What's On at UWA

Join a group of armchair travellers for a sumptuous journey with a bilingual guide exploring the rich artistic heritage of Italy through images and language. Focus on favourite items, savour visual details and acquire or refresh the Italian words used to describe them. No prior knowledge of Italian (...)

UWA Press is approaching its 70th anniversary in 2005 - an appropriate time to both celebrate the work of the press and to take stock. This talk will look at the history of the press, the range and impact of the books it has published, and its future directions. Imminent amongst these is the (...)

Dr. Lyn Parker is an anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork in Bali intermittently over 20 years, and is currently working on female adolescent identity and education among the Minangkabau in Sumatra. Lyn is Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at UWA.

The Curator, Trish FitzSimons, film maker and academic, will speak about the exhibition

Land, Water, and the human relation to land and water is one of the key issues facing Australians today. Channels of History is a social history exhibition about the women, land and history of the (...)

You are invited to a public lecture in association with a touring exhibition of Channels of History (Constitutional Centre, Havelock Street West Perth 14-29 June 2004)

Braided Channels: The Documentary Project meets Exhibition Practice in a Digital Media context.

By the (...)

Background: No matter how serious or honest the film makers, and no matter how deeply committed they are to rendering the subject faithfully, the history that finally appears on the screen can never fully satisfy the historian as historian (though it may satisfy the historian as film goer) (...)

This will be a day of lectures, films and discussion on political conflict and change in Indonesia. Through the screening of Indonesian and non-Indonesian made documentaries on past and recent Indonesian politics, and the discussion of these films, students will gain a better understanding of the (...)

Social Justice Week, organised by the UWA Student Guild's Public Affairs Council, will be held between August 2nd and 6th this year. The week aims to raise awareness of the world outside of UWA, promoting critical thought amongst the student body.

As part of the week, a Social Justice (...)

Event sponsor West Australian Peace Network and Unions WA

Biography: Tariq Ali is a writer, broadcaster, filmmaker, and a major figure in intellectual and political movements in Europe over the last four decades. He is an editor of the New Left Review and the author, most recently, of (...)

Sally Quin will discuss the exhibition 'Approaches to Modernism: The Art of Portia Bennett, Elise Blumann and Iris Francis 1930s to 1950s', on display at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery from 4 July until 29 August.

Sally is Curator (Collections) at the Lawrence Wilson Gallery, and the (...)

Convenor: Associate Professor Yasmin Haskell, Cassamarca Associate Professor of Latin Humanism Classics and Ancient History, UWA

Confirmed participants: Professor Ann Moss (University of Durham) Dr Andrew Laird (University of Warwick) Professor Antonio Iurilli (Palermo University) Dr (...)

Background: The lecture will explore two of the many facets of Latin and Alterity to be discussed at the conference. First, it will seek to explain the issues involved in the clash between the two Latin speech communities that coexisted very uneasily for varying lengths of time in Western Europe in (...)

PROFESSOR ADEL EL MENCHAWY: LECTURE SERIES Dr Adel S El Menchawy is a visiting Proffessor at Alexandria University in the Faculty of Fine Arts, and an Associate Professor of Egyptology, Architecture and Planning at the College of Engineering and Technology, Arab Academy for Science and Technology (...)

UWA PRESS IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING NEW RELEASES:

OLD FREMANTLE: PHOTOGRAPHS 1850-1950 by John Dowson (reprint includes 8 additional pages). Winner of the 2003 WA Premier's Book Awards (nonfiction). $75.00 HB

THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR: UNDERSTANDING INDONESIA by Duncan (...)

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Dr Alan Thomas has been Australian Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China since March 2003. He also has non-resident accreditation as Ambassador to Mongolia and to North Korea. A senior career diplomat, Dr Thomas was Deputy Secretary of the Department of Foreign (...)

Dr. Jenny Gregory investigates the cultural life of Perth during the period covered by the exhibition 'Approaches to Modernism: The Art of Portia Bennett, Elise Blumann and Iris Francis 1930s to 1950s'. The exhibition is on display at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery until 29 August.

Jenny (...)

The UWA Bahai Society warmly invites you to Sacred Moments, a program of soul-stirring music and readings from World Religions on the theme of nature and the divine.

In 2004-5, the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia will be presenting a year-long research program entitled Diversity Dialogues. The charter of the Institute is to develop the research profile of the University, particularly by supporting and promoting cross-discipli (...)

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Jeanice Brooks studied singing and music education in the U.S. and in France before completing the Ph.D. in Musicology and French Literature at the Catholic University of America. She taught at Georgetown University before taking up an appointment in 1990 at the University of (...)

School of Indigenous Studies Institute of Advanced Studies and the Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia

invite you to a public lecture by

Dr Christine Alder and Professor Ken Polk Criminology, University of Melbourne

Introduced by Professor (...)