy Epidemic: a Mystery of Modern Life’ and ‘The Calling’ in addition to more than 200 scientific publications. She is a Director of the World Allergy Organisation and has received many awards and fellowships including a Winston Churchill Fellowship. She also founded and leads the multidisciplinary ‘DOHaD Consortium’ (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease) in Western Australia which focuses on the importance of early life in preventing many chronic diseases later in life. Her inspiration to study medicine came from her grandmother, one of the few women to study medicine in the 1930s, and her love of research and academia was inspired by her grandfather Sir Stanley Prescott, former Vice-Chancellor of The University of Western Australia.

Presentation Synopsis

Susan's talk will explore the reasons for the global pandemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) as a major threat to human development. It will examine the common risk factors for the rising burden of these diseases (ranging from asthma and allergic disease, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, mental ill health and some cancers), and how the ultimate solutions may lie in very early life. It will also include a more personal family connection with health in the WA community, with the story of her grand parents Sir Stanley Prescott and Lady (Dr) Monica Prescott who were medical missionaries in China under Japanese occupation in WWII, before they came to Perth to establish our first Medical School.
Wednesday 14
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Anti-Anti-Witchcraft: Why Humanitarian Concerns About "Witchcraft Violence" in Africa are Misplaced Website | More Information
A public lecture by Adam Ashforth, Helmut F. Stern Professor, Institute for the Humanities, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan.

In recent years a number of international organisations and humanitarian groups, along with refugee activists and lawyers, have become concerned about violence against suspected witches in Africa, particularly when it involves “vulnerable groups” such as women, children, and the elderly. This talk argues that that the problem of witchcraft violence in Africa is extremely important, though not in the way humanitarians perceive it to be. The extent of violence against suspected witches is minimal. The violence putative witches are perceived as perpetrating against members of their families and communities, however, is vast. Moreover, while violent punishment of “witches” does from time to time occur, the vast majority of witchcraft cases are dealt with without violence.

Drawing on recent research in Malawi, this talk will discuss witchcraft trials in a chief’s court and a magistrate’s court to show how local authorities are working to create a sense of justice and security in the face of what are perceived to be immense dangers.

Cost: free, but RSVP essential via http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/ashforth

19:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Election Forum : Forum to hear election policies of major parties on matters important to faith communities. Website | More Information
Interfaith Election Forum - An Ecumenical and Interfaith forum Strengthening our social fabric: a discussion of what really matters in this election. The event is hosted by the Ecumenical Social Justice Roundtable in partnership with UWA Chaplaincy and the Centre for Muslim States and Societies. Guest Speakers, Alannah MacTiernan (Labor), Scott Ludlam (Greens) with guest chair John Cleary from the ABC Sunday Night radio program. Other parties have been invited. Book your free place at http://whatmatterswa.org/. Refreshments served and information tables.
Thursday 15
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - FREE Lunchtime Concert : Hackett Brass (Dr Alan Lourens and Friends) Website | More Information
Free 50min Concert every Thursday

18:00 - RECITAL - Voices from Venice : 18th-Century Italian Music and the Ospedali Grandi Website | More Information
A public lecture and performance by Julianne Baird.

By the early eighteenth century Venice’s once considerable economic power had ebbed to a point where culture, rather than trade or manufacture, was her most characteristic field of activity. She drew visitors in huge numbers from all over Europe. In particular, foreign visitors were fascinated by a phenomenon that existed only in Venice - that of public performances by an all-female orchestra and chorus. This unique tradition emerged from the four ospedali grandi of Venice, charitable state-run institutions which provided a music-centred education for orphans or female wards of the state, who in turn performed religious and secular music in the ospedali. The reputation for musical excellence of the ospedali and financial necessity eventually opened up opportunities for other musically gifted daughters of the nobility or middle classes or foreigners to study as fee-paying or scholarship pupils at what had become, in essence, music conservatoria Informed by historical documents, eye-witness accounts and performance practices of the period, this presentation will bring to life in words, pictures and music the musical culture of the ospedali and experiences of the musicians whom it produced.

In addition to Professor Baird, participating musicians will include Winthrop Professor Paul Wright, Associate Professor Suzanne Wijsman, Stewart Smith (WAAPA/Edith Cowan University) and students from the School of Music at UWA.

Cost: Free, however seating is limited. RSVP is essential to Donna Greenwood [email protected] or phone 6488 3977.
Friday 16
8:30 - EVENT - Transformative leaders: Driving schools from good to great : A leadership forum: for aspiring and novice leaders Website | More Information
Are you an aspiring or novice leader? Are you interested in lifting student achievement?

