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In the midst of many personal difficulties and public upheavals, the 15th-century Paston family wrote over 400 letters to one another--all of them remarkably calm and judicious. My purpose in this seminar is to begin to explore the emotional world of the Pastons from these letters. Some (...)

This ceremony represents an opportunity for UWA to recognise excellent teachers from across the University. 2011 Faculty Teaching Award winners will be acknowledged; and the University Excellence in Teaching award winners announced, along with winners and nominees for the national teaching awards.

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18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Emotional Objects: Australian Feminism goes to the Museum

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A free public lecture by Dr Margaret Henderson, senior lecturer at the University of Queensland and a consultant to the National Museum of Australia, advising on a modern Australian women’s movement collection.

For the last two decades or so Western women’s movements have been (...)

The Teaching and Learning Research Colloquium provides an opportunity for UWA staff to share their teaching and learning research and scholarship with their peers. The one day colloquium will include a number of parallel presentation streams to showcase the teaching and learning research and (...)

One of the initial spurs to historical work on emotion was a desire to explore the relationship between emotions and modern conditions. For several reasons, this approach has come under fire. This talk assesses the effort, including the criticisms, while urging that we return to the task. This (...)

Join us for a discussion of the various overlapping ICT projects currently underway in the GSE: the Teaching the Future project, ePortfolios, iPads, and IWBs (interactive whiteboards). Project staff will give an overview of what is being done and why, the invite questions and discussion.

The workshop will focus on principles and practices for enabling commencing students success with early assessment. Three aspects of the first year assessment process will be considered: designing assessment items that are appropriate to the needs of commencing students; preparing students to (...)

This conference is sponsored and supported by the UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies; the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group, and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies. REGISTRATION: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/conf/cmems11

After the overwhelming success of the Quiz Night in previous years, staff and students are once again invited to put their knowledge of approaches to teaching, student learning and skills of negotiation to the test at a Business School Quiz Night.

Working in small teams, participants (...)

This paper is a topical investigation into how the relationship between the unpredictable power of nature and the rise of the Iranun, as long –distance saltwater slavers, changed the course of Southeast Asian History. It attempts to illuminate the imponderable effects of a volcanic eruption on a (...)

Intended Audience: Those who are, or intend to, supervise international students who want to reflect upon, develop or refresh their current conceptions and practice of supervision. Using a discussion-based approach, this workshop builds on the material about international student supervision (...)

Intended Audience: The workshop is aimed at those who already have a basic working knowledge of PowerPoint, but would like to learn to present more interesting and effective presentations.

Workshop Description: Develop engaging and effective PowerPoint presentations which help your (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

There will be three 25 minute talks on Tuesday 14th of June in MLR2 starting at 10:30 am.

10:30am:

Sylvia Ozols (Adelaide)

will speak on

The Bruck-Bose Construction

11am:

Wei Jin (UWA)

Do you know an outstanding Mathematics educator? Nominations are now open for Mathematics Educator of the Year: Secondary and Mathematics Educator of the Year: Primary. Both award winners will receive $10,000 thanks to the Department of Education. Nominate someone now!

We have studied nuclear and chloroplast transcriptomes in Cleome leaves and characterized the changes required for C4 photosynthesis by two comparative approaches. ABSTRACT AVAILABLE: [email protected]

Professor David Mackey has spent 20 years studying the genetics of the optic nerve. In 1993 Professor Mackey initiated the Glaucoma Inheritance Study in Tasmania, thereby creating one of the largest glaucoma biobanks in the world, with over 5,000 DNA samples and clinical material from familial and (...)

Intended Audience: The workshop is aimed at those who already have a basic working knowledge of PowerPoint, but would like to learn to present more interesting and effective presentations.

Workshop Description: Develop engaging and effective PowerPoint presentations which help your (...)

The recent confirmation of the first authentic mammoth depictions in the rock art of North America not only unequivocally testifies to the coexistence of humans and Ice Age megafauna on the Colorado Plateau, but also may alter our views on what kind of artistic toolkit Palaeoamericans entering the (...)

In our colloquium slot this week, we have a “special event” presentation by Professor David Konstan, whose visit is jointly sponsored by the UWA Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, and by the School of Psychology’s Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion.

Pr (...)

Workshop Description: Teachers are being stretched in their efforts to maintain high quality teaching, often in a time or resource-poor environment, and with an increasingly diverse student cohort. Ideas on how to establish and maintain a good learning experience for students by teaching smarter (...)