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Displaying from Friday, May 28, 2010
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May 2010
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Friday 28 |
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Meet the Collector : Hear Chris Hill's observations of Blanchflower's importance to the Australian art world
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Chris Hill developed an interest in contemporary art in the seventies, and has been collecting ever since. He became aware of Brian’s work in the early eighties, through exhibitions such as Critics’ Choice and Among the Souvenirs at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and solo shows at (...)
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Sunday 30 |
Handel: Ode for St Cecilia's Day (HWV 76) -
Bach: O Jesu Christ, Meins Lebens Licht (BWV 118) -
Bach: Magnificat in D (BWV 243)
The full splendour and excitement of the Baroque will be on display as the University of Western Australia Choral Society presents its eagerly-awaited first (...)
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Monday 31 |
8:30 - WORKSHOP - Thermal treatment of biomass and wastes: principles and applications : Use of wastes in alternative energy generation
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This three-day course will examine the potential for the use of wastes for alternative energy generation by thermal methods. The practice is widespread in Europe, especially with forest wastes in Scandinavia. However, there are significant amounts of agricultural, sewerage and municipal wastes (...)
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June 2010
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Friday 04 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Things you think you know about Black Holes, but don't! : Professor Roy Kerr will discuss his famous solution for spinning Black Holes
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Once powerful radio telescopes became available in the 1950‘s it was realised that the sky was full of objects emitting very intense radio waves but with no known associated optical counterparts. Because of the way that their intensities were changing rapidly they had to be very small and so (...)
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Monday 07 |
18:30 - TALK - Cuba Today: Australia-Cuba Relations : Public Talk by the Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister, His Excellency Bruno Rodriguez-Parrilla
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Minister Bruno Rodriguez-Parrilla has a degree in Law and worked as a professor of International Public Law at the University of Havana. From February 1995 until December 2003 he served as the permanent representative of Cuba to the United Nations.
From 2003 until 2004 he was Deputy (...)
18:30 - COURSE - Traditional Chinese Painting Short Course : Confucius Institute currently running Traditional Chinese Painting Course from 7th June.
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Traditional Chinese Painting has many distinctively different styles. This practical introductory course to Chinese painting will introduce these styles including Impressionistic and Fine painting, Scenery, Flower and Birds and People.
Course Fee-- 219.00 (includes GST)
Time-- Mondays 6.30-8.30pm (7 (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
19:45 - PUBLIC TALK - Friends of the Library talk : Opportunity, oppression and obduracy
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Michael Crouch is undertaking a PhD at UWA that is an historical biography of his grandmother: it focuses on her early life in India as a bride, uncomfortably married to a man who rescued her from looking after her mother who withdrew her from university to become a companion. From perhaps becoming (...)
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Wednesday 09 |
17:30 - SEMINAR - Understanding Family Charters and Making Them Work For Your Family Business
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You may have already experienced some of the challenges of managing the sometimes conflicting value systems of FAMILY and BUSINESS. Managing the overlap and ensuring that everyone knows 'the rules of the game' is the key to harnessing the power and the passion that the family brings to the world of (...)
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Friday 11 |
9:00 - CONFERENCE - Poverty in the Medieval and Early Modern World : CMEMS / PMRG Conference
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Ranging from economic history to literary and artistic representation, this multi-disciplinary conference examines the topic of poverty and the poor from the early medieval period to 1800.
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Viennese Actionism: Total Art and the Social Unconscious : Speaker: Tatjana Seserko
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SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Speaker: Tatjana Seserko;
Title: Viennese Actionism: Total Art and the Social Unconscious;
Time & Location: 3:30-5pm @ SymbioticA;
“Ever since its inception in the early 1960s, Viennese Actionism has been referred to as one of the most contested artistic (...)
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Wednesday 16 |
The School of Population Health would like to invite you to their Information Evening for the Master of Nursing Science.
You will have an opportunity at this event to meet the staff and other prospective students interested in the course, to ask any questions you may have and to share (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Water, Fundamental to a Sense of Place : The 2010 George Seddon Lecture
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Perth ranks as one of the highest per capita water users of all Australian capital cities. We need to reassess our lifestyle expectations to embrace increased urban density, smaller gardens with less irrigated area and more native vegetation.
In a bid to ensure a continued, sustainable (...)
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Friday 18 |
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Meet the Author : Terri-Ann White offers creative and speculative responses to Brian Blanchflower's work
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Terri-Ann White has had her fiction and other writing published since the late 1980s, has taught writing in the community and universities, and previously been an independent bookseller. She is Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, a cross-disciplinary centre she established at the (...)
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar> 'Slime Moulds' : Speakers: Elaine and Peter Davison
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SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Speakers: Elaine and Peter Davison;
Title: Slime Moulds;
Time & Location: 3:30-5pm @ SymbioticA;
'Slime moulds, or Myxomycetes, are ubiquitous, occurring on rotting organic matter, but their small size means that they are inconspicuous and often (...)
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Monday 21 |
This unit introduces the principles of essential human nutrition with applications to public health.
The unit will provide students with a basic introduction to food and nutrition as well as applications to public health. Applied topics include nutrition for different life stages; (...)
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Thursday 24 |
17:30 - EVENT - UWA Albany Skywest Public Lecture : Education for World Futures: challenges and opportunities in the 21st century
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The 21st century presents the greatest challenges and opportunities ever faced by humankind. Massive changes are expected in technology, economies, ecologies, human values and wellbeing. How do we understand and prepare for such changes; this is the stuff of Education for World Futures.
Professor (...)
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Friday 25 |
13:00 - EVENT - Meet the Philosopher : An insight and appreciation into Brian Blanchflower's work using East Asian and Indian perspectives
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Michael Levine is Winthrop Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Australia. Recent publications include Integrity and the Fragile Self (co-authored), and Politics Most Unusual. Michael’s talk will address how East Asian and Indian aesthetics—particularly their accounts of the (...)
"Understanding the Creative Workforce: A Study of Artists and Arts Practice"
Dr Dawn Bennett presents Understanding the Creative Workforce: A Study of Artists and Arts Practice, a survey project which is the start of a unique collaboration with artists in Perth, Vancouver and (...)
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Monday 28 |
Students gain an understanding of the cultural definition of the concept of health and 'wellbeing' as described in the holistic health model; understand the origins of ill health in Aboriginal people; and can apply approaches to redress some of the health inequalities Aboriginal people face.
Views about climate change from real scientists with real answers: Lecture presentations and “open mic” discussion with expert panel
Are you concerned about climate change? Are you concerned by the current debate that seems to call into question climate science? Are there reasons to (...)
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