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 April 2019
Thursday 11
11:00 - SEMINAR - Moving public service motivation research two steps forward and on step back : A review of past research, current issues and future strategies for explaining individual behavior in public institutions More Information
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.

16:00 - PERFORMANCE - Moved Reading: King Lear : All welcome for a participatory performance on the New Fortune stage More Information
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.

16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Fire and Fauna: Holocene Aboriginal land management in the northern Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia More Information
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.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Beyond a Trade War: The Future of Chinese Economy : The UWA Business School Economics department invites you to the annual Bateman Lecture by Professor Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University. Website | More Information
Professor Wei will dissect the view that the US-China trade is unbalanced and unfair in China’s favor. In addition, to resolve the trade tensions for greater fairness and efficiency, Professor Wei contends that a reciprocal and balanced approach requires policy changes on both sides and reforms of the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.

With the disappearance of cheap labor as its source of comparative advantage, China needs to move to an innovation based growth model, which is also a source of friction with the United States. Professor Wei assesses the likelihood of success for this transition and points to needed policy reforms.

Keynote | Professor Shang-Jin Wei

Professor Wei is a chaired professor of Chinese Business and Professor of Economy and Finance and Economics at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs. He was Chief Economist for Asian Development Bank and Director General of its Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department during 2014-2016. Prior to his Columbia appointment in 2007, he was Assistant Director and the Chief of Trade and Investment Division at the International Monetary Fund. He previously held the positions of Assistant and Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Bateman Memorial Lecture : "Beyond a Trade War: The Future of Chinese Economy" by Professor Shangjin Wei, Columbia University Website | More Information
The UWA Business School Economics department invites you to the annual Bateman Lecture by Professor Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University.

Professor Wei will dissect the view that the US-China trade is unbalanced and unfair in China’s favor. In addition, to resolve the trade tensions for greater fairness and efficiency, Professor Wei contends that a reciprocal and balanced approach requires policy changes on both sides and reforms of the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. With the disappearance of cheap labor as its source of comparative advantage, China needs to move to an innovation based growth model, which is also a source of friction with the United States. Professor Wei assesses the likelihood of success for this transition and points to needed policy reforms. Professor Wei is a chaired professor of Chinese Business and Professor of Economy and Finance and Economics at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs. He was Chief Economist for Asian Development Bank and Director General of its Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department during 2014-2016. Prior to his Columbia appointment in 2007, he was Assistant Director and the Chief of Trade and Investment Division at the International Monetary Fund. He previously held the positions of Assistant and Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University.

18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Stilled Life: the art of Isabella Kirkland Website | More Information
A public lecture held in conjunction with the Holmes à Court Gallery.

Isabella Kirkland is a fine art painter specializing in Natural History. Fusing the style of the 17th Century Dutch Masters with the more classical naturalistic tradition, Kirkland’s art addresses the ecological challenges that we currently face. Her magnificently sumptuous and complex oil paintings serve as a meticulous visual record of the many life forms that are on the brink of annihilation or are already extinct. Kirkland’s art bears witness to loss and testifies to the existence of those animals and plants that in the near future will be relegated to the historical record of this world.

In this lecture Isabella Kirkland will discuss her paintings and the role that her art plays in drawing attention to the loss of life forms. Isabella will be introduced by Janet Holmes à Court, AC.

Following Isabella's presentation, Tim Allard, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy and Professor Stephen Hopper from the Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management at UWA will give a short talk on animal extinctions and declining biodiversity in Australia.

Isabella Kirkland has been listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 leading artists in the United States. Over the course of her career, Kirkland has depicted hundreds of species, many of which are now extinct, many are on the edge of extinction and some are newly discovered. Her art has featured in several prominent exhibitions and is held in numerous collections. She has had solo exhibitions at the Toledo Art Museum, Ohio, the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, and the Sun Valley Centre for the Arts, Idaho, and her work has been included in group shows at the Field Museum, Chicago, the Tucson Museum of Art, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, the Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, and the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Since 2006, Kirkland has been a principal field researcher and illustrator for the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

18:30 - FREE LECTURE - UWA Music presents: Distinguished Artist Lecture Series with Chris van Tuinen : Presented in association with West Australian Opera More Information
UWA and West Australian Opera proudly present a Distinguished Artist Lecture Series with Chris van Tuinen entitled 'Collaboration and competition, risk and reward. A discussion on devising and producing opera seasons' Join us as West Australian Opera’s Music Director, Chris van Tuinen, discusses the challenges and opportunities involved in devising opera seasons.