Here you will engage in roundtable discussion of strategies to raise student performance. Speakers will share their insights into transforming organisations from good to great.

13:00 - GUIDED TOUR - HERE&NOW13 Exhibition Tour Website | More Information
Katherine Wilkinson, Curator of HERE&NOW13, will be accompanied by artists in a discussion-oriented tour of the exhibition.

HERE&NOW13, presented as a part of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s annual exhibition of emerging Western Australian Artists, will for the first time bring together 11 of WA’s most outstanding artists with disability.

For more information go to http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions/han13

17:00 - EVENT - Save the Children 49th Annual University Branch Book Sale Website | More Information
It is back again!...Over 100,000 books in more than 40 categories on sale plus CDs, DVDs and sheet music. Find us under the clock tower (Winthrop Undercroft).

Money raised from this great sale will help create a world where every child has a safe and happy childhood.

Friday 16 August 5:00pm - 9:30pm

Saturday 17 August 6:00am - 6:00pm

Sunday 18 August 8:00am - 6:00pm

Monday 19 August 9:30am - 6:30pm

Tuesday 20 August 9:30am - 6:30pm (1/2 price day)

Wednesday 21 August 9:30am - 3:00pm ($15/box day)

Please contact us on (08) 9267 3900 or visit http://www.savethechildren.org.au/events-near-you/events-in-wa for further details.

To volunteer contact Euro: [email protected] or 9387 6215. Student volunteers, please contact: [email protected].
Saturday 17
10:00 - FUNDRAISER - Zumbathon 4 Telethon : Shake your booty for charity More Information
Get grooving to the charity beat with Zumbathon. Shake youre booty for Telethon at the UWA Recreation and Fitness Cemtre, Saturday 17 August from 10am-2pm (come for as long or as little as you like). Professional instructors will be on hand to show you the moves so you can lose yourself in the funky latin rhythms. Entry is $10 at the door and all profits go to Telethon. Raffles, competitions and giveaways on the day will help raise even more money.
Sunday 18
15:00 - PERFORMANCE - Keyed Up! Roy Howart : Continuing in the Keyed Up! tradition, the School of Music is proud to host internationally distinguished artists in 2013. Indulge your senses in the renowned acoustic of the Callaway Music Auditorium and give your Sunday afternoons a new dimension! Website | More Information
Roy Howat is internationally renowned as both a pianist and scholar whose concerts, broadcasts and lectures regularly take him worldwide. A graduate of King's College, Cambridge, he made a special study of French music in Paris with Vlado Perlemuter, and is one of few British artists repeatedly invited to teach and play French music at major French-speaking Conservatoires and on French radio. Roy Howat has played concerts and broadcast with an array of distinguished soloists, chamber groups and singers. For Tickets: http://www.music.uwa.edu.au/concerts/keyed-up
Monday 19
7:00 - CANCELLED - EVENT - ISS Health and Wellbeing Month : Attention All International Students! A month of fun and health awaits you! Website | More Information
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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International Student Services will be launching its Health and Wellbeing Month at UWA next Monday, 19th August.

The event will kick start with FREE weekly yoga/pilates classes starting on tuesday,20/8,1-2pm at Recreation & Fitness Centre's MPR room .

Furthermore, watch for and participate in our weekly Instagram competition starting next monday,19/8,to win ATTRACTIVE prizes.

Simply upload photos of you and your friends doing healthy activites with the following tags #ISSHWM13 #uwastudentguild #uwastudents and follow us at iss_healthandwellbeing

For more information on class sign ups and our event, like our facebook page! See you soon :)
Tuesday 20
13:00 - EVENT - The Raine Study : A Unique WA resource for health and medical researchers More Information
The prospective longitudinal design of the Raine Study allows causal pathways of complex conditions such as cardiovascular, respiratory and psychiatric disease to be investigated. The Raine Study has already contributed to scientific research in many ways and led to novel discoveries across a range of disciplines, particularly childhood diseases.

