What's On at UWA

Veronica Brady will consider the work of Western Australian writers of the 1930s. Veronica is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English at UWA. Her talk is in relation to the exhibition 'Approaches to Modernism: The Art of Portia Bennett, Elise Blumann and Iris Francis 1930s to (...)

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Professor Michael Herzfeld, Anthropology, Harvard University

Date and Time: Friday 20 August at 6.00pm Geography Lecture Theatre 1, UWA (The nearest carpark is 18 and 19 via Fairway entrance No 1). Please refer to map on http://maps.u (...)

The Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Robson

Invites you to the fifth annual

Ian Constable Lecture On Monday 23 August at 7.00pm FJ Clarke Lecture Theatre (QEII Campus of UWA off Verdun Street, Nedlands)

To be presented by Professor Paul Sieving Director, National Eye (...)

UWA EXPO 2004 — SUNDAY AUGUST 29, 9AM TO 4PM

This exciting event combines informative course information sessions with hands-on displays, music, community events and campus tours.

Visitors will have opportunity to chat to UWA staff and students, view exhibits and (...)

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Name of speaker: Professor Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine And IAS Professor-at-Large, UWA

The Digital Self: Identity Theft and Security

Date and Time: Tuesday 31 August at 6.15pm

Venue: Social (...)

We are very pleased to welcome this week our latest Professor-at-Large, Mark Poster of University of California at Irvine.

Professor Mark Poster is a distinguished Humanities scholar of European Intellectual and Cultural History; Critical Theory; and Media Studies who teaches at the (...)

Literary reading by Canadian writer Robert Priest

Date and Time: Wednesday 1 September at 6.00pm

Venue: Geography Lecture Theatre 1, UWA

Profile: Canadian writer Robert Priest will read from his work as part of an Australian tour supported by Foreign Affairs Canada (...)

Robert Dessaix will discuss his new release, "Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev" and read from this captivating book.

Alongside his friends Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Turgenev was one of the three great men of the Russian novel’s golden age. Fathers and Sons and A Hunter� (...)

Over the centuries radically different interpretations have been laid on the fact that all Shakespeare's actors were male. The Shakespearean boy playing a woman appeared in disguise, only to unmask himself for a double disguise, a boy disguised as a woman disguised as a boy. The Shakespearean male (...)

Institute of Advanced Studies Network Media: Code, Culture and Convention A cross-disciplinary symposium at the University of Western Australia 9-10-11 September 2004 How can we make sense of the rapid development of such intersecting and yet diverse technological features as digital and (...)

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Professor Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine and IAS Professor-at-Large, UWA

As the Keynote address for Network Media: Code, Culture and Convention

A cross-disciplinary symposium at the University of Western (...)

Professor Oppenheimer qualified in medicine from Oxford University in 1971 and embarked on a career in tropical paediatrics. He has spent the last twenty years working and travelling in the Far East and Pacific region and has become a world-recognised expert in the synthesis of DNA studies with (...)

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 the power of prayer.

Why did people in the middle ages persistently believe in the existence of witches? Why were people some centuries ago afraid of werewolves? And why did some 20-25% of Americans surveyed last September - after more than a year of intensive searches failed to find any WMD's - believe not only in the (...)

Students from the Centre for Water Research, UWA, have already generated a lot of international interest in their final year project. With presentations at conferences in Greece and Finland, the new Index of Sustainable Functionality is generating increasing interest around the world. The final (...)

SymbioticA is the Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory,at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at UWA. Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr are Artistic Directors of SymbioticA, and in this talk, will discuss the research and activities of the Lab.

At 12pm, prior to their talk (...)

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Dr Garret FitzGerald

Friday 17 September at 6.15pm

Biographical Note Dr Garret FitzGerald is the Former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) and Foreign Minister of Ireland. He now lectures, writes, is a consultant and company (...)

“Steven Lubin revealed himself to be not only a great pianist, but a Mozart interpreter of genius, one of the finest before the public today.” Meridionale (France)

Acclaimed American pianist Steven Lubin has been hailed as an international concert artist of exceptional (...)

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Professor Mary-Lou Guerinot, Dartmouth College USA

Current President of the American Society of Plant Biologists and visitor to the ComBio2004 meeting at UWA

Nutritional Genomics: Manipulating Plant Micronutrients to (...)

Ever thought of what goes on behind the scenes when a blockbuster international art exhibition arrives in Perth, like Monet and Japan or The Pre-Raphaelites? Now is the rare chance to hear all about it! Alan Dodge has had 33 years experience in the visual arts, having worked as everything from a (...)