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Displaying from Wednesday, July 23, 2014
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July 2014
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Saturday 26 |
Join in the conversation with exhibition curator Barbara Bynder as she discusses the exhibition Wildflower Dreaming: Shirley Corunna and the Coolbaroo League 1952-1962.
The exhibition presents a snapshot of Shirley’s personal journey, following a move from her home in Three Springs (...)
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Tuesday 29 |
13:20 - EVENT - The UWA Institute of Agriculture 2014 Industry Forum : Potential for Food Production in northern Western Australia
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New agriculture is believed to play a crucial role in the regional transformation of northern Western Australia. There is significant potential for Asia-focused food production and industry to diversify northern Australia’s economy, trade and sustainable use of natural resources over the long (...)
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Thursday 31 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Political Science and International Relations Seminar Series - Matthew Sawyers and Andrew Chubb : Political Science and International Relations Seminar Series
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Matthew Sawyers, UWA:
Constraining cyber-warfare: prospects for a normative prescription
Andrew Chubb, UWA:
Chinese nationalism, CCP legitimacy and maritime disputes in the Internet era
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August 2014
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Tuesday 05 |
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - Gender and Social Choice in Saudi Arabia: Rights versus the Optimal Social Choice : CMSS Presents: A Public Lecture by Dr. Sean Foley
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Although the women’s driving movement in Saudi Arabia has gained tremendous visibility in recent years, it has failed to meet its basic objective: winning women the right to drive. While there is no question that the movement has encountered sustained resistance to its agenda, resistance alone (...)
19:00 - EVENT - New Music Week : A week long festival of New Music, featuring composer Martin Bresnick, pianist Lisa Moore and members of Syzygy Ensemble in a week of performances, workshops and masterclasses brought to you in partnership with the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies and the UWA Cultural Precinct.
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Contemporary Performance Masterclass
UWA students in masterclass with Lisa Moore and Martin Bresnick. This Masterclass is open to the public, all welcome. THIS IS A FREE EVENT
Described as “brilliant and searching...beautiful and impassioned...lustrous at the keyboard” by (...)
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Thursday 07 |
11:00 - EVENT - New Music Week : A week long festival of New Music, featuring composer Martin Bresnick, pianist Lisa Moore and members of Syzygy Ensemble in a week of performances, workshops and masterclasses brought to you in partnership with the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies and the UWA Cultural Precinct.
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COMPOSITION MASTERCLASS
UWA composition students present their current composition for work-shopping, followed by a brief presentation by Bresnik on My Twentieth Century and ***Trio and Ishi's Song. This Masterclass is open to the public, all welcome.
Martin Bresnick is Professor of (...)
12:00 - EVENT - Political Science and International Relations Seminar - Democratic Transition, civil-military relations and nuclear command and control in Pakistan : Political Science and International Relations Seminar
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16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series - Phillip Point Stone Arrangement, Burrup Peninsula : Archaeology Seminar Series
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The archaeology of the Burrup Peninsula is best known from its rock art. However, the area is also distinctive in the occurrence of a wide range of site types, many of which are associated as site complexes. Surface artefact scatters on the Burrup, which have received little attention in the past (...)
A public lecture and performance by Martin Bresnick
Brought to you by the UWA Institue of Advanced Studies
"Listening to Images, Hearing the Text: new music that engages the visual and the literary"
The art of music has always had an unusual ability to be (...)
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Friday 08 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series - Psychic unity, empathy and shared aspects of personhood: Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the field : Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series
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Psychic unity is a fraught concept in anthropology and related fields, yet, I argue, even those of us who doubt the existence of a shared human nature carry an expectation of it into the field. (Or, I might add, into almost any interaction with someone who is not our self.) Empathy, which (...)
18:30 - FREE LECTURE - CMSS Lecture Tour: Building Cultural Bridges Through Literature : A lecture tour with Qaisra Shahraz
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Qaisra will talk about her work, read from her novels, including her latest work 'Revolt' and ' A Pair of Jeans & other stories'. She will discuss her writing life in Manchester from the age of 14, growing up as a migrant in Britain, with multiple identities, and how and why her country of (...)
Assembled! New Music Ensemble + Syzygy
Special guests from Syzygy ensemble (brought to you in parnership with UWA Cultural Precinct) will join UWA Staff, students plus other special guests in an extended program including works by Bresnik, Lang and Rzewski.
Tickets - $10 / $5 (...)
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Thursday 14 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : The Nyiyaparli Research Project
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During 2013/14 Scarp Archaeology in collaboration with BHP Billiton and the Nyiyarparli People undertook a large scale research project focused on discovering and documenting Aboriginal archaeological sites of high significance throughout the Nyiyarparli Native Title claim area, in the Eastern (...)
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Friday 15 |
9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - Faith in Motion: Religion in the 21st Century
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The twenty-first century is often characterised as an era of unprecedented mobility and
interconnectivity, but it is also marked by efforts to reinforce national borders and curtail human
movement. Paradoxes of mobility and immobility in our increasingly unequal world come into
sharp focus when (...)
11:00 - FREE LECTURE - A Discussion on Australia - Japan - US Trilateral Relations Featuring: The Hon Kim Beazley, AC Ambassador to United States of America, Mr Bruce Miller, Ambassador to Japan, and Winthrop Professor Stephen Smith, Former Minister for Defence : An insightful discussion with three of Australia's most experienced diplomats.
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The Perth USAsia Centre is proud to host three experienced diplomats for an insightful discussion on Australia - Japan - US trilateral relations.
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Anthropology of Life : Classical and New Approaches : Public talk with Perig Pitrou, CNRS, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, Paris
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In contrast to Western philosophy, which, at least since Aristotle, has considered the distinction between life and the living to be fundamental, anthropology seems not to have given much thought to the difference between the two. However, the existence of an entity called ‘The One Who Makes Live� (...)
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Thursday 21 |
12:00 - EVENT - Political Science and International Relations Seminar Series 2014: Chinese Foreign Direct Investment: How to Deal With Our New Neighbour?
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China changes fast. The country is no longer only about toys or other labour intensive products. Today, almost 40% of China’s export is considered high-tech, and most companies invest in China not because of its low wages but because of its market and growing urban middle class. Another indicator (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Learning about Lithics: A Relational Approach to Australian Aboriginal Stone Artefacts
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Stone artefacts have played a defining role in archaeological understandings of the deep past of Australia. Variation in the form of artefacts across time and space has been a focus of archaeological research, primarily approached with questions on economic processes such as reduction sequences or (...)
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Friday 22 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series 2014: The Matter of Existential Relations. Growth, Life-Cycle, and the Form of the World in Reite, PNG.
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In this paper, I present some of the life-cycle rites practiced by Nekgini speaking people on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea. These rites have several fascinating aspects, including the consumption of substitutes for the growing child by their maternal kin. Interrogating the repeated (...)
13:00 - EVENT - RESCHEDULED: �Making the Links� Roundtable: Building Research Teams and Partnerships in the Humanities and Social Sciences : Learn how to develop multi-partner projects and build collaborative relationships from some of UWA's leading ARC Linkage winners.
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Some of the University’s most successful ARC Linkage grant winners from the Faculties of Arts, Business, Education and Law will come together to discuss how they developed multi-partner projects and built collaborative relationships both within and outside academia. Members of the Research (...)
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