What's On at UWA

This year we celebrate our exceptional staff and students in a series of intimate Keyed Up! performances and events.

The Piano Student Showcase will include works by all your favourite composers (including Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Mozart) performed by talented UWA piano (...)

The University of Western Australia is proud to host this public lecture from Professor Carol Weissert, 2015 Fulbright-Flinders Distinguished Chair in American Political Science.

Professor Weissert will discuss the tumultuous and bombastic 2016 American Presidential Race, analysing (...)

A public lecture by Professor Sean Ulm, Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Director of the Tropical Archaeology Research Laboratory at James Cook University.

The sea is central to the lives of contemporary coastal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia (...)

The sea is central to the lives of contemporary coastal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia. Indigenous histories and archaeologies show the sea to be a vital source of subsistence, raw materials, spirituality and connection with other peoples. Coasts, and especially (...)

The launch of the inaugural Asian Research Network: Survey on America's Role in the Asia-Pacific in Sydney on the 8th June was well received. In follow up of this event, the Perth USAsia Centre in collaboration with the United States Studies Centre, at the University of Sydney, is proud to invite (...)

The UWA Future Students team will be running School Advisory Sessions in the July school holidays.

This is a chance for high school students and parents to come on campus and speak directly to a Future Students Adviser. The sessions will last about 30 mins each and will give a chance for (...)

The '7th Wave' reflects the ever changing landscape in Higher Education - every 7th wave is larger than the rest and will bring the biggest learning innovation changes.

The first of the 7th Wave Conference Series is a two-day event exploring opportunities to build on the momentum of (...)

The Australian-American Fulbright Commission offers Scholarships to Australian citizens across all career stages: Postgraduate,Postdoctoral, Professional, Senior Scholars and Distinguished Chairs.

The 2017 Fulbright Scholarships round closes on 1 August 2016. It's not too late to learn (...)

This workshop will outline how CERI can help researchers develop entrepreneurial skills and assist them through the innovation process. CERI is a not-for-profit organisation based in Nedlands.

Perth USAsia Centre together with Australian Industry & Defence Network WA (AIDN-WA) are pleased to invite you to attend our second Indo-Pacific Security Forum event with Professor Michael Evans, General Sir Francis Hassett Chair of Military Studies at the Australian Defence College and a (...)

Music has the power to to enrich and change lives. Here at the UWA School of Music, we provide classes that support this and promote music in the community for everybody.

Our JMS group music programs, designed for children aged 18 months to 12 years, will nurture your child's musical (...)

Public lecture by Professor Jane Lydon, Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at The University of Western Australia.

Conceptions of Australian national identity have emphasized the nation’s collective youth and innocence, federated only in 1901. The Australian national anthem reminds (...)

Head downstairs to the Studio Underground Foyer at the State Theatre Centre. Listen to Australian poets Paul Hetherington, Amanda Joy and Siobhan Hodge while enjoying a beverage or two. Strumfrei16 will also mark the launch of UWA Publishing's new poetry series, UWAP Poetry.

Poetry and painting have been compared since antiquity. John Hollander (echoing Simonides) has said that ‘Works of art are silent; poetry speaks its mind’.

In this workshop critically acclaimed poet Paul Hetherington will demonstrate how visual imagery activates and energises poetry (...)

Prose poetry is a powerful literary form in the 21st century. It is neither exactly like lyric poetry, nor is it quite like conventional prose fiction.

As Peter Johnson says, ‘the prose poem plants one foot in prose, the other in poetry, both heels resting precariously on banana peels� (...)

The UWA Cultural Precinct, the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies and the Black Swan State Theatre Company are pleased to host a special Q&A event as part of The Caucasian Chalk Circle season presented by Black Swan State Theatre Company, in collaboration with the National Theatre of China.
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A public lecture by Ben H. Shepherd, 2016 Fred Alexander Fellow and reader in History at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland.

The German army is widely regarded as having been the most skilled and effective land-based fighting force of World War II, but also one whose reputation is (...)

UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.

A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)

Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School.

Free entry - no bookings required!

This week UWA's talented Guitar students, under the direction of Jonathan Fitzgerald (...)

A wide perception about China is that the Chinese only imitate foreign creativity. The notion of creativity is not heavily studied by sinologists and deserves a better discussion from an inter-disciplinary view. This presentation will examine how renowned individuals in Chinese history viewed (...)