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BHP first presented on its Sustainable Heritage Strategy at Toowoomba AAA 2011. This presentation outlined how BHP was applying Bunting’s “Sustainability Model” as an important, viable, and value-adding framework for heritage practice in its Iron Ore operations. Eight years later this model has evolved to be a fully integrated company approach in how BHP works with key stakeholders to manage cultural heritage at a local and now national level.

This presentation will breakdown the BHP Minerals Australia Heritage Strategy and outline how the Strategy has become more closely aligned to our Reconciliation Action Plan targets as well as our obligation as a Company to walk with Traditional Owners and help facilitate a future where cultural heritage management is driven by those who have a cultural responsibility to do so.

This presentation will provide insight into some of the outputs of the Strategy as a whole and explore some of the key successes and learnings developed along the way by exploring a number case studies from the Pilbara Region of Western Australia.

Domestic violence is a global issue considered to be a heritage of the patriarchal system. While domestic violence is not a new problem, it has only attracted attention comparatively recently. Even with women being more powerful than ever, the modern world is still faces this issue.

In Islam, the Qur’an and prophetic practice clearly illustrates the relationship between spouses. It elaborates that the relationship is based on unconditional love, tenderness protection, peace, kindness, comfort and mercy. Furthermore, Prophet Muhammad himself set direct examples of these ideals of a marital relationship in his personal life.

In this seminar Rehan Ahmad, Pakistani scholar and writer, points out Islam’s three solutions to overcome domestic violence. Ahmad is one of the most read contemporary writers of Urdu language and his books have been translated into multiple languages. His book "When Life Begins" is one of Pakistan’s best sellers.

Ahmad holds a Master's in Islamic Studies and Computer Sciences and a Master of Philosophy in Social Sciences. His PhD explored Dawah Methodology Literature of the 20th century. Ahmad is a research fellow at Al-Marwrid, a foundation for Islamic research and education, and is the editor of the monthly Islamic magazine, Inzaar. He is also the director of an institution with the same name that works towards achieving social, ethical and religious reforms in Pakistani society.

Domestic violence is a global issue considered to be a heritage of the patriarchal system. While domestic violence is not a new problem, it has only started attracting attention comparatively recently. Even with women being more powerful than ever, the modern world is still faces this issue. In Islam, the Qur’an and prophetic practice clearly illustrates the relationship between spouses as one based on unconditional love, tenderness, protection, peace, kindness, comfort and mercy. Furthermore, Prophet Muhammad himself set direct examples of these ideals of a marital relationship in his personal life. In this seminar Rehan Ahmad, Pakistani scholar and writer, points out Islam’s three solutions to overcome domestic violence. Ahmad is one of the most read contemporary writers of Urdu language and his books have been translated into multiple languages. His book "When Life Begins" is one of Pakistan’s best sellers. Ahmad holds a Master’s in Islamic Studies and Computer Sciences and a Master of Philosophy in Social Sciences. His PhD explored Dawah Methodology Literature of the 20th Century. Ahmad is a research fellow at Al-Marwrid, a foundation for Islamic research and education, and is the editor of the monthly Islamic magazine, Inzaar. He is also the director of an institution with the same name that works towards achieving social, ethical and religious reforms in Pakistani society.

A public lecture by Chris Hawkesworth, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol and 2019 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow.

The Earth is the only known planet on which there is plate tectonics, and on which there is life as we know it. It was not always that way, the Earth initially had a magma ocean, it cooled through a stagnant lid phase, and at some stage plate tectonics became the dominant tectonic regime. There are many models of the conditions required to initiate plate tectonics, but the evidence of when it started has to come from the geological record. Western Australia contains some of the best preserved rocks from the period over 3 billion years ago when dramatic changes in tectonic regime took place.

This lecture discusses the nature of the geological record, it explores links between different tectonic styles and the chemistry of the igneous rocks, and changes in the rigidity of the continental crust that might be associated with the development of plates. It explores changes that reflect the onset of plate tectonics that can be recognised from the rocks and minerals that have survived to the present day, and considers possible links between the development of plate tectonics and life on Earth.

Experience an evening of superb pianism with Kazakhstan born and grand finalist of the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition, Oxana Shevchenko.

Oxana Shevchenko is internationally recognised as a pianist of outstanding artistry, sensibility, and versatility and is equally in demand both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. She impressed the jury of the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition, making it through as the only female grand finalist and prize winner for the best Piano Quintet.

