What's On at UWA

What do we mean when we recognise a person, object, idea or practice as ‘creative’? Creativity is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down, more easily recognised as a personal quality than an abstraction. In recent discussions of Indigenous intellectual property rights, creativity is (...)

Professor Victoria Burbank will outline the experiences that accompany the considerable mortality gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. She will share some of the history of people living in the remote Arnhem Land community of Numbulwar. Her research has identified the physical (...)

The judges for the 2011 City of Albany Art Prize will bring their expertise, technical skill and judgement to the topic of art collection management, development and promotion. Art collections are a cultural asset which can reflect the owner's history, identity and aspirations. The City of Albany (...)

Over the last fifteen years or so, an emerging consensus based upon research in a wide variety of disciplines has argued the need to revisit Darwin’s conjecture of 1871, that language may be descended from an extant musical medium of communication that development from animal calls, While humans (...)

Across the world the story is the same. Sex scandal! Media frenzy. Public vilification. Disgrace. Another prominent man caught with his pants down. So why do men take such risks for sex? Bettina Arndt's new research is all about why sex matters so much to men. As one of Australia's first sex (...)

Having read the title above, you will probably be asking: "Why on earth would anybody study sheep psychology?" Maybe even: "Who cares?" Of course, you may have had to deal with the behaviour of sheep and your experiences have led to the view that sheep are not very smart. But (...)

Songs are a universal medium of communication, able to cross borders of language, culture and class. As songwriters we can share the personal and the universal, from our own unique perspective. Like other forms of writing, songwriting is both instinctive and reflective, a talent to be released and (...)

Alan Carter's debut crime novel 'Prime Cut' landed him on the shortlist for the prestigious UK Debut Dagger Award and plenty of critical acclaim. He wrote it over 12 months while he was a kept man in Hopetoun on WA's south coast. Find out how and why and pick up a few tips for dipping your own toes (...)

Australians purchased 14 million digital cameras in the last three years. With auto-focus, auto-exposure and auto white balance, photographers should all be making superb images, but are they? Dale not only simplifies the buttons and knobs on your camera but leads you to discover the joy of (...)

Singing opera is often touted as a great mystery. How does a single voice be heard over the power of an orchestra without amplification? If you've ever wondered why and would love to be an operatic singer for day, come along and learn some technique in this group singing experience. The joy and (...)

Check out the Great Southern's amazing acoustic act, The Pepperjacks! A harmony-laden four piece celebration of some of the classic tunes from the acoustic blues, bluegrass and ragtime traditions, featuring Rod Vervest (guitar), Bob Lipinski (harmonica), Lara Norman (violin) and Craig Sinclair (slid (...)

The Western Australia Chief Scientist, Professor Lyn Beazley, and the University of Western Australia's Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management are hosting a symposium in Albany to showcase the excellent science taking place in the Great Southern region.

'Great Southern (...)

Dr David Watson is a former lecturer at UWA and Curtin University. During the 1980s, he undertook three consultancies for the World Health Organisation, on maternal and child health in China, the Philippines and Fiji. He accepted an offer from the Chinese University in Hong Kong to set up a (...)

Can local government be a powerful force to build positive relationships within and between communities? Given the right encouragement and partnerships, communities can grow an innovative business culture, initiate strategically important projects and enhance the quality of life for all residents. M (...)

Everyone is invited to visit the UWA Albany Centre to find out about study opportunities available at UWA's Albany campus. UWA advisers will be on hand to provide advice on career pathways. Information on entry requirements, courses, study options and scholarships will be available. Visitors can (...)

Growing up in rural Victoria in a family of farmers and teachers, it seems Professor Alan Robson was destined to become one of the country’s leading agricultural scientists and education figures. 
Now both Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia and the Hackett Professor (...)

How do you start to rebuild a war-torn village? Challenge 1 - rebuild 1,000 homes in seven months before winter hits with -20C temperatures. Challenge 2 - install water and sanitation facilities in an internally displaced peoples' camp in rebel controlled districts in North Eastern Uganda. From war (...)

This lecture will analyse two historical documents - two extremely popular films. Both belong to the rare cinema-released documentary-reportage genre: the first, The path of the Wild Beasts belongs to the most confidant phase of Italian colonial expansion, the other, Africa Blood and Guts to the (...)

Equality is often assumed to imply gender equality but is that necessarily the case? Does it infer in the workplace, in a relationship or in politics? Are the dynamics of equality different in different situations? If so, how can we differentiate the shades of grey? Has the metro-sexual male (...)

Gen Y has become the most analysed - and most maligned - generation since the Baby Boomers. They are often labelled the 'Me Generation' by Boomer parents and employers who seem to have forgotten that this label was actually created for them. Hugh Mackay explores the social, cultural and (...)