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May 2012
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Monday 07 |
Title: Experiencing New Courses
Dates: Monday 7th May – Friday 18th May 2012
Teaching and Learning Month is all about discovering, discussing, pursuing, celebrating and valuing excellence in teaching and learning. From showcasing innovative approaches and methods to focusing on the (...)
13:00 - STUDENT EVENT - 2012 Teaching & Learning Month Event - Excellent Teaching at UWA: student sound bites : Screening daily 1.00-2.00pm
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"Student Sound Bites" will be shown daily from Monday 7 May - Friday 18 May between 1:00 - 2:00pm on public screens around the University. Come and hear what students have to say about teaching at UWA.
15:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - 2012 Teaching & Learning Month Event - Hunters & Gatherers: Strategies for Curriculum Mapping and Data Collection for Assurance of Learning (An ALTC Funded Project)
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The "Hunters & Gatherers: Strategies for Curriculum Mapping and Data Collection for Assurance of Learning" project concentrates on two elements of the assurance of learning: Mapping learning objectives that relate to graduate attributes across suitable units of study in the program (wh (...)
A public lecture by Ruth Seifert, Professor of Sociology, University of Applied Sciences, Regensburg, Germany.
Rape and sexual torture of women in times of war and crisis is not a new phenomenon. However it was only recently, following reports of mass rapes perpetrated during the (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
10:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - 2012 Teaching & Learning Month Event - Guest speaker Martin Dougiamis : A Flexible LMS developed on educational principles
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UWA's new Learning Management System (LMS) uses the Moodle Software. Martin Dougiamas is the creater of Moodle in its humble beginings as a PhD project designed to put educational principles of social constructionism into a learning management system. Now Moodle is a rapidly expanding, world-wide (...)
UWA's new Learning Management System (LMS) uses the Moodle Software. Martin Dougiamas is the creater of Moodle in its humble beginings as a PhD project designed to put educational principles of social constructionism into a learning management system. Now Moodle is a rapidly expanding, world-wide (...)
17:00 - PERFORMANCE - Distinguished International Guest Lecture Series : Dr Una Mcllvenna
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Dr Una Mcllvenna of the ARC Centre of Excellence for History of Emotions will explore emotional responses to public execution in the early modern period, looking specifically at the use of song and verse in broadside and pamphlet accounts of crime and execution across Europe.
A public lecture by Professor Serhiy Kvit, President, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Ukraine.
In 2005 the Orange Revolution in Ukraine made international headlines, with the streets of Kyiv teeming with people protesting the result of a presidential election that (...)
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Wednesday 09 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Automorphisms and opposition in twin buildings
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Alice Devillers (UWA)
will speak on
Automorphisms and opposition in twin buildings.
at 11am on Wednesday 9th of May in MLR2.
Abstract: Opposition in twin buildings generalises the notion of opposition in (...)
12:00 - EVENT - Soil&Water Seminar, May9: : "Presentation of statistics in scientific papers"
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An Soil&Water seminar on Weds, May 9th at 12pm will be given by Prof. Richard Webster. All welcome!
TITLE: "Presentation of statistics in scientific papers "
R Webster, Rothamsted Research
ABSTRACT: This talk is about what information to present in papers on soil (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - �Genetic insights into molecular regulation of hematopoietic stem cells�
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Warren Alexander received his Ph.D. in medical biology from the University of Melbourne, and his post-doctoral studies were completed at the Research Institute for Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Melbourne. Since 1994, he has been a Laboratory (...)
16:10 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Public Lecture by Professor James Chin on The Upcoming Elections in Malaysia : The upcoming general elections in Malaysia, expected to be held in the next few months, will see the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) trying to regain its two-thirds majority. What are the chances of the BN regaining this majority, and what role will Prime Minister Najib play in this process?
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Professor James Chin will address these questions in his lecture.
Prof. James Chin is Head, School of Arts & Social Sciences, at the Monash University, Malaysia Campus. His current research interests include minority rights, elections, ethnic politics, democratization and political and economic (...)
A public lecture by Donna Riley, Associate Professor of Engineering Picker Engineering Program, Smith College.
Professional ethics for engineers as traditionally conceived focuses narrowly on the decisions and actions of individual professional engineers, leaving little room for (...)
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Thursday 10 |
13:10 - EVENT - Lunchtime Concert : Violin Cello Duo: Sophie and Jasmin Parkinson Stewart
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Sisters Jasmin and Sophie Parkinson-Stewart, winners of the People's Choice Awards in last year's Vose competition, perform a selection of duos for violin and cello.
15:00 - SEMINAR - Classics & Ancient History/Archaeology Joint Seminar: Dr Ueli Brunner : The Gardens of the Queen of Sheba: Irrigation and hunt in ancient Yemen
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Visiting scholar Dr Ueili Brunner has spent many years working in Yemen and shares with us his insights into the Sabean culture.
A short introduction sheds light on the environment and characteristics of the Sabean culture. The wealth of the Sabeans was generated by trade but the (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Sending Sharks to School: Brain Evolution in Sharks and Their Relatives : SESE and Oceans Institute Seminar
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Cartilaginous fishes are comprised of approximately 1185 species worldwide and occupy a range of niches and primary habitats. It is a widely accepted view that neural development can reflect morphological adaptations and sensory specializations and it has been shown that similar patterns of brain (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Dr Amara Lakhous - "Reforming Islam from the Outside" : Multi-Award Winning Author Dr Amara Lakhous is an Algerian-born Muslim writer. He is the recipient of the Italy’s Premier Literary Award.
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Born in 1970 in Algiers in a Berber family, Amara Lakhous is the sixth of nine children. He studied at Koran school for four years where he learned classical Arabic. He learned French at junior school. He was influenced from an early age by authors like Mahfouz, Flaubert and Hemingway, and after (...)
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Friday 11 |
15:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Dr Anthony Dillon : Political correctness is not helping indigenous Australians
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The disadvantage suffered by Aboriginal people in this country remains a high priority for all. An assumed major barrier to addressing the needs of Aboriginal people are cultural differences. Difference between groups, whether they be groups based on race, gender, age, location, etc. (...)
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Monday 14 |
13:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - 2012 Teaching & Learning Month Event - Distinguished Visiting Teacher Public Seminar - Professor Pip Pattison DVC (A) University of Melbourne : “Students' experiences of the new curriculum at the University of Melbourne"
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Professor Pattison will review the impact of significant curriculum change at the University of Melbourne, with a particular focus on students’ experiences of new undergraduate and graduate courses. She will describe how students have reacted to new courses and reported on their experiences, and (...)
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