What's On at UWA

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 (...)

The ideal way to start your weekend, Fridays@Five offers unique musical experiences to delight all music lovers. See young artists be inspired through a variety of masterclasses, workshops, pre-concert talks, lectures and Q&A sessions. Delve deep into music or simply enjoy a free informal (...)

Please note that this seminar has been postponed.

A public lecture by Valentina Zovko, Australian Government Endeavour Fellow, based at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, UWA.

This lecture analyses the appearance and usage of the term "freedom" in speeches given by the Dubrovnik's Renaissance ambassadors (...)

The CBAP (Collective History of Archaeology in the Pacific) project is a 5 years research program led by Matthew Spriggs that aims to develop a systematic historiography of archaeology in the Pacific. In this seminar I will present a general overview of the project, before detailing my particular (...)

In recent decades, numerous films from Japan and Korea have been produced using characteristics associated with film noir. Much of the scholarly discussion of this body of ‘East Asian noir’ has tended to merely focus on the extent to which, through their use of aesthetic, they fit the genre (...)