What's On at UWA

2.30pm Marnie Tonkin, PhD Candidate, Anthropology & Sociology, UWA Title: Payinjala Pinpala Yurlu (strike camp) Aboriginal architecture in the Pilbara: an investigation of transformation and identity creation through the architectural forms of the 1946 pastoral workers strike

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Presenter: Dr. Evan Kidd (ANU)

Dr. Evan Kidd was awarded his BBSc (Hons) in 1999 and PhD (Psycholinguistics) in 2004, both from La Trobe University. He worked at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) as a postdoctoral research associate between 2003-2 (...)

Ian presents here a brief history of the Maritime Archaeological Association and its relationship with the WA Maritime Museum. The presentation will summarise and explore the results of some joint expeditions with the Museum on shipwrecks in Australia and Overseas. It will also include a discussion (...)

This presentation, part of a larger project considering "Asia" (and "Asian Studies") from the edges of the continent, draws upon current ongoing research on cultural and human interactions between Japan and Turkey. The focus of the project is on the ways individual actors, in (...)

Free public lecture organised by the archaeology department at UWA by John McNabb and entitled

Men amongst the Morlocks. Human origins and anthropology in late Victorian scientific romances and the public perception of human evolution

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Are you a good communicator, strategic thinker, flexible, adaptable, resourceful and like solving problems. Perhaps a career at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade could be your next step. The session is intended to introduce the Graduate Programs and provide tips on the application process (...)

Free public lecture organised by the archaeology department of UWA by Christine Hertler whose talk is entitled

A trip to the islands. Early migrations to the Sunda Shelf and the palaeoenvironment of Homo erectus in Java

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Free public lecture organised by the archaeology department of UWA, presented by Robin Dennell and entitled

No Longer Marginal. 10 reasons why China is important in palaeoanthropology

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Free public lecture organised by the archaeology department of UWA by John McNabb whose talk is entitled

Symmetry, cognition and the Acheulean of the British Middle Pleistocene

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Are current shifts towards globalisation impacting Australian identity, and how is Australian-ness being framed in the public sphere? These questions steer this thesis and are considered through a different lens in each of the five articles that constitute its core. While much contemporary research (...)

The Rethinking Indigeneity project has been running for 22 years amongst the indigenous people of southern Africa's Kalahari. This 7-phase project has examined the nature of research encounters and how indigeneity is constructed through these encounters. This project has recognised some research (...)

Teaching Korean language to intermediate and high-intermediate university students presents several challenges. Among these, language material and learner autonomy are among those aspects more in need of a solution. Firstly, classroom material should be not only of interest to students, but at the (...)

Koriam's Law - and the dead who govern is a 2005 co-production of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies film unit, Australian National University, Canberra and Arcadia Pictures, New York. Directed and produced by Gary Kildea and Andrea Simon working in association with the anthropologist (...)

This course focuses on model selection techniques for linear and generalised linear regression in two scenarios: when an extensive search of the model space is possible as well as when the dimension is large and either stepwise algorithms or regularization techniques have to be employed to identify (...)

The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA). The statistical package SPSS will be used to (...)

Social research skills are highly sought after in a wide variety of sectors to identify social, organisational and government needs. This course can open up avenues for improving society, developing the wellbeing of communities and working towards solving the world's problems.

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UWA Publishing joins you to celebrate the release of Cloudless: a novel in verse by Christine Evans.

Traveling all the way from Washington DC, Christine will be embarking on an Australian tour during December. This is a chance to meet and chat with a successful playwright who has now (...)

One of the most significant questions in archaeology asks when hominins started to exhibit characteristics of "modern" behaviour, such as complex syntactical language, abstract thinking, planning depth, behavioral, technological and economical innovativeness, and symbolic behavior. This (...)

Join us for the opening of our first exhibition for 2016, Bharti Kher: In Her Own Language, presented as part of the Perth International Arts Festival.

The exhibition will be opened by author, novelist and social commentator Jane Caro in the presence of the artist.

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This presentation examines publicly visible writing, painting and carved images at Saibai Island, Torres Strait, a border area of Australia. They have flourished since Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975 and in them we can see processes of social differentiation mobilised around (...)