What's On at UWA

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 (...)

Learn to make more effective use of Google, Google Scholar and Google Books to find scholarly information.

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.

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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 (...)

The Jarash Water Project was initiated to study the ancient water management systems in the Jarash valley in northern Jordan. The talk will explain the study’s multidisciplinary approach and the results of field surveys over four seasons. Water management systems are the prime focus; however, the (...)

Steve Reich has been described by the New York Times as our greatest living composer and this performance marks the 40th anniversary of his 1976 work Music for 18 Musicians; a wonderfully joyous work that significantly influenced developments in music in the twentieth century.

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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 (...)

Philip Murray – Flute

with guest artists Bronwyn Wallis – Harp Sally Boud – Viola Ethan Dorrian – Guitar Bradley Gilchrist – Piano

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

Co-Lab is an annual commissioning project that brings together the composition and percussion departments within the School of Music that (...)

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 (...)

The oldest surviving examples of eyeglasses in the world, dating from around 1330, were discovered hidden beneath the floorboards of the nuns’ choir in the Cistercian Kloster Wienhausen near Celle in northern Germany. Several pairs were stashed there, along with prayer books, small pictures (...)

Gender is a powerful and flexible analytical tool that has profoundly influenced scholarship over the past few decades. It is widely recognised as a necessary category of analysis, and exciting opportunities to integrate it more fully into scholarly practice continue to emerge. This conference (...)

Finishing the first draft of your manuscript is no mean feat. But what happens between completing your first draft and getting your manuscript assessed or sending it off to a literary agent or publisher? This fast-paced, interactive workshop with author John Harman will take you through how to edit (...)

UWA Staff are invited to join Mark Bailye (Blackboard) and Centre for Education Futures staff for this active workshop to explore how technological tools can support the UWA Policy on Assessment, and enhance good assessment and feedback practice. This session will help you get the most out of (...)

A public lecture by Stephanie Tarbin, School of Humanities and ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, UWA.

The lives of medieval people are far in the past and were often unrecorded. Nonetheless, in recent decades, gender and social historians have made enormous (...)