What's On at UWA

You are cordially invited to a Raine Lecture to be presented by:

Professor Sergio Della Sala

Professor of Human Cognitive Neuroscience and Honorary Consultant in Neurology

University of Edinburgh

Raine Foundation Visiting Professor in 2004

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David Irvine was Australian Ambassador to China between 2000 and 2003 the fifth in an unbroken line of six Western Australians to hold that important diplomatic post.

After a delightfully easy introduction to traditional diplomatic life on his first posting in one of (...)

Hear the splendor of Handel’s Messiah performed by the one hundred-voice University of Western Australia Choral Society and chamber orchestra on Sunday 19 December, 6.30pm, in Winthrop Hall, UWA. Messiah is surely the most popular oratorio ever to be performed and for many, no Christmas is (...)

The UWA Extension 77th Summer School gets underway from January 4th 2005. Enrolments are now open for over 180 courses, lectures, workshops and other events. Visit our website http://www.extension.uwa.edu.au for further information or call 6488 2433 for a brochure.

Come and join us in a tribute to the fabulous Beatles - if your're a baby boomer its the soundtrack of your youth! Enjoy some of your favourite tunes arranged for the Summer School choir under the direction of Margaret Pride - some humour from MC Jon Doust, special arrangements for piano and (...)

Crikey is Australia's leading independent online news sersvice. It points out theft, corruption, deception and collusion whenever and wherever it can. Crikey says its self-appointed task is to take a long thin spike to the bloated egos of pollitical, media and corporate Australia and to take clear (...)

Following the interest generated by Germaine Greer's talk on this subject in the Spring School, this series explores the ways in which Shakespeare's works have reflected, and even created, popular perceptions of differences between men and women, especially in love relationships. Are these (...)

Winthrop Hall features as the backdrop to Black Swan Theatre Company's swashbuckling melodrama "Zastozzi". Starring Marcus Graham, the outdoor production is predicted to be one of the hit shows of the 2005 UWA Perth International Arts Festival. Tickets available from the Octagon box (...)

Biodiesel is a renewable fuel made from vegetable oil (new or used) or animal fat (saturated oils/fat). It is an environmentally friendly replacement for, or additive to, diesel fuel. This workshop will teach you how to make biodiesel, build your own processing equipment, test your fuel and other (...)

Wolfgang Laib speaks on his work. Wolfgang Laib is widely known and respected as a major international artist for his austere and compelling art which varies from a simple carved marble house and works made of pollen, to an elaborate ziggurat of beeswax. He has been exhibiting internationally for (...)

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Linguists describe the 'deep structure' of language, referring to innate rules that speakers of all languages follow, even though they may not realize they are doing so. Similarly, music theorists describe the underlying structure of music-the way certain tones or chords or (...)

John Barrett-Lennard is Director of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. As a contemporary art curator he is interested in how art and artists connect with social, cultural and natural spheres beyond the museum, and how artists working in these territories contribute to thinking about both art and (...)

What are the stories in the western culture that help us understand who we are as a people? Currently the most dominant story is that of science and economics. But are these big enough to solve the current problems facing our society? Why is it that as we definine more pathologies in health (...)

David Bellatalla presents a detailed portrait of the modern day descendants of Genghis Khan, their history and cultural traditions, drawing on his unique personal archive of photographs and films recorded during 11 years of anthropological fieldwork among Mongolian nomads.

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Christopher Vernon has research interests in the work of Walter Burley and Marion Mahoney Griffin, and in the work of contemporary artists in gardens and landscape. He teaches the history and theory of landscape architecture in the School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts at UWA.

A lecture on comparitive religion, giving a Muslim perspective of Jesus. Free for non-muslims.

A lecture on Islam by one of the world's leading lectures on the subject.

Shadowing is used here in the broad sense of finding solutions of a forecast model that are consistent with observations. Clearly one cannot expect to make 4 day forecasts unless one can reliably shadow 4 days of past observations. The original notion of shadowing entered dynamical systems theory (...)

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Katey Middle an arts and film student talks about the current ethical and moral challenges facing the film industry and how her faith shapes her artistic vision.