What's On at UWA

The presentation draws on my ongoing research into changing styles of performance practice as evidenced on sound recordings. First it provides a brief overview of the major issues and current state of the literature. Then it introduces methods of analysis and the kinds of problems, questions and (...)

Opportunity to read a Latin text in Latin with Professor Peter Davis, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide.

A Virtual Seminar from a Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) partner at the University of Sydney. Dr Minglu Chen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow who researches social changes in contemporary China and is currently working on a project on the evolution of the interaction between the new rich and (...)

REQUIEM, conducted by Nicholas Bannan, comprises three musical works that communicate the conviction that the human spirit survives mortality. Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments was written as a personal memorial to his friend, the French composer Claude Debussy, and embraces elements of (...)

UWA Student Exchange Fair Tuesday 27th April GUILD VILLAGE COURTYARD 11.45AM - 2.00PM

Get all of the info you need to know about going on exchange… plus the chance to meet UWA's International Partners, UWA students who have been on exchange and International Exchange Students (...)

The cultural landscape of South Africa is reflected in the songs and games of young children whose music embodies the social and political history of the world around them. My research with young children in the Limpopo province of South Africa (primarily from Venda and Pedi cultures) is (...)

"A New Edition of Kenelm Digby's Treatises (1644)"

China is now the largest national source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions causing climate change. These emissions must be limited and eventually reduced if the most catastrophic consequences of climate change are to be avoided. However, the Chinese government rejects internationally binding limits (...)

Emeritus Professor Margaret Seares, will give special lecture entitled ‘The role of the subscriber in eighteenth-century musical publications’. This lecture is given to honour UWA’s outstanding musicologist and composer Emeritus Professor David Tunley, as part of the celebration of his (...)

Germaine Greer seems to have been a trigger for outbursts of acrimony ever since the publication of The Female Eunuch forty years ago, but what was the book actually about, and why has it entrenched such violent reactions in Australia since 1970? What made it so radical, and does it have anything (...)

Stephen Vitiello is an internationally celebrated American sound and media artist. Focusing on the physical aspect of sound he uses atmospheric noise or transforms energies such as light and wind to create new environments and experiences. Vitiello’s visit to North-Western Australia in early 2010 (...)

"Romanesque to Contemporary: The production of stained glass windows"

Phoenicians in Spain: Trade, Exchange and Cultural Interactions in the Iron Age. The Bajo de la Campana Shipwreck

This first-ever archaeological excavation and study of a Phoenician shipwreck, located off the south-eastern coast of Spain, is yielding a large and varied assemblage of (...)

Featuring scenes from two Baroque favourites: Handel's Semele and Monteverdi's Orfeo, presented by UWA Vocal Studies students, with piano accompaniment.

Featuring scenes from two Baroque favourites: Handel's Semele and Monteverdi's Orfeo, presented by UWA Vocal Studies students, with piano accompaniment.

Join UWA Friends of the Grounds and Professor Ted Snell,Director UWA Cultural Precint, for a Cultural Precinct walk and talk on the Crawley Campus. We plan to meet at the Visitors Information Centre at 10:00am.

The Harp Consort (in association with Musica Viva) featuring Andrew Lawrence-King and Steven Player.

Are quotas the only answer? How to solve the problem of so few women walking Australian corridors of power: boardrooms, executive suites, government.

We are delighted to invite you to join in this roundtable discussion that will approach this problem from a diverse range of perspectives (...)

The Harp Consort (in association with Musica Viva) featuring Andrew Lawrence-King and Steven Player.