What's On at UWA

Pierre Janet coined the classic formulation of trauma when he argued that in the normal course of events, experiences are processed through cognitive schemes that enable them to be recognised and assimilated to narrative. Memory is thereby constituted as an experience which is transformed into a (...)

This public lecture is the first in a series of forums with the theme: Kids Doin’ It Tough: Myths & Realities

This series of forums is sponsored by The Centre for Vulnerable Children at The University of Western Australia, the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse (...)

Abstract: The past four years have provided many dramatic cases of attempts at democracy-building: for example, Afghanistan, Bougainville, Iraq, the Solomons. While there have been some useful studies of these countries individually, there has been less attention paid to general trends in the (...)

To drive is to connect with a complex system - the broader technological landscape of the modern world. For British writer J.G.Ballard, driving is the activity that most emphatically constitutes the modern subject and his scientific method investigates the car as though it were the drosophila of (...)

When members of the Iraqi resistance first told their story to the world, they told it to Zaki Chehab, a tenacious and celebrated Middle East journalist. Zaki Chehab is the first reporter to have broadcast interviews with the Iraqi resistance. His recently released book Iraq Ablaze is a (...)

In this address, Pru Goward will examine the contribution of gender equality to the national interest and its connections with other national goals such as economic growth, social stability and demographic sustainability. She considers the role that demographic change and globalisation will play in (...)

Abstract: Before Germans were killing Jews they were killing Germans. Other Germans, with the emphasis on other, people they thought were inferior, less worthy. They devised many imaginative names for such people, but the one that stuck was 'those whose lives were not worth living.' This was meant (...)

“As a dance, Salsa’s sexy style, combined with a strong cultural backing and a natural competition among dancers to create the coolest moves, have made it the most popular partner dance in the world.”

Salsa dancing is sweeping the world, and if you haven't already done so, you (...)

An Evening with Mark Kingwell

Crayon in the Brain: Machining Happiness in the Time of Homer

Charles de Gaulle said 'Happiness is for idiots', implying that intelligence makes you unhappy. Would you choose to be happy all the time if it meant giving up on being smart? (...)

The University Club invites Members and guests aboard Perth’s premier luxury cruiser, the ‘Miss Sandalford’. The cruise includes tea, coffee and petit fours on arrival followed by Sandalford wine tastings and gourmet cheeses.

Upon arrival at Sandalford Estate, Members and guests (...)

Frank Moorhouse: Freedom Sacrificed

The 2006 Bill Warnock Memorial Address

Are we sacrificing freedom in the fight for freedom? Frank Moorhouse, one of Australia’s leading writers, ask whether freedom of expression is possible in a national security regime where fear of (...)

The inaugural Shanghai Film Festival is an initiative of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film & Television, working with the Australia China Institute for Culture and the Arts (ACICA), and supported by the Shanghai Film Group Corporation.

In conjunction with (...)

Members and guests are invited to attend the official launch of Laura Cole’s art exhibition.

Laura Cole is a full-time professional artist who combines a love of travel with her passion for painting. Her usual 'modus operandi' is to visit a particular place for an intensive painting (...)

Do you have a passion for all things seafood and Sauvignon? Then this is one Club dinner you won’t want to miss! Come and experience our Chef’s finest seafood delights complemented by a range of local and international Sauvignon Blancs. The famous Jerry Fraser, will be shucking the freshest (...)

THE RELIGION OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS An examination through ancient literary sources, epigraphy and the archaeological record generally the religious beliefs and practices of the Ancient Greeks in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods. We will review the pantheon of Greek gods and the tradition of (...)

Ideas of technology, subjectivity and the body have always had points of intersection, but these connections have become increasingly widespread and visible across the last few decades. Feminist scholar Donna Haraway famously argued that the figure of the cyborg could embrace and enact a feminist (...)

The position of Muslim women often attracts a lot of attention. Muslim women are assumed to be generally oppressed and victimised. This oppression is attributed to the limits imposed upon women by Islam. This lecture series on the rights of women in Islam questions this assumption. At the same time (...)

Abstract Terrorism is not a new phenomenon. The conscious use of violence for political ends was born in the French revolution, which gave it its name. Ever since 'le terreur' such political violence and the state's reactions to it played a major part in European history. Russia is a particularly (...)

**This talk will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting at 7.30pm**

This talk will explore how Italians from many parts of society lived a generation of dictatorial rule. The Fascist regime was the first to deploy the word totalitarian and, by the 1930s, it was boasting that it was (...)