What's On at UWA

An On the Edge lecture by Dr Clarke Jones, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.

With the arrest rate of young terrorist offenders likely to increase in the near term, Australian courts are faced with the difficult (...)

This is a NH&MRC grant information session followed by a light lunch.

Is air pollution as bad for us as smoking? Is the growing economy affecting our health? Only 12% of people in the world live in cities which meet WHO air quality standards, and acute effects of air pollution have caused lung illness symptoms, heart issues, hospitalisations and death. Long term (...)

This seminar present the results of interviews conducted between 2010 and 2014 with over 60 jihadists, men found guilty of committing offences under the Indonesia's Anti-Terrorism Law. This study explores their current mindset, asking to what extent do they now reject their earlier commitment to (...)

Aesthetic rationality as a mode for professional care giving.

DVC Professor Kent Anderson will give a talk on

The Rationale for Refreshing the UWA Brand - An update on engaging with UWA's student and graduate communities

A public lecture by Tim Langlois and Jordan Goetze, UWA Oceans Institute

No-take marine reserves have been recognised to provide benefits to biodiversity conservation, science, education and tourism. They have also been suggested as a tool for fisheries management where data is limited (...)

If you would like to know how a postgrad qualification can shape your future career, visit our Postgrad & Honours Expo in September.

Chat to current staff and students about the courses on offer, scholarships and the application process, and attend one of the information sessions (...)

Dr Yudhoyono was the Republic of Indonesia's sixth President and the country's first directly elected president, entering office in 2004 and serving two consecutive five-year terms. He left office in October 2014. In addition to his many achievements as Indonesia's president, Dr Yudhoyono was named (...)

This presentation is a follow-up from the overview presented for Steve's MPA thesis proposal at a Thursday Seminar in Semester I. Since that time, he has had the opportunity to complete fieldwork and submit the first draft of the thesis. For this presentation Steve would like to give you an (...)

A public lecture by Professor David Mackey, Managing Director of the Lions Eye Institute and Director, Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at UWA.

It seems like the simplest question in the world and it is one of the fundamental ways in which we define appearance. But did you (...)

A fundraising dinner, in support of the development of Perth's Early Music Project, will be held at the historic St George's College in September. Perth's Early Music Project is to be hosted by St George's College from next year and will feature the creation of an Early Music Festival and a (...)

A presentation in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII in Asia

A public lecture by Mayu Kanamori, 2015 IAS Artist-in-Residence.

Mayu Kanamori's most recent work 'Yasukichi Murakami: Through a Distant Lens' is a theatre work about the life of historical photographer Yasukichi Murakami and the modern day search of his missing photographs.

Wh (...)

A public lecture by Greg Martin, Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

This lecture will consider how criminologists have engaged in debates about human rights largely by looking at state crimes perpetrated by repressive (...)

Professor Ted Snell, Director of the Cultural Precinct at The University of Western Australia, invites you to the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Centre for the opening of 'DeMonstrable', an exhibition curated by Oron Catts with Associate Professors Jennifer Johung and Elizabeth Stephens. The exhibition (...)

The twelfth IEEE International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks will take place at the Old Swan Brewery on October 4-7. http://iwcsn.eie.polyu.edu.hk/2015/Home.html

The Workshop is sponsored by the Complex Data Modelling Research Group, the School of Mathematics and Statistics (...)

A public lecture by Stefano Carboni, Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia and Adjunct Professor of Islamic Art, The University of Western Australia.

The subject of this lecture is the so-called London Qazvini, an early 14th-century illustrated Arabic copy of an encyclopaedia of (...)

Quit Smoking Successfully!

The Robin Winkler Clinic at The University of Western Australia will be conducting a SMOKING CESSATION treatment program commencing in the first half of OCTOBER 2015.

The Smoking Cessation treatment program combines nicotine replacement therapy with (...)

A public lecture by Vicki Hansen, McKnight Presidential Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth and 2015 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.

Earth's so-called Archean Era, which ended 2.5 billion years ago, marks a time during which the Earth was a completely (...)