What's On at UWA

Come alomg and join in the fun. FREE activities all day including:

FREE Group Fitness Classes FREE Court Hire FREE Blood Pressure Testing FREE Kids Games Heaps of Giveaways

6.00am to 8.30pm. Bring a friend and enjoy the fun.

Professor Alan Robson Vice-Chancellor of The University of Western Australia

Invites you and your guest to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Professor Ian Constable’s appointment as founding Professor of Ophthalmology at the

2005 Ian Constable Lecture

to be (...)

Bahá’u’lláh (Glory of God in Arabic) the prophet founder of the Bahá’í faith, declared His Universal Mission in April 1863 in the Garden of Ridván, ushering the dawn of a New Age. Bahá’í communities throughout the world celebrate this occasion as the “King of Festivals”. The son (...)

Abstract: This paper is about how managers in health care are developing strategies to abstract and control nursing care time. Based on semi-structured interviews with nurses in Canada and the United States, it argues that these strategies are changing the nature of care work in ways that are (...)

Free pizza and wine followed by a showing of Johnny Stecchino in Fox LT on Thursday 28 April at 6.30pm

A number of state-initiated reviews have been completed in recent years with the professed goal of improving gender pay equity. The aim of this one-day conference is to shift the focus away from ‘what is causing the GPG?’ to ‘why is it not being addressed?’ In particular we will be (...)

In an entertaining discussion about taste as sensual experience and as aesthetic, writer and historian Lenore Coltheart will trace the ways we talk about taste, from food in fiction to the vocabulary of wine-tasters and restaurant critics, from the names for food and flavours to tasty metaphors we (...)

A JOURNEY TO ARMENIA —

West Australian award-winning writer Joan London will speak of the writing of her internationally acclaimed novel, 'Gilgamesh', in which she traces the journey of a young woman raised on a Group Settlement farm in the South West to Armenia in 1939, a journey (...)

The History of ideas and innovation will be discussed whilst contesting the notion that innovation has to yield commercial results. Speakers from different disciplines will explore models of non-commercial innovation and the potential of ideas being percieved as cultural rather than economic (...)

You are invited to the Inaugural Karrakatta Club Lecture

Presented by

Dr Annie Sparrow

Millennium Fellow in Human Rights, Harvard University, Human Rights Watch, New York

"Right Side up: the interface between health and human rights, and the (...)

The world is not what it used to be, or even what it was. If you are outraged, incensed, or at the very least, perturbed, and you need to laugh it all off, then this is the night for you. Two old buggers and two young whips fight it out to see who can get the most laughs out of the most misery (...)

You are invited to participate in a workshop presented by the

Institute of Advanced Studies, The University of Western Australia

in conjunction with the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCi)

by

Professor Christopher G. Fairburn, University of Oxford

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18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Public Lecture on Eating Disorders

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19:30 - EVENT - WORLD HISTORY AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF BELIEF : A UWA Extension Lecture Series

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The Co-op Bookshop, located in the Guild Village, BOOK SALE is now on and will run until Sat 11 June. Academic, Reference, Texts, Lifestyle, Childrens, Remainders. Stationery and stock markdowns are heavily discounted. Co-op members enjoy a further 10% discount off the Sale Books.

Breakfast on the Bay Western Australia - Built to Last?

The launch of the University Club's professional events series takes place next week with guest speakers Heather Zampatti (Bell Potter Securities), Mark Paganin (Clayton Utz) and Karen Brown (The Australian) in conversation on the (...)

Meditation and The Buddha’s Teachings (Free classes conducted in English/Chinese)

Learn more about developing the clarity of mind and liberate yourself from afflictive emotions at classes conducted by the UWA Buddhist Bliss Culture Society (BBCS).

Sitting & Walking (...)

Bill Dickinson will present a “travelogue” with photographs, slides and artefacts of his time spent teaching in Bhutan in 2003. He hopes that talks such as this will help the Bhutanese people in their wish to have people know something of their country.

Bhutan is a country situated (...)

Acclaimed as Australia's finest vocal ensemble, The Song Company presents an intriguing, richly varied and entertaining programme - Body and Soul - exploring the Renaissance artists' beliefs and convictions (and obsessions and desires!) with the wordly vessel of the body and the spiritual realm of (...)