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Displaying from Friday, August 16, 2019
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August 2019
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Friday 16 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Construction and Infrastructure in the Philippines at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century
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Infrastructure and construction are the two physical aspects of village life discussed in this seminar. Roads and trails, where they existed, were located near or within towns since the lack of wheeled vehicles and the availability of waterways for easy travel by boat made these unsuited and (...)
Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from with the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.
This week the UWA Guitar Studio will present a free concert of solo and chamber repertoire, featuring some very (...)
13:00 - EVENT - Activist Writing: Balancing Risk and Safety : What risks do academics, activists and artists take in their work? NTEU Bluestocking Week panel discussion
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Bluestocking Week (12 - 16 August) is an initiative recognising women in the workplace. The UWA NTEU Branch will host a panel discussion on the risks academics, activists and artists take with their writing.
Panelists:
Zainab Syed (poet, producer, educator)
Dr Liana (...)
Accelerate is UWA's elite performance-training program for students in Years 10 to 12 who are looking to take their playing to the next level. Students will participate in weekly workshops, masterclasses
and rehearsals culminating in a performance on
12 September.
The program runs on (...)
17:00 - Masterclass - UWA Music presents: Open Percussion Masterclass by Emmanuel S�journ�
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French musician Emmanuel Séjourné is one of the world’s most influential percussion performers, composers and pedagogues. Head of Percussion at the Strasbourg Academy of Music/ Conservatory, he has delivered masterclasses on six continents, specialising in mallet instrument technique. < (...)
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Sunday 18 |
15:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Centre Stage | Emmanuel S�journ� and Sylvie Reynaert with Pi�ata Percussion
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Celebrated French virtuosi Emmanuel Séjourné and Sylive Reynaert (Strasbourg Conservatoire) perform with Piñata Percussion. The program will feature Séjourné's popular compositions for marimba and vibraphone alongside exciting international repertoire.
Tickets from $10
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Tuesday 20 |
12:50 - SEMINAR - Political Science and International Relations : PhD Seminar Series 2019
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Presentation 1:
Title: Assembling, Deploying, and Contesting Social Impact Bonds in Australia
Speaker: Jacob Broom
Research Proposal Presentation)
Presentation 2:
Title: The Political Economy of Post-Crisis Financial Stability Governance: A case study of (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Centre Stage | The Irwin Street Collective with Miriam Allan
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Soprano Miriam Allan's "sublime singing" (Gramophone, 2017) has been enjoyed around the world. As UWA Institute of Advance Studies Visiting Fellow she joins Sara Macliver, Cecilia Sun and Shaun Lee-Chen for a special free concert.
Free entry, bookings essential.
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Thursday 22 |
10:00 - WORKSHOP - Giving Effective Student Feedback : A professional development workshop for UWA staff with a teaching support role.
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For students to learn feedback needs to be timely, tangible and targeted. This workshop will consider the nature of formative and summative feedback and consider University policy on feedback and expectations. Register through the link provided.
11:00 - WORKSHOP - Google Scholar for Researchers : Get the best out of Google Scholar for your research
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Everyone Googles... but do you really know how to get the best out of Google Scholar for your research? This hands-on workshop will demonstrate the best tips and tricks to use Google to find scholarly material.
13:00 - WORKSHOP - Giving Effective Student Feedback : A professional development workshop for UWA staff with a teaching support role.
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For students to learn feedback needs to be timely, tangible and targeted. This workshop will consider the nature of formative and summative feedback and consider University policy on feedback and expectations. Register through the link provided.
Family violence and violence against women remain a major issue globally and in Australia. This affects migrant communities, including Muslim families, in Australia. In this presentation, Rachel Mathewson will outline the Home Affairs provisions and support provided for visa-holders affected by (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics and Statistics colloquium : Convex surfaces of constant Gauss curvature and partially free boundaries
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Consider a pair of parallel planes in and a strictly convex closed curve laying on one of the planes. Is there a convex hypersurface of constant Gauss curvature such that it is trapped between the planes, the curve is on its boundary, and the surface strikes the other plane at given constant (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Past sea-level changes, environments and coastal demography. Is archaeology missing some critical factors? And if so, why?
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Abstract:
This talk has three main sections:
1. An outline of the main sedimentary processes controlling coastal and marine archaeological sites, with a focus on Australia's NW shelf. This is relevant because it is a critical control upon much archaeological work in NW Australia, but it is poorly (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Women, Inequality and the Butterfly Effect : The 2019 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture by Antoinette Kennedy AO
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The “butterfly effect” was coined in 1972 by Edward Lorenz in a talk titled “does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” It models how a small action can have a significant impact.
In this year’s Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture, the Honourable (...)
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Friday 23 |
10:00 - WORKSHOP - Research and Communication Skills in Curriculum : A professional development workshop for UWA staff with a teaching support role
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The teaching of these skills is vital to our students’ critical thinking and problem solving but are often overlooked. This workshop will introduce a framework to help you identify and embed these skills into your curriculum. Register through the link provided.
11:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Linguistics Seminar : The challenges of community- led language and country maintenance
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What are the realities and challenges of community-led, on-country language-revitalisation/maintenance of Martu languages in the Western Desert today?
After graduating from the ANU in 2015 with Honours in Language Studies, Duke (Garry Earl-Spurr) moved to the East Pilbara in mid-2016 (...)
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Lunchtime Concert | Irwin Street Collective and UWA Voice: Handel's German Arias
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Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from with the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.
This week we welcome back the ever-popular Irwin Street Collective in conjunction with UWA's talented voice students (...)
13:00 - STAFF EVENT - Research and Communication Skills in Curriculum : A professional development workshop for UWA staff with a teaching support role
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The teaching of these skills is vital to our students’ critical thinking and problem solving but are often overlooked. This workshop will introduce a framework to help you identify and embed these skills into your curriculum. Register through the link provided.
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series : PhD Proposals
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Presentation 1:
In the wake of choice: Perth’s autonomous women’s engagement with the discourse of choice via post-abortion narratives presented by Dorinda ’t Hart.
Pro-abortion discourse generally presents abortion as an unproblematic event in the course of a woman’s (...)
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