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October 2016
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Thursday 20 |
At UWA, during October 20 - 29, explore your creativity by taking part in a world-wide drawing festival.
A range of different activities are available including: drawing and painting in immersive 3D virtual reality using Google’s cutting-edge Tilt Brush technology.
Draw and (...)
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Monday 24 |
The 2016 Manning Clark House Day of Ideas will focus on the theme ‘Framing the West’.
Hosted by the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies, ‘Framing the West’ will address the ways in which understandings, ideas and imaginings about Western Australia have been shaped and framed by (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - 2016 Joan Trevelyan Memorial Lecture: Power Failure - The Political Odyssey of a Pakistani by Syeda Abida Hussain.
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In Power Failure: The Political Odyssey of a Pakistani Woman, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, Syeda Abida Hussain outlines the impacts that key political events in Pakistan have had on her personal life — and on the destiny of the nation. It is a political autobiography which gives (...)
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Tuesday 25 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents � Free Research Seminar : Honours Presentations II
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UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.
A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)
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Wednesday 26 |
16:30 - SEMINAR - CMSS Religion, State and Society Seminar: Salafi Islamisation and Authoritarian Governance in Malaysia
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Salafi Islamisation and Authoritarian Governance in Malaysia
Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Department of Government & International Relations, University of Sydney
WHEN: 4.30pm – 6pm
WHERE: Room 2.63 Political Science Conference Room, Social Sciences Building, UWA
ENTRY: Free
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18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The How and the Why of Live Cells Imaging in the Retina : current trends in the clinical and basic research
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A public lecture by Robert J. Zawadzki, Assistant Research Professor, Ophthalmology, University of California, Davis.
Routine imaging of live cells in the human eye is one of the great achievements of modern Optical Engineering that has been just recently accomplished in both clinical (...)
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Thursday 27 |
10:00 - FREE LECTURE - Book Launch: "A Partnership for Change: Australia - China Joint Economic Report 2016" : With special guests Prof. Peter Drysdale and Dr. Mike Nahan, Treasurer
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The Perth USAsia Centre invites you to a panel discussion to launch the Partnership for Change: Australia-China Joint Economic Report 2016, with Professor Peter Drysdale, Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University and The Hon. Dr (...)
Building on the specular concerts in the past two years, the UWA School of Music students again join with St Mary’s Cathedral for a night of mystery, majesty and divine music.
The program includes Samuel Barber’s deeply reflective Agnus Dei (originally the Adagio for Strings used as the (...)
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Friday 28 |
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Free Lunchtime Concert: Pi�ata Percussion
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Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School. Free entry - no bookings required! This week Piñata Percussion will perform a variety of works on 'Mostly Marimba'
17:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Fridays@5: Pi�ata Percussion - Mostly Marimba
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The ideal way to start your weekend, Fridays@Five offers unique musical experiences to delight all music lovers. See young artists be inspired through a variety of masterclasses, workshops, pre-concert talks, lectures and Q&A sessions. Delve deep into music or simply enjoy a free informal (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Enrich! Glee Club, Ukulele and Percussion Sensation
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The School of Music offers a number of stimulating and enjoyable broadening units for all undergraduates studying at UWA.
Enrich! brings together these students in vibrant and dynamic ensemble performances.
This Friday the massive 70 plus member Ukulele Ensemble will be (...)
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Sunday 30 |
11:00 - EVENT - Spring Fair at St George's College : Free Community event with wine tasting, food and music.
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Come and join us for a community-wide family day which showcases the College, as well as Georgian foodie products such as wines, smallgoods and olive oils. There’ll be a “Castle within the Castle” with a bouncy castle for the kids, face painting and more.
Highlights include:
• Wine tasting (...)
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November 2016
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Tuesday 01 |
10:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Archaeology Honours & Postgraduate Information Session : For all students interested in pursuing a career in Archaeology and cognate fields
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> Honours is regarded as the minimum qualification to call oneself an ‘archaeologist’.
> Wide range of dissertation topics available (Honours, Masters & PhD).
> Explanation of how the Honours year works (and also Masters and PhD).
> Information on what funding and resources are (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents � Free Research Seminar : Honours Presentations III
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UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.
A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)
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Wednesday 02 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Art & the Heart: The Role of the Autonomic Nervous System & the Polyvagal Theory of Stephen Porges : A Public Lecture by Alexander Cohen
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In the late nineteenth century, the study of the human flourished – both as an entity of flesh, blood, bones and nerve tissue, and as a vehicle for emotion that was also subservient to external forces. This study was heavily influenced by the emergence of a school of hard-heads: practitioners of (...)
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Thursday 03 |
16:00 - FREE LECTURE - The shifting landscape of Australian schooling reform : Free lecture on "The shifting landscape of Australian schooling reform: Possibilities, problems and politics."
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Dr Glenn Savage from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne will discuss the complex ways that national schooling reforms are evolving in Australia’s federal system, with a particular focus on how state education departments and agencies are responding to (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
19:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Friends of the UWA Library Speaker : The Celluloid Concerto
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About the talk
This presentation is a sequel to Victoria's 2015 talk entitled The Celluloid Piano, in which she discussed the films in which the Australian concert pianist Eileen Joyce was involved. Her 2016 lecture offers a broader exploration of the use of the concerto in film, looking (...)
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Wednesday 09 |
In November this year the University of Western Australia will again be hosting the 29th PhD Conference in Economics and Business.
The Conference was initiated by the UWA Business School in 1987 and is now a joint venture between UWA, the Australian National University, the University of (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Theories of Art/Theories of Terror. Avant-garde, Totalitarianism, and Post-Structuralist Epilogue.
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A public lecture by Professor Anatoly Rykov, St Petersburg State University and 2016 Institute of Advanced Studies Short Stay Visiting Fellow.
In this public lecture Professor Anatoly Rykov will address the convergence between totalitarian (proto-fascist) discourses and early avant-garde (...)
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Thursday 10 |
17:00 - ORATION - Wesfarmers Harry Perkins Oration : 21st Century Medicine: insights from the world's largest medical center
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Robert C Robbins MD is the President and CEO of the Texas Medical Center. This medical center employs over 106,600 staff in 54 institutions including 21 hospitals which take eight million patient visits a year.
Prior to joining the Texas Medical Center, Dr Robbins served as professor and (...)
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