What's On at UWA

WA 2.0 is a comprehensive set of initiatives that show how Greens policies can be implemented here in Western Australia now.

What could our state look like if we created a more resilient, connected and prosperous community that cares for our environment and for people?

Australi (...)

In conjunction with four WA universities, The Innovation Centre WA is hosting a series of Start-Up Exchange workshops throughout 2014. The first of these workshops “Idea to Venture” is jointly hosted by UWA’s Office of Industry and Innovation.

You will hear from Prof Tim St Pierre (...)

A public lecture by Dr Peggy Fiedler, Director of the Natural Reserve System at the University of California.

In this lecture Professor Fiedler will provide context for understanding the role of field stations, marine laboratories and other protected areas by discussing specific examples (...)

John Bamberg (UWA)

will speak on

The brilliant career of Frédéric Vanhove

at 3pm Friday March the 14th in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Since 1995, artist Anne Ferran has been examining and rediscovering Australia’s colonial history, through museum collections, photographic archives and archaeological sites.

Her investigation into Australia’s colonial past, especially its lost histories of incarceration, offers a (...)

Visting New York Times editorial board member Carol Giacomo will be at UWA and talking with students on covering the world from home and abroad; looking at the challenges facing journalists covering foreign policy issues. An established commentator on US foreign policy, Ms Giacomo also discusses (...)

#Altac careers have been described as off the tenure track, but within the academic orbit. These positions are serviced by “hybrid humanities scholars” who work in a diverse range of institutions including universities, cultural heritage bodies, libraries, museums, academic publishing, and (...)

This FREE workshop is designed to introduce humanities researchers to the HuNI Virtual Laboratory.

Researchers will be given an introduction to the contents and capabilities of the HuNI VL, and its relationship to the various contributing datasets. They will learn how to create their (...)

Federated Archaeological information Management Systems (FAIMS) is a National eResearch Collaborative Tools and Resources (Australia) funded project to produce a comprehensive information system for archaeology and related fieldwork disciplines. Through community engagement it has developed (...)

The biennial conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). aaDH was formed to strengthen the digital humanities research community and is a member of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO).

Join us from 18th – 21st March 2014 (...)

This FREE Masterclass is an opportunity for postgraduate students and early career researchers to meet and discuss specific research topics with a distinguished scholar. Participants will be invited to participate within the framework of the topic as part of a discussion.

The host (...)

Jon Prince

How melodic contour, rhythm, tonality, and metre affect musical similarity and expectancy

This workshop is designed for experienced supervisors of research students at UWA want to update their current conceptions and practice of supervision at UWA, including updates on UWA policies and rules.

It provides an overview research training at UWA and is designed for supervisors of (...)

This workshop is for UWA staff and others who are new to supervision at UWA. It provides an overview of research training at UWA for those who are new to supervision, new to supervision at UWA or plan to supervise in the future. The workshop is grounded in the Graduate Research School's Policies (...)

Hanifa Deen explores the domestic and international responses to dissident Bangladeshi writer-in-exile, Taslima Nasreen. Following a newspaper interview the author gave in neighbouring India, violent demonstrations broke out in 1994 and she was accused of blasphemy. This led to an international (...)

In part, this seminar is a travelogue and, in part, it is an amateur study in comparative anthropology. While exploring many small, remote and near-isolated islands around the world I became fascinated by the history and sociology of the small human communities that occupied those corners of the (...)

The Visualisation and Poster reception is part of the DHA 2014 Conference held at UWA from 18-21 March 2014. The reception will exhibit electronic posters submitted by conference delegates, as well as presentations Dr Andrew Hutchison - presenting on virtual environments from the Sydney Kormoran (...)

A lecture by Professor Ullrich Steiner, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and Australian Academy of Science 2014 Selby Fellow.

Biological organisms have rather limited resources they can use to build the materials they are made of. Given these limitations, the range of (...)

Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!

Have you wanted to find a way to reward or recognise student achievement or progress in learning without necessarily providing marks? Or to allow students to demonstrate achievements that they can use externally to their university study?

Badges are an emerging feature of online and (...)