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Displaying from Friday, October 19, 2018
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October 2018
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Friday 19 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : Educating about waste management: An ethnographic study of infrastructure and environmental education in rural Sumbawa, Indonesia
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Anthropologists have long acknowledged the political and affective dimensions of infrastructures, but rarely have they paid attention to their educational aptitudes. Situated at the intersection between the anthropology of waste/infrastructure and environmental education, this multi-method research (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology & Sociology Seminar Series : Sense of Belonging
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This paper draws from my on-going Masters Dissertation in Urban Design (to be submitted 8th Nov 2018). This inquiry considers the role of design in shaping the built environment and thus patterns of human activity and social life. In this inquiry I ask the question “How Can We Design Built Form (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Saul Freedman, 4pm Oct 19 in Weatherburn LT
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Speaker: Saul Freedman (University of Western Australia)
Title: p-groups related to exceptional Chevalley groups
Time and place: 4pm Friday 19 Oct 2018, Weatherburn LT
Abstract: In 1978, Bryant and Kovács proved that if H is a subgroup of the
general linear group (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Main Stage | Culmination
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The exceptional ability of young emerging artists and their passion for music will always create an extraordinary experience for concertgoers.
In Main Stage: Culmination three outstanding performers compete in the finals of the prestigious VOSE Concerto Competition backed by the full (...)
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Saturday 20 |
9:30 - OPEN DAY - Lions Eye Institute Open Day is free on Saturday 20 Oct 9:30-12:30 : Open Day this Saturday 20 October 2018 - Free event
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This year’s Open Day will feature interactive displays from a number of LEI research groups showcasing the latest in cutting edge eye science with a focus on eye genetics, DNA testing, stem cell technology, gene therapy and clinical trials.
Displays on offer:
• Experience being inside the eye (...)
16:30 - FESTIVAL - Pingelly Astrofest : Pingelly Astrofest is a free family-friendly event to celebrate astronomy, science and the Western Australian night sky, and is hosted by UWA Farm Ridgefield and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).
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UWA Farm Ridgefield and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) are hosting a community based festival event to celebrate astronomy and Australian science on Saturday, 20 October 2018!
The event will feature fun and engaging activities in a beautiful rural setting (...)
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Monday 22 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Busting myths about how mammals cope with heat � insights from free-living mammals : School of Human Sciences Special Seminar
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Andrea Fuller is a Professor in the School of Physiology and Director of the Brain Function Research Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her primary research focus is in the areas of thermal and conservation physiology, with an emphasis on understanding the (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Apocalyptic Skies and the Decay of Public Symbolism : A CMEMS/PMRG/CHE Public Lecture
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Do representations of clouds in Western art and architecture bear out Foucault’s claim of a split in the stable relations of words and images after the seventeenth century with drastic consequences to shared public meanings? This talk offers an answer to this question through an environmentalist (...)
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Tuesday 23 |
8:00 - COURSE - Geotechnical Engineering for Open Pit Mines : This ACG training course is to be presented by industry personnel involved in the geomechanical and hydrogeological aspects of open pit analysis.
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This ACG training course is to be presented by
industry personnel involved in the geomechanical and
hydrogeological aspects of open pit analysis. They bring
together a wealth of experience to share with course
participants.
The course is designed for practical operational personnel,
mine planners (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Political Science and International Relations : ‘The invisible man': H. G. Wells and the interwar push for human rights
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H.G. Wells is best known as ‘the father of science fiction’. However, the bulk of his writing is both non-fiction, and concerned with social justice. While it is widely held that his The Rights of Man (1940) helped shape the drafting of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this (...)
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Wednesday 24 |
A public lecture by Rodney Lokaj, Chair of Italian Philology, University of Enna “Kore”, Sicily.
The lecture will seek to promote understanding of Dante’s Comedy (ca.1307-1321) as an attempt at reconciliation. A poetic text largely conceived and written in exile, reconciliation was (...)
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Thursday 25 |
Facilitated by experienced Learning Designers, this one-day workshop is a great practical opportunity for new and current teaching staff at UWA to experience the unit design process.
You and your colleagues can participate in a number of sequential collaborative tasks which will allow (...)
An 'All at Sea' public lecture by Professor Christophe Gaudin, Head of Oceans Graduate School and Director Wave Energy Research Centre.
Energy security is a critical issue in the 21st century and marine renewable energy resources are an important component of the blue economy agenda in (...)
A public lecture by Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Concept meanings refuse to stand still. They move around over time reflecting changes in culture and society. In this talk, Professor Haslam will (...)
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Friday 26 |
8:00 - WORKSHOP - Instrumentation and Slope Monitoring Workshop : This workshop will focus on new developments relating to conventional terrestrial monitoring systems such as open pit radars, prisms, laser scanning, photogrammetry, as well as the integration of the different types of these monitoring systems and their interpretation.
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This workshop will focus on new developments relating to
conventional terrestrial monitoring systems such as open
pit radars, prisms, laser scanning, photogrammetry, as well
as the integration of the different types of these monitoring
systems and their interpretation. Application examples
of many (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology & Sociology Seminar Series : “I take it with a pinch of salt”: Discursive Responses to News Representations of Asylum Seekers among Western Australian Media Audiences.
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The media is a critical source of information on people seeking asylum and therefore, plays an important role in shaping and reinforcing how members of the public understand the issue. In Australia, few studies have investigated how media audiences respond to news discourses about asylum seekers (...)
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Monday 29 |
Facilitated by experienced Learning Designers, this one-day workshop is a great practical opportunity for new and current teaching staff at UWA to experience the unit design process.
You and your colleagues can participate in a number of sequential collaborative tasks which will allow (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Mobile Museum: botanical exchanges between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Australia
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A public lecture by Mark Nesbitt, Curator and Senior Research Leader in economic botany at Kew Gardens.
The Museum of Economic Botany opened at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1847. As a display of useful plants and their products, it met two very Victorian aims: to be a bridge between (...)
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Tuesday 30 |
Facilitated by experienced Learning Designers, this one-day workshop is a great practical opportunity for new and current teaching staff at UWA to experience the unit design process.
You and your colleagues can participate in a number of sequential collaborative tasks which will allow (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Lover or fighter: you can�t have it all : School of Human Sciences Seminar Series
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Bio: Leigh received his PhD from Nottingham University in 1986 and held a series of postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Liverpool until 1995 when he moved to UWA. He was awarded an ARC Federation Fellowship in 2004 and was elected to the Australian Academy in 2009. He is currently Editor- (...)
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