What's On at UWA

The Institute of Advanced Studies and the History Discipline at UWA present a series of ten public lectures attached to a new History Honours seminar. The series aims to present a context for contemporary terrorism by inviting lectures from scholars working on historical and contemporary terrorism (...)

Pergolesi’s eighteenth century musical setting of the ancient Latin text, Stabat Mater, depicts the poignant reflections of Mary at the Cross using music of elegance, finesse and melodic beauty. Ever popular, the work has become famous for its use in the soundtracks to the films Amadeus and Jesus (...)

Abstract: Mr Smith was Australia's Ambassador to China from 1996 to 2000. This was a period which saw significant developments within China itself and in the Asian region more widely. It was also a period in which key decisions were made affecting the Australia-China bilateral relationship (...)

An aerial angel suspended in Winthrop Hall interpreting baroque music and an atmospheric staging of ‘Stabat Mater’ will provide a fitting musical debut on the eve of Easter for The University of Western Australia’s new music professor.

Professor Jane Davidson, who recently took up (...)

All are invited to join the UWA Catholic Society in celebrating Easter in a moving service in the tranquil surroundings of the Tropical Grove at UWA. The Easter Vigil Mass will take place on Easter Saturday (15th April), commencing at 7:30pm and will be celebrated by Father Gerald Brennan, UWA (...)

Australia is the only Western democracy without a national Human Rights Act or constitutional bill of rights. New Matilda’s Human Rights Act for Australia campaign was launched last year to change this.

A draft Human Rights Act has been prepared by Associate Professor Spencer Zifcak (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

Due to ill health this seminar has been postponed.

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Janis will speak to a paper she is currently working on, that looks at the role of regional labour councils in Queensland. These bodies give the labour (...)

Abstract: In 1981 Yale art historian Jules Prown defined 'material culture' as 'the study through artifacts of the beliefs - values, ideas, attitudes, and assumptions - of a particular community at a given time'. Since buildings and artworks cannot but be objects of material culture, they have the (...)

UWA School of Music wood-wind and brass students play an interesting variety of ensemble pieces by composers such as Mozart in his 250th birthday year and Leonard Bernstein. Directed by Peter Moore, the School of Music's Coordinator of Performance Studies in wood-wind instruments.

The Problem with Science: Why it's so hard to get a straight answer from a scientist.

How uncertainty, risk and the way science is reported make it such a slippery customer.

In Australia, are we really at risk of a bird flu pandemic – or is it just a media beat-up? Is our (...)

The Progressive Students' Think-tank presents a forum exploring our ethical obligations following the invasion of Iraq.

English is unique among the world's languages. It has an enormous vocabulary, lots of strange irregularities, and the world's largest number of native speakers and learners. It's also gone through a great deal of change in history, and speakers are often at odds about what sort of changes should (...)

THE MEDITERRANEAN IN WORLD HISTORY: LECTURE SERIES OVERVIEW The great twentieth-century historian Fernand Braudel revolutionised our understanding of the history of the sea when he argued that the Mediterranean was a positive space rather than the emptiness between the regions, empires, nations and (...)

Dorothy Smith is one of Canada’s most respected scholars. Her distinctive sociology, institutional ethnography, is a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond (...)

This is the first event in a new lecture series co-presented by the Australian Greens and the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA:

from non-profit to more-than-profit organisations: the changing role of the third sector in Australia

While most people are aware that the ‘not (...)

Abstract: Is Shakespeare our contemporary, a universal writer who reaches across the years to our own time, or can his works only be understood by an awareness both of the specific political context in which he wrote, and the inevitable instability of the texts he left us? These contrasting (...)

England was known in the middle ages as a land of 'noble cities'. Many English cities today still centre around great medieval buildings and spaces--the castles, cathedrals, marketplaces and walls which marked out urban from rural life. But how and when did these cities start? Who built them, and (...)

The Institute of Advanced Studies presents a one-day symposium dedicated to the work of Dorothy Smith, an internationally renowned scholar whose work focuses on the application of a feminist perspective to sociology and institutional ethnography (IE).

Dorothy Smith’s Sociology for (...)

Join us for a literary lunch with special guest speaker Thomas Keneally. One of the world’s most successful writers, Thomas is the author of more than 40 published works. He has won the prestigious Booker Prize for his story Schindler's Ark (1982) as well as two Miles Franklin Awards, a Logie (...)

Kim Scott has written four books. His second novel, Benang, won the 1999 WA Premiers’ Literary Prize, the 2000 Miles Franklin Award, and the 2001 RAKA Kate Challis Award. It has been translated and published in China, France, Holland and India. His first novel, True Country, has also been (...)