What's On at UWA

The Religious Entrepreneurship of Humanistic Buddhism

This dissertation explores the concept of religious entrepreneurship in the context of the Humanistic Buddhist movement. Religious entrepreneurship as a theoretical framework facilitates a focus on the production of religious capital (...)

This session will be useful for researchers who are applying for grants, tenure or promotion; or generally, wish to monitor their research performance. It will cover finding:

· Evidence of quality for journals in which you have published;

· Citation numbers for individual (...)

Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from within the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.

The Darlington Ensemble are one of Perth's premier chamber music ensembles, offering a full palate of chamber music (...)

Assemblage thinking has exploded in policy research, especially among scholars working in the policy mobilities field who are seeking to harness the potential of an assemblage approach to understand how policies move, mutate and manifest in increasingly transnational contexts. The ubiquity of (...)

Speaker: Emilio Pierro (University of Western Australia)

Title: The 2-transitive permutation representation of the small Ree groups

Time and place: 4pm Friday 03 May 2019, Weatherburn LT

Abstract: Given a group G, the question of which subsets S of G generate G is (...)

Con-Cantorum (vocal ensemble) and UWA String and Brass students present intimate music spanning more than 150 years of the Baroque period. The program will feature Purcell Anthems, including his haunting 'Funeral Music for Queen Mary', Lotti 'Crucifixus a 10 voci', and Telemann Concerto for 4 (...)

Professor Mona Bafadhel is the current Kemp Post-doctoral Fellow in the Medical Sciences at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford and an NIHR Post-doctoral Fellow. She is a clinical researcher, working in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, an Associate Professor in Respiratory Medicine at (...)

Find out about the role of publishing in today’s academic environment, how to decide what publications are right for your research, and what new developments such as open access and ebooks mean for academics and researchers.

Over recent decades, tensions in the ways universities are organized and operate have become increasingly apparent. On the one hand, universities have ostensibly endeavoured to move away from traditional bureaucratic modes of governance, aiming to reduce ‘red tape’ in the process. Yet over the (...)

Searching grey literature is an important step in ensuring that your systematic review is truly comprehensive. Come and learn some strategies and sources for searching grey literature, which includes everything that has not been published in a conventional sense.

Over the last forty years or so, speculation about the origins and purpose of music within the disciplines devoted to human evolution has moved from being almost systematically ignored to centre stage. This paper sets out some of the historical influences on this change in the value placed on Music (...)

A public lecture by Maureen O’Malley, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

Microbes in the gut (‘microbiomes’) are thought to play a major role in producing disorders such as autism, anxiety and (...)

Trirelational kin terms are lexemes that identify a family member (the referent) via triangulation, by simultaneously specifying their relationship to two other parties: the speaker and propositus (person from whose perspective the relationship is calculated—often the addressee) (Laughren, 1982; (...)

Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from within the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.

New in 2019, Paul Rissmann will work with EChO11 to mentor and perform side-by-side with students from Tertiary (...)

Speaker: Gordon Royle (University of Western Australia)

Title: From Lehman Matrices To (Im)Perfect Graphs

Time and place: 4pm Friday 10 May 2019, Weatherburn LT

Abstract: A pair (A,B) of square 0/1 matrices is called a Lehman pair if AB^T = J + k I where J is the (...)

Join Chair of Guitars Jonathan Fitzgerald as he works with talented high-school guitarists in a free masterclass.

Expressions of interets to perform: [email protected]

Free entry - no bookings required

Held at the University of Western Australia, the Day of Percussion is a day of masterclasses, workshops and performances of percussion related music for all ages and skill levels.

The 2019 Day of Percussion program will include sessions on, contemporary drumset, orchestral percussion (...)

A public talk by Dr Stefano Carboni, Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia.

The celebrated Venetian painter Gentile Bellini was sent by the Serenissima Republic to spend two years at the court of Mehmet II the Conqueror in Istanbul in 1479. This important moment in the cultural and (...)

The vision of the UWA Conservatorium of Music is to enrich all lives with music. Through UWA’s broadening units, all undergraduate students have the opportunity to engage in practical music-making as part of their degree.

Enrich! brings together these students in vibrant and dynamic (...)

A public lecture by Jon Blundy, Professor of Petrology, University of Bristol and 2019 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow.

In this public lecture Professor Blundy will discuss how our concept of volcanic systems has evolved in the light of recent geophysical and (...)