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Displaying from Monday, September 02, 2019
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September 2019
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Tuesday 03 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Communication breakdown in the governance of vaccine acceptance: the road to mandatory vaccination in Italy
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Italy’s extension of mandatory vaccination in 2017 was a response to a public health crisis many years in the making. Vaccination rates had been in steady decline for half a decade, culminating in a measles epidemic. With existing studies demonstrating the role of vaccine hesitancy, this study (...)
14:15 - SEMINAR - Media and Communication Seminar Series 2019 : ‘At the Movies: Film Reviewing, Screenwriting and the Shaping of Screen Culture’
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At the Movies was a movie reviewing program that ran on the ABC between 2004 and 2014. Prior to that it was known as The Movie Show on SBS. Its presenters Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton co-hosted the programs for a total of 28 years. This presentation reports on research into At the Movies (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Music presents: Research | Callaway Centre Seminar Series : Until Death: Barbara Strozzi Lecture-recital
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A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.
Honours student Hannah Tungate presents her research on the legendary 1600s singer and composer, Barbara Strozzi, and her cantata 'Sino alla morte'.
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The 2019 Robin Winkler Lecture by Helen Milroy, Professor of Psychiatry at The University of Western Australia.
Indigenous mental health is an area of major concern in Australia. In this talk, Professor Milroy will consider the historical, cultural, and contemporary issues facing (...)
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Thursday 05 |
A public lecture by Anthony Pym, Translation Studies (Intercultural Studies), The University of Melbourne.
How good is neural machine translation? How good will it become? When everyone can use high-quality free online machine translation, what will be left for translators to do? (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Main Stage | Golden Years
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In this exhilarating concert we present a selection of 20th and 21st century orchestral showpieces that challenge perceptions and inspire performers and audience alike.
KATY ABBOTT Introduced Species
JAMES LEDGER Golden Years: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra with soloist (...)
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Friday 06 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series 2019 : LEARNING FROM ‘POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL DEVIANTS’ TO IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN INDONESIA.
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Various countries, including Indonesia, have developed environmental education (EE) to create environmentally responsible citizens in response to the growing challenges of environmental degradation and destruction caused by humanity. While there are many individuals who show irresponsible behaviour (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - Can first language use improve foreign language performance?
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This talk will bring together findings from two studies at Curtin University on the impact of allowing learners to plan for a communicative task in their first language (L1) as opposed to their foreign language (L2). The relative benefits will be discussed in terms of fluency (...)
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Lunchtime Concert | UWA Composition
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Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from with the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.
This week, the Conservatorium's composition students are in the spotlight, showcasing what they've been working on (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series : The Cultural Invisibility of Autonomic Stress: Navigating a Life With Fibromyalgia
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Fibromyalgia is a neurosensory condition characterised by widespread pain, stiffness and non-restorative sleep. Individuals often also experience cognitive difficulties commonly termed fibro-fog, and altered sensory and visceral states associated with a chronically activated autonomic stress (...)
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Tuesday 10 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Political Science and International Relations Seminar Series 2019 : A Tale of Two Continents: How America is Looking to Australia on Electoral Reform
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Electoral reform is a hot issue in the United States, particularly since the election of President Donald Trump. This presentation will examine how US reformers are seeking to introduce distinctively Australian institutions such as compulsory voting, preferential ballots and independent electoral (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Music presents: Research | Callaway Centre Seminar Series : 3 Minute Thesis Competition
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A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.
Get a taste of the variety of research happening in the Conservatorium of Music in this semester's three-minute thesis competition! Honours and HDR researchers showcase their research projects in (...)
19:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Duo Tasman : Peter Tanfield & Shan Deng in Recital
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Peter Tanfield and Shan Deng from the University of Tasmania Conservatorium of Music perform much loved repertoire for Violin and Piano in the beautiful acoustic of Callaway Music Auditorium
Claude Debussy Sonata for Violin and Piano
Edvard Grieg Sonata for Violin and Piano in (...)
19:30 - EVENT - Translating a classic French novel: the problems posed by Emile Zola�s �The Dream� By Paul Gibbard : Friends of the Library
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In his celebrated Rougon-Macquart series of twenty novels, Émile Zola sought to present a ‘natural and social history of a family’ during the years of the Second Empire in France, 1852-1870. This was a family filled with ‘ravenous appetites’ who (...)
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Thursday 12 |
10:00 - Masterclass - UWA Music presents: Musica Viva Masterclass: Emerson Quartet
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Musica Viva Masterclasses offer the opportunity to see international artists working with talented music students, learning techniques to perfect their craft in an open lesson format.
Musica Viva presents the Emerson Quartet's Masterclass with violist Lawrence Dutton.
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15:00 - SEMINAR - CMSS Seminar : Identity Politics in India: the case of Gujarat riots
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Muslims in India have lived alongside Hindus peacefully for many centuries. Yet in the contemporary period some politicians have orchestrated division for political ends, for example, during the Godhra-Gujarat riots in India in 2002 in which there were many Muslim casualties. Critics allege that (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - CMSS Seminar : Identity politics in India: the case of Gujarat riots
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Muslims in India have lived alongside Hindus peacefully for many
centuries. Yet in the contemporary period some politicians have
orchestrated division for political ends, for example, during the
Godhra-Gujarat riots in India in 2002 in which there were many Muslim
casualties. Critics allege that (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Using the Land-Ocean Transition to Understand Past Coastal Landscapes
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A public lecture by Mark Bateman, Director Sheffield Luminescence Dating Laboratory, University of Sheffield and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Coastal dunes can contain lengthy, but complex, records of long-term environmental, climatic and sea-level fluctuations (...)
18:00 - SEMINAR - Using the Land-Ocean Transition to Understand Past Coastal Landscapes : A public lecture by Mark Bateman, Director Sheffield Luminescence Dating Laboratory, University of Sheffield and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow
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Coastal dunes can contain lengthy, but complex, records of long-term environmental, climatic and sea-level fluctuations particularly where the dune sand has become lithified into aeolianite or calcarenite. Both Australia and South Africa have fairly widespread occurrence of on-shore coastal (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Centre Stage | UWA Guitar Studio and Accelerate
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Following 2018's hugely successful performance at the Perth International Classical Guitar Festival, talented high school players in UWA's Accelerate program join forces with emerging artists from the UWA Guitar Studio in a program that is not to be missed.
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