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Displaying from Friday, May 24, 2013
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May 2013
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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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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 (...)
A public lecture by Dr Thomas Scirghi, SJ, 2013 St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies.
Francis I is the first Jesuit pope in the history of the Catholic Church. Sometimes called the “Pope’s marines,” the Jesuits – formally known as the Society of Jesus – take a special (...)
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Thursday 30 |
CATL eLearning is presenting a number of webinars as part of the process of evaluating Adobe Connect - an online conference software - for potential acquisition and implementation for use by UWA staff.
This 30-minute webinar will discuss way in which online technologies are used for (...)
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
16:00 - SEMINAR - ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES 2013 : Preliminary results from the 2012 field season at Tell Timai, Nile Delta, Egypt
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Tell Timai, a Tell site in the Nile Delta, represents the remains of the Greco-Roman city of Thmuis, inhabited from c.500 BCE to c.900 CE. Since 2007 a University of Hawaii team has been conducting archaeological investigation at the site. To date most efforts have concentrated on mapping the Tell (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Puzzle of Neolifism, the Strange Materiality of Regenerative and Synthetically Biological Things
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An Inquiring Minds lecture by Oron Catts, Director, SymbioticA, Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA.
In 1906 Jacques Loeb suggested making a living system from dead matter as a way to debunk the vitalists’ ideas and claimed to have (...)
Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00.
Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.
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Friday 31 |
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We study regional favoritism using satellite data on nighttime light intensity and information about the birth places of political leaders. In our panel with 38,450 regions from 126 countries with yearly observations from 1992 to 2009, we find that regions have more intense nighttime (...)
CATL eLearning is presenting a number of webinars as part of the process of evaluating Adobe Connect - an online conference software - for potential acquisition and implementation for use by UWA staff.
In this 30 minute webinar you will shown how to restrict resources, activities, or all (...)
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