• Lunch with Mama - excellent way to spend time :)
• Talk at UWA by Joel Cohen who currently serves in the United Nations as the Executive Officer for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Department of Field Operations. He talked about his career with them, what they do, where they do it and what it's like for him. Very interesting.
• Picked up a ( Read more... )

Khadija Khaja is Assistant Professor of Social Work at Indiana University. She was born in Africa and also raised in Canada. Her specific research and practice interests include cultural traditional pracices of female circumcision; multicultural research; Muslim cultural competency in counselling; and Muslim Human Rights. She gave a very human and ( Read more... )

A public lecture given by sociologist Dr Susan Maushart, the author of such gems as The Mask of Motherhood: How Motherhood Changes Everything and How we Pretend it Doesn't, Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for Women and What Women Want Next.

She's a fabulous speaker, funny and concise with lots to say. A few things stood out for me:

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On an unrelated note, I'm passionately in favour of education but I'm also keen on not vanishing up our own rectums...

( good grief )

NEW PLAN: Tuesday 19th September - Perth 6:00pm David Suzuki speaking about his autobiography at: The Lady Wardle Performing Arts Centre, St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School, Elliott Road, Karrinyup Hosted by Boffins Bookshop. MC - Geoff Hutchison - ABC Radio Perth Morning Show Cost: $15 adults, $10 students/concession, with proceeds to be donated to ( Read more... )

Trekked down to UWA with
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Pru Goward gave a talk last night on gender equality, economic growth and social / demographic sustainability. ( Read more... )

I'm going to run away from home, join the circus and become a physicist.

PUBLIC LECTURE: Professor David Blair: EINSTEIN, BUDDHA AND MODERN COSMOLOGY: AWESOME KNOWLEDGE AND THE SEARCH FOR ENLIGHTENMENT.

( Very spammy, incoherent rave about lecture )

Very enjoyable. A UWA Extension talk - low on serious information but high on charm and trivia. A sort of high speed science patter ( Read more... )