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Displaying from Sunday, May 19, 2013
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May 2013
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Tuesday 21 |
The Co-op UWA May Clearance Sale Last days!
Clearance stock of fiction, non-fiction and academic reference titles including dental, forensic psychology and Linguistics titles at $10, $5 and $2. Co-op members also receive Member discount off Sale Prices.
Selected stationery at 50% off RRP.
13:00 - SEMINAR - Teaching in a virtual world, Building a virtual school on the UWA campus in Second Life : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The Vice Chancellor has called for “a full review of pedagogic purpose and practice in 2013, with the aim of introducing new pedagogies from the beginning of 2015” this aim was subsequently approved by the Academic Board. Unfortunately the primary driver for such change is often (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Eva-Marie Middleton
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Eva-Marie Middleton: Choral Performances of the Past
The archive of recorded music available for academic study now extends back for over a century. One of the avenues of study provided by this resource is a stark portrayal of differences in performance style over that period. This (...)
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Wednesday 22 |
12:00 - EVENT - What matters to me and why : A conversation with John Dell
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Lunch time talk: What Matters to me and Why (with W/Prof John Dell)
When: Wednesday 22nd May, 2013, 12pm to 1.30pm
Where: Science Library – 3rd Floor meeting room
'What Matters to me and why' is a series of lunch time talks and conversations with UWA Academics (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Effects of reservoir operations on the biogeochemistry of Deadwood Reservoir, USA
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Deadwood Reservoir was created in 1931 by impoundment of the Deadwood River by Deadwood Dam. It is located in west-central Idaho, USA, at approximately 1600 m above sea level, in an extremely harsh environment where winter temperatures regularly reach 30 degrees below zero. The U.S. Bureau of (...)
A public lecture by Professor Burdett Loomis,
Fulbright Flinders University Distinguished Chair in
American Political Science.
The American political system was not designed to produce speedy or highly responsive policy-making. Given the US’s separation-of-powers structure, a grossly (...)
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Thursday 23 |
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
Presented by Distinguished Visiting Professor Lambert Schuwirth, this workshop will introduce you to the background behind workplace-based assessment, cover sense and nonsense of WBA, and give you practical tips and techniques to help you find a way to combine it with daily clincal/practical tasks (...)
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Friday 24 |
10:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Around the World with Archaeology and Beyond : Informal day of free lecture presentations in celebration of National Archaeology Week
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Current archaeology staff members will give interesting and entertaining insights into their research projects in Australia and around the world. As a special guest and expert in space archaeology, Dr Alice Gorman (Australian Cultural Heritage Management and Flinders University) will take visitors (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Algebraic graph theory applied to configurations of polar spaces
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Abstract:
The speaker will give the second half of his talk from a fortnight ago, but with a different context. We will first go through some background on the basics of algebraic graph theory, eigenvalue techniques, and strongly regular graphs, before giving some short non-existence (...)
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Sunday 26 |
In celebration of the University’s centenary, UWA School of Music joins with UWA Choral society for an extravagant evening of sound. As part of the celebration, an orchestra of over 170 will perform Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring on it’s 100th anniversary before being joined on stage by the (...)
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Monday 27 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : "A microscope in a needle: New technologies to image disease"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "A microscope in a needle: New technologies to image disease" by A/Professor Robert McLaughlin, Optical+Biomedical Engineering Lab, The University of Western Australia. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
16:00 - SEMINAR - The experiences of migrant workers after a work-related injury: A qualitative study from Toronto, Canada
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Agnieszka Kosny has a PhD in Public Health (University of Toronto) and has worked as a Scientist at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto, Canada. She is a qualitative researcher and her research has primarily focused on examining the experiences of new migrants after a work-related injury (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Shark in Art: creature vs culture : A lecture by Vivienne Westbrook, National Taiwan University
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Sharks have excited the imagination of literary and visual artists for centuries. There are literally thousands of references to sharks in poetry, drama, novels, painting and sculpture. Since the twentieth century they have been appropriated for film, TV and advertising campaigns, but often in ways (...)
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Tuesday 28 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Hearing risk related to excessive music exposure in portable listening device users : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: In recent years, the usage of personal listening devices (PLD) such as mp3 players and iPods has become increasingly popular, particularly among teenagers and young adults. While experts agree that hearing risk related to inappropriate use of these devices exists, the extent of hearing (...)
14:00 - SEMINAR - Special Joint Seminar: Anthropology & Asian Studies
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You are invited to attend 3 presentations by scholars from Lishui University:
She Nationality Culture: Change and Adjustments
Presenter: Professor Shi Qiang
Sport Games of She Nationality
Presenter: Professor Fang Zhehong
She Ethnic People: A people who loves (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Victoria Rogers
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Victoria Rogers: John Blacking, Composer
John Blacking (1928–90) made his mark as an ethnomusicologist and social anthropologist and his enduring reputation stems from his work in these areas. Yet his interests were more far reaching and included cognition and language, dance and (...)
A public lecture by Professor Lyn Beazley AO FTSE, Chief Scientist of Western Australia.
Australia has a reputation for scientific discoveries and engineering innovations that are amongst the best in the world. In this lecture, Professor Beazley will discuss two of them. One is Australia� (...)
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Wednesday 29 |
11:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents: World Music Workshop
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Two world-renowned maestros of Indian classical music – Pundit Kumar Bose (tabla) and Pundit Debojyoti Bose (sarod) – will present a workshop at the UWA School of Music.
This is an amazing opportunity to see some fantastic music from two of India’s best musicians.
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : External and Internal Casualties of War: A Psychological Perspective
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The external casualties of war have an obvious presence to the interested observer and encompass human, environmental and political dimensions. The internal casualties of war are less obvious and more intimately experienced.
Working with the human aftermath of military conflict has (...)
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