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Displaying from Friday, November 15, 2013
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November 2013
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Friday 15 |
13:30 - SEMINAR - Flipping the classroom - what does it mean and how can I do it? : Lunchtime Seminar Series
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Flipped classroom is a term currently popular in educational contexts. This seminar defines flipped classroom approach, highlights benefits and pitfalls, illustrates a range of flipped classroom approaches in university teaching, and talks about getting started in flipping your classroom.
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, A miscellany of topics related to semiregular graph automorphisms
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I will discuss a few things, all related to semiregular graph automorphisms : the polycirculant conjecture, the abelian normal quotient method, an interesting class of graphs...
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Monday 18 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children
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The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children" by Associate Professor Deborah Lehmann. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
12:00 - SEMINAR - Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children
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The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children" by Associate Professor Deborah Lehmann. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
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Tuesday 19 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Speaker Perception : Vocal information plays a major role in person perception and social communication
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While humans use their voice mainly for communicating information about the world, paralinguistic cues in the voice signal convey rich dynamic information about a speaker´s arousal and emotional state, and extralinguistic cues reflect more stable speaker characteristics including identity (...)
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Wednesday 20 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Austere times, and the perverse reproduction of neoliberal reason
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A free public lecture by Jamie Peck, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia.
The lecture will explore the political and theoretical status of neoliberalism in these ostensibly twilight times. Particular attention will be focused on the peculiar course of austerity (...)
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Thursday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Islands beyond Wallace’s Line Understanding the first human settlement of the Philippine Archipelago
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This talk will discuss some results of an ongoing collaborative research project between the Archaeological Studies Program, University of the Philippines, the Australian National University and UWA on the Pleistocene-Early Holocene settlement of the Philippines. The Philippines have recently (...)
Effective management of diversity in society and workplaces continues to present challenges in the 21st century. Diversity management remains a fragmented research discipline and profession which suffers from crises of legitimacy and trust. Despite an ‘it’s good for us: it’s good for business� (...)
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Friday 22 |
The Swan Canning River System is a highly valued part of the Western Australian environment. The river is used for a wide range of recreational activities, and is also important in terms of its ecology. This study aims to estimate the value of both recreational and ecological attributes of the (...)
MOOCs are all the talk in education, with rigorous debate of what the mean for the future of university education. UWA itself has commenced engaging with MOOCs. This seminar defines MOOCs, explains UWA's engagement with MOOCs, and examines the pedagogy of a MOOC class and course.
13:30 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : From the Ambivalent Edges of “Asia”: Japan, Turkey, Australia
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This talk is a springboard to reflect on some of the background conceptual considerations framing a new research area I am moving into on Japan-Turkey interactions. On the surface, this may come across as an odd choice of topic, given the geographic distance between the two countries, as well as (...)
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Monday 25 |
This is the sixth year of offering these end of year retreats for staff at UWA. The feedback from previous participants has been unanimously positive. The Retreat provides space to interact with other academic and general staff from across UWA; reconnect with professional ‘passion’; allow (...)
The Guardian newspaper once called him “the greatest poet of our age”. Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, celebrated translator, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and many other awards, was the rarest of poets: one who was lauded by critics and loved by readers from around the world. The (...)
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Tuesday 26 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Developing a common approach to target chronic inflammatory diseases for imaging and therapy : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: In this seminar, Juliana will present her current work on novel approach to specifically target chronic inflammatory diseases including cancer and atherosclerotic lesions in vivo. She will discuss how this approach can be used to specifically deliver diagnostic reagents and (...)
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 2013 UWA Historical Society Annual Lecture : 'The Fly-out, Fly-in Professor' with E/Prof Reg Appleyard
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Associate Professor of Economics Paul McLeod will chair a 'fireside presentation' with colleagues of our guest, Emeritus Professor Reg Appleyard. Hear about changes to university education and student internationalisation during
Prof Appleyard’s time as Head of Department with his frequent (...)
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Wednesday 27 |
8:00 - CONFERENCE - EPHEA 2013 Conference : 8th Biennial Conference of Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia
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During the last week of November The University of Western Australia will be hosting the biennial EPHEA conference in conjunction with Curtin University, Murdoch University and Edith Cowan University.
The theme for this year’s conference is "Building for the Future: Leadership (...)
This mini 45-minute workshop follows on from the seminars on blended learning and flipped classroom. If the goal is meaningful, deeper, transformational, learning-oriented activity in class and online - what can I do in each environment that is best for learning? Bring lesson aims for a week's (...)
14:00 - SEMINAR - The future of child health research in Western Australia : A seminar by Jonathan Carapetis on the future of Child Health Research in WA
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The next couple of years will see significant changes in the landscape of research into childhood health and disease with the completion of the New Children's Hospital at the Sir Charles Gairdner site and it's co-location with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, one of the largest and (...)
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Thursday 28 |
14:00 - EVENT - Seminar : : Bayesian nonparametric analysis for surveys with randomly
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Bayesian nonparametric analysis with the multinomial distribution and non-informative Dirichlet prior has an important application in survey analysis.
It provides a robust representation of the covariate distribution for incomplete covariates with randomly missing data. This allows fully (...)
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Friday 29 |
17:30 - LAUNCH - Westerly magazine launch : The Westerly Centre, in partnership with the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, will launch the latest issue of Westerly magazine
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Westerly will launch issue 58:2 at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
The launch is being held in conjuction with the Bliss exhibition, for which the Westerly Centre was campus partner.
This special edition, On Beauty, has been guest edited by long-term former editor, Dennis (...)
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