What's On at UWA

SymbioticA Friday Seminar - SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2 , School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA Fri 12th Feb, 3:30-5pm Speaker: Colin Milburne Title: 'Nanocity and the Globalization of Speculative Science’ This talk will examine Nanocity as a speculative media object: a bundle of design (...)

The course is designed for people with little or no knowledge of statistics. It will be spread over two/three days covering material ranging from means and standard deviations to simple linear regression, and basic ANOVA. Some basic categorical data analysis will be included with the emphasis (...)

This lecture will critically explore the contributions that feminist scholarship has made to our understanding of female deities in the ancient Semitic world.

Topics to be discussed will include the notion of a prototypical mother/fertility goddess, the practice of sacred prostitution (...)

In this artist talk Ricky Maynard will share some of the many interesting stories behind his works. Ricky is a member of the Ben Lomond and Cape Portland Aboriginal People of Tasmania. He lives and works on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait between Tasmania and the Australian mainland. Maynard has (...)

Celebrate the rich and joyful African heritage of spiritual music, drumming and dance in the magnificent Winthrop Hall with the UWA Extension Summer School Choir, led by Dr Margaret Pride. Join MC Kwame Selormey on a musical journey into Africa as the Choir sings soul, spirituals and traditional (...)

Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land is a major survey of photographic works by documentary photographer Ricky Maynard, encompassing more than two decades of his work. This exhibition, being toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Sydney, features more than 60 evocative and captivating (...)

Speaker and geologist Jenny Bevan enjoyed a recent trip by Landcruiser across the Himalayas. Her illustrated talk will include highlights of the varied and interesting things she saw on her journey through Nepal and Tibet. She will also include a basic appreciation of the geological history and (...)

Family friendly lectures for all who care about the awesome and mysterious Universe.

New detectors will allow us to probe the beginning of time in the big bang and the end of time in black holes, and processes where space and time are warped and distorted.   Two outstanding speakers – (...)

Moving between the late 1960s and today, Salley Vickers’ charming new novel is written with her renowned lightness of touch and psychological insight. It is a bittersweet reminder of the shadow lost opportunities can cast over a life. Fans will recognise many themes that run through all her works.

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20:00 - EVENT - Perth International Festival Presents - AN EVENING WITH IRVINE WELSH

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A master of dark, scabrous humour, Irvine Welsh has created some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction. The author of Trainspotting returns with two new books: Crime, an electrifying thriller about innocence and absolute evil; and Reheated Cabbage, a collection of stories set in (...)

The 2010 Salek Minc lecture will be presented by Michael Rush, former Director of the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr Rush will discuss the central role of the university art museum within the cultural and intellectual life of the university and wider (...)

The 2010 Salek Minc Lecture will be presented by Michael Rush, former director of the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston. In this lecture he will examine the responsibilities of museums and galleries as the custodians of our cultural heritage, in light of recent controversies around the (...)

Throughout his career Professor Richard Weller has worked selectively on significant and often large scale urban projects around the world. He is renowned for combining teaching, research and practice as a Professor of Landscape Architecture at The University of Western Australia.

This (...)

UWA Extension presents - Todd Sampson is the CEO of Leo Burnett Sydney, one of Australia's top creative advertising agencies. He is well known for his appearances on the hit ABC TV show The Gruen Transfer and features regularly on Channel Ten's 7PM Project. Todd is the co-creator of the (...)

The Institute of Advanced Studies and the Faculty of Law at UWA present a free public lecture by George Bizos SC, Human Rights Lawyer.

During South Africa’s apartheid years, the role of the judiciary was suppressed by the implementation of the principle of the sovereignty of parliament (...)

John Barrett-Lennard is Director of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and Margaret Moore is Manager of Visual Arts at the Perth International Arts Festival. In this inaugural session of the Wednesday Night Conversations series, they will discuss the importance of exhibiting international artists like (...)

An Institute of Advanced Studies public lecture by Dr Sylvester James Gates, Jr, John S. Toll Professor of Physics, University of Maryland.

The physicist John Wheeler proposed over thirty years ago a hypothesis he described as `IT from BIT,’ meaning the ultimate architecture of nature (...)

Professor Ian McLean is Discipline Chair of Visual Arts in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Visual Arts, and Tjalaminu Mia is Research Fellow in the School of Indigenous Studies at UWA. Together, they will examine key social and political issues addressed in Ricky Maynard’s photographs (...)

An IAS public lecture by John W Byrne, a Governor of Dr Johnson’s House, London and Bibliophile.

In this lecture, John Byrne will discuss the faint but fascinating presence of Johnson and his circle in this continent, from the earliest days of English exploration and settlement on the (...)

CONVOCATION, the UWA Graduates Association invites all graduates and other members of Convocation to attend its First Ordinary Meeting

The results of the 2010 elections for Warden, Deputy Warden, Members of the Council of Convocation and Convocation-elected Members to Senate will be (...)