What's On at UWA

Notice of Repeat Lecture

Due to overwhelming demand, we have scheduled a repeat of Mark Edele’s lecture to be held on 10 August. The repeat lecture will take place

Wednesday, 14 September at 6.30pm

Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA

No registration (...)

Dead men talking - what the dead of Isola Sacra have to say about the pros and cons of cold water swimming and weight bearing exercise. Isola Sacra is a picturesque Roman period cemetery lying between the ancient harbour towns of Portus and Ostia. The 2000 skeletons recovered from the site to date (...)

An opportunity to learn more about, and air your views on United Nations Reform, the Millennium Development Goals and the World Summit 2005. Following a 20 minute address by Ms. Watson, there will be a question and answer session. Light refreshments will be available.

The relationship between culture and child maltreatment is complex, politically charged, and fraught with unresolved issues. A critical challenge in understanding and managing child maltreatment from the vantage point of different cultures is to both encompass cultural diversity and ensure (...)

Conference on DNA Methylation and Chromatin

16th September 2005 at the University Club of Western Australia

Epigenetics is a new and exciting field in medical research, which studies heritable changes in genes that occur without a change in the DNA sequence.

CONFEREN (...)

In the past decade, online computer games have steadily proliferated throughout the Asian region, yet there are few scholarly publications that adequately contextualise the production, consumption and circulation of these games. Asian online games and gaming cultures are also often subject to (...)

The UWA Expo is the University's major prospective student and community relations event. All faculties and schools will mount displays on courses and research programs. A series of course and enrolment information sessions will be held throughout the day. There will also be cultural and sporting (...)

Margo Kingston, a longterm political journalist and latterly (since 2000) editor and publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald's online Webdiary, has recently departed Fairfax and mainstream media to establish Webdiary as an independent outlet, a vehicle for her ideas of the citizen as journalist (see (...)

This is one of those all too rare opportunities to see a performance of a Joe Orton play. But be warned, it is not for the faint-hearted!

** Special offer for UWA Staff and Students - Tickets for performances Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September are only $12 when you show your UWA Staff (...)

The main annual event in the Australian Mathematics calendar, with participation of approximately 190 mathematicians from Australia and overseas. There are 2 public lectures (free and open to the public), 8 plenary lectures, and keynote speakers in 18 specialist sessions. The Australian (...)

These free Public Lectures, one in pure mathematics (number theory), another in applications of mathematics in science and engineering, are given by distinguished visiting academics as part of an international conference hosted by UWA. The Public Lectures are intended for members of the public with (...)

Geometry and kinematics have been intimately connected in their historical development, and the exploitation of this connection is key to contemporary applications in computer-aided design, robotics, manufacturing, and related areas. In this survey, we explore a variety of classical and modern (...)

David Sadleir AO, a graduate of The University of Western Australia and former Ambassador to China, is ideally positioned to comment on relations between China and its neighbours.

“China's resurgence offers as good a prospect of peace and prosperity as it does of war and other (...)

Hundreds of books at $5 and other generous discounts across a great range of books. Everyone attending has the chance to win a book hamper valued at $250.

We have a wide range of stock marked down plus Publishers Academic Remainders at sale prices during the month of October. Hundreds of books priced from $2.00 to $20.00

British Writers in the Revolutionary 1790's

This is part of an ongoing investigation by John Beer into the reactions of British writers to the events in France. In this lecture, he shall be talking partly about major writers such as Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth – and particularly (...)

Most of us suspect that climate change is happening, but is it a terrible threat to our world or an exaggerated beat up? Or is is something in between - an issue that humanity must eventually face, but not yet? In this lecture, Dr Flannery will argue, passionately, the urgent need for us to (...)

In a time of increasing turmoil and uncertainty, the UWA Catholic Society is holding a service to reflect on the need for peace in our world today.

All are welcome. Please bring a plate to share after the service.

Abstract:

Among the most portentous of the challenges confronting the Chinese Communist Party in the early years of the century is a new underclass within the municipalities. The members of this inchoate, largely unmobilized horde are one-time workers, lately let go from their jobs; (...)

This lecture will draw upon Freud and Woolf as well as 'Frankenstein' and 'Wuthering Heights' to mount an argument about the force of exclusion.

Abstract: The figure of the window is most frequently associated with visual art and cinema. In cinema, windows as often suggest spying and (...)