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March 2020
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Thursday 19 |
8:00 - SEMINAR - Tailings Management: Responding to Emerging Challenges Seminar : This two-day seminar will address the emerging challenges in the day-to-day management of tailings storage facilities
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This two-day seminar will address the emerging challenges in the day-to-day management of tailings storage facilities and the obligation to comply with the relevant operating standards and closure requirements. It will explore the conditions and obstacles encountered in everyday mining, and (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Archaeology Seminar Series 2020 : Archaeology Seminar
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Visible and Near Infrared - Short Wave Infrared spectroscopy allows the identification of molecular bonds in samples by the absorption of energy at chararacteristic wavelengths. An introduction to the technology is provided. Two case studies in the application of non-destructive, non-invasive VNIR- (...)
The 2020 Tom Stannage Memorial Lecture by Professor John Maynard, Chair of Aboriginal History, University of Newcastle and Director, Purai Global Indigenous History Centre.
Due to ongoing concerns about the development of the COVID-19 virus and the importance of reducing its spread, we (...)
19:00 - CANCELLED - PERFORMANCE - The Irwin Street Collective presents David Kim
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
In light of the recent developments around international visitors arriving in Australia, we have taken the sad decision to cancel David Kim’s activities at the Conservatorium this week.
We will continue to monitor the Department (...)
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Tuesday 24 |
8:00 - WORKSHOP - Introduction to the Application of Risk-Based Methods in Underground Mining Geomechanics Workshop : A forum for underground mine workers to discuss: the methods used to design for geotechnical risk
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Within the mining community, geotechnical risk is often underappreciated, sometimes ignored and seldom properly quantified. In all areas of geomechanics, the uncertainty and variability that engineers need to deal with necessitate a rigorous process of quantification or, in the very least, robustly (...)
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Thursday 26 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Historically Hot: Reimagining Beauty from Japan's Past *Cancelled*
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A public lecture by Laura Miller, Eiichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Endowed Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of History, University of Missouri–St. Louis and 2020 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
**Unfortunately due to travel restrictions, this public lecture has (...)
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Friday 27 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Understanding the Role of Transnational Intellectual Networks within the South Korean Pro-democracy Movement � A case study of the Letters from South Korea Project
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What role did transnational intellectual networks play in South Korea’s pro-democracy movement?
The political turmoil in post-war Korea that culminated in the proclamation of martial law on 17
October 1972 and the promulgation of the Yushin Constitution on 27 December 1972 resulted in
a fracture (...)
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Tuesday 31 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Oxygen Deprivation, temperature extremes and survival of the human brain *cancelled* : School of Human Sciences 2020 Seminar Series
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A public lecture by Professor Philip Ainslie, University of British Columbia, Canada and 2020 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Due to ongoing concerns about the development of the COVID-19 virus and the importance of reducing its spread, we have made the difficult (...)
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April 2020
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Friday 03 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - The Practice of Environmental Education in Franciscan Schools in Jakarta and Bekasi, Indonesia
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This presentation discusses the draft of paper on Franciscan senior high schools in Indonesia to see
how Franciscan philosophy regarding the environment is transformed into practice in Franciscan
schools. Using mainly qualitative data gained from participant observation in two Franciscan senior
high (...)
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In the decade that just passed there were some notable lamentation about the lack of attention to ethnographic research in post-secondary education, or higher education (HE) as it is better known (Thrift 2011; Pabian 2014, Iloh & Tierney 2014; Gusterson 2017). To call the (...)
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Tuesday 07 |
13:00 - TALK - UCC Tech Talk #1 - How to Use a Cheap SDR : Join us online to learn about the different projects you can do with one.
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Interesting radio signals are all around us, many of them completely open to whoever has the right equipment. And that right equipment is a $25 SDR.
Join us online to learn about the different projects you can do with one.
The session will be held online and will start at 1pm (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - The Imperial Discipline: Race and the Founding of International Relations
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Disciplinary history defines the identity of a field of research. IR has traditionally told itself that it started in 1919 with the goal of bringing about world peace. This ‘world peace’ though, was far from the utopia we think of when we hear the term today. For the past four years, I have (...)
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Thursday 16 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Hormonal Changes with Age in Women and Men: Impacts of Exercise *cancelled* : School of Human Sciences 2020 Seminar Series
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Due to ongoing concerns about the development of the COVID-19 virus and the importance of reducing its spread, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this event.
We apologise for any disappointment this may cause, however we believe that this is the most responsible course of (...)
19:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Keeping People Healthy and Out of Hospital: treating the global inactivity pandemic *cancelled* : School of Human Sciences 2020 Seminar Series
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Due to ongoing concerns about the development of the COVID-19 virus and the importance of reducing its spread, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this event.
We apologise for any disappointment this may cause, however we believe that this is the most responsible course of (...)
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Thursday 23 |
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium : An invitation to finite geometry
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Finite geometry involves the study of finitely many objects -- points, lines, planes, etc -- in analogy with classical geometric language and concepts. The exciting aspect of finite geometry is that it often shares properties of the usual Euclidean geometry, yet the finite-ness of the geometry (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Aboriginal archaeological case studies in Visible and Near Infrared � Shortwave Infrared Spectroscopy
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Visible and Near Infrared – Short Wave Infrared spectroscopy allows the identification of molecular bonds in samples by the absorption of energy at characteristic wavelengths. An introduction to the technology is provided. Two case studies in the application of non- (...)
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Friday 24 |
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Research on Aboriginal languages is usually conducted in remote communities. But with increasing mobility of speakers, Aboriginal language can now be heard far beyond their homelands, with social orbits taking in urban centres such as Darwin and Alice Springs. As the speakers of (...)
The current COVID-19 crisis has created a situation in
which suddenly many social researchers have found
themselves isolated at home, unable to move freely
among the community doing the work they normally do.
Researchers have suddenly found doors closed to work
internationally and unable to reach (...)
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Thursday 30 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Metal Burial: understanding caching behaviour and �contact� material culture in the NE Kimberley : Archaeology Seminar Series 2020
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This paper explores identity, and the impacts of cross-cultural encounters on individuals, material objects and cultural practices through a lens on cached modified metal objects and associated cultural materials from the NE Kimberley. These objects were wrapped in paperbark and weighed down within (...)
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May 2020
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Friday 01 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar : The Origins of Urban Renewal in Singapore: A Transnational History
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This paper examines the origins of urban renewal in Singapore through a transnational history lens. It focuses on the role in particular of two United Nations led teams of experts one headed by Erik Lorange and the other by Charles Abrams in the early 1960s and the impact these had on how urban (...)
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