What's On at UWA

This free lunchtime concert will showcase senior vocal students from the School of Music.

The 2011 Marshall-Warren lecture will be delivered by Michael Spence, Winner of the Nobel 2001 Prize in Economic Sciences with Joseph E. Stiglitz and George A. Akerlof.

In this lecture, Professor Spence will explore the main arguments of his book 'The Next Convergence'. This will appeal (...)

In this lecture Professor Rao will discuss some of his research on behavioral aspects of pricing. The lecture will focus on three concepts -

1) The usual measurement of WTP using a conjoint utility model may be biased due to the presence of informational effect of price

2) (...)

'Recent Past' represents a spectrum of Australian art, of the UWA art collection, and of ideas about painting. With this in mind, the Director and exhibition curator, John Barrett-Lennard, will trace the winding path from pinnacles of high abstraction of the late 60s to the torrid expressionist (...)

The University Branch of Save the Children Australia will hold the annual Book Sale in the Undercroft of Winthrop Hall.

The sale this year will be held from Friday 19 August – Wednesday 24 August.

Opening times:

Friday: 5.00pm - 9.30pm

Saturday: 6.00am - (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Victoria Rogers, School of Music, UWA, these training seminars are presented by the School's honours-level students.

Dr Parkinson was appointed Secretary to the Treasury in March 2011. He is Chair of the Advisory Board of the Australian Office of Financial Management, and member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Board of Taxation, the Board of Infrastructure Australia and the Council of Financial (...)

What does the future hold for us? Current lifestyles are built on large amounts of cheap energy and abundant resources.

The challenge now is that climate change and resource depletion threaten food production and peace. I expect the retrospective view of the 21st century will show up (...)

Assoc. Prof. Glen Phillips (ECU) and John Ryan, PhD candidate (ECU) examine the relationship between painting and poetry through a discussion of two works from the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery's current exhibition, Recent Past: Sydney Nolan's 'The Snake' and 'Flower panels [Paradise Garden series]' (...)

Tzvi Friedl presents a program including works by Brahms and more recent compositions for viola in this free lunchtime concert.

A concert of Baroque favourites by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and others. You will hear some of the best loved works of classical music, which just happen to date from the era, played on period instruments in authentic Baroque style.

Ticket available from: http://uwa.interticket.com/search.php (...)

The Grit in the Oyster: Reflections on the Baroque in Music Symposium Chair: Emeritus Professor David Tunley

Speakers include: Margaret Sears, Jonathan Paget, Stewart Smith, Sandra Bowdler, Nicholas Bannan and Paul Wright

For further information and to register your interest (...)

Until recently, the predominant focus of research in relation to children and disasters has been on children’s vulnerability and reactions to disasters during the Response and Recovery phases. Research focused on children’s preparation for hazardous events has a much shorter history. This (...)

We sometimes forget that Handel was not the only great Baroque composer of his time. In this concert we will hear chamber cantatas composed by such forgotten luminaries as Giovanni Bononcini, Nicola Porpora and Adolf Hasse.

Tickets available from: http://uwa.interticket.com/search.php?la (...)

Dr Murray works as a cardiothoracic radiologist at Royal Perth and Princess Margaret hospitals and at Envision Medical Imaging. His current research interests include the utility ultra-low dose CT for children with cystic fibrosis (AREST-CF research group) and low dose CT for the secondary (...)

The Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences presents an International Research Seminar led by distinguished visiting scholar in digital humanities, Professor Harold Short (King’s College London).

What are the particular challenges faced by scholars engaged in collaborative (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Victoria Rogers, School of Music, UWA these seminars are presented by the School’s honours-level students.

The 2011 Gentilli Memorial Lecture will be given by by John McBride, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Bureau of Meteorology, Centre for Atmospheric Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne.

It is often stated that the effect of climate change will be felt through its impact on extreme (...)

Dr. Alan Lourens presents works on his 1934 Elkhart Conn Double Belled Euphonium.

Works by Jan Bach, Arthur Remington and others.

The 2011 Disability Collective Lecture will be given by Senator Jan McLucas, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers.

This lecture is co-sponsored with the Institute of Advanced Studies and Equity and Diversity Unit at UWA and the Western Australian Disability Collective, a (...)