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            <title>New Look for Programs and Courses Website</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4511</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), Professor Deborah Terry invites Ipswich staff to attend an information session on the recently established Programs and Courses Website Interface Project.  

The intention of the project was to increase the effectiveness of the Programs and Courses website as a recruitment tool for 2009 admissions.  The project’s objective has been to optimise the accessibility and usability of the ‘front end’ of the UQ Programs and Courses website as an interim step until the new UQ corporate design and full database functionality are available in 2009.

 There is no need to register for this event. 

A guide to the changes is being developed and will be available at the information session.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>04-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>New Look for Programs and Courses Website</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4512</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), Professor Deborah Terry invites Gatton staff to attend an information session on the recently established Programs and Courses Website Interface Project.  

The intention of the project was to increase the effectiveness of the Programs and Courses website as a recruitment tool for 2009 admissions.  The project’s objective has been to optimise the accessibility and usability of the ‘front end’ of the UQ Programs and Courses website as an interim step until the new UQ corporate design and full database functionality are available in 2009.

There is no need to register for this event. 

A guide to the changes is being developed and will be available at this information session.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>04-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>QBI Special Neuroscience Seminar: Energetics of neural signaling and fMRI activity</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4495</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Speaker: A/Professor Fahmeed Hyder, School of Medicine and Faculty of Engineering Diagnostic Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, will present on the topic  Energetics of neural signaling and fMRI activity.

The seminar will be followed by drinks and nibbles on the terrace.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>04-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>Cultural History Seminar: The Sense of Existing and its Political Implications: On François ...</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4503</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The radical Conservative Carl Schmitt suggested that ‘one could test all theories of state according to their anthropology and thereby classify these as to whether they consciously or unconsciously presuppose man to be by nature … a dangerous being or not’.  

But perhaps not all pessimistic images of ‘natural man’ are as readily assignable to a conservative style of thought.  Such is the case I suggest with Francois Flahault’s ‘de-idealized’ anthropology -- ‘realist’ yet informed by a social-solidarist ethic – which turns on an arresting depiction of human malevolence and its psychological sources. 

I argue that Flahault’s program might be thought of as contributing to recasting the ethical aspect of realist understandings of political questions. Though not constructed with sovereign statehood in mind, in one respect his moral anthropology echoes the de-sacralized image of the human propounded by the early modern ‘civil-prudential’ sovereignty theorist Samuel Pufendorf, an image which a modern realist ethic of state might do well to incorporate. 

I show how Flahault uses his moral anthropology to modify the mission of reformist social policy and put a case for seeing his program as a contribution to a civil prudential philosophy of government. Supposing man to be dangerous by nature may not after all be the hallmark of a conservative political stance.

Biographical Note: Jeffrey Minson is author of Genealogies of Morals: Nietzsche, Foucault, Donzelot and the Eccentricity of Ethics and co-editor of Citizenship and Cultural Policy. He  teaches at the University of California, San Diego.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>04-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>BrisScience - Wolf in a sheep`s labcoat: psuedoscience in the 20th Century</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4498</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Presented by Mike McRae.

As far as philosophies for understanding our world go, science is relatively novel. Yet what distinguishes science from other methodologies? Is pseudoscience a convenient slur for anything which doesn`t fit the conventional paradigm, or is it a real threat science communicators need to face? How can we teach people to be critical in their evaluation of new information? And most importantly, do sheep ever wear labcoats?

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Mike McRae grew up in Brisbane`s western suburbs with an understanding that when it came to some things, you just don`t ask questions. He ignored this bit of advice and decided to become a scientist. Mike worked in pathology for several years before realising his vocation was with science education. His career has meandered through teaching science in London, travelling Australia performing in science shows, and currently writing for CSIRO`s Education department while doing freelance radio work.


Time: 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm (Doors open at 6 pm)
THIS IS A FREE EVENT, NO BOOKINGS REQUIRED

Refreshments: There will be refreshments following the talk, and Mike will be available to answer any questions.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>04-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>UQ Unites for Indigenous Child Health</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4501</link>
            <description><![CDATA[UQ Unites for Indigenous Child Health 
– Join in displays and activities and enjoy our BBQ and fairtrade café!
– An event to raise awareness of child health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and to give everyone the opportunity to to voice their support for health equality, and learn about inspiring initiatives from around Australia to ‘CLOSE THE GAP’ in child and maternal health.
Organisations involved:
UNICEF, OxfamUQ, ATSIS unit UQ – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, UQ
ANTaR Queensland – Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
EcoBug Food Co-op, and EWB UQ – Engineers Without Borders]]></description>
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            <pubDate>05-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>ACPACS Seminar: Teacher Education and 21st Century Social Change - Time to take up the Peace ...</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4412</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The recent decade of teacher education in Australia and other western nations has witnessed a swing away from the socially-critical perspectives and a dominance of the economic rationalist paradigm in education focussed on employment outcomes. 

