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Displaying from Wednesday, January 11, 2017
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January 2017
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Tuesday 17 |
9:00 - EVENT - UWA ConocoPhillips Science Experience� : UWA's 3 day Science Experience for current year 9 & 10 students
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The UWA three-day ConocoPhillips Science Experience is a wonderful opportunity for current year 9 and 10 students to participate in hands-on workshops, meet knowledgeable and enthusiastic scientists and current students, get to know others with an interest in STEM fields, experience what it’s (...)
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Thursday 19 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - "Transcriptional control of stem cell biology in development and disease"
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Dr Piper graduated from The University of Tasmania, and received his PhD in Developmental Biology from The University of Queensland in 2003. His PhD, performed at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience with Prof Melissa Little, centered on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms (...)
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February 2017
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Thursday 09 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Setting the rhythm for cell division in plants : Public Lecture by Prof Christine Foyer, Leeds University, UK
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All are welcome to this public lecture, "Setting the rhythm for cell division in plants" by internationally renowned researcher Professor Christine Foyer.
Register online at www.ioa.uwa.edu.au/events/register
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Friday 10 |
UWA Chief Cultural Officer Professor Ted Snell is pleased to invite you to the opening of three new exhibitions:
Helen Britton: Interstices + Works of Art from Warbuton + The Likeness
Helen Britton: Interstices is a 25-year survey of the work of renowned jeweller Helen Britton, including (...)
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Saturday 11 |
10:00 - OPEN DAY - Lions Eye Institute Open Day : LEI's New $5M hi-tech clinic - The gift of sight
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Have a chat with LEI's Managing Director Professor David Mackey.
Meet the staff and clinicians at the new $5M Hi-tech clinic.
Take a tour of our state-of-the-art Outback Vision Van.
Try the simulator glasses that mimic eye diseases. Everyone welcome to learn about the special gift of sight.
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Wednesday 15 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Raine Visiting Professor Lecture Series : Prof Brayne presents "Research fit for an Ageing, Challenged and Challenging, Global Society: a Public Health Perspective"
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Professor Carol Brayne is an internationally recognised leader in academic public health at University of Cambridge, UK.
Professor Brayne has pioneered the study of dementia in the general population, launching two major longitudinal studies of the health and cognitive functioning of 30,000 older (...)
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Wednesday 22 |
A public lecture by Hans van Ditmarsch, Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.
Consider this riddle:
"A group of 100 prisoners, all together in the prison dining area, are told that they will be all put in isolation cells and then will be (...)
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Thursday 23 |
You're invited to a high-calibre public panel discussion on the impact of President Trump's Administration on the Indo-Pacific region. Panellists will discuss:
What will U.S. leadership in the Indo-Pacific look like under the Trump Administration?
How will the Indo-Pacific region's economic and (...)
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March 2017
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Wednesday 01 |
Death and grieving are essential aspects of human experience and imagining. And yet, discussion of both remains heavily circumscribed.
In this public forum we will lift the veil and peer into the unknown with special guests Dr Brooke Davis, Dr Fiona Jenkins and Dr Jennifer Rodger. We (...)
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Thursday 02 |
18:00 - FREE LECTURE - 50 years of the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination
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Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 21 December 1965, the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) was the first of the United Nations human rights treaties to be adopted. Applying in a different context over 50 years later and in a rapidly (...)
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Friday 03 |
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents Free Lunchtime Concert : Reedefined Clarinet Quartet
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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.
This week, in our first Lunchtime Concert of 2017, student-led ensemble Reedefined Clarinet Quartet and special guests Voix Quintet will (...)
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Monday 06 |
Our stunning campus offers a vibrant and dynamic learning environment with its mix of heritage buildings, contemporary architecture and beautiful gardens. Current UWA students will take you on a tour of our campus giving you an insight into what it’s like to be a student at UWA.
Join (...)
6, 7, 8 & 9 March 2017;
12:00pm - 12:30pm;
Limit of 10 people per session
As part of our mission to engage all communities around the University, provide opportunities for learning and discovery and advance the capability of our NAO robot we engaged our own UWA Computer Science (...)
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Tuesday 07 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Fifty Years of Writing Australian History from the Periphery : The Inaugural Tom Stannage Memorial Lecture
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By Professor Henry Reynolds, University of Tasmania.
Henry Reynolds is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He grew up and was educated in Hobart and after a few years in Europe he took up a lectureship in history at the Townsville University (...)
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Thursday 09 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series 2017 : The ‘Works of the Old Men’ in (Saudi) Arabia
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For over a century aerial archaeology has been in the vanguard of archaeological discovery and recording. Thanks to a unique twenty year programme of aerial reconnaissance in Jordan combined with the growing availability of high-resolution satellite imagery we can now thickly ‘populate’ with (...)
17:30 - BOOK LAUNCH - Book Launch: Like Nothing on this Earth by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth : Celebrate the release of this significant literary history of the Wheatbelt
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UWA Publishing warmly invites you to the launch of Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth.
Like Nothing on this Earth will be launched by Prof. Matthew Tonts, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean.
Please RSVP by Monday 6 March (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Price We Pay for Straight Line Thinking and the Battle for Beeliar
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A public lecture by Carmen Lawrence, Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Change, School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia.
Too often planning decisions are made without reference to their human impact, except in the narrowest sense of projected economic (...)
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Tuesday 14 |
Tuesday 14 March 2017; 12:30pm – 1:00pm
Thursday 16 March 2017; 1:00pm – 1:30pm
Friday 17 March 2017; 10:00am – 10:30am
Limit of 2 people per session
Futures Observatory partner Hewlett-Packard (HP), have loaned a Sprout Pro to the Futures (...)
16:30 - FREE LECTURE - Public Lecture by Mr Richard Heydarian : The Philippines in 2017: President Duterte, the South China Sea and ASEAN
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You are invited to join us for a public lecture on the escalating South China Sea dispute and how the assertive policies of Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte are shaping this dispute and wider East Asian geopolitics.
In 2017, the Philippines are chairing the ASEAN bloc in its 50th year. As the (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - �Hardly any women at all�? Literary landscapes at the time of Jane Austen : A Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies/Institute of Advanced Studies Public Lecture
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In a famous scene in Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland confesses to Henry Tilney that she rarely reads history, finding it ‘tiresome’. ‘I read it a little as a duty’, she admits, ‘but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or (...)
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