How does one curate a program that excites and inspires diverse audiences? Chris will address some of the key risks facing the operatic landscape, the importance of collaboration and the appetite for new work in this 400 year old artform.

Free entry, bookings essential | RSVP to [email protected]

Refreshments served from 6.30pm
Friday 12
11:00 - SEMINAR - The Green Schools Movement around the World: Stories of success and frustration More Information
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 participated in the OECD ENSI projects are included. The movement focuses on a whole school approach, which aspires to include everyone (students, teachers and the local community), to improve school environments (including resource usage and the school’s environmental footprint), to motivate students to seek resolutions of environmental problems, particularly at a local level, but also thinking globally, and to improve students' attitudes and behaviours as part of developing a sustainable mind set. This seminar will discuss work-in-progress findings from an international project which seeks to collect stories of the impact of the green schools movement in nineteen countries around the world (including six Asian nations) with a focus on the impact of the movement on the development and implementation of education for sustainable development in each country. In particular, each country’s story explains the history of the movement there, its current status, achievements, obstacles and broader impact.

11:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar Series : Maintenance of Identity in an Adopted Language: Development and Use of Aboriginal English More Information
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 the indigenization of English by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speakers in Australia, relating to the way in which the speakers drew selectively on the varieties transported by the colonizers, and to the way in which they used English to embody essential cultural conceptualizations.

Apart from being an essential communication medium in an English dominant society, it is suggested that Aboriginal English serves at least three culturally significant functions for its speakers: authenticity, creative expression and cultural continuity. Malcolm, Ian G. (2017) “Terms of adoption: Cultural conceptual factors underlying the adoption of English for Aboriginal Communication.” In Farzad Sharifian (ed.) Advances in Cultural Linguistics. Singapore: Springer, pp. 625-659. Malcolm, Ian G. (2018) “The representation of Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations in an adopted English.” International Journal of Language and Culture 5 (1): 66-93. Rusho, Dima (2018) “Cultural conceptualisations of language and country in Australian Indigenous languages.” International Journal of Language and Culture 5 (1): 94-111.

13:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Free Lunchtime Concert | Irwin Street Collective : UWA Winds and guest coach Nicola Boud More Information
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 and Schumann. These young artists have received coaching from Institute of Advance Studies Visiting Fellow and proud UWA Graduate Nicola Boud, who returns to UWA for a residency with the Irwin Street Collective.

Free entry, no bookings required.
Sunday 14
10:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Centre Stage | The Winthrop Singers with Pi�ata Percussion More Information
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
Monday 15
10:00 - WORKSHOP - Unit Redesign Workshops: Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Website | More Information
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 collaborative process assisted by an EEU Learning Designer. This active learning workshop will allow you to explore ideas to constructively align learning outcomes to compliant assessments and develop learning activities for the face-to-face and online learning environments.

The workshop starts at 10:00am and finishes at 2:00pm. There is an expectation that participants will be present for the full four hours. Please answer as many of the questions at the point of registration. This extremely valuable information will be used to coordinate the best team to assist you at this workshop and during follow-up opportunities.
Tuesday 16
17:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Music presents: Callaway Centre Seminar Series | Nicola Boud : An Introduction to Historical Clarinets More Information
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 family, the clarinet has it’s own fascinating story to tell. Its mechanical evolution greatly varied throughout Europe since the 18th century, with each step of its development, together with distinctive variation in stylistic language differing from one country to the next. These historical elements shed light on performance considerations that we face today

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 historical clarinet. Her curiosity in early music took her to the Netherlands, where she completed her Masters in historical performance at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague with Eric Hoeprich in 2004.

