What's On at UWA

This symposium is an exploration of how panoramas have been used in historical and contemporary contexts for diverse scientific, artistic and documentary purposes.

Visit the event webpage for more information: http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/events

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On Thursday June 5 at 6.30 p.m. in the Austin Lecture Theatre at The University of Western Australia, the Ambassador of Greece, Mr Haris Dafaranos, will give a public lecture on ‘Philhellenism’.

The lecture (open to the general public) will be preceded by a brief introduction (...)

Deciding what subjects to study in Year 11 and 12 can be a daunting process, particularly if you are not yet sure if university is the right pathway for your future goals.

Our information sessions will provide advice on UWA's courses, entry requirements and other helpful subject (...)

Deciding what subjects to study in Year 11 and 12 can be a daunting process, particularly if you are not yet sure if university is the right pathway for your future goals.

Our information sessions will provide advice on UWA's courses, entry requirements and other helpful subject (...)

Sarah Knuckey (incoming director of the Human Rights Clinic at Columbia University, New York) will speak on “Law, Drones, and Targeted Killing” at 12 noon on Tuesday 24 June, in room 294 in the Old Econ and Commerce Building. All welcome.

The UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group, with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions present: 'IN FORM OF WAR': WARFARE IN WRITING, 1300-1820. Bringing together leading scholars in medieval, early modern, eighteeenth-century and (...)

We regret that this event has been postponed. The details of Salamat Ali Khan's next event will be released in the near future. Please visit www.cmss.uwa.edu.au for details of other upcoming events. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Salamat Ali Khan is one of the leading exponents (...)

Join Simone Lazaroo on the release of her new novel, Lost River, at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 4 July 2014 at 5.30pm.

Lazaroo will speak about the themes of dislocation, love and loss, and the connections between Australian and South-East Asian lives that she continues to (...)

A public lecture by Congrong Dai, Fudan University, Shanghai and Chinese translator of 'Finnegans Wake'.

A fertile ground is needed for a work to be translated and accepted in the target culture, which entails an in depth understanding of the cultural and ideological background of the (...)

News media often portray Canadian Muslim youth as alienated from society and prone to radicalisation. This lecture focuses on a more complex reality of alienation and engagement, seen through the lens of perceptions of political participation. Using qualitative interview data from 30 Muslim youth (...)

On 22 July, Indonesia's national election commission announced Joko Widodo as the winner of the 2014 presidential election. He defeated former army general Prabowo Subianto by a slim margin of about 8.4 million votes. The Perth USAsia Centre is proud to host an expert panel to discuss the result of (...)

The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery will open late for a very special live performance with renowned clarinettist Ashley Smith and the cream of Western Australia’s young musicians. They will present 20th century works for flute, clarinet, saxophone and piano (Debussy, Jolivet, Poulenc, Satie) (...)

Public Workshop - an open workshop for 3-4 senior students. where the audience gets in on the feedback action!

Although the women’s driving movement in Saudi Arabia has gained tremendous visibility in recent years, it has failed to meet its basic objective: winning women the right to drive. While there is no question that the movement has encountered sustained resistance to its agenda, resistance alone (...)

Contemporary Performance Masterclass

UWA students in masterclass with Lisa Moore and Martin Bresnick. This Masterclass is open to the public, all welcome. THIS IS A FREE EVENT

Described as “brilliant and searching...beautiful and impassioned...lustrous at the keyboard” by (...)

A public lecture by Pip Willcox, Curator of Digital Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

A copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio arrived at the Bodleian Library in 1623. Why and when did it leave? What chance brought it back in 1905? What had happened to it in the (...)

COMPOSITION MASTERCLASS

UWA composition students present their current composition for work-shopping, followed by a brief presentation by Bresnik on My Twentieth Century and ***Trio and Ishi's Song. This Masterclass is open to the public, all welcome. Martin Bresnick is Professor of (...)

Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!

Special guests from Syzygy Ensemble (brought to you in partnership with UWA Cultural Precinct) (...)

A public talk and performance by Martin Bresnick, Professor of Composition, Yale School of Music.

The art of music has always had an unusual ability to be united with other arts - poetry, dance, theater and cinema. In our own time, the association of music, words and images has been (...)

A public lecture and performance by Martin Bresnick

Brought to you by the UWA Institue of Advanced Studies

"Listening to Images, Hearing the Text: new music that engages the visual and the literary"

The art of music has always had an unusual ability to be (...)