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Displaying from Friday, April 12, 2019
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April 2019
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Friday 12 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - The Green Schools Movement around the World: Stories of success and frustration
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The green school movement under various names (Eco Schools, Enviroschools, Green Schools, Sustainable Schools, ResourceSmart Schools etc) began as a response to needs identified at the 1992 United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development, or even longer ago if the schools that (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar Series : Maintenance of Identity in an Adopted Language: Development and Use of Aboriginal English
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The phenomenon of the maintenance of Aboriginal English despite significant counter-pressures in the wider society, shows an unwillingness, on the part of its speakers, to allow themselves to be linguistically identified with Australian English.
This presentation explores elements in (...)
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Free Lunchtime Concert | Irwin Street Collective : UWA Winds and guest coach Nicola Boud
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Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from within the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.
This week emerging artists from the UWA Woodwind Program perform works by Mozart, Krommer, Spohr, Weber, Rossini (...)
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Sunday 14 |
10:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Centre Stage | The Winthrop Singers with Pi�ata Percussion
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As part of Choralfest 2019, The Winthrop Singers and Piñata Percussion lead a Palm Procession, followed by a Mass at St Patrick's Basilica, including a new setting of St Luke's Gospel by Nicholas Bannan.
Further information from choralfest.org.au
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Monday 15 |
10:00 - WORKSHOP - Unit Redesign Workshops: Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
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This four hour workshop is a great practical opportunity for Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Unit Coordinators to experience redesigning your existing unit using best practices in learning and teaching.
As the Unit Coordinator, you will participate in a three-step (...)
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Tuesday 16 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Music presents: Callaway Centre Seminar Series | Nicola Boud : An Introduction to Historical Clarinets
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A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.
This week we welcome UWA Graduate and celebrated period clarinettist Nicola Boud to present 'An Introduction to Historical Clarinets'
Despite being a relative latecomer to the woodwind (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Glass Houses: the Internet of Things and its encroachment on intimacy
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A public lecture by Dr Gilad Rosner, founder, Internet of Things Privacy Forum and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
How many cameras do you have in your home? How many microphones? The Internet of Things, smart homes and connected devices are becoming commonplace concepts (...)
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Wednesday 17 |
18:00 - EVENT - Shaping the Invisible: images reflected in music : Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Italian Studies at UWA
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A public talk by Mr Robert Hollingworth, Reader in Music, University of York and Director, I Fagiolini.
Robert Hollingworth will present a new CD of choral music from his much acclaimed vocal ensemble ‘I Fagiolini’. With Leonardo Da Vinci expert Professor Martin Kemp, Robert has (...)
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Thursday 18 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Reducing Risks to Heritage in Times of Crisis
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To communities heavily impacted by natural and
man-made hazard induced events, cultural
heritage provides a sense of identity and continuity
in the aftermath of a disaster. Often a source of
revenue and livelihood for communities, cultural
heritage and its associated industries are
vulnerable to (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Centre Stage | Nicola Boud and The Irwin Street Collective
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Born in Perth, Nicola obtained her Bachelor of Music with first class honours from the University of Western Australia in 1999, and was awarded the Edith Cowan Prize for performance and musicology. During her studies Nicola began to play with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on modern and (...)
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Tuesday 23 |
This active, hands-on workshop is designed to build your knowledge, skills and confidence in creating and using marking rubrics.
You are welcome to bring along your own marking schemes for reflection and feedback afterwards, time permitting.
By the end of this workshop you (...)
This active, hands-on workshop is designed to build your knowledge, skills and confidence in creating and using marking rubrics.
You are welcome to bring along your own marking schemes for reflection and feedback afterwards, time permitting.
By the end of this workshop you (...)
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Wednesday 24 |
In this session you will learn the rationale and process for moderation and standard setting at UWA. A three stage cycle of moderation will be discussed, with examples that can be applied in different contexts.
You will develop ideas for strategies for your own teaching area, and come up (...)
In this session you will learn the rationale and process for moderation and standard setting at UWA. A three stage cycle of moderation will be discussed, with examples that can be applied in different contexts.
You will develop ideas for strategies for your own teaching area, and come up (...)
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Friday 26 |
Facilitated by an experienced Learning Designer, this one-day workshop is a great practical opportunity for both NEW Unit Coordinators at UWA to experience the unit design process, OR Unit Coordinators who are developing approved NEW units for their majors to be delivered from 2020.
You ( (...)
11:00 - EVENT - Linguistics Seminar Series : Debunking urban myths Language and conceptions of time in Aboriginal Australia
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The idea that ‘for Aboriginal people in Australia, time is cyclic’ has been floating around for a long time, mostly as a folk commonplace, but also occasionally in scholarly contributions. Reference is regularly made in these contexts to the concept of ‘Dreamtime’, which is supposed to (...)
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Monday 29 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Colonial Fantasy. Why white Australia can�t solve black problems.
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This conversation between Sarah Maddison, the author of 'The Colonial Fantasy', and senior Noongar woman and scholar Colleen Hayward, will consider why settler Australia persists in the face of such obvious failure and why Indigenous policy in Australia has resisted the one thing that has made a (...)
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Tuesday 30 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Media and Communication Studies Seminar Series : PhD Proposal and Honours Research Project
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In this seminar Juliana La Pegna will be presenting on her PhD Proposal (abstract below) and Nina Savic will also be outlining her Honours research project.
Juliana’s presentation:
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Beyond ‘Dullsville’: An Interpretive Policy Analysis of Culture and Arts based (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Music presents: Callaway Centre Seminar Series | Nicholas Bannan : Did the voices of men and women evolve to sing in harmony?
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A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.
Since Darwin, evolutionary explanations of the role of vocal communication in the development of human cultural universals have received fluctuating levels of attention. While during the early (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - UniverCities: Investigating the influence of student accommodation on global cities
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A public lecture by Dr Mark Holton, Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Accommodating university students has become one of the most pervasive forms of (...)
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