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Displaying from Saturday, March 15, 2014
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March 2014
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Monday 17 |
Since 1995, artist Anne Ferran has been examining and rediscovering Australia’s colonial history, through museum collections, photographic archives and archaeological sites.
Her investigation into Australia’s colonial past, especially its lost histories of incarceration, offers a (...)
16:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Perth USAsia Centre presents a public lecture from New York Times Editorial Board Member Carol Giacomo
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Visting New York Times editorial board member Carol Giacomo will be at UWA and talking with students on covering the world from home and abroad; looking at the challenges facing journalists covering foreign policy issues. An established commentator on US foreign policy, Ms Giacomo also discusses (...)
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Tuesday 18 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - The #altac Track: Strategies to imagine and build alternative academic careers
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#Altac careers have been described as off the tenure track, but within the academic orbit. These positions are serviced by “hybrid humanities scholars” who work in a diverse range of institutions including universities, cultural heritage bodies, libraries, museums, academic publishing, and (...)
This FREE workshop is designed to introduce humanities researchers to the HuNI Virtual Laboratory.
Researchers will be given an introduction to the contents and capabilities of the HuNI VL, and its relationship to the various contributing datasets. They will learn how to create their (...)
Federated Archaeological information Management Systems (FAIMS) is a National eResearch Collaborative Tools and Resources (Australia) funded project to produce a comprehensive information system for archaeology and related fieldwork disciplines. Through community engagement it has developed (...)
The biennial conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). aaDH was formed to strengthen the digital humanities research community and is a member of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO).
Join us from 18th – 21st March 2014 (...)
14:00 - EVENT - Masterclass: Computational philosophy and the moral implications of automated decision making
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This FREE Masterclass is an opportunity for postgraduate students and early career researchers to meet and discuss specific research topics with a distinguished scholar. Participants will be invited to participate within the framework of the topic as part of a discussion.
The host (...)
Jon Prince
How melodic contour, rhythm, tonality, and metre affect musical similarity and expectancy
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Wednesday 19 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Supervisor Refresher Forum : Research Supervision Professional Development Program
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This workshop is designed for experienced supervisors of research students at UWA want to update their current conceptions and practice of supervision at UWA, including updates on UWA policies and rules.
It provides an overview research training at UWA and is designed for supervisors of (...)
13:00 - WORKSHOP - Supervisor Induction : Research Supervision Professional Development Program
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This workshop is for UWA staff and others who are new to supervision at UWA.
It provides an overview of research training at UWA for those who are new to supervision, new to supervision at UWA or plan to supervise in the future. The workshop is grounded in the Graduate Research School's Policies (...)
13:00 - FREE LECTURE - Public Lecture by Hanifa Deen: Taslima Nasreen, the Female Rushdie: Freedom of Speech and Islamophobia : CMSS presents: A Public Lecture by Hanifa Deen
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Hanifa Deen explores the domestic and international responses to dissident Bangladeshi writer-in-exile, Taslima Nasreen. Following a newspaper interview the author gave in neighbouring India, violent demonstrations broke out in 1994 and she was accused of blasphemy. This led to an international (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - The Enchantment of Remote Islands and Their Peoples : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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In part, this seminar is a travelogue and, in part, it is an amateur study in comparative anthropology. While exploring many small, remote and near-isolated islands around the world I became fascinated by the history and sociology of the small human communities that occupied those corners of the (...)
The Visualisation and Poster reception is part of the DHA 2014 Conference held at UWA from 18-21 March 2014. The reception will exhibit electronic posters submitted by conference delegates, as well as presentations Dr Andrew Hutchison - presenting on virtual environments from the Sydney Kormoran (...)
A lecture by Professor Ullrich Steiner, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and Australian Academy of Science 2014 Selby Fellow.
Biological organisms have rather limited resources they can use to build the materials they are made of. Given these limitations, the range of (...)
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Thursday 20 |
Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.
FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm.
No booking required, just turn up!
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Friday 21 |
13:00 - WORKSHOP - Recognising and Rewarding Learning using Badges : CATL eLearning at Lunchtime
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Have you wanted to find a way to reward or recognise student achievement or progress in learning without necessarily providing marks? Or to allow students to demonstrate achievements that they can use externally to their university study?
Badges are an emerging feature of online and (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Have we ever tried to count Cayley graphs?
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Pablo Spiga (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca)
will speak on
Have we ever tried to count Cayley graphs?
at 3pm Friday March the 21st in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
In this talk we give some elementary upper bounds on the number of (...)
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Saturday 22 |
The purpose of this day is to recognise the important role sessional teachers play in the delivery of a quality student experience and to thank them for their contribution.
13:30 - FREE LECTURE - 2 FREE PUBLIC LECTURES : Roman Archaeology Group presents 2 free lectures: Baths of Caracalla & Rome, Renewed : 2 FREE PUBLIC LECTURES - Roman Archaeology Group
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2 FREE Lectures - All are welcome! 1:30pm - "Building the Baths of Caracalla" by W/Prof. David Kennedy. 2:30pm - Afternoon Tea. 3pm "Rome, Renewed - the Archaeology of Appropriation" by Rebecca Norman.
N.B. Lectures are FREE, however there is a small charge for the (...)
13:30 - FREE LECTURE - Roman Archaeology Group Lecture : Two FREE illustrated lectures on Roman Archaeology
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RAG Summer Lecture Series
2 Illustrated Lectures on The Baths of Caracalla, and Rome, Renewed.
Saturday 22nd March, 2014 1:30pm – 4:00pm
1:30pm - ”Building the Baths of Caracalla” presented by Winthrop Prof. David Kennedy.
Dr. Sandra Ottley lectured on the Baths in a RAG (...)
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