A Scientia Education Academy public lecture
Technology-enabled peer-to-peer sharing of goods and services has created significant disruption in the business world, and there are already hints about how it might affect education.
In 2018, the Burgundian Consort will explore the remote realms of the Nordic and Baltic states, with works from Tormis, Gjeilo, Sisask and Pärt, before rounding out the program with some traditional English madrigals from Byrd, Elgar, and Purcell.
The program will also include the premiere performance of the winner of the inaugural Willgoss Choral Composition Prize 2018.
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How is masculinity shaped by class, race and sexuality? Michael Mohammed Ahmad's latest novel The Lebs is a frank exploration of these issues, at times excoriating and trenchant, at other times, tender, joyful and funny. This portrait of young, male muslims in the western suburbs tells us about many aspects of Australia - about young white women, about the multifaceted muslim community, about migration and belonging.
Come and hear the best and brightest UNSW PhD candidates pitch their world-changing ideas. Participants have just three minutes to explain what they are doing, how they are doing it, and why it is important.
The relationship between Schubert and the guitar may appear tenuous at best, however it forms the basis of a beautiful program, one which draws together music from the nineteenth century with sparkling Australian chamber works for guitar.
Robert SCHUMANN | Fantasiestücke
Robert DAVIDSON | Landscape
Franz SCHUBERT | Serenade from 'Schwanengesang' D957 no.4
Phillip HOUGHTON | From the Dreaming
UNSW Faculty of Engineering has the pleasure of presenting world-renowned structural engineer, Roma Agrawal for a lecture on Emily Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge. With the release of Roma's first book Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures, this is an exciting opportunity to listen to the story behind one of the world's iconic bridges and how Emily Roebling made her mark in a male-dominated industry.
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Alison Liu // Viola
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Mitchell Hutchinson // Voice
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Jennifer Hou // Piano
Karin Schaupp, Head of Classical Guitar at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, has written both an Honours and Masters thesis on the subject of stage fright. Her professional expertise on anxiety management will be available to all in the third and final of a series of public talks delving into the complexities of the creative mind.
R U OK? Day is on Thursday 13 September. We have a terrific line-up of events this year including the return of lunchtime Tai Chi on the Library Lawn and the Gratitude Tree in the Commerce (CLB) Courtyard. There will also be 5-Minute Massages from our wonderful masseuse Lara Cassar and morning tea events will be held in faculties, schools and divisional units across the University.
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Gemma Lipman // Performance
When // 5pm
Where // UNSW Mall, Veranda of the Robert Webster Building
As part of Social Sciences Week, The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, in conjunction with The University of New South Wales is pleased to present the 2018 Fay Gale Lecture with special guest Genevieve Bell.
Rapid advances in genetics, robotics and other sciences are challenging our understanding of what it means to be human. Can science resolve key ethical questions? What role does religious thinking play in the age of genomics? And how do scientific and religious ways of knowing relate?
Dr Denis Alexander will seek to discuss and address these questions and more at the 2018 New College Lectures this September.