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August 2011
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Friday 26 |
9:30 - SYMPOSIUM - School of Music presents: Festival Baroque Australia 2011 Symposium
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The Grit in the Oyster: Reflections on the Baroque in Music
Symposium Chair: Emeritus Professor David Tunley
Speakers include: Margaret Sears, Jonathan Paget, Stewart Smith, Sandra Bowdler, Nicholas Bannan and Paul Wright
For further information and to register your interest (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - The role of youth, families and schools in community disaster preparedness and prevention
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Until recently, the predominant focus of research in relation to children and disasters has been on children’s vulnerability and reactions to disasters during the Response and Recovery phases. Research focused on children’s preparation for hazardous events has a much shorter history. This (...)
We sometimes forget that Handel was not the only great Baroque composer of his time. In this concert we will hear chamber cantatas composed by such forgotten luminaries as Giovanni Bononcini, Nicola Porpora and Adolf Hasse.
Tickets available from: http://uwa.interticket.com/search.php?la (...)
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Monday 29 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Lung Institute of WA Medical Research Seminar : Imaging of the Lung: What the future holds
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Dr Murray works as a cardiothoracic radiologist at Royal Perth and Princess Margaret hospitals and at Envision Medical Imaging. His current research interests include the utility ultra-low dose CT for children with cystic fibrosis (AREST-CF research group) and low dose CT for the secondary (...)
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Tuesday 30 |
13:00 - FREE LECTURE - Collaborative Scholarship in the Digital Humanities : International Research Seminar by Professor Harold Short (King's College London)
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The Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences presents an International Research Seminar led by distinguished visiting scholar in digital humanities, Professor Harold Short (King’s College London).
What are the particular challenges faced by scholars engaged in collaborative (...)
17:00 - CANCELLED - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Student Research Seminar Presentations
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
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Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Victoria Rogers, School of Music, UWA these seminars are presented by the School’s honours-level students.
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Wednesday 31 |
16:00 - EVENT - Lecture : Evangelical Public Culture: Making Stranger-Citizens in the Solomon Islands
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This is one of a series of six lectures on various aspects of religious studies and theology being offered jointly by the UWA Religion and Globalisation Initiative, Murdoch University (Theology) and the University of Notre Dame Australia (Philosophy and Theology). The lecture will be followed by (...)
Margaret undertook her PhD at the University of Melbourne with Prof Mark Hogarth performing biochemical and molecular studies of Fc receptors. Margaret did her post-doc at Harvard Medical School, Boston MA USA on a Jane Coffin Childs Research Fellowship with Prof Tim Springer working on (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Tropical cyclones, floods, droughts and fires: are these the climate hazards of our future? : The 2011 Joseph Gentilli Memorial Lecture
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The 2011 Gentilli Memorial Lecture will be given by by John McBride, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Bureau of Meteorology, Centre for Atmospheric Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne.
It is often stated that the effect of climate change will be felt through its impact on extreme (...)
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September 2011
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Thursday 01 |
Dr. Alan Lourens presents works on his 1934 Elkhart Conn Double Belled Euphonium.
Works by Jan Bach, Arthur Remington and others.
16:00 - SEMINAR - Topographic Interactions Over a Small Bank on the Continental Shelf : SESE and Oceans Institute Seminar
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Interactions of a stratified fluid with topography take many forms. Inevitably, these interactions extract energy / momentum from the flow. While such effects are parameterized in atmospheric circulation models, present numerical models of the coastal ocean do not account for them. Towards (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Future of Disability Policy in Australia: Improving the Lives of People with Disability, their Families and Carers
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The 2011 Disability Collective Lecture will be given by Senator Jan McLucas, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers.
This lecture is co-sponsored with the Institute of Advanced Studies and Equity and Diversity Unit at UWA and the Western Australian Disability Collective, a (...)
20:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music: Music Students' Society - Contemporary Music Concert
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The UWA Music Students' Society presents an evening of contemporary works performed by UWA music students.
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Friday 02 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Adapting to Living with Bushfire and Earthquake Hazards: Integrating household, community and societal influences : This seminar discusses empirical findings regarding why people decide to prepare or decide not to prepare.
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Despite the efforts and resources committed to encouraging people to prepare, levels of readiness remain low. Neither living in high risk areas nor providing people with information about risk and preparedness ensures that people prepare. This presentation argues that it is not information per se (...)
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Monday 05 |
Quit Smoking Successfully!
The Robin Winkler Clinic at The University of Western Australia will be conducting a SMOKING CESSATION treatment program commencing on Monday 5 SEPTEMBER 2011. The group will meet for two hours each week for ten sessions, with a follow-up session one month after (...)
18:45 - EVENT - Lecture : Sex, food, friendships and death – perspectives on being human from the Epic of Gilgamesh
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This lecture is part of the St. George's College Theology Lecture series.
The speaker is Jim Trotter, Lecturer in Old Testament and Program Chair of Theology at Murdoch University.
No parking is available on the college grounds.
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Tuesday 06 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Soil&Water Seminar, 1pm Sept6: : "Towards a philosophy of soil science"
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The Soil&Water Seminar at 1pm on Tues, Sept. 6th will be given by Professor Martin Fey from the School of Earth and Environment. All welcome!
TITLE: “Towards a philosophy of soil science”
ABSTRACT:
Besides the philosophy of science there is a philosophy of particular (...)
17:00 - CANCELLED - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Student Research Seminar Presentations
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
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Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Victoria Rogers, School of Music, UWA these seminars are presented by the School’s honours-level students.
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Wednesday 07 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - �Genetic and Molecular Biomarkers of Susceptibility and Outcome in Melanoma"
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Graham Mann is a Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney at the Westmead Millennium Institute and Melanoma Institute Australia. After training in medical oncology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital he worked as a graduate student at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Sydney Branch (...)
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Thursday 08 |
** Correct Date - Thursday 8th September, 2011**
Intended Audience:
This workshop is for all academic and sessional teaching staff at UWA.
Workshop Description:
Effective teaching is a central aspect of an academic career at UWA. This workshop will focus on the criteria and (...)
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