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Displaying from Tuesday, November 14, 2017
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November 2017
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Tuesday 14 |
17:15 - FREE LECTURE - Perth USAsia Centre - Public Presentation with Professor Simon Jackman : Trump 365 - The Inaugural Presidential Assessment
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We invite you to join us for our last public event for 2017 featuring Professor Simon Jackman, CEO of the United States Studies Centre (USSC) in Sydney who will analyse the first year of the divisive presidency of Donald J. Trump.
When President Trump first took office, illegal immigration, the (...)
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Thursday 16 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Archaeology Seminar Series : Stone tools for breaking bones: the 130,000-year-old Cerutti Mastodon site, California
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The Cerutti Mastodon (CM) site has compelling evidence for in situ hammerstones and stone anvils in spatiotemporal association with fragmentary remains of a single mastodon (Mammut americanum). The CM site contains spiral fractured bone and molar fragments, indicating that breakage occurred while (...)
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Thursday 23 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Archaeology Seminar Series : Collaborating to create the exhibition “Batavia: Giving Voice to the Voiceless”
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The horrific story of the 1629 Batavia mutiny and massacre remain difficult to tell. This exhibition follows new discoveries by UWA researchers as part of the ’Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties’ ARC Project into the wreck of the Dutch ship Batavia and the mutiny, murder, and incredible feats of (...)
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Monday 27 |
8:30 - CONFERENCE - TASA Conference 2017 : 2017 Australian Sociological Association Conference
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The University of Western Australia is pleased to host the 2017 Australian Sociological Association Conference, which returns to Perth after ten years.
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February 2018
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Monday 26 |
Please join AIIA WA and the Perth USAsia Centre with Alyssa Ayres to launch her new book Our Time has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World.
In Our Time Has Come, Alyssa Ayres considers the role India will play internationally, the obstacles it continues to face, and the implications of (...)
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March 2018
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Thursday 01 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Archaeology Seminar Series : Archaeology Seminar Thursday 1 March
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In this seminar Martin Porr will discuss a range of aspects of an ongoing project that is aimed at developing a systematic and collaborative assessment of the materials related to the German ethnographic expeditions to the Northwest Kimberley
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Friday 09 |
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series Semester One 2018 : GENDER FLUIDITY AT WORK: EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE NON-BINARY
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Using an experimental research design and a visual methodology, this study examines the extent of employment discrimination against non-binary job applicants whom identify and present as neither male, nor female. It employs social identity theory to investigate the way in which recruiters tend to (...)
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Thursday 15 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar : Stylistic Changes and Chronological Sequences in Tibetan Rock Art
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Whilst the major concentrations of Chinese rock art are becoming increasingly well-researched, the rock art of the Tibetan Autonomous Region remains under-explored. Surveys by Yushu Museum staff from 2013 to 2016 have revealed a large number of new rock art sites, particularly along the Tongtianhe (...)
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Friday 16 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar : Developments in the grammatical analysis of Central Australian languages 1890-1910
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A number of grammatical descriptions of Arandic varieties from Central Australia appeared between 1890 and 1910. These reflect a variety of theoretical approaches to grammar which were emerging from German philology and linguistics in the early twentieth century. Far from being ahistorical (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar : Asia’s dramatically changing demography: some implications
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The Asian region has moved rapidly through the demographic transition since the 1970s, but demographic prospects are very different for East Asia (facing shrinking populations), South Asia (facing substantial further increases) and Southeast Asia (in between). Individual country situations vary (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology and Sociology Seminar : Peopling Antarctica: Towards an anthropology of the southern continent
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Anthropologists have long demonstrated how the concepts and practices of kinship are fundamental to social life. However, the way in which these concepts are expressed, and practices enacted, varies greatly from context to context. This paper begins from the question: if kinship really is (...)
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Tuesday 20 |
12:30 - DISTINGUISHED VISITOR - Media and Communication Discipline Seminar : Professor John Hartley, FAHA, Curtin University, joins us as a guest presenter
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Within the theme of culture and technology, and in the context of planetary-scale and population-wide digital connectivity, the paper discusses ‘open knowledge’ from the perspective of semiotic history and the history of ideas. I distinguish between two kinds of knowledge, which I trace back to (...)
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Friday 23 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar : Framing Disaster: The Commodification of Suffering In Indonesian Newspapers
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This study aims to analyse the media coverage of disaster in Indonesia by looking at how two daily print newspapers (Kedaulatan Rakyat and Kompas) reported on two different types of disasters: the Mt. Merapi eruption of 2010 and forest fires in 2015. It will focus on the images used in the (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology/Sociology Seminar Series : Anthropology & Sociology Seminar Series
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Special Seminar: Three PhD Students' Introductory Seminars
18:15 - SCREENING - In Pursuit Of Harmony: Premier Screening of the first ever Documentary Film, Exploring the Ancient Game of Go �The Surrounding Game� : The W.A. Migration Research Network Harmony Week event
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All are welcome to the premier screening of the first ever documentary film, exploring the ancient game of Go “The Surrounding Game”, followed by a panel discussion with academics, students and practitioners with interest in applying lessons from Go to social science, IT, education and ways of (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
18:00 - BOOK LAUNCH - Free Event: North Korea's Missile Stand-off: Prepare For War : The Perth USAsia Centre and Black Inc. will be launching the second issue of Australian Foreign Affairs - Trump in Asia: The New World Order.
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This second issue brings together some of this country's best minds to examine the United States' sudden shift from the "Asia Pivot" to "America First". It provides insights into Donald Trump's White House and explores how his unpredictable approach to international affairs is (...)
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Thursday 29 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar : The Application of 2D Morphometrics on Ceramic Assemblages: An Example from Călineşti-Oaş, an Early Neolithic Site in Northwest Romania
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The present study is centred on the analysis of ceramic breakage and alteration approached through 2D morphometric computational techniques. Just like sediment particles, the size and shape of a fragment is altered under conditions of abrasion and breakage. While some of these conditions can occur (...)
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April 2018
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Friday 06 |
7:15 - PUBLIC TALK - Business Strategies for the Indo-Pacific Era : This exclusive breakfast will focus on assisting Western Australian businesses to develop a comprehensive business strategy to be a part of the unprecedented economic rise of ASEAN, India and the wider Indo-Pacific region.
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In collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Perth USAsia Centre and the Australian Institute of International Affairs WA, please join us to hear from senior policy, business and industry leaders, for a business breakfast focused on the opportunities for Western Australia to (...)
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Thursday 12 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Archaeology Seminar
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Archaeologies of enslavement in eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean, c. AD 500 – 1900: analytical and interpretive challenges. Paul Lane is a specialist in the later Holocene archaeology of sub-Saharan Africa. His interests include landscape historical ecology, the archaeology of colonial (...)
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Friday 13 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar : Status and social conflict in the Philippines at the turn of the sixteenth century
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The social structure of the Philippines at the turn of the sixteenth century comprised three distinct groups. These were the rulers and their families who
obtained their position through skill or force, and held it by dint of power and wealth; the slaves who came about their status after defaults (...)
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