What's On at UWA

The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative assessed research quality within Australia's higher education institutions using a combination of indicators and expert review by committees comprising experienced, internationally-recognised experts. Guest speakers, including an ERA panel (...)

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In Australasia, UBS has operated in the financial market for over 70 years, having grown from a private stock-broking business to a leading financial services firm with offices in Sydney (...)

In this most timely and relevant lecture, Anthony Seeger, Distinguished Professor of ethnomusicology and Director of the Ethnomusicology Archives at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) will address issues in Intellectual Property and ethics from an ethnomusicological perspective. His (...)

World-renowned enthomusicologist, nephew of famous folk musician, Pete Seeger. The author addresses issues in Intellectual Property and ethics from an ethnomusicological perspective.

This lecture considers what some of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages imagined life would have been like if the Fall from Eden had not occurred, and what those imaginations told them about life in their present existence. This harking-back to Paradise was essentially a search for origins: by (...)

This Virtual Seminar, brought to you by the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), reviews core debates on how social classes have emerged in China since 1978 and critically discusses main factors in China's political economy and its integration in the global economy that have influenced the (...)

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 (...)

Part of the Power of Music seminar series, this seminar focuses on 19th Century opera dissemination and performance practices in the British Empire.

Happy Birthday Liszt! Adam Pinto presents a recital of solo piano works by Franz Liszt, celebrating 200 years since the composer’s birth.

This presentation examines Uyghur subjective class status in Ürümchi, China. Existing studies have identified socioeconomic status and psychological well-being measures as two major determinants of class identification. This study shows that Uyghur ethnic consciousness also affects their (...)

Join Perth-based artist and writer Dr Christopher Crouch, and local indigenous artist and Bibbullmun elder Toogarr Morrison, for a thought-provoking discussion about some of the political and creative issues surrounding the representation of landscape in Australian art.

International visiting researcher, Lissa May, talks about research in Music Education.

What did the first printing press look like? How did the early printers set their type? What did their type look like? We do not know how the first printers printed - we can only deduce. This illustrated lecture will show how faults and errors made by the first printers in their editions can (...)

Trinity Piano Trio

The award-winning trio Trinity returns to UWA to present Beethoven’s celebrated Archduke trio.

The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and the Young Lawyers Committee of the Law Society of Western Australia invite you to this special collaborative event, in which members of the arts and law community contemplate a range of human rights and social justice issues in the context of this exhibition (...)

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 Institute of Advanced Studies and the School of Music invite you to a free public lecture by Dr Richard Mills AM, composer, conductor, and Artistic Director of West Australian Opera.

Does the work of Australian composers have currency in the national debate? How do publicly funded (...)

Celebrate the return of Paul Wright to the School of Music and join a staggering array of exceptional staff and illustrious graduates in world-class performances of exquisite chamber music.

Tickets available from BOCS: www.bocsticketing.com.au / 9484 1133

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Composers’ Concert

This concert will feature new works by composition students from the UWA School of Music.

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 (...)