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August 2017
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Sunday 20 |
16:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA School of Music Presents Music on the Terrace - Baroque Beauties
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The UWA String Orchestra and Vocal Consort join forces with renowned soprano Rachelle Durkin for an afternoon of exquisite baroque music in the majestic Government House Ballroom.
Tickets $35
tickets.perthconcerthall.com.au
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Monday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series, Seminar 1 2017 : Affective citizenship and ‘multiculturalism’ in South Korea: Children’s inter-ethnic relations at South Korean elementary schools
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My paper examines how issues of citizenship and belonging within an emergent ‘multicultural’ South Korea are articulated through the experiences and perspectives of multi-ethnic and mono-ethnic Korean primary school children. Based on ethnographic and interview data and drawing on theories of � (...)
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Tuesday 22 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - What is the role of unions in the 21st century university? : School of Human Sciences Seminar Series
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Australia has some of the strongest anti-union legislation in the OECD, to the extent that they clash with international law that sees the ability to take withdraw labour as a fundamental right. We have the first generation since the Great Depression to be looking at worse living and working (...)
18:00 - EVENT - Shock Room: We do as we�re told. Or do we? : A film screening followed by Q+A panel session with Director Professor Kathryn Millard, Macquarie University; Professor Carmen Lawrence, UWA; and Dr Nin Kirkham, UWA.
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A compelling new feature documentary, Shock Room breaks open Stanley Milgram’s dramatic ‘Obedience to Authority’ experiment and forces us to re evaluate its conclusions. In the wake of the Holocaust, Milgram wanted to understand why people inflict harm on others. In 1962, he staged his (...)
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Wednesday 23 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - "Grassroots deterrence": Chinese public opinion and the South China Sea dispute : Discussion of strategic role of state-led popular nationalism in China’s maritime disputes in the internet era. All welcome.
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Thursday 24 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series 2017 : People and animal interactions: A relational approach to the study of social identity in North-Eastern Kimberley rock art, Australia
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This proposal explores how Indigenous people from the Kimberley Region materially expressed their identities through rock art, by looking at three key rock art styles - Irregular Infill Animal, Gwion Gwion, and Elegant Action Figures (highly detailed and rich in human-animal depictions) - and the (...)
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Friday 25 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series 2017 : A genomic perspective on the origins of the first Australians
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Recent reports of archaeological evidence
from Arnhem Land show that Aboriginal people occupied Australia by 65,000 years ago – consistent with the first comprehensive fullgenome study of Aboriginal people, published in 2016. High-coverage genomes for 83
Aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans (...)
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Tuesday 29 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - In Absentia: The Politics of Cameraless Photography : A public lecture by Professor Geoffrey Batchen, Art History, Victoria University
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How can a photograph of nothing—of nothing discernable or apparently significant—be said to offer some useful political purchase on the world it inhabits? How can a photograph that represents, but does not depict, a given situation be freighted with historical knowledge and import? Confining (...)
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Wednesday 30 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar: Super-resolution and correlative imaging of malaria parasites
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New microscopy techniques are providing amazing views of the cellular landscape. We have used 3D Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM), direct Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (dSTORM), 3D-Electron Tomography and Block-Face Scanning EM to explore the sub-cellular topography of the (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Migrating �ndrangheta: Cultural bias and cultural differences in the policing of the Calabrian mafia between Italy and Australia : A public Lecture by Dr Anna Sergi, Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK
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International media and popular culture have been perpetuating the presumption that criminals of Calabrian origins around the world must belong to, and replicate the structure of, the mafia-type Calabrian ‘ndrangheta clans in Italy. This presumption has been largely confirmed by Italian (...)
Explosive new research findings will reveal the extent to which Burrup rock art is being destroyed rapidly by industrial pollution.
Be there. Hear the news first. Join the fight to preserve Western Australia’s most significant cultural heritage site.
The Burrup Peninsula and Murujuga National (...)
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Thursday 31 |
12:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - Assessment of Future Risk in Asthma: Opportunities and New Technologies
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Dr Blakey's interest is in improving the assessment and management of people with asthma by incorporating newer data streams and measurement of future risk into models of care.
Note: 12.30pm lunch for 1.00pm - 2.00pm presentation
13:00 - STAFF EVENT - mLearning Month - September 2017 : Are you Interested in Learning about Mobile Technology and Applications in Higher Education?
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Across the month of September, the Centre for Education Futures will be hosting a range of mLearning events that will explore the use of mobile and in-context learning in Higher Education.
•Demonstrations on how to use the new Blackboard Instructor mobile app and Blackboard Mobile (...)
13:00 - STAFF EVENT - DEMONSTRATION: Mobile Apps, Mobile Web, Mobile Personas, What's it all About : Event for mLearning Month - September 2017
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A look into the Blackboard mobile suite, new innovations, how to adopt them and what we have planned.
Will include a brief overview of the new Blackboard Instructor app, designed to better meet the needs of staff, by offering to enhance the user-centric mobile experience.
16:00 - SEMINAR - Mining the data � surely there�s more to it than points and polygons? Right?
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With over 30 years of heritage surveys in the Pilbara, Rio Tinto holds an immense collection of heritage data including a large relational database of site and survey records. As is the case with many industry-based cultural heritage resources, this information is most often used to manage sites on (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Rigs, Reefs and Re-cycling: how offshore infrastructure can be re-used to benefit our oceans : All at Sea: Restoration and Recovery Series
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A public lecture by Professor Erika Techera, Director, Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia.
The offshore oil and gas industry is facing the prospect of de-commissioning thousands of installations in the coming decades. In some parts of the world the issue is already (...)
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September 2017
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Friday 01 |
The Winthrop Singers ascend Winthrop Tower for their annual serenade to the sunrise on the first day of Spring, followed by an intimate performance in the resonant acoustic of the Winthrop Hall Foyer.
11:00 - SEMINAR - Flexible non-citizens? Migrants from China and the citizenship dilemma
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Permanent residents from China living in Australia face a dilemma of citizenship. China does not permit dual nationality and so when Chinese citizens apply for
naturalization elsewhere they must effectively renounce their Chinese citizenship and thereafter be treated as aliens under Chinese law. As (...)
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA School of Music presents Free Lunchtime Concert : UWA Wind & Brass
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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 join talented UWA students as they perform solo, as trios and quartets and as part of our Brass Ensemble.
14:30 - EVENT - ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES, SEMESTER 1, 2017 : Transforming education: An ethnography of open online learning and its potential in the Global South
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This presentation investigates the avowed potential of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Education Resources (OERs) to improve educational opportunities for learners in the global South. Based on action research in Dili, Timor-Leste in June-July 2015, May-June 2016, and February-July (...)
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