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August 2014
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Wednesday 27 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Gender, Media & Cultural Studies Seminar Series - Associate Professor Rob Cover, Communication and Media Studies - Suidices of the Marginalised - Asylum Seekers, Indigenous and Queer Youth: Cultural Approaches to Relationality, Mobility and Liveable Lives
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Suicides among marginalised groups are one of the few occasions in which self-harm and suicide are framed as having cultural, social, environmental, historical or structural causes. Narratives of suicide causality are overwhelmingly dominated in suicidology, psychology and public discourse by (...)
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Thursday 28 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Secret Societies and Rock Art in Central Africa - Understanding a Forgotten Art
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Ancestors of the Chewa-speaking peoples of south-central Africa made a type of rock art that comprises stylised finger paintings of humans and animals. The images depict masked dancers from a secret society known as nyau. Nyau concerns much more than just dancing; nyau is said by its members to be � (...)
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September 2014
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Tuesday 02 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Down from the verandah and back again: Cross-cultural and experimental studies of human physical attractiveness. : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Although beauty is often said to be ‘in the eye of the beholder’, the past 30 years of research into human mate preferences has revealed that our judgments of physical attractiveness are not so subjective. Instead, sexual dimorphism in body composition and secondary sexual traits (...)
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Friday 05 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Anthropology & Sociology Seminar Series 2014 - Gemma Bothe & Marc Schmidlin, PhD Candidates Anthropology & Sociology
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Gemma Bothe - What about the Conversation? The Lack of Social Interaction in Kindle Worlds
Amazon’s Kindle Worlds, established in May 2013, is the most recent project seeking to commercialise fan fiction (fanfic). This paper seeks to show that the Amazon platform of Kindle Worlds does (...)
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Saturday 06 |
15:30 - CONCERT - Beethoven: A Tale of Triumph : Selections from Beethoven's piano sonatas performed by Perth's mightiest pianists!
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Beethoven: A Tale of Triumph Concert - to be held at St George's College as part of their Spring Concert Series. The concert will see a selection from Beethoven's piano sonatas including the famous Moonlight Sonata performed by Perth's mightiest pianists! Performing: Mark Coughlan, Caroline (...)
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Thursday 11 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Political Science & International Relations Seminar Series 2014: Professor Jeannette Taylor - Performance Monitoring and Evaluation: An Integrative Model.
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The idea that good performance management is essential for organisations is part of today’s conventional public management wisdom. If public organisations are to perform well, they must know and understand their internal operations and the external environment well. Good performance measures, it (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : To the Islands: the Barrow Island Archaeology Project
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This presentation will provide an update on the progress of the Barrow Island Project focusing on research questions and the results from this year’s fieldwork. New finds are profiled from excavations at both early Holocene/Terminal Pleistocene sites as well as 19th century historic pearling (...)
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Friday 12 |
11:00 - EVENT - Anthropology & Sociology Seminar Series 2014: Associate Professor Martin Forsey - Ethnography at a Distance? Globally Mobile Parents and School Choice in a Textual Community
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We have not met the people we have studied; they are part of what Eichhorn (2001) described as a "textual community", gathered around the threads of online conversations associated with a website servicing the needs of English-language speakers in Germany. The thread in question started (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Discipline Seminar : Litigation as a Tournament
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This paper analyzes civil litigation between a plaintiff and a defendant who exert costly effort in a tournament game. In the unique Nash equilibrium the litigant with the stronger case is more likely to win, but there is distortion in the sense that the equilibrium probability of success is closer (...)
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Tuesday 16 |
9:00 - SEMINAR - The 7 Secrets of Highly Successful Research Students : The key habits underlying success and enjoyment of a research degree will be covered.
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This workshop is for research students who would like to be more effective in their studies.
14:00 - WORKSHOP - School of Music Presents - World Musician in Residence Program: Open Rehearsal
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The School of Music is delighted to welcome I Made Indra Sadguna from the Indonesian Institute of Arts (ISI) Denpasar as part of the World Musician in Residence Program*. One of the leading Balinese drummers of his generation Indra returns to UWA to undertake Gamelan workshops and masterclasses to (...)
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Wednesday 17 |
14:00 - WORKSHOP - School of Music Presents - World Musician in Residence Program: Open Workshops
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The School of Music is delighted to welcome I Made Indra Sadguna from the Indonesian Institute of Arts (ISI) Denpasar as part of the World Musician in Residence Program*. One of the leading Balinese drummers of his generation Indra returns to UWA to undertake Gamelan workshops and masterclasses to (...)
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Thursday 18 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Honours Project Presentations
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1) Elizabeth Vaughan
Excavating the Aboriginal Heritage Act: A cross-disciplinary investigation on the evolution of heritage protection in Western Australia 1972-2014
2) Lily Rogers
'Everything comes from the Dreaming’: A case study of the depiction of a European ship at Walga Rock.
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Friday 26 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series 2014: Professor Farida Fozdar - The Routinization of Charisma: globalisation and The Baha�i Faith
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‘Founding Father’ of sociology Max Weber argued that charismatic authority, necessary at the initial stages of religions, and based on the personal magnetism of a prophetic leader, is not sustainable long-term. He argued that the charisma of the founder must be ‘routinized’ in bureaucratic (...)
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Sunday 28 |
15:30 - CONCERT - Quintet Plus One Concert : Perth's historically informed 'A-Team' perform a variety of classical works.
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Perth's historically informed 'A-Team' perform a variety of works including Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, Handel's Organ Concerto in F major, C.P.E. Bach's String Symphony No. 3 in C major and Boccherini's Quintet Op.39 No.3.
Harpsichord/Organ: Stewart Smith
Violin: Paul Wright and Shaun (...)
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Tuesday 30 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Understanding the relationship between cognition and sociality using experiments in wild, free-living populations : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Cooperation may present unique cognitive challenges. Individuals in cooperative groups perform behaviours that provide fitness benefits to others, exposing themselves to the risk of exploitation, yet they are also presented with opportunities to gain benefits unavailable to solitary (...)
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October 2014
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Thursday 02 |
This October musicians from across Australia and New Zealand will come together for a piano and percussion spectacular featuring Steve Reich’s
mesmerizing Sextet for marimbas, vibraphones and keyboards.
Players from the University of Western Australia and the Western Australian (...)
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Friday 03 |
Join the staff and students of the School of Music to hear the finalists of the Chamber Music Prize Week.
UWA students will be joined by special guest performers from the WA Young Artists Chamber Music Program (WAYACHAMP).
A fantastic way to start your weekend!
Tic (...)
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Tuesday 07 |
11:00 - FESTIVAL - 2014 UWA Mental Health Day : Join in to raise awareness & promote the mental health of those studying & working in higher education
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The Health Promotion Unit & Student Guild will be hosting the inaugural Australian and New Zealand University Mental Health Day (ANZUMHD) on October 7 as part of UWA Mental Health Week, to raise awareness and promote the mental health of those who study and work in higher education. Over 30 (...)
13:00 - WORKSHOP - Laughter Yoga for students and staff : Free Laughter Yoga workshop as part of UWA Mental Health Week
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Come and have a giggle and let off steam at the free Laughter Yoga workshop hosted by the Health Promotion Unit as part of the UWA Mental Health Week. Janni Goss from Laugh WA will teach you how to giggle your way to stress relief! Spaces are limited so register today!
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