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April 2015
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Tuesday 28 |
13:00 - EVENT - Psychology Colloquium: Prof Mark Wiggins: Assessing Diagnostic Expertise in Industrial Settings
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Department of Psychology and the Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise and Training, Macquarie University
Mark Wiggings is a Professor of Organizational Psychology at Macquarie University. He gained his PhD in Psychology from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2001. Mark is (...)
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Wednesday 29 |
This lecture by David Gordon, Director of the Queen's University School of Urban and Regional Planning will present current practice in better design and redevelopment of suburban areas, extensively illustrated with examples from across Canada provided by the Council for Canadian Urbanism.
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May 2015
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Friday 01 |
9:30 - CONFERENCE - In the Zone 2015 - Capital Ideas for the 21st Century : A premier forum on regional affairs.
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In the Zone is The University of Western Australia's premier forum on regional affairs. This ambitious conference series aims to engage stakeholders in Australia and in key Asian cities directly, to encourage networking and collaboration between decision makers across the zone and to share UWA's (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : Ramen Makeover: Connoisseurship of Everyday Culture in Japan
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This presentation focuses on the transformation of everyday food into a connoisseurial object in contemporary Japan. Ramen (noodle soup) as a case study, I analyze various methods and styles to transform this everyday food into a "gourmet" food. Ramen was mostly inexpensive and (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Cores of cubelike graphs
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Time and place: 15:00 Friday 1 May in Weatherburn LT.
Speaker: David Roberson (Nanyang Technological University)
Title: Cores of cubelike graphs.
Abstract: A graph is said to be cubelike if it is a Cayley graph for some power of the group of order two. The core of a (...)
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Sunday 03 |
The School of Music in collaboration with the Government House Foundation concert series, Music on the Terrace, we celebrate the opening of our 2015 season with an Artistry & Keyed Up spectacular in the sublime Government House Ballroom, as pianist
Mark Coughlan leads the UWA Symphony Orchestra (...)
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Wednesday 06 |
11:00 - Information session - Ignition 2015: Information session, 6 May : Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scholarships
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RDI is sponsoring two UWA students or staff to attend the Ignition Innovation and Entrepreneurship Course in 2015.
Ignition is an intensive 5.5 day education program for aspiring entrepreneurs, academics and corporate innovators to trial and prepare their business ideas for the (...)
In this public lecture, Jonathan Rigg, Professor of Geography at the National University of Singapore, will argue that 'liberal resilience' plays into a growth-development-resilience 'trap' where economic growth has become a de facto synonym for development and, often, development a synonym for (...)
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Thursday 07 |
This seminar will outline the development path of iCeutica, a Biotech company with origins at UWA, that developed from concept to multiple FDA approved drugs and exit in less than 10 years. The story has relevance for anyone contemplating commercialization of their research endeavours.
Ja (...)
13:10 - CONCERT - Lunchtime Concerts : Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.
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School of Music is proud to present: UWA Strings:
Tickets:
Entry is free, no bookings required.
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Beyond the fence: an exploration of non-indigenous people's relationships with Aboriginal heritage on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
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This research explores non-indigenous peoples affective responses to Aboriginal heritage within settler colonial landscapes. The study is set on Yorke Peninsula, an agricultural district that yields some of the state's highest wool and grain harvests. The non-indigenous farming
community have deep (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Bringing Justice to the 'Hood: Is There a Home for Neighbourhood Courts in Australia?
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In this public lecture, Sarah Murray from the Law School at The University of Western Australia will explore her research into Neighbourhood Justice Courts and the NJCs in Western Australia and the nation more generally. The City of Yarra in Melbourne is the home of Australia's only NJC, however (...)
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Friday 08 |
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology & Sociology Seminar Series : Walking Through Words: An Ecological Approach to Writing In Torres Strait
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This paper focuses on public writing on the island of Saibai, Torres Strait. Public writing includes housenames, memorials, t-shirts and tombstone epitaphs, all of which are accompanied by extensive visual material. Read in isolation, the housenames, epitaphs, monuments and t-shirts yield (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: On the stabilisers of locally 2-transitive graphs
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Time and place: 15:00 Friday 8 May in Weatherburn LT.
Speaker: Shujiao Song (University of Western Australia)
Title: On the stabilisers of locally 2-transitive graphs.
Abstract: For a connected locally (G,2)-transitive graph and an edge {v,w}, both the induced (...)
15:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Radicalisation, Recruitment and the Appeal of the Islamic state Movement : Role of Islam as both a constructive and destructive force
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The lecture focuses on the role of Islam as both a constructive and a disruptive force. It also encourages inter-faith dialogue and aspires to building an understanding of Islam and the Muslim society. The central axis of the lecture is the way in which religious thought, individual believers and (...)
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Tuesday 12 |
13:00 - EVENT - Psychology Colloquium: Julien Bureau and Joshua Howard: "Promoting identified motivation to reduce organizational deviance: The importance of autonomy" and "Profiles of Employee Motivation"
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Presenter 1: Julien Bureau
Julien is a PhD student at Universite de Montreal in Montreal, Canada. He is a visiting research fellow at UWA supported by the Endeavour Research Fellowships programme from the Australian government. His research focuses on dishonesty and he is particularly (...)
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Soul Friendship : From the ancient Celtic way of Soul Friendship, Ray Simpson will help us find the inner resources for sustainable leadership in work, pilgrimage, poetry, healing the land and relationship with Indigenous people.
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This is the first of this year's Chaplain's International Lectures, where religious perspectives attempt to advance contemporary issues and is sponsored by the chaplains of the University of Western Australia. Ray Simpson is the Guardian of the International Community of Aidan and Hilda based on (...)
In this public lecture, Jan Cilliers, Professor of Mineral Processing and Head of Department of Earth Science and Engineering in the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College London, will discuss techniques of industrial flotation, rather than simply laboratory or research curiosities. The talk (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
17:00 - EXHIBITION OPENING - Exhibition Opening Exploring Ageing : Free exhibition opening Depth of Field: Exploring Ageing
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This exhibition aims to challenge the way you view older adults.
It will showcase the photographs and audio-narrated film of 14 residential care residents who volunteered their time and their stories to help educate us and health profession students.
All welcome,
RSVP to [email protected]
18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Rebuilding Life with Mental Health Challenges: From therapy to education : This is the first in a series of UWA Social Work 50th Anniversary events
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Our panelists include two of the foremost experts in the UK on Mental Health: Rachel Perkins OBE and Ron Coleman. The discussion will be facilitated by Associate Professor Maria Harries AM, Senior Honorary Research Fellow at UWA.
Brought to you by the School of Population Health and (...)
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