What's On at UWA

Jon Tarry’s series of prints and drawings, sculptural constructions, and video installation explore a range of geopolitical relationships that exist between Australia and the rest of the world. In dialogue with Julian Goddard, Head of Art at Curtin University, Jon will discuss some of the (...)

CONVOCATION, THE UWA GRADUATES ASSOCIATION

invites all graduates and other members of Convocation to attend its FIRST ORDINARY MEETING to be held on Friday, 18 March 2011 at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start in University Club, UWA

Reports will be presented by the Vice-Chancellor, the (...)

The Confucius Institute is running our second intake of our language programmes. Our language courses are designed for those with an interest in travel, business and friendship. Our teachers are qualified Chinese language teaching professionals with many years of experience.

Perth Upmarket is Perth’s premier quarterly upmarket shopfront for the State’s talented artists, designers, stylists and gourmets. The market showcases over 150 designers with products including handmade clothing, wall art, jewellery, wood and paper products, cupcakes, giftware, accessories (...)

The Carbon Futures Challenge 2011 is coming soon! Try our challenge to reduce your carbon footprint as much as possible while be in to win a pool of prizes worth over $2,000. Plus we have a new video competition, so that you can share your experience with the world. Winner will receive the latest (...)

Part of the Power of Music seminar series, this seminar focuses on 19th Century opera dissemination and performance practices in the British Empire.

Global Health – whether invoked to describe border-crossing disease threats, or planet-wide policies and practices designed to improve health – is routinely imagined in terms of the entwining of lives and deaths everywhere. Appeals to this global health interdependency are mobilized by those (...)

John Scott will be talking about Dante, a major Italian poet from the Middle Ages, and his Comedy (Commedia or Divina Commedia), which describes Dante’s journey through Hell (Inferno), the Purgatory (Purgatorio) and Paradise (Paradisio). The Comedy is considered the greatest literary work (...)

Happy Birthday Liszt! Adam Pinto presents a recital of solo piano works by Franz Liszt, celebrating 200 years since the composer’s birth.

Join Perth-based artist and writer Dr Christopher Crouch, and local indigenous artist and Bibbullmun elder Toogarr Morrison, for a thought-provoking discussion about some of the political and creative issues surrounding the representation of landscape in Australian art.

Registrations for the 2011 DCM BlueLake Portfolio Competition are now OPEN!

The DCM BlueLake Portfolio Competition offers you the unique and exhilarating opportunity to experience the life of an equities trader for eight weeks from March 28, competing against Australian undergraduate (...)

Guest Speaker Kate Cullity, Director Taylor Cullity Lethlean, will present a seminar entitled “Telling Stories: Inspiration from Australian Art and Landscape”.

Over a 20 year period the Landscape Architectural practice Taylor Cullity Lethlean have undertaken an investigation into (...)

International visiting researcher, Lissa May, talks about research in Music Education.

The hydrological cycle is rapidly changing across environments due to new stresses caused by unprecedented rates of population increase, unsustainable levels of development and escalating greenhouse emissions. Over the last decade there has been acknowledgement that rising temperatures in many (...)

This talk describes the development of a fine-scale monitoring system for urban and peri-urban environments using Greater Perth as a case study. The method is similar to that used in the Land Monitor Project which monitored changes in land and vegetation condition throughout south-western Australia (...)

Some management theorists have argued “spirituality is the new black” in the work-place and in modern business. Is there a role for spirituality in the workplace and how are organisations grappling with this very private need? A Western Australian business leader considers the role of spirituali (...)

Trinity Piano Trio

The award-winning trio Trinity returns to UWA to present Beethoven’s celebrated Archduke trio.

The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and the Young Lawyers Committee of the Law Society of Western Australia invite you to this special collaborative event, in which members of the arts and law community contemplate a range of human rights and social justice issues in the context of this exhibition (...)

Love Letters by A.R Gurney, tells the story of Andrew Makepeace Ladd and Melissa Gardner, whose poignantly funny friendship and ill-fated romance takes them from second grade through adolescence, maturity, and into middle age.

Love Letters stars two of Australia’s favourite performers (...)

The Institute of Advanced Studies and the School of Music invite you to a free public lecture by Dr Richard Mills AM, composer, conductor, and Artistic Director of West Australian Opera.

Does the work of Australian composers have currency in the national debate? How do publicly funded (...)