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Displaying from Thursday, October 22, 2015
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October 2015
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Thursday 22 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : A History of MAAWA and its relationship to the WA Museum
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Ian presents here a brief history of the Maritime Archaeological Association and its relationship with the
WA Maritime Museum. The presentation will summarise and explore the results of some joint expeditions
with the Museum on shipwrecks in Australia and Overseas. It will also include a discussion (...)
A public lecture by Rebecca Baumann, artist.
Light is capable of transforming spatial environments - an intangible material which can be manipulated and sculpted. It has the power to affect us psychologically, as well as alter our perception of the world around us. In this presentation (...)
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Friday 23 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : Our 'Far Eastern Cousins' Micro-narratives of the Japan-Turkey Ethnoscape
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This presentation, part of a larger project considering "Asia" (and "Asian Studies") from the edges of the continent, draws upon current ongoing research on cultural and human interactions between Japan and Turkey. The focus of the project is on the ways individual actors, in (...)
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Sunday 25 |
Join us for an evening of all Mozart concerti performed by local champion soloists Paul Wright, Robert Gladstones and Raymond Yong accompanied by a chamber orchestra of brilliant young musicians.
The program will include Piano Concerto No.12, Horn Concerto No.2 and Violin Concerto No.5.
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Monday 26 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Archaeology Public Lecture on Human Origins in late Victorian scientific romances
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Free public lecture organised by the archaeology department at UWA by John McNabb and entitled
Men amongst the Morlocks. Human origins and anthropology in late Victorian scientific romances and the public perception of human evolution
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Tuesday 27 |
Free public lecture organised by the archaeology department of UWA by Christine Hertler whose talk is entitled
A trip to the islands. Early migrations to the Sunda Shelf and the palaeoenvironment of Homo erectus in Java
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Recently South Asia has undergone a number of tensions. Pakistan and India view each other as the problem, while at the same time the region suffers from natural and other threats such as lack of energy, water resources, and migration of peoples. The panel discussion explores the possibilities of (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Giant Waves on the Open Sea: Mariners' tall tales or alarming fact?
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A public lecture by Paul H Taylor, Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.
Giant waves are rare, and seldom recorded by reliable oceanographic instruments. However, on 1 January 1995 a sensor on a platform in the central North Sea recorded a giant 60ft high wave crest, so (...)
Free public lecture organised by the archaeology department of UWA, presented by Robin Dennell and entitled
No Longer Marginal. 10 reasons why China is important in palaeoanthropology
For the full abstract and flyer for this event please visit the URL provided below.
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Wednesday 28 |
Free public lecture organised by the archaeology department of UWA by John McNabb whose talk is entitled
Symmetry, cognition and the Acheulean of the British Middle Pleistocene
For the full abstract and flyer for this talk please visit the URL provided below.
17:30 - EVENT - MBA Information Evening : Meet MBA and Graduate Certificate professors, students and alumni
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Learn about the courses on offer, discuss your study options, meet Business School staff and students and have all your questions answered before applying for your chosen MBA or Graduate Certificate course.
The evening encompasses information on the MBA Full Time, MBA Flexible, Graduate (...)
A public lecture by Jonathan Marks, Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina.
Human evolution is the scientific narrative of who we are and where we came from, which for any other society would be considered to lie in the domain of kinship and origin myth. All such (...)
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Thursday 29 |
Don't miss the UWA Friends of the Grounds Plant Sale on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th October between 12 and 2pm in the Taxonomic Garden, near the Botany glasshouses.
There are exotic and native plants as well as succulents and herbs. Sales are cash only and prices are around $5 with (...)
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Friday 30 |
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology Seminar Series : Framing Australianness
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Are current shifts towards globalisation impacting Australian identity, and how is Australian-ness being framed in the public sphere? These questions steer this thesis and are considered through a different lens in each of the five articles that constitute its core. While much contemporary research (...)
View a rare cross-section of projects designed by students of architecture over the school's history, recalling memories of its various homes, pedagogues and practicioners.
Opening Friday 30 October, 6pm
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November 2015
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Wednesday 04 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Asthma: genes versus the microbiome at the airway barrier : The Institute for Respiratory Health presents Raine Visiting Speaker Prof Bill Cookson
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Prof Bill Cookson of Imperial College London discusses "Asthma: genes versus the microbiome at the airway barrier". A light lunch follows the presentation.
A public lecture by Corioli Souter, Curator, Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Museum and Adjunct Lecturer in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia.
Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties is an Australia Research Council (ARC) funded project that is making a (...)
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Thursday 05 |
16:00 - TALK - Archaeology Seminar : Why Do Universities Distrust Field Researchers? Indigenous Knowledge and Research Encounters
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The Rethinking Indigeneity project has been running for 22 years amongst the indigenous people of southern Africa's Kalahari. This 7-phase project has examined the nature of research encounters and how indigeneity is constructed through these encounters. This project has recognised some research (...)
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Friday 06 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : Implementation and Evaluation of a text based Korean language course for intermediate and high-intermediate university students
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Teaching Korean language to intermediate and high-intermediate university students presents several challenges. Among these, language material and learner autonomy are among those aspects more in need of a solution. Firstly, classroom material should be not only of interest to students, but at the (...)
14:00 - SEMINAR - ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : Presentation of the film "Koriam's Law - and the dead who govern" and ensuing discussion
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Koriam's Law - and the dead who govern is a 2005 co-production of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies film unit, Australian National University, Canberra and Arcadia Pictures, New York. Directed and produced by Gary Kildea and Andrea Simon working in association with the anthropologist (...)
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