What's On at UWA

The spatial distribution of chemical species on and within a rock art panel can help to better understand the relations between paint materials, deposits and alteration products and catch a glimpse of events related to the making, alteration and use of the paintings. Analyses of micro samples with (...)

Presented by Emeritus Professor David Tunley (Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, 1983), Head of Vocal Studies, Andrew Foote and senior UWA Vocal Students. This concert will feature all French Salon music from around 1830-1870, with Professor Tunley providing the historical context of (...)

'Feeling (for) the Premodern’ is a symposium that aims to consider the emotional and affective factors in scholarly, popular, imaginative and re-creative involvements with the period 1100-1800, both during and after those dates. What is the emotional history of responses to the premodern past? (...)

Trends in marriage, divorce and longevity mean that Japanese people are spending less of their adult lives married. In Japan, as in other countries, this delay and decline in marriage and the correlated decline in fertility, has been variously construed as proof of social crisis, the triumph of (...)

Across the month of September, the Centre for Education Futures will be hosting a range of workshops, presentations, webinars, panels and a half-day summit that will explore the use of mobile and in-context learning in Higher Education.

All mLearning Month events will be held at the (...)

With his works regularly performed across the world, award winning composer James Ledger steps out onto the stage to conduct the UWA Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s enchanting Pastoral Symphony before young emerging composers respond to Beethoven’s work with their own orchestral compositions (...)

European exploration and colonisation in the early modern period, whether in the Americas, Asia or Australia, prompted a range of encounters between diverse peoples and cultures. But how did emotions – fear, anger, or sorrow – shape these encounters? And in what ways are their emotional (...)

The incidence of armed conflict, forced displacement and natural disasters is increasing, with tremendous impacts for local communities.

There are concerning consequences of trauma for mental and physical health, community cohesion and economic stability, yet growing evidence suggests (...)

For Research Week at UWA, Traditional Owners from Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) are visiting UWA to learn about university research and to co-present findings from the first 13 months of an ARC Linkage project, Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming. This project is a partnership between Murujuga (...)

In this paper I draw on ethnographic data from Melbourne, Australia to explore how Indian and Anglo-Australians with depression procure medicines transnationally. From young Australians who buy (via e-pharmacies) American proteins and Chinese pills for ‘wellbeing’ to Indians who bring in (...)

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 (...)

The modification of the landscape through the construction of stone arrangements at Murujuga and across the Dampier Archipelago is a clear example of humans engaging with and impacting upon their environment. Some of the densest concentrations of stone arrangements in Australia are found in this (...)

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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 (...)

Join us for the mLEARNING SUMMIT, the main event for the mLearning Month (September 2016) hosted by the Centre for Education Futures.

The mLearning Summit will be featuring our own Professor Gilly Salmon addressing the role of mobile learning in blended education.

Also (...)

If you would like to know how a postgrad qualification can shape your future career, visit our Postgrad & Honours Expo in September.

Chat to current staff and students about the courses on offer, scholarships and the application process, and attend one of the information sessions (...)

The Perth USAsia Centre and China Matters invite you to a panel discussion on Australia's relations with China examining the nature of the relationship in the context of a global system that is becoming evermore uncertain and complex. Please join us for this event to hear about how issues like the (...)

On the 9th of October 1616 was listed the goods of the English privateer Thomas Tucker, who was convicted of piracy and hanged in Hensingør. Events leading up to his capture in the North Atlantic and execution in Helsingør are more exiting and unbelievable than any movie script, involving a (...)

Today, Sydney’s Chinatown owes its existence primarily on Chinese food in restaurants, cafes and grocery stores that are frequented by both Chinese and non-Chinese. With its recognisable ceremonial red archways and pagoda-like rooftops, the enclave has become one of the ways in which Australians (...)

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 (...)