What's On at UWA

In this discursive-style presentation we discuss interrelated and current research issues and projects from the Kimberley region. These cover topics such as: -Why are potentially earlier dates for figurative art in the Kimberley significant? -Are multi-phase depictions of plants such as yams (...)

We start from the notion of Ball&Nikita (2014) who ask for considering “the educational choices and choice making contexts of a burgeoning, mobile, post-national middle class who operate on a global scale, or perhaps more precisely, who act locally and think globally.” Our data basis (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 4 March in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Joy Morris (University of Lethbridge)

Title: Automorphisms of circulant graphs

Abstract: Determining the full automorphism group of a graph is a hard problem with a long history. I will discuss some of (...)

A public lecture by Professor Peggy Deamer, Associate Dean, Yale School of Architecture.

"Architecture is not a career; it is a calling!"

This lecture will examine the problems for the architectural profession when it heeds this cry. Because we too often believe that (...)

Presenter: A/Prof Paul Dux (UQ)

A/Prof Paul E. Dux is a psychologist and neuroscientist who received his PhD from Macquarie University and then undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University. He is a faculty member in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland (...)

A public lecture by Dr Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology.

This lecture introduces marine environmental history (MEH) and its relevance for marine management. It will present some of the underlying concepts, theories and methods, and present the (...)

The presence or absence of fish in the Tasmanian archaeological record has long been a lightening rod for the broader debates about the level of social and technological impacts within isolated human populations. The narrative has largely been driven by data derived from the Rocky Cape caves, dug (...)

The 2016 Grace Vaughan Memorial lecture by Dorinda Cox, Project Officer, Keeping Kids Safe Project, Women’s Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services WA and Managing Director of the Inspire Change Consulting Group.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 35 times more (...)

Ultrafast spectroscopy can provide a host of valuable information on the nature of and coupling between electronically excited states of molecules.

Experimental techniques such as femtosecond optically gated (FOG) fluorescence and broadband transient absorption (TA) can yield (...)

Abstract- Using a newly constructed China Industrial Productivity data set (CIP), this study adopts the Jorgensonian aggregate production possibility frontier (APPF) framework incorporating the Domar weights in aggregation to account for the industry origin of China’s aggregate growth and (...)

Human Sentience and Ideas of Empathy: A Neuroanthropological Study of the Sensory Life Worlds of Women With Fibromyalgia and/or Autism Spectrum Condition

This proposed ethnographic study poses the question: How are biomedical interpretations of fibromyalgia (FM) and autism spectrum (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 11 March in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Binzhou Xia (Peking University)

Title: 2-arc-transitive Cayley graphs of soluble groups

Abstract: Classifying certain classes of 2-arc-transitive graphs has received considerable attention. There have (...)

UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.

Join us each Thursday during semester for a (...)

Masterclass: Brian Finlayson (Chamber Music)

Mastery of Technique and Excellence in Performance International artist and pedagogue Violin/Violist Professor Finlayson will conduct a series of lectures, masterclasses and workshops for students, professionals and teachers. Professor (...)

Professor Christophe Lécuyer received his PhD in petrology and geochemistry from the University of Rennes France) in 1989, and also obtained a position at CNRS. He has worked as a Research Associate at the University of Michigan (1990-1991) where his research began on past global climate change (...)

A public lecture by Jane Macnaughton, Professor of Medical Humanities, Durham University, UK and Co-Director of the Durham University Centre for Medical Humanities.

Can the arts and humanities make a real difference to clinical practice and research? This lecture takes up that challenge (...)

The People’s Action Party, Singapore’s governing political party, has since independence in 1965,imposed strict restrictions on the Singaporean populace. Using direct and indirect measures to manage the city-state, the resultant climate of fear has developed widespread use of out-of-bound (...)

Joel Mackay trained as a chemist at the University of Auckland and a chemical biologist at The University of Cambridge before coming to Australia to postdoc with Glenn King at the University of Sydney. Over the course of the subsequent twenty years, he has succeeded in moving a total of about 20 (...)

Abstract - Recent nationwide assessments have documented the low levels of learning in Tanzanian schools. These low levels of learning are driven in part by limited accountability in the education system, which is reflected in the frequent absence of teachers from schools. This is further (...)

Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School.

This week the UWA Vocal Consort presents Renaissance to Rihanna - a selection of sacred and secular a cappella partsongs that will rock (...)