What's On at UWA

With the sparkling city lights and starry night sky over Kings Park providing a shimmering backdrop, join director Paige Newmark for a director’s talk prior to watching a production of The Tempest. Admittance ticket and a glass of sparkling wine on arrival included. Tickets $79, bookings essential.

Professor Susan Prescott takes us on a journey into the allergy epidemic. The alarming and unprecedented rise in allergies and immune diseases has been getting worse with each generation, and in a new twist, the latest generation is the first to bear the brunt of a completely new epidemic of food (...)

In my paper I will present the exhibition "jenseits des menschen, beyond humans" I curated in 2010 for the Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité, putting new works by the Berlin based artist Reiner Maria Matysik as part of the Interventions series on show, which was initiated in (...)

Discussion of India in the public sphere in Australia often focuses on the growth of the Indian economy, trade relations, and the emergence of India as a powerful economic and political actor within the international system. Less present in media and public discourse on India is consideration of (...)

The dynamic inventor of the vaccine Nanopatch, Prof. Mark Kendall, will talk about the development and enormous potential of this revolutionary technology for vaccine delivery. You can also explore the Incredible Inner Space exhibition, which includes an amazing microscope image of the Nanopatch.

What do a physicist, an astronomer, a biologist and a Buddhist monk see when they look at the stars? What can they show us? Out of science emerges the story of our place in the universe, where we came from, and the future destiny of our world. Gingin Observatory offers a great vantage spot to see (...)

The Kimberley’s 380 million year old Great Devonian Reef has preserved some of the best fossils in the world. Ancient fish once swam in this reef and their fossils have revealed their reproductive strategies. New technology has revealed that Materpiscis – the mother fish – contained the perfectly (...)

A series of reflections with Prof Christopher Wortham for Lent on T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets as a journey of the human spirit. Join us in the beautiful Perth Cathedral as we reflect with the poet on his spiritual experience through war-torn decades of the twentieth century. Tickets $50, concession (...)

A public lecture by Robert J Glennon, The Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona.

Australia and the United States are both facing a water crisis. Recent and severe droughts, especially in Western Australia and in Texas, have (...)

It’s on again, the UWA Bike Breakfast. All UWA cyclists welcome. On Wednesday 21st March ride your bike to Riley Oval and be rewarded with breakfast catered by Uni Club. Breakfast from 7.00am until 9.00am. So cycle down to UWA and help celebrate all things cycling. Great prizes will be on offer.

How is it that some people rise above? What is their secret? Chris Sheedy, from Guinness World Records, has spent his career getting to know some of the world’s most admired people, ordinary folk who have achieved extraordinary things. Now, for the first time, he shares his stories of how these (...)

Fiona Scott-Norman takes us on a romp through her youth via really bad music and vinyl LPs which features music from white supremacists, William Shatner, Australian radio jock John Laws, dodgy Christians, and misguided football players. She takes us back to a more "innocent" time, when (...)

It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the very 1st Symposium on Plant Signalling & Behaviour (SPSB 2012) to be held at the University of Western Australia on 16th-21st September 2012.

The SPSB 2012 was conceived out of a desire to support and advance this new and (...)