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Displaying from Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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October 2011
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Tuesday 11 |
13:00 - FREE LECTURE - Can We Make Low Carbon Cities? : A guest speaker event with sustainability expert Peter Newman
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Join Peter Newman, one of Australia's leading sustainability experts and Curtin's Professor of Sustainability as he discusses the possibility of a low carbon city for the future.
Peter has worked extensively in the field reviving and extending Perth's rail system, serving as the (...)
18:15 - PUBLIC LECTURE - How to supersize exercise: Lessons from mad men, freakonomics and the Marlboro Man
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Professor Karim Khan is a renaissance man of sports medicine; Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, prolific author, plenary speaker, and editor of the seminal text: "Clinical Sports Medicine", now in its 4th edition. An inveterate traveller on the world stage (...)
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Saturday 15 |
12:00 - FUNDRAISER - Relay for Life @ UWA : The Cancer Council Relay For Life at UWA is a Guild Volunteering student run event for campus and community
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The Cancer Council Relay for Life at UWA is a Guild Volunteering run event. In it's inaugural year in 2010 Relay@UWA raised over $100,000 for The Cancer Council and we hope to go above and beyond that this year. The event will be held on the 15th and 16th of October. We require as many teams and (...)
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Monday 17 |
The 2011 Ian Constable lecture will address the topic; “Now, free, and perfect? How to live a long and healthy life in
the 21st century.”
This will be presented by Professor Ian Frazer, the internationally renowned co-creator of the technology for the cervical cancer vaccine and (...)
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Thursday 20 |
Brett Baker is one of the brass worlds leading lights. As Principal Trombone for more than ten years of one of the world’s best known ensembles the Black Dyke Brass Band, he has weathered one of the most high pressure jobs in music.
In this free lunchtime concert, Brett Baker performs (...)
The UWA Arts Union is proud to present the inaugural Arts Union Public Policy Address, this year being presented by the US Consul General, Aleisha Woodward.
The topic on which she will be speaking is entitled "Diplomacy and Technology – Opportunities and Challenges" and will (...)
Brett Baker is one of the brass worlds leading lights. As Principal Trombone for more than ten years of one of the world’s best known ensembles the Black Dyke Brass Band, he has weathered one of the most high pressure jobs in music.
Observe Brett Baker working with some of WA’s most (...)
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Friday 21 |
6:00 - FUNDRAISER - hike4hunger at the UWA Recreation & Fitness Centre
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hike4hunger is a series of international pilgrimages and hikes of solidarity with world hunger. By participating in hike4hunger, you become part of a global initiative to raise the profile of world hunger and draw the deserved attention to World Food Day each October.
Put on your hiking (...)
Join Brett Baker, Principal Trombone of the Black Dyke Brass Band, and Perth’s own Royal Agricultural Society Brass Band of WA in this feast of music for Trombone and Brass.
Featuring the famous Grondahl Trombone Concerto, and a special version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue arranged (...)
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Saturday 22 |
Sugata Marjit is the Director and Reserve Bank of India Professor of Industrial Economics at the Centre of Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, and editor of India Macroeconomics Annual. He has also just been appointed the Chairman of West Bengal State Council of Higher Education. He is a well-known (...)
Every year, a magical experience is created when the outstanding ability, cohesive intensity and youthful passion of the UWA School of Music students and staff combine and celebrate the power of music.
Thanks to the generosity of the Vose family, the annual Vose Memorial Prize for Music (...)
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Wednesday 26 |
Since her London debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1974, Penelope Thwaites has established an international reputation as a soloist, broadcaster and recording artist. She has performed concertos with leading orchestras throughout Europe, America and Australia.
Her many recordings of Percy (...)
18:30 - PRESENTATION - Engineering Information Evenings : If your passion is to become an engineer, then give yourself a great career start and study engineering at UWA.
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A UWA engineering qualification combines practical and theoretical learning in an exciting and engaging environment that will make you a sought-after graduate, with an internationally recognised education.
To find out more about how to become an engineer, come along to one of our free (...)
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Thursday 27 |
18:00 - FREE LECTURE - FREE PUBLIC LECTURE - Commonwealth Reform Package: A Human Rights Preview : The Hon Michael Kirby will share his insights on the Commonwealth Reform Package
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As the Commonwealth Heads of Governments deliberate the Eminent Persons’ findings, The Hon. Michael Kirby, a member of the Eminent Persons Group, will share his insights into a number of issues, including the Charter of Commonwealth Values, the proposed Commissioner on Democracy, Rule of Law and (...)
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Sunday 30 |
19:00 - PERFORMANCE - Salar Aghili & the Razo Niaz Ensemble : A wonderful gallery of the mystique of Persian music.
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Salar Aghili's passionate and silky voice will take you back into the music, literature and culture of an ancient land named Persia. Be overwhelmed with the sounds of Tar (Origin of Guitar), Setar and Kamanche. Let your emotions take you away into ancient Persia with the sound of Daf and Tonbak and (...)
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Monday 31 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Lung Institute of WA - Medical Research Seminar Series : Future Directions in Nuclear Medicine and Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
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A/Prof Ros Francis is a Nuclear Medicine Physician in the Department of Nuclear Medicine / WA Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Service at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and has an academic appointment as Associate Professor of Molecular Imaging, UWA (School of Medicine and Pharmacology).
A/Prof (...)
17:00 - LECTURE - Prof Alastair Compston Lectures at ANRI : The world's leading authority on MS research Lecture on Neuromyelitis Optica
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The world's leading authority on MS research, he'd be embarrassed to be called Mr MS, but this would certainly befit the Professor of Neurology and HOD Clinical Neurosciences at Cambridge and Editor of Brain. Prof Alastair Compston Lecture is Visiting Professor at Royal Perth Hospital, he is an (...)
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November 2011
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Friday 04 |
15:00 - EVENT - Walk Around the Globe for Brain Tumours : Australian Genomics and Clinical Outcomes of Glioma Walk for Awareness
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The Australian Genomics and Clinical Outcomes of Glioma has organsied a 3km walk through King's Park at part of the International Brain Tumour Alliance's Walk Around the World for Brain Tumours.
The walk starts and finishes at the Saw Avenue picnic area, there will be afternoon tea (...)
16:00 - ORATION - 2011 WESFARMERS HARRY PERKINS ORATION : DO OUR CLINICIANS NEED TO BE CLEVERER OR DO WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO BE SMARTER
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Professor Smith is the Vice-President (Research) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Founding Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.
Professor Smith’s address will focus on the changing face of health care and the need for improved integration (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - Grads presents Arthur Miller's All My Sons : Dolphin Theatre November 4 to 12th 2011
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Directed by Barry Park, a compelling family drama about betrayal, guilt and greed - and a terrible secret revealed at the Dolphin Theatre, UWA beginning the 4th of November 2011. Starting at 7.30pm (Sunday 6th November -2pm matinee) Tickets on sale at BOCS at only $25 or $20 concession.
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