Now based in Europe, Nicola tours and records extensively, and is in demand as principal clarinet with various orchestras and ensembles. Nicola is also an active chamber musician, regularly performing with the pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, and the Cambini and Edding Quartets, and has performed at many prestigious festivals. Nicola returns to UWA for this week-long residency as an Institute of Advanced Studies Misha Strassberg Fellow.

Free entry - no bookings required

18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Glass Houses: the Internet of Things and its encroachment on intimacy Website | More Information
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, but what do these technologies mean for intimacy? The home, classically cherished as a private space, is becoming more transparent to a myriad of commercial interests. Do you have to have ‘something to hide’ merely if you want to avoid the penetrating gaze of your Things? Or, is it still appropriate to imagine people are making ‘trade-offs’ when they exchange some of their privacy for services, even if they paid outright for a device and it’s installed in the home for long periods of time?

In this talk, Dr Gilad Rosner will explore the technologies, business relationships, regulations and social concepts implied by bringing listening and watching devices into the home. He will discuss the overlapping ideas of privacy, data protection, boundary management and consent, examining both the emerging challenges to intimacy and some of the more promising frameworks to address them.
Wednesday 17
18:00 - EVENT - Shaping the Invisible: images reflected in music : Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Italian Studies at UWA Website | More Information
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 selected music from the 15th to the 20th centuries, inspired by and reflecting images and ideas of Da Vinci. The title track is a new commission bridging a gap between the early 21st century and Leonardo, on the 500th anniversary of his death. In this lecture Robert will discuss the project, show the pictures and play some of the music.

2019 marks the 90th anniversary of the teaching of Italian language and culture at The University of Western Australia.

In 1929, Francesco Vanzetti, an idiosyncratic and popular Venetian, offered the first courses in Italian. This was the first appointment of a lecturer in Italian in any Australian university.

This lecture series, supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies and by Italian Studies in the UWA School of Humanities, celebrates aspects of Italian language and culture, past and present.
Thursday 18
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Reducing Risks to Heritage in Times of Crisis More Information
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 hazard events, however, is often unaddressed until the latter stages of emergency response, impacting the effectiveness of recovery initiatives amongst affected communities. First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAC), aims to identify areas of joint programming between culture and humanitarian sectors, integrating the protection of cultural heritage into emergency response procedures in cooperation and coordination with other mainstream emergency response actors. Preparing and providing emergency actors and local communities with the ability to assess risks to cultural heritage and reduce the impact of hazard-induced events, FAC works to ensure that affected communities can become active contributors in their own cultural recovery.

19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Centre Stage | Nicola Boud and The Irwin Street Collective More Information
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 historical clarinet. Her curiosity in early music took her to the Netherlands, where she completed her Masters in historical performance at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague with Eric Hoeprich in 2004.

Now based in Europe, Nicola tours and records extensively, and is in demand as principal clarinet with various orchestras and ensembles. Nicola is also an active chamber musician, regularly performing with the pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, and the Cambini and Edding Quartets, and has performed at many prestigious festivals. Nicola returns to UWA for this week-long residency as an Institute of Advanced Studies Misha Strassberg Fellow.

The culmination of a week-long residency, Nicola will perform alongside members of the Irwin Street Collective in a concert that will feature Mozart's beautiful Kegelstatt Trio and a rare performance of Beethoven's horn sonata played in a contemporary arrangement for basset horn.

Free entry, bookings essential | trybooking.com/BASWT
Tuesday 23
10:00 - STAFF EVENT - Developing Rubrics - Enhancing Learning Design Series Website | More Information
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 will have learnt: * What a rubric is * Why you should use a rubric * How to create a basic rubric * How to mark using a rubric * How to create a rubric in Turnitin

14:00 - STAFF EVENT - Developing Rubrics - Enhancing Learning Design Series Website | More Information
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 will have learnt: * What a rubric is * Why you should use a rubric * How to create a basic rubric * How to mark using a rubric * How to create a rubric in Turnitin
Wednesday 24
10:00 - WORKSHOP - Strategies for Moderation - Enhancing Learning Design Series Website | More Information
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 with a plan for moderation and standard setting for your next teaching cycle.

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