Shevchenko will dazzle audiences in this special collaboration, performing solo works by Beethoven, Schumann and Gershwin before she is joined by the UWA Wind Orchestra for a performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

PROGRAM

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.13 Op.27 No.1

SCHUMANN Carnaval Op.9

GERSHWIN 3 Preludes

GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue for Piano and Wind Ensemble

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It has become commonplace to state that language and culture are intimately interwoven, and that therefore losing one’s language – as it happens in situations of colonization for instance – implies losing one’s culture. However, few scientific studies have tackled the consequences of language shift in this respect. What difference does communicating in another code make to what speakers can express and how they describe the world? Does using a new language necessarily alter one’s world-views? This presentation will address this question through an empirical comparison of Kriol, an English-based creole widely spoken in the north of Australia, with Dalabon, one of the Australian Aboriginal languages that is being replaced by Kriol. Focusing on the expression of emotions (Ponsonnet 2014), I will show which linguistic tools remain, which do not; which meanings get replaced, and which are missing. The results of this study highlight the tensions between linguistic pressures that may impact the way people describe and construe the world; and the remarkable plasticity by which languages allow their speakers to say whatever they want to say. The case study also suggests some practical options that may appeal to communities who have adopted a new language and wish to retain their cultural identity at the same time.

James F. Warren is the author of two critically acclaimed social histories of the city: Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940 (1986) and Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870-1940 (1992). In this seminar, Warren considers the two books’ reception in Singapore, then and now. Described as a ‘powerful corrective to the romantic image of colonial Singapore’, his research has been considered as a pivotal juncture in an emerging post-colonial social history of the city. Warren’s talk will focus on methodological approach and sources for uncovering Singapore’s social history and women’s history, including prosopography and micro-history. He will also discuss how Singaporeans have read and re-presented his own works.

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.

Transcend the everyday in our free lunchtime concert featuring the sublime sounds of UWA voice students. These emerging young artists will present a mixed program of songs and arias covering the 300 years from Henry Purcell to Libby Larsen, accompanied by Gladys Chua.

Free entry, no bookings required.

Art Upmarket is all about connecting art lovers with Perth’s best artists. Meet the artists and purchase art directly from them on the day. Fill your home with local art. The market will showcase a curated selection of more than 50 of Perth’s most talented artists in Winthrop Hall. Saturday 6th April 2019 – 10am-4pm Free entry and parking. Venue is easily accessible 
Venue: The University of Western Australia’s Winthrop Hall Undercroft 

35 Stirling Highway, Crawley
Website: www.perthupmarket.com.au Facebook.com/perthupmarket #artupmarket

This 90-minute workshop will explore the active learning potential and video management options in the Lecture Capture system.

Topics include: managing your lecture recordings, sharing slides with students, uploading videos, lecture capture analytics, student note-taking, Q&A discussions within Lecture Capture, and active engagement slides.

This 90-minute workshop will explore the active learning potential and video management options in the Lecture Capture system.

Topics include: managing your lecture recordings, sharing slides with students, uploading videos, lecture capture analytics, student note-taking, Q&A discussions within Lecture Capture, and active engagement slides.

In this workshop, participants will first learn how to use Quickmark and Rubric tools within Turnitin. These tools can significantly reduce marking time while increasing the amount of feedback provided and improving consistency between markers.

In the second part of the workshop, participants will learn the principles of best practice for writing online feedback that students will actually use, and will apply these skills to writing Quickmark comments for their own unit. Lastly, we will provide suggestions on how participants can help their students access and understand their Turnitin feedback.

In this workshop, participants will first learn how to use Quickmark and Rubric tools within Turnitin. These tools can significantly reduce marking time while increasing the amount of feedback provided and improving consistency between markers.

In the second part of the workshop, participants will learn the principles of best practice for writing online feedback that students will actually use, and will apply these skills to writing Quickmark comments for their own unit. Lastly, we will provide suggestions on how participants can help their students access and understand their Turnitin feedback.

A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.

This week we have presentations from 2 HDR candidates:

Shaun Fraser: The preparatory beat is the most important gesture a conductor can give - this single gesture conveys significant information including tempo, dynamics, style, and character, but does it effectively transfer to a readable cue?

Chris Milne: Transcriptions make up a significant proportion of the wind band repertoire, but there is little research on successful techniques in replicating a homogenous a cappella choral work in a heterogeneous wind band setting. This study aimed to identify some of the techniques utilised by three contemporary composers and their transcriptions of their own choral works for wind band.

Free entry - no bookings required

Dr. Nigel Westbrook trained in architecture in Melbourne, and later at the Architecture Association in London, where he was exposed to the rich architectural history of Europe. He had a career as a practising architect in London and Melbourne before crossing over to the University of Western Australia to take up a position in the Architecture school in 1993. He is now an Associate Professor, teaching and researching in architectural history and theory, and Associate Head (Research) at the School of Design. Overseas studio teaching (1994-1997) in Greece and Turkey led to an interest in the cultural exchanges between the Middle East and the West, and commencement of a PhD on the subject of the Classical survivals in the Byzantine Great Palace in Constantinople, now Istanbul, as the song goes. He is currently completing a book that grew out of the PhD, another co-edited book on Late Antique palaces, and a third, jointly written book on modern architecture and heritage in Iran, from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. All three books examine the subject of cultural exchanges. In the course of searching for documents that describe the transition from Byzantine to Ottoman culture in Istanbul, Nigel came across a mid-sixteenth century manuscript drawn by a Danish artist, Melchior Lorck, which depicts the city as it existed in 1559, a century after the Ottoman conquest. The book has proven to be a treasure trove of documentary evidence for long-disappeared monuments in the city.

