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October 2017
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Thursday 05 |
10:00 - WORKSHOP - ARC Linkage Project Support Program Round Table Event : Overcoming barriers to submitting a Linkage proposal
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The Research Development Team is pleased to invite UWA researchers to the final event to be offered under the ARC Linkage Project Support Program.
This session will feature presentations and small group discussion led by successful Linkage Project holders on their experience identifying (...)
11:00 - PRESENTATION - Advanced literature searching : STEM : Ensure that your literature searching is effective, efficient and thorough
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Learn how to develop a search strategy,
identify relevant scholarly information resources and
use tools and techniques to follow the academic conversation in your field.
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series 2017 : Megafauna mass deaths at Lancefield Swamp, southeastern Australia: a case study in extinction processes?
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The deaths of thousands of giant kangaroos (Macropus giganteus titan) in one location make for an impressive palaeontological site. Deposition of macropod remains at Lancefield Swamp, Victoria (south-eastern Australia),
spans the period of human arrival in Australia, although the site provides (...)
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Friday 06 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series, Seminar 1 2017 : I thought that I don’t qualify to call Korean my ‘national language’: Identity and authenticity in Korean-Australian heritage language learners
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This study aims to understand the process of identity development and perception of speaker’s authenticity in students of Korean as a heritage language enrolled in an Australian university. The history of Korean- Australians in more recent and different compared to that of Korean- Americans (...)
Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School of Music! This week's concert presents the UWA Vocal students performing solo works for piano and voice. Free entry - no bookings required.
15:30 - SEMINAR - Reconstructing Calvary: Women and Ritual Lamentation at the House of Mary in Ephesus : ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Seminar
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In 1891, two Lazarist priests, Eugene Poulin and Henry Jung, along with Sister Marie de Mandat Grancey, uncovered a small house-church in Ephesus, where they claimed the Virgin Mary had lived out her final years. Although scholars dismiss the site due to its questionable authenticity, today the (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar 16:00 Fri 06/10/2017 Weatherburn LT: Luke Morgan
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Speaker: Luke Morgan (University of Western Australia)
Title: Cayley digraphs and Cayley index
Time and place: 16:00 Friday 06/10/2017 in Weatherburn LT
Abstract: The Cayley index of a Cayley digraph on a finite group G is the index of (the regular representation of) G in the (...)
17:00 - EVENT - Fridays@Five : UWA String Orchestra & The Darlington Ensemble: Shostakovich Chamber Symphony
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Fridays@Five offers a unique musical experience to delight all music lovers, from young artist led concerts, informal musical drinks on the famous grassy knoll, behind the scenes workshops to lectures and masterclasses. Join us this week for a special performance by the UWA String Orchestra (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - �Invisible Maps: Cartographic Coding in Shakespeare�s Henry V and Julius Caesar' : A PMRG/CMEMS Public Lecture
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The year of 1599 was a turning point both for England and for William Shakespeare. Ever since the failed Spanish armada of 1588 there had been serious threats of a fresh incursion. Contrary to much popular belief today, the Spanish threat did not die with Queen Mary’s widowed husband, Philip II (...)
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Saturday 07 |
9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - 'The Natural and the Supernatural in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds' : Annual PMRG/CMEMS Conference
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Today, the natural and the supernatural are often viewed in stark opposition. In the medieval and early modern period, however, the supernatural infused every aspect of daily life. Prayers and rites punctuated everyday routines, and natural phenomena – such as earthquakes and eclipses – were (...)
When the Dutch East India vessel Batavia was wrecked on Morning Reef in the Abrolhos Islands in June 1629, none of the more than 300 people on board could have imagined the enduring historical impact of this maritime disaster and its bloody aftermath. Those events have inspired a multitude of books (...)
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Tuesday 10 |
8:00 - SEMINAR - Strainburst in Mining Seminar - How to Mitigate the Consequences : Associated event - Ungerground Mining technology Conference 2017 in Sudbury, Canada
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This new ACG seminar seeks to explore the latest technologies and methodologies used at mining operations to mitigate and manage strainburst risk. It is hoped that by learning more about these phenomena, successful methodologies to reduce the likelihood and consequences of strainbursting can be (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Political Science and International Relations Seminar Series 2017 : Are We in an Age of Inequality and if so What Should be Done About It?
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Rising economic inequality has become a global concern over recent years. A number of studies point to a widening of the gap between rich and poor, a trend that could well be undermining the social consensus on which democratic capitalism has successfully functioned since the Second World War (...)
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Wednesday 11 |
8:00 - CONFERENCE - First International Conference on Underground Mining Technology : Three day conference in Sudbury, Canada
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This inaugural ACG event will provide opportunities for underground mining practitioners to explore the latest mining technologies and methodologies which will drive industry into the future. Underground mining technology has enabled many mines to access the Earth’s valuable resources at great (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Genome research produces new anti-malarial drug targets : The 2017 Ian Constable lecture by Professor Simon Foote - Director of The John Curtin School of Medical Research at The Australian National University
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In a malarial infection, there is a competition between the malaria parasite and the host. If the malarial parasite can reproduce sufficiently rapidly, it can reach a level of parasitaemia that is lethal to the host. However, if its rate of growth is slowed, the host’s adaptive immune response (...)
18:00 - EVENT - Ian Constable Lecture 2017 : Acknowledges the contribution of Prof Ian Constable AO to LEI and UWA
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The annual Ian Constable Lecture acknowledges the contribution of Professor Ian Constable AO, founding Managing Director of the Lions Eye Institute and founding Professor of Ophthalmology at The University of Western Australia.
This year we are very pleased to have Professor Simon Foote, Director (...)
A public lecture by Professor David Yermack, Chairman, Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
The finance industry, which earns disproportionate profits, is set to be revolutionised by advances in financial (...)
19:30 - EVENT - The Sydney International Piano Competition presents: Konstantin Shamray in Recital
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Join the Sydney International Piano Competition’s 40th Anniversary celebrations with an electrifying national recital tour by Russian pianist, Konstantin Shamray. Konstantin is the first and only competitor in the 40 years of the Competition to win both the First and People’s Choice Prizes, in (...)
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Thursday 12 |
9:00 - EVENT - UWA Music presents: Konstantin Shamray Masterclass
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Join Russian pianist Konstantin Shamray as he works with talented UWA Piano students.
16:00 - MOVED READING - Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare : Play 3, CMEMS Moved Readings Project
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As part of the 'Moved Readings Project', the play will be read on the New Fortune stage with the help of willing students, staff, friends and family. No experience is required, as the readings will take place with script in hand! We hope to provide a dynamic learning space that creates a fun and (...)
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