What's On at UWA

Come along to Perth's premier Antiques and Jewellery Fair at Winthrop Hall. WA and Interstate Antique dealers will be present, all selling. A Roadshow Valuation Panel will be available for valuations on Thursday 2 July and Friday 3 July. Limit of three items for valuation (gold coin donation). Not (...)

In this lecture, some of the fascinating interactions between organism life cycles and their dependence on water motion will be discussed. In addition, some implications of water motion on pollution will be illustrated. Finally, the potential impacts of global climate change on the health of (...)

SymbioticA’s Friday Seminar showcases outcomes of the week long Adaptation Workshop. Works created in response to five days of interrogating the problems, challenges, and potentials of a unique site combining stories of creation and evolution, desalination and floods, histories of human (...)

Don't miss the chance to see one of New Zealand's most successful comedy acts live on stage. The Laughing Samoans tour New Zealand, Australia, The Pacific, the USA and the UK playing to packed houses. This is their one and only show of Prettyfull Woman in Western Australia...

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The forum will discuss a number of infectious disease threats that society has or may have to face and how the scientific community is dealing with these issues. Specific areas of interest include: the chance of another SARS outbreak, the impending influenza pandemic, climate change and its impact (...)

The mirror test – a classic investigation of consciousness in animal research – has aspects of a typical pulp science fiction scenario of alien abduction: an animal is rendered unconscious, during which time dye is applied to its face in some way; when it awakes, the animal is given access to a (...)

Professor Armato's main research interests include the automated detection of lung nodules in computed tomography (CT) scans, enhanced visualization techniques for chest radiography, and imaging-based tumor response assessment for lung cancer and mesothelioma. Professor Armato is a Principal (...)

Professor Ruth Gilbert is Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University College London - Institute of Child Health. The two current strands of Professor Gilbert's research, infections and child maltreatment, incorporate (...)

‘Welcome to Country’ by Dr Richard Walley at 6.35pm

Price: FREE – RSVPs essential as space is strictly limited.

The Talk About Art event in July is held in conjunction with the Noongar Koort Boodja – Noongar Heartland exhibition being presented by Gadfl y Gallery in (...)

Please be advised that this seminar has been cancelled

'Posthumanism, Animal Alterity, Ethics and Biopolitics' addresses representations of animals in science fiction from the point of view of Foucault's ideas about biopolitics. Using Karen Traviss' ‘Wess'Har Wars’ series as an example, it explores the ways that challenges to the human/animal (...)

In recent years, the focus on Islam in Western nations has become significant, particularly the way in which Muslims can live harmoniously in these nations. Key events such as Pope Benedict XVI’s address to Regensburg University in September 2006, as well as the Danish Cartoon controversy (...)

The course aims to help participants write effective and publishable book reviews across a variety of genres. It will develop the skills and techniques required to purposefully critique texts. The basics of writing style appropriate to criticism will be discussed and implemented in a variety of (...)

Digital cameras have more controls and features than film cameras and yet most often they are not utilised to full effect. Gain the confidence to operate your camera and its features to produce better photographs of people, places or plants. Course Code: 0942731 Sat 10am-3pm Jul 11 Thu 7-9pm Jul 16 (...)

A Day in the Life of an Astronomy Student is open to current Year 11 and 12 students in WA secondary schools. Students will have the opportunity to locate and view sunspots, to undertake various activities with a radio telescope and learn of the wonders of the Square Kilometer Array, the greatest (...)

The study of embryo implantation is central to understanding female infertility as this is the most challenging event faced by in vitro fertilization clinicians and is a major reason associated with low success rates of assisted reproduction. It is estimated that approximately three-quarters of (...)

Evening classes from 6.30pm-8.30pm

10 Week Course commencing 14 July 2009

Designed for those with an interest in travel, business and friendship.

APIS WA in conjunction with Philosophy at UWA, Notre Dame and Curtin Universities are pleased to host a philosophy cafe open to all. Bring a friend and Join us for some interesting philosophical exchange. Everyone is Welcome!!!

We are now nearing a period in our cosmic time travel that will contain one of the Universe’s most profound events –the first light from the first star – the “dawn of creation”. This event will be found and studied by a new telescope which, when completed in 2020, will be the world’s (...)

One reason that human activities have so often been unsustainable may be that the global patterns of productivity are not understood correctly. The global distribution of marine productivity, which is highest in the high latitudes, has been well-understood for several centuries, although this has (...)