What's On at UWA

“Building Cities to Promote Health: Evidence to action” Professor Jim Sallis (San Diego, USA) Professor Jim Sallis is Director of The Active Living Research Centre at San Diego State University, which has received over US$27 million in funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop (...)

Perth Upmarket is Perth’s premier quarterly market for original and handcrafted wares.

The market brings together over 150 of Perth’s most talented artists, designers, craftspeople and gourmets all under one roof at the University of Western Australia’s Winthrop Hall.

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A/Professor Peter Richmond is a General Paediatrician & Paediatric Immunologist at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at UWA. A/Professor Richmond is also the director of the Vaccine Trials Group, a multidisciplinary research group whose aim (...)

Keynote speakers include Professor James Ferguson from Stanford University, and Professor Jean Comaroff from the University of Chicago. Plenary speakers include Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond, Professor Alberto Gomes,and Professor Shiv Visvanathan.

Celebrate Bastille Day early with the 62nd Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival Choir!

This will be a concert not to be missed, featuring the Australian premiere of the Desenclos Requiem coupled with beautiful music composed by Fauré, Alain and Poulenc. The choir will be (...)

Experience a unique and extensive showcase of visual arts from established and emerging WA artists. Artists and art lovers will come together to share their common interests and explore the styles and techniques of today's established and emerging artists. Supported by some of UWA and Perth's most (...)

The history of Modern Europe presents a multitude of disturbing contradictions. The Old Continent has engendered the most uplifting visions of human potential and the darkest dystopias in human experience. It has laboured to produce its colossal social, cultural and artistic heritage and has (...)

A delicious luncheon at the University Club of Western Australia will be the setting for a literary discussion with author Ian Reid, who will give an insight into his bitter-beautiful historical novel The End of Longing - a thrilling and lyrical novel about a confidence trickster, a restless woman (...)

Presentations over this two-day event will cover comparisons of environments for the dawn of life on Earth and comparing with the possibility of life on the red Planet, Mars.

Written submissions from teachers, scientists, engineers, social theorists, managers, writers and artists are (...)

Celebrate the best of Australian wine and food at the Wine Show by the Bay where over 30 of the nation’s best loved estates will be represented in a wine fair like no other.

Enhance your experience and expand your knowledge with master classes by Clairault, Henschke and Thompson (...)

After 25 years of research Prof Commbe has an international reputation on the structure and function of a class of carbohydrates: GlycosAminoGlycans (GAGs). The biological activities of GAGs indicated that they may have important roles in a number of diseases and in recent years Prof Coombe’s (...)

Dr Lee is an Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She is also a Senior Consultant at the National University Hospital. Dr Lee has an active interest in lung cancer, pleural disease, obstructive airway disease, bronchoscopy and pleuroscopy (...)

This lecture is part of a series of lectures organised jointly by UWA (Religion and Globalisation Initiative), Murdoch University and the University of Notre Dame Australia

Throughout the ages the question of human freedom and divine providence has cause heated debate. If humans are free (...)

Today, the Kyrgyz Manas is one of the most celebrated epic heroic poems in the world. At the turn of the new millennium it was appointed a UNESCO ‘Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind’, signaling its global importance. It sits alongside Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, or the (...)

You are cordially invited to the WA Book Launch of "Ali Abdul v The King" by an award-winning author Hanifa Deen. The details for the event are as follows:

Date: Wed, 3rd August 2011 Time: 4.30-5.30pm Venue: Grevillea Room, UWA Extension, UWA Claremont Campus (corner of (...)

3 - 8 August 2011

A festival of old and new music for 1-12 cellos spanning 3 centuries

Old meets new in an exciting festival of music composed for the cello, ranging from baroque works written in the early 18th century through to world premier compositions by UWA resident (...)

Dorothy Ellen Ransom Prize in Composition and Pauline Steel Prize for Solo Cello

Students competing for the Pauline Steel Prize for cello will play newly composed works for solo cello by UWA student composers especially for the Old Cello/New Cello Festival in this combined lunchtime (...)

Blakers Mathematics Competition

The 2011 Blakers Mathematics Competition is now open.

Eligible candidates are all undergraduates in first, second and third years at a WA university.

Entries must be received by Friday, August 5, 2011. They may be mailed or given to (...)

Accompaniment with Guest Artist Isabelle Trub, piano

Trub has also been closely associated as an accompanist with the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland, Freiburg Hochschule and Villa Musica in Germany, Hindemith Foundation in Switzerland and more recently Youth Music (...)

Danzas Espanolas is one of Enrique Granados’ supreme achievements for keyboard.

Now there’s a rare opportunity to listen to, and watch, as two masters of their art – Deanna Blacher (castanets) & Cameron Roberts (piano) – take you into the uniquely thrilling and passionate (...)