In his talk, Nigel will discuss how the artist encountered the city, what his tools of the trade would have been, and what the manuscript, a panoramic view some 12 metres long, tells us about this fascinating and ancient city.

In the 1960s, Australia made a significant contribution to the first International Indian Ocean Expedition. Now, nearly six decades later, a second Expedition is underway, and in May 2019 a multi-institutional team of 30 oceanographers will head offshore from Fremantle with the Australian Research Vessel Investigator to study the oceanography of the SE Indian Ocean. On this month-long voyage we will to repeat the 110°E line from the 1960s, examine multi-decadal change in the physics, chemistry and biology of the water column, investigate microbes and biogeochemistry especially related to nitrogen and study the pelagic food web from plankton through to mesopelagic lantern fishes. The voyage will also enable ground truthing of bio-optical quantities like sea surface colour recorded by satellites as well as an acoustic survey of whales. For comparison, some of our work will use the original techniques employed during the first Expedition but these will be supplemented by a host of modern techniques and electronic technology that will assist us in better understanding the pelagic ecosystem at the western edge of Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone.

The Brandenburg Quartet features the four principal string players of the celebrated Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Join these artists as they work with talented UWA students, offering unique guidance on performance, interpretation and technique.

Free entry, no bookings required

Public service motivation refers to the motivation of individuals to contribute to society. Since its inception almost 30 years ago, a lot of research has been done. In fact, it has proven to be one of the most studied topics in public administration and management research. However, despite its popularity, some old issues – which were there from the beginning – have remained, while new issues have surfaced. In this seminar, I will review the research that has been done in the past and discuss some of the issues aforementioned (old ones and new ones). To address the issues, I will also present some research strategies that can aid in helping to move public service motivation and make research findings more solid.

Wouter Vandenabeele is an Associate Professor of HRM at the Utrecht University School of Governance (the Netherlands) and a visiting Full Professor at the Public Governance Institute of KULeuven University (Belgium). His research focuses on the behavior of public employees and those working for the public interest, in particular on the motivation of these individuals. Furthermore, he is interested in research on evidence-based management as a practical strategy for making public management more effective. He published in various peer-reviewed journals and his work is widely cited. He is also involved in various international networks as he is an executive board member, as well as co-chairing a permanent interest group on public service motivation of the International Research Society for Public Management and he is a co-chair of the permanent study group on public personnel policies of the European Group of Public Administration.

The new season of moved readings is upon us and we are delighted to present our offerings for the first semester of 2019.Overseen by Bríd Phillips (project director) and Steve Chinna (staging director and much else!) with educational input from Kathryn Prince, the Renaissance Moved Readings Project continues the tradition of informal, participatory, fast-paced and usually hilarious readings of Shakespeare’s plays.

This semester’s moved readings are Thursdays from 4-6 pm on the New Fortune Stage:

28 March, Much Ado About Nothing (a witty battle of the sexes is waged, comedy ensues)

11 April, King Lear (a king foolishly divides his kingdom among his daughters, tragedy ensues)

16 May, The Tempest (on an enchanted island, magical and muggle characters meet, romance ensues)

Participants and spectators of all ages are welcome: over-18s are invited to bring their own libations for festive imbibing afterwards in the Shakespeare Garden.

The Holocene was a time of substantial environmental and cultural change across Australia, due to the combined effects of post-glacial sea level rise and climatic shifts. However, not all observed environmental changes can be explained by climatic variation. Ethnographic and historical records indicate that at the time of European colonisation, Aboriginal people engaged in a range of targeted land management practices, many of which had a significant impact on plant and animal communities and can be viewed as a form of cultural niche construction. Fire was a widespread and widely documented form of land management employed by Aboriginal people, and its recorded use in southwestern Australia reflects similar practices observed across the continent. This paper presents the results of research into the zooarchaeological evidence for landscape-scale environmental change and its relationship with Aboriginal subsistence in the northern Swan Coastal Plain, southwester Australia. Archaeological and palaeontological assemblages from three cave sites are used to explore Holocene Aboriginal exploitation of mammals, and ecological change. Human activity in the caves and surrounding landscape appears to have been modest until the late Holocene, when greater rates of artefact discard are noted at some sites, possibly linked to decreased mobility and/or increased population density. Analysis of the faunal record demonstrates significant changes in mammal community composition through time, associated with multiple factors including climatic changes and human activity.The faunal records at all three sites indicate an increase in the abundance of the two highest-ranked prey taxa: Isoodon obesulus and Macropus fuliginosus, at about the same time as the increased human activity. Analysis of prey and non-prey species in the assemblages supports interpretations of the promotion of mosaic habitats, and suggests that ethnographically documented activities – including patch burning practices – were in place at least since the late Holocene and probably earlier.