13:00 - Colloquium - The Raine Study � A unique West Australian resource for health and medical researchers. : The Raine Study is one of the largest successful prospective cohorts of pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and now young adulthood in the world. More Information
The Seminar:The Raine Study is one of the largest successful prospective cohorts of pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and now young adulthood in the world. It began in 1989 at King Edward Memorial Hospital with the recruitment of 2,900 pregnant women in early pregnancy. These families were followed through pregnancy and 2,868 children born to the mothers have been reviewed in detail at ages 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 14, 17, 18, 20 and now at 23 years of age. Each member of the cohort has over 95,000 measures of health and disease and demographic data as well as information on more than 2.5 million genetic variants. The prospective longitudinal design of the Raine Study allows causal pathways of complex conditions such as cardiovascular, respiratory and psychiatric disease to be investigated. The Raine Study has already contributed to scientific research in many ways and led to novel discoveries across a range of disciplines, particularly childhood diseases.Since its inception in 1989, research studies using the Raine Study have generated more than $12.6 million from 27 grant applications from 12 funding bodies, the largest funding ($9.5 million) coming from the National Health & Medical Research Council. Research output has been increasing exponentially with over 130 research papers published in the past 3 years. The Raine Study is now moving into the adult years. At 23 years old, the cohort is well placed to assess the effects of the disturbing transition of obesity onset from the middle-aged population to younger age groups. By engaging with researchers in the fields of adult health and medicine the Raine Study has the potential to provide unprecedented data on the prevalence, clinical picture and risk factors for disease in early adulthood and beyond.

17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Roy Howat and Paul Wright: Impressionism, Violin & Piano Website | More Information
The UWA School of Music Tuesday Seminar series runs every week in the Tunley Lecture Theatre (G5) at 5.00 pm. The series mixes visiting lecturers and presenters with presentations by the School's own research students at Honours, Masters and Doctor level. The focus and topic of presentations represents a flexible and attractive mix of conference-style papers, lecture-recitals and more informal sessions. The series makes a significant contribution to the musical and academic output of the School, as well as to the sense of community shared by staff and students alike.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Objects of social change : the women's movement and things that liberate Website | More Information
A public lecture by Professor Alison Bartlett, Gender Studies, The University of Western Australia.

What kinds of objects can be said to have changed the world? This lecture investigates the associations between materiality and memory, the ways that material culture shapes our lives, and the increasing importance of emotional experience in constructing social histories. It is specifically interested in ‘things that liberate’: that is, some of the things that changed Australian women’s lives through their association with women’s liberation, the women’s movement, and feminism since 1970. Material culture provides a novel form of understanding social history, and this lecture will present a fascinating collection of objects, remembrance, and effects of one of the major social movements of the twentieth century. Professor Bartlett has recently published 'Things That Liberate: an Australian Feminist Wunderkammer', edited with Margaret Henderson (2013).

Cost: Free, but RSVP essential via http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/bartlett
Wednesday 21
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : An Impressionist Account of Water Pollution in China with Allusions to Mel Gibson’s Apocalyto. Website | More Information
After presenting a brief introduction and overview (based mainly on journalistic and secondary source articles), I rapidly show a succession of mostly web images picturing China's water pollution.

Stills from Mel Gibson's movie Apocalyto are gradually introduced to weave a comparison and contrast from another great civilisation, this one just beyond the peak of its power and about to be invaded by a technologically superior empire. Thoughts about the tendencies and behaviours of the human species are introduced to invite questions about the present and near to medium future.

Short bio:

Mark C. Williams, Ph.D., Professor of Applied Positive Psychology, Shenzhen University China since 2008, researches and lectures in applying positive psychology to education and life; and Western civilization and biblical interpretations.

With road ranging tertiary qualifications in the sciences and humanities, and experience in interdisciplinary university education on many levels in Australia and internationally (China, Malaysia, Kiribati, Germany, USA and UK), including MBA and DBA courses, he has published over 60 scholarly publications, 4 books, and been awarded 4 research grants, 4 teaching excellence awards, and served as principal supervisor for 9 successful doctorates and assisted many more.

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

****All Welcome****

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Creativity, sleep and dreams: cross-cultural explorations Website | More Information
A public lecture by Katie Glaskin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The University of Western Australia.

In Western thought, we generally understand dreams to occur ‘in the mind’. Anthropological studies show that what are understood as dreams in Western culture may be understood and valued quite differently in other cultural contexts. How a person perceives, what they experience, and the meaning that they attribute to it, are shaped by culture, both implicitly and explicitly. Dreams are no different in this regard. Despite cross-cultural differences, dream experiences have been identified as sources of creativity, innovation, and inspiration, in both Western and non-Western cultures. While not everyone remembers their dreams, many of those who may not experience dream-inspired creativity may nevertheless wake from sleep, or rise from disturbed sleep, having solved problems or thought of new ideas. This public lecture will explore sleep and dreams, and their relationship to creativity and innovation, cross-culturally.

Dr Glaskin has recently published 'Sleep Around the World: Anthropological Perspectives', edited with Richard Chenhall (2013).

Cost: Free, but RSVP essential via http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/glaskin

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