Yet, profound social changes have taken place during this past decade, influenced particularly by aspects of globalisation, the information technology revolution and the recognition of environmental concerns as top social priorities. 

In this seminar I propose that peace education offers a valuable transdisciplinary field with which to develop constructive approaches in education courses for the emerging society. 

The seminar will address peace education approaches to some of the following themes that relate to 21st century social change and education:
•	Globalization and education
•	Communications and the knowledge society
•	The cultural fields
•	Students and identities
•	Schools and security

Dr John Synott is a prominent scholar in the fields of sociology of development and peace education. He is a co-editor and poetry editor of Social Alternatives journal and, until recently, long-standing inaugural editor of The Journal of Peace Education. 

He is also Secretary-General of the Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association. Dr Synott has taught in the Masters Degree in Peace and Development in Castellon, Spain, and the Lahara M.A. in Development Studies at University of Papua New Guinea, as well as extensive engagements at Gongju National University in South Korea. 

He has published articles in a range of peer-reviewed journals, while his recent books are Global & international studies: transdisciplinary perspectives (2004), and Teacher unions, social movements and the politics of education in Asia (2002). In the Humanities Program at Queensland University of Technology, Dr Synott lectures in the sociology of globalisation, Asian Studies and Korean Culture and Societies. His new book `Global studies for Australian students` (Cengage) will be available in August 2008.

The seminars are free, and all academics, staff, students, and interested persons are welcome.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>05-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>Reassessment of the evidence for sulfur-based microbial metabolic activity in the Early Archean ...</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4522</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Speaker: Professor Bruce Runnegar (Department of Earth and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles)

The compositional despersion among ratios of the four stable isotopes of sulfur has proved to be a window into the nature and behaviour of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere during the early (Archean) evolution of Earth. However, as more data are accumulated from any particular geological setting, they become increasingly challenging to interpret. 

Here, we review the evidence from three independent datasets from microbial versus abiological processes in the 3.5 Gaold North Pole succession of Western Australia. One of the crucial parts of the puzzle centres around the interpretation of the host minerals, now barium sulfate (barite), inimately associated with pyrite. We also address the genomic evidence for the early history of sulfur metabolisms.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>05-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>ACPACS Seminar - New Approaches to Genocide Prevention: Modern Technology and New Ways of ...</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4510</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In this seminar Ariela Blätter provides an analysis of the problems associated with the political and legal aspects of the international crime of Genocide, making the case that the only effective response to Genocide is prevention. 

Sharing her work at Amnesty International on the acclaimed “Eyes on Darfur” project (www.eyesondarfur.org), she explores the way that modern satellite technology, SMS text messaging, Google Earth and crowd sourcing are closing the early warning gap. 

Ariela Blätter is an international human rights lawyer and the Director of the Conflict Prevention and Response Centre at Amnesty International USA.  She was appointed as an expert on early warning to the US Genocide Prevention Task Force, chaired by former Secretary of State Madeline Albright and Secretary of Defence William S. Cohen. 

Ariela is adjunct faculty in the School of International Studies at American University, Washington DC, where she teaches on human rights monitoring and innovation. Currently she is on sabbatical as a research fellow at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS).

In 2007 Ariela Blätter launched the “Eyes on Darfur” website (www.eyesondarfur.org), a project that represents the first time satellite technology has been used by a human rights organization to prevent attacks on highly vulnerable villages in war-torn Darfur and eastern Chad.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>06-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>QBI Neuroscience Seminar Series - The multi-talented receptor Neogenin regulates key events in ...</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4505</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Speaker: A/Professor Helen Cooper (Laboratory head - Neural Migration Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute) will present on the topic `The multi-talented receptor Neogenin regulates key events in neural development`]]></description>
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            <pubDate>06-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>Launch of nitelife@UQ Art Museum</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4513</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In conversation 5.30 – 6.15pm

Popular Gothic Literature: Then and Now

Join Lisa O’Connell and Kim Wilkins from the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, as they talk about the origins of the Gothic in literature and its particular cultural moment, and do a guided tour of the genre through to its contemporary manifestations.

