What's On at UWA

CALL FOR PAPERS The Academy of Business & Retail Management is proud to have an established record to organising and managing international academic conferences. Please join us for one of our annual conferences in location given below. All our Conference seek to elucidate a wealth of issues (...)

The Postgraduate Teaching Internship Scheme allows promising doctoral research students, including professional doctoral students, to develop teaching skills in their fields and to undertake a program of professional development activities during the course of their PhD candidature.

If (...)

The Seminar: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a prototypical adult stem cell with an ability to self-renew and differentiate into multiple tissue cell types. In the context of therapeutic applications, MSCs are emerging as a popular agent for tissue regeneration and repair because of their easy (...)

A public lecture by Winthrop Professor Kadambot H.M Siddique, AM FTSE, Director, The UWA Institute of Agriculture.

Cost: Free, Register: http://2050food.eventbrite.com.au/#

Australia is currently a net food exporting country and about 70% of the food produced is exported. The (...)

The Westerly Centre (UWA) and St George's College present the second Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture. Acclaimed poet, critic, novelist, essayist and editor of the recent volume of Randolph Stow's Selected Poetry, 'The Land's Meaning', John Kinsella will present this free public lecture. Wine and (...)

The Westerly Centre and St Georges College will present the second annual Randolph Stow memorial lecture on Tuesday the 6th of August.

Wine and cheese will be served after the lecture.

Guest speaker Professor John Kinsella, in association with the Westerly Centre for Australian Literature, will present the Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture and will talk about Randolph Stow’s Unselected Poetry. All are welcome to attend.

A public lecture by David Konstan, Professor of Classics at New York University

Lucretius’ poem On Nature presents a detailed overview of ancient atomic physics, as developed within the school founded by Epicurus. It has some remarkable features: not just atoms, but tiny, non-detachable (...)

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

The Burrup Peninsula and Dampier Archipelago contain one of the largest concentrations of rock engravings in the world. Numbering well into the millions, the engravings communicate the stories of a dynamic landscape which cultures lived in, utilized, and socialized for millennia. Situated within an (...)

UWA's learning management system provides a variety of tools, features and interactions in an online environment for supporting teaching and learning experiences at UWA. Different roles have different access and capabilities for using the system, and there are two tutor roles - a grading role and a (...)

The impact of financial and macroeconomic factors on individual risk attitude are explored using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) over the period 2004 to 2009. The three survey questions whose responses are analysed are: willingness to take risk generally; willingness to take risk (...)

This paper explores the knowledge-based development of Kobe, Kansai, from its top-down governance after WWII to ideological shifts which provided greater regional scope for location-specific strategies and decision-making. After the destruction of the 1996 Hanshin earthquake, Kobe trialed new (...)

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A graph is called X-semisymmetric if the group X acts transitively on edges, but not on vertices. Such graphs are necessarily bipartite and bi-regular, of valencies k and l say. There is a natural relationship between semisymmetric graphs and amalgams of groups. This leads us (...)

The Australian Academy of the Humanities Annual Lecture 2013, delivered by Professor Peter Hiscock FAHA, the Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, The University of Sydney

Did Aboriginal people create an Eden-like estate or did they destroy the delicately balanced natural (...)

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Australia Felix received two of the Yale School of Music highest honours, performing in the Yale Oneppo Chamber Music Series, as well as guest appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York. Together they have performed as part of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Metropolis Series and at venues (...)

Speakers: Farah Karim-Cooper (Head of Research, Shakespeare's Globe) "Reading Tactility in the Early Modern Playhouse", and Ian Donaldson (Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor ANU, CHE Advisory Board) "Noli Me Tangere: Interpreting a taboo"

Speaker: Patrick Clarke Title: Examining the Functional Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Attentional Bias Acquisition: Evidence from tDCS

Biased attention to threatening information is consistently implicated in the development and maintenance of anxiety pathology (...)

The lecture will explore Islamic approaches to gender discrimination and gender justice. It will highlight the Qur'anic view of gender justice, human rights and legal status of female evidence in Islamic law. Professor Ahmad is the Vice Chancellor of Riphah International University, Islamabad (...)