What's On at UWA

Professor Jeremy Keenan is currently a Professorial Research Associate in the Department of Social Anthropology and Sociology at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies. Professor Jeremy Keenan will explain events in North Africa from 2003, the year in which the US launched its (...)

Intended Audience: Those who are, or intend to, supervise international students who want to reflect upon, develop or refresh their current conceptions and practice of supervision. Using a discussion-based approach, this workshop builds on the material about international student supervision (...)

The Seminar: Approximately 10% of fertility treatment cycles in Australia use gametes (sperm or eggs) donated from a third party. In the past donors were usually anonymous, little personal or health information about them was stored and children born were seldom told the manner of their (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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The Soil&Water Seminar at 1pm on Tues, Oct. 4th will be given by Dan Murphy from the Soil Biology Group, School of Earth and Environment. All welcome!

TITLE: “Polar Biology – The (...)

Reflections from the UK & Australia. This forum is linked to the Rural Schools and Sustainable Communities Symposium 2013. The forum will be followed by light refreshments.

Eva-Marie Middleton, PhD candidate, School of Music, UWA presents an exciting and innovative research project involving multi-methods including the evaluation of recordings made in the last 80 years.

Akira Kurosawa directed and co-wrote Ikiru in 1952. Filmed in black and white, it ostensibly tells the story of Kanji Watanabe, a bureaucrat and section chief who spends virtually his entire life working in a city office. Neither Watanabe nor anyone else in the office actually does anything much (...)

The Postgraduate and Honours Expo showcases a host of opportunities for further study, including honours and postgraduate coursework and research possibilities.

Discover the courses each faculty has to offer, learn about postgraduate scholarships, attend information sessions and talk to (...)

Nahid Afrose Kabir has recently taken up a position of Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, University of South Australia. Currently, Dr Kabir is an honorary senior fellow in the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University (...)

Analysis of Medical Expenditures with Semiparametric Panel Data Models

The UWA Music Students' Society presents it's 3rd concert of the Semester. This concert will showcase works composed by students and performed by UWA Music Students.

The 2011 Manning Clark House Day of Ideas has invited a range of speakers to discuss how the population dynamics predicted by mid-century will affect how we live. There will be ample opportunity for discussion and the raising and sharing of ideas.

Speakers:

*Population (...)

Adj. Assoc. Prof. Mohammed Benghezal will give a talk on surface properties of urease and persistence of H. pylori in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, Friday, 7 October 2011 at 9:00am. Helicobacter pylori enzyme urease facilitates gastric colonisation by neutralising the (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Akos Seress (UWA)

will speak

On the diameter of permutation groups

at 1pm Friday 7th of October in MLR2

Abstract: Joint work with H. Helfgott. Given a finite group G and a set A of generators, the diameter diam(G (...)

In this seminar, theories of agency, embodiment and constructions of the maternal body will be examined. Since fieldwork for this PhD project is scheduled to commence in April 2012, the ethnographic data presented in this seminar will be limited. Almost 15% of Indonesian households are unofficially (...)

We are living in a period of ecocultural disintegration. The complexity and diversity of culture and ecology (ecocultural diversity) is being removed and/or homogenised by powerful forces all tied to modernity, global development and now, climate change. In some respects we are now all in the (...)

Registrations are now open for an upcoming professional workshop entitled DNA: The good, the bad and the ugly. This lively two day workshop addresses everything you ever wanted to know about DNA but were too afraid to ask. The workshop is fun, interactive, and highly relevant for all lawyers (...)

Dr Felicity Baker is well known for her extensive research in the field of music therapy. In this lecture Dr Baker explores how therapeutic songwriting assists clients to manage their reactions to adversity. By creating songs in a therapeutic relationship, clients begin to address psychosocial (...)

We invite you to listen and engage in a lunch time conversation with members of the UWA community on the topic of ‘what matters to me and why’.

At each session an invited guest will speak about ‘what matters to me and why’ and then there will be an opportunity for questions and (...)

Join Peter Newman, one of Australia's leading sustainability experts and Curtin's Professor of Sustainability as he discusses the possibility of a low carbon city for the future.

Peter has worked extensively in the field reviving and extending Perth's rail system, serving as the (...)