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Displaying from Monday, June 20, 2011
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June 2011
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Monday 20 |
16:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Open Public Lecture : Advancing research on the built environment and active living: working with policy makers and designing natural experiments
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“Building Cities to Promote Health: Evidence to action”
Professor Jim Sallis (San Diego, USA)
Professor Jim Sallis is Director of The Active Living Research Centre at San Diego State University, which has received over US$27 million in funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop (...)
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Wednesday 22 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Achieving More whilst Using Less: towards a Viable Future : The 2011 George Seddon Lecture
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Professor Lyn Beazley, Chief Scientist of Western Australia will present the 2011 George Seddon Lecture - "Achieving More whilst Using Less: towards a Viable Future".
In the past our planet seemed to provide an inexhaustible source of water, food, energy reserves and minerals; (...)
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Thursday 23 |
This talk by Dr Van Coufoudakis, Rector Emeritus, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, will focus on the achievements and challenges facing the Republic of Cyprus after fifty years of independence.
The current state of the “Cyprus problem” will be examined in the context of the UN (...)
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Friday 24 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Career Advisers Day 2011 : A workshop for career advisers involved in providing advice to students about tertiary education
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Career Advisers Day 2011 - a workshop for career advisers and other secondary school staff involved in providing advice to students about tertiary education.
Registrations essential. Please click on the link below.
The focus of the day will be the 2012 course changes and what (...)
9:00 - EXHIBITION - Mid-Year Exhibition at Cullity Gallery : An exhibition of architecture and landscape architecture students’ work from Semester One, 2011.
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Winthrop Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Visual Arts, Simon Anderson invites interested members of the public to view an exhibition of architecture and landscape architecture students’ work from first semester this year.
The display is a result of (...)
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Sunday 26 |
10:00 - EVENT - Perth Upmarket : Perth’s premier quarterly upmarket shopfront for the State’s talented artists, designers, stylists and gourmets
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Perth Upmarket is Perth’s premier quarterly market for original and handcrafted wares.
The market brings together over 150 of Perth’s most talented artists, designers, craftspeople and gourmets all under one roof at the University of Western Australia’s Winthrop Hall.
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Monday 27 |
This unit introduces the principles of essential human nutrition with applications to public health.
This 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; popular diets; (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Vaccines to prevent respiratory infections in children and adults: Where are we headed? : Medical Research Seminar Series - light lunch at 12noon with presentation starting at 12.30pm
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A/Professor Peter Richmond is a General Paediatrician & Paediatric Immunologist at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at UWA. A/Professor Richmond is also the director of the Vaccine Trials Group, a multidisciplinary research group whose aim (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - FULL ***Corporate Ethics: Are They Just in the Eye of the Beholder? : This event is now FULL and we are unable to take further registrations.
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The inaugural Vincent Fairfax Oration will be given by Dr Michael Chaney AO.
Mr Chaney is Chairman of the National Australia Bank Limited, Woodside Petroleum Limited and Gresham Partners Holdings Limited. He is Chancellor of the University of Western Australia, a member of the JPMorgan (...)
20:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Visiting Speaker : Eileen Joyce-Concert Pianist: her background story
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An Unusual Background for a Concert Pianist: Eileen Joyce's childhood in the Goldfields
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Thursday 30 |
A symposium on ear and hearing research, held in conjunction with the Raine Lecture to be given by Prof De Wet Swanepoel, the Raine Visiting Professor at the Ear Sciences Centre, School of Surgery, for 2011.
De Wet Swanepoel, University of Pretoria, has extensive experience in paediatric audiology (...)
De Wet Swanepoel is associate professor and clinical research audiologist at the Department of Communication Pathology, University of Pretoria, South Africa and adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, Callier Center for Communication Disorders. His research and clinical interests (...)
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July 2011
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Friday 01 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Science isn't about why, it's about why the hell not! : SymbioticA Friday seminar with Perth Artifactory members
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The Artifactory is Perth's manifestation of the world-wide phenomenon of hackerspaces; free-form communities of "Makers" that band together to build their own robotic CNC tools, explore cutting edge DIY fabrication such as 3D printing, share electronics and crafting skills, and generally (...)
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Tuesday 05 |
9:00 - EVENT - Knowledge and Value in a Globalising World : The largest anthropological conference in the southern hemisphere will take place at UWA from 5 - 8th July representing the IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences), the AAS (Australian Anthropological Society) and the ASAANZ (Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa / New Zealand).
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Keynote speakers include Professor James Ferguson from Stanford University, and Professor Jean Comaroff from the University of Chicago. Plenary speakers include Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond, Professor Alberto Gomes,and Professor Shiv Visvanathan.
11:00 - CONCERT - Waarnging Maar-Waarnging: The Mandelbrot Duo with Richard Walley : Composing and rehearsing new works in the Gallery
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The Austrian-based classical Mandelbrot Duo team up with Western Australian Indigenous performer Richard Walley for
the premiere of a new work for violin, cello and didgeridoo especially commissioned for the UWA WINTERArts Festival
2011 and to coincide with NAIDOC week. This collaboration brings (...)
A free public lecture by Dr Lanru Jing, Senior Researcher, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
The creation of huge quantities of high-level, long-lived radioactive waste is the most formidable problem facing the nuclear power industry today. Achieving safe storage of (...)
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Wednesday 06 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Using Psychology to Reduce Energy Use
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An inescapable fact about our future – and growing - energy needs is that they can only be met by increasing supply and/or decreasing demand. The problems of climate change, air pollution and the expense of building new power generation mean that an exclusive focus on increasing supply (...)
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Friday 08 |
Aboriginal Health begins with an examination of the impact of historical events on the health of present day Aboriginal communities.
The implications of the intercultural influences of Europeans on Indigenous populations are drawn.
Unit outline
In this five-day unit, students (...)
"I am a choreographer and dance artist because of my interest in the capacity of art to makes sense of the world around us and the capacity of imagination to dream up the future. I hope, in some small way, that my art practice can contribute to the transformation of our world. This vision has (...)
Celebrate Bastille Day early with the 62nd Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival Choir!
This will be a concert not to be missed, featuring the Australian premiere of the Desenclos Requiem coupled with beautiful music composed by Fauré, Alain and Poulenc. The choir will be (...)
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