What's On at UWA

LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "A microscope in a needle: New technologies to image disease" by A/Professor Robert McLaughlin, Optical+Biomedical Engineering Lab, The University of Western Australia. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.

Agnieszka Kosny has a PhD in Public Health (University of Toronto) and has worked as a Scientist at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto, Canada. She is a qualitative researcher and her research has primarily focused on examining the experiences of new migrants after a work-related injury (...)

Sharks have excited the imagination of literary and visual artists for centuries. There are literally thousands of references to sharks in poetry, drama, novels, painting and sculpture. Since the twentieth century they have been appropriated for film, TV and advertising campaigns, but often in ways (...)

The Seminar: In recent years, the usage of personal listening devices (PLD) such as mp3 players and iPods has become increasingly popular, particularly among teenagers and young adults. While experts agree that hearing risk related to inappropriate use of these devices exists, the extent of hearing (...)

You are invited to attend 3 presentations by scholars from Lishui University:

She Nationality Culture: Change and Adjustments Presenter: Professor Shi Qiang

Sport Games of She Nationality Presenter: Professor Fang Zhehong

She Ethnic People: A people who loves (...)

Victoria Rogers: John Blacking, Composer

John Blacking (1928–90) made his mark as an ethnomusicologist and social anthropologist and his enduring reputation stems from his work in these areas. Yet his interests were more far reaching and included cognition and language, dance and (...)

A public lecture by Professor Lyn Beazley AO FTSE, Chief Scientist of Western Australia.

Australia has a reputation for scientific discoveries and engineering innovations that are amongst the best in the world. In this lecture, Professor Beazley will discuss two of them. One is Australia� (...)

Two world-renowned maestros of Indian classical music – Pundit Kumar Bose (tabla) and Pundit Debojyoti Bose (sarod) – will present a workshop at the UWA School of Music.

This is an amazing opportunity to see some fantastic music from two of India’s best musicians.

The external casualties of war have an obvious presence to the interested observer and encompass human, environmental and political dimensions. The internal casualties of war are less obvious and more intimately experienced.

Working with the human aftermath of military conflict has (...)

A public lecture by Dr Thomas Scirghi, SJ, 2013 St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies.

Francis I is the first Jesuit pope in the history of the Catholic Church. Sometimes called the “Pope’s marines,” the Jesuits – formally known as the Society of Jesus – take a special (...)

CATL eLearning is presenting a number of webinars as part of the process of evaluating Adobe Connect - an online conference software - for potential acquisition and implementation for use by UWA staff.

This 30-minute webinar will discuss way in which online technologies are used for (...)

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

Tell Timai, a Tell site in the Nile Delta, represents the remains of the Greco-Roman city of Thmuis, inhabited from c.500 BCE to c.900 CE. Since 2007 a University of Hawaii team has been conducting archaeological investigation at the site. To date most efforts have concentrated on mapping the Tell (...)

An Inquiring Minds lecture by Oron Catts, Director, SymbioticA, Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA.

In 1906 Jacques Loeb suggested making a living system from dead matter as a way to debunk the vitalists’ ideas and claimed to have (...)

Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.

Abstract: We study regional favoritism using satellite data on nighttime light intensity and information about the birth places of political leaders. In our panel with 38,450 regions from 126 countries with yearly observations from 1992 to 2009, we find that regions have more intense nighttime (...)

CATL eLearning is presenting a number of webinars as part of the process of evaluating Adobe Connect - an online conference software - for potential acquisition and implementation for use by UWA staff.

In this 30 minute webinar you will shown how to restrict resources, activities, or all (...)

Abstract:

Given an integer k and a graph L, a (k,L)-complex is a polygonal complex consisting of vertices, edges and faces such that each face is a regular k-gon and the graph induced by the edges and faces at each vertex is isomorphic to L. Many questions about the existence and (...)

Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.

CATL eLearning is presenting a number of webinars as part of the process of evaluating Adobe Connect - an online conference software - for potential acquisition and implementation for use by UWA staff.

There are a number of actions you can do to manage your captured lectures, and this 30 (...)