What's On at UWA

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

Our fully-paid, two-year program develops you as a leader and focuses on achieving success – both for yourself and for others. You will be joining a talented group of like-minded individuals committed to addressing educational disadvantage.

In the classroom you will lead your students (...)

Science tells us that human induced climate change is occurring and steps need to be taken to reduce global greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. The imperative for doing so is predicated on the need to avoid the long-term consequences of global temperature rises. However, actions designed to mitigate (...)

The city street of nineteenth-century Britain were noisy, and street musicians were frequently accused of being major contributors to this noise. If this was the case, what part did the barrel piano makers of Bristol have in this business of noise? The paper will examine the role of, particularly (...)

This event acknowledges the important role music plays in bringing people from all walks of life together, and in encouraging their health and wellbeing. Staff and students from the School of Music will join Catch Music, The Stirling Silver Singers, and The People Who Care Choir to celebrate music (...)

Showcasing works for 19th Century Cello and Piano. Program includes works by Braga, Piatti and Forino

Extractive industries were extremely important to the early Swan River Colony. Yet it was not until 60 years after settlement that a viable export timber industry was established. An archaeological investigation of the Canning Timber Concession to the east of Perth demonstrates how redundant and (...)

A screening of the award winning film Maati Maay (A Grave-keeper’s Tale) followed by a conversation with the producer, writer and director, Chitra Palekar

Maati Maay is based on a short story by Mahasweta Devi and tells the story of a beautiful young mother, trapped between her (...)

February 2009 marked 10 years since Hugo Chavez took office, following a landslide election victory, and launched the Bolivarian revolution to bring radical change to Venezuela.

Filmed in Caracas in November 2008, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of Chavez's controversial presidency (...)

Prepare to be enchanted by Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony; Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings and Arvo Pärt’s magnificent Tabula Rasa. These three musical gems represent three different epochs in the ever evolving Russian and Soviet music: the beautiful, crowd pleasing Tchaikovsky; the (...)

The CCUSA Work Experience program has been very successful for a number of years in allowing young students the opportunity to travel and work in the United States of America.

The program is only available to full time tertiary students so now is the time to get involved!

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The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) has awarded a significant grant under its Priority Projects scheme to an interdisciplinary team and reference group, led by Dr. Bronwen Ackermann (Univ. of Sydney) and Dr. Suzanne Wijsman (UWA) to design and develop a strategy to address this (...)

Performing new works by Australian and UK Performers

Traditional Chinese Painting has many distinctively different styles. This practical introductory course to Chinese painting will introduce these styles including Impressionistic and Fine painting, Scenery, Flower and Birds and People. Course Fee-- 219.00 (includes GST) Time-- Mondays 6.30-8.30pm (7 (...)

This paper considers the example of men accused of witchcraft to examine the issue of negative early modern English masculinities. It outlines a series of gendered notions which could be applied to men and their behaviour, and suggests some of the cultural work such negative masculine (...)

In 1794 the Welsh-speaking artist Edward Pugh (1763-1813), the son of a country barber, published in London a series of six engravings of the area around his home town Ruthin in Denbighshire. By focussing on one, the image of a tract of common land on the Flintshire-Denbighshire border, this (...)

Ranging from economic history to literary and artistic representation, this multi-disciplinary conference examines the topic of poverty and the poor from the early medieval period to 1800.

This unit introduces the principles of essential human nutrition with applications to public health.

The unit will provide students with a basic introduction to food and nutrition as well as applications to public health. Applied topics include nutrition for different life stages; (...)

The 21st century presents the greatest challenges and opportunities ever faced by humankind. Massive changes are expected in technology, economies, ecologies, human values and wellbeing. How do we understand and prepare for such changes; this is the stuff of Education for World Futures. Professor (...)

Students gain an understanding of the cultural definition of the concept of health and 'wellbeing' as described in the holistic health model; understand the origins of ill health in Aboriginal people; and can apply approaches to redress some of the health inequalities Aboriginal people face.