 

About the presenters 

Dr Lisa O’Connell is a scholar of 18th century British literature whose published work includes essays on popular fiction, courtesan memoirs, and English marriage plots. She teaches literature at The University of Queensland

Dr Kim Wilkins is the author of twenty novels, including the Aurealis award-winning Gothic thrillers The Resurrectionists and Angel of Ruin. She teaches writing at The University of Queensland.

 

Free. All welcome. No bookings required 

Drinks and pizza from the Pizza Caffe, UQ Union, available after the talk.  

Neo goth: back in black exhibition open until 7.00pm]]></description>
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            <pubDate>06-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>UQ Hong Kong Alumni Association AGM &amp; Dinner</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4453</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The UQ Hong Kong Alumni Association will hold its Annual General Meeting followed by a dinner in Harbour City,]]></description>
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            <pubDate>06-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>Hepatitis C Management Course for Health Care Workers</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4443</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This course examines the emerging issues in Hepatitis C in Queensland. Topics covered include: epidemiology; pathogenesis and virology; transmission and prevention; psychosocial and quality of life issues; clinical manifestations and natural progression; treatment options; side effects; complementary therapies; and harm minimisation philosophies.]]></description>
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            <title>Free Lunchtime Concert</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4527</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Australia’s international contemporary ensemble Elision have established a virtuosic profile for new music performance. Elision soloists Richard Haynes and Carl Rosman perform Elliot Carter’s `Hiyoku` for 2 clarinets, `The Sum of Histories` by Chris Dench for bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet and Evan Johnson’s `Apostrophe` for 2 clarinets.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>07-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>Daphne Mayo Lecture 2008</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4514</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The History of Contemporary Art: Paradoxes and Antinomies

Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA

Andrew W Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney

The Daphne Mayo Lecture is presented by The University of Queensland Art Museum and The School of English, Media Studies and Art History in association with The Alumni Association of the University of Queensland Inc.

Free. Light refreshments available after the lecture

RSVP by Monday 4 August 2008

Bookings essential as numbers are limited

email: artmuseum@uq.edu.au

(07) 3365 3046]]></description>
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            <pubDate>07-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>Developing Drugs for the Treatment of Neglected Diseases of the Developing World</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4480</link>
            <description><![CDATA[TetraQ & CIPDD are proud to sponsor Dr Rob Don, Senior Program Director, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDI) Adjunct Associate Professor, CIPDD, 

The University of Queensland present a morning seminar on the St Lucia Campus Friday 8th of August 2008 -  Developing Drugs for the Treatment of Neglected Diseases of the Developing World. 

This is not only a highly informative seminar but an excellent opportunity to network.

<b>RSVP - Please register by 5th August 2008 via the email contact below:</b>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>08-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>Physiognomies of Murder: Kitty Genovese, the Faces of Victims and Places of Violence Against ...</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4445</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This talk examines the facial and topographical physiognomies that have come to define the murder of Ms. Kitty Genovese in 1964 Queens, NY and her disappearance from its stories.  

The murder of Ms. Genovese was a key event in urban and crime policy in the 1960s, setting out new avenues of psychological research into what came to be known as both the “bystander effect” and “Genovese syndrome;” it also sounded a clarion call for the not-yet-existent victims’ rights movement.  

Rentschler focuses on how and why Genovese was disappeared from the story of her murder, looking for clues in the subsequent news coverage, pressmen’s books, and an amateur Queens, NY historian’s website alongside testimonial that finally emerged from her siblings in the mid-1990s, and her lesbian lover in 2004.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>08-08-2008</pubDate>
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            <title>2nd Annual NDP 08 Live Streaming &amp; Dinner</title>
            <link>http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=4523</link>
            <description><![CDATA[UQ Singapore Student Society is proud to present you the 2nd Annual NDP 08 Live Streaming & Dinner. 

Registration will begin at 5.30pm. The event is free for all UQ SSS members and $5 for non-members.

Please rsvp to uq.singapore@gmail.com with your name, student no and
email address.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>09-08-2008</pubDate>
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