What's On at UWA

Abstract: What role do donations to political parties and candidates play in our democratic system? Do we have a system of differential representation for those with and without significant financial resources? Will the proposed public funding of candidates electoral expenses in Western Australia (...)

Mozart played on the instrument for which it was written

Manning Clark House Day of Ideas 2006 in association with the Holmes à Court Gallery and the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia

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The idea of home

Saturday, 2 September 2006

Home continues to be a complex (...)

The UWA Baha'i Society warmly invites you to join us for an uplifting program of readings, music and visual presentations on the theme of hope.

Amidst the chaos of war, terrorism, poverty and a multitude of social, political and environmental crises, the hope of a beleaguered humanity (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

The presenter has been called overseas at short notice for family reasons.

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An opportunity to hear a detailed portrait of the modern day descendants of Genghis Khan, their history and cultural traditions (...)

In their first shared visit to Perth, we are privileged to present: His Excellency Judge Christopher Weeramantry, former Vice President of the International Court of Justice, founder of the Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research, member World Future Council and recipient (...)

UWA Music proudly presents two UWA Music graduates Matthew Walker and David Timlin playing at this free lunch time concert.

Michael Farrell's first book 'ode ode' was shortlisted for The Age Poetry Book of the Year award. He is researching a poetics of recycling at Deakin. A book of cartoon poems 'BREAK ME OUCH' has just been published; 'a raiders guide' is forthcoming in 2007.

Michael also hosts a blog: http: (...)

In this talk Maria Madeira discusses her art and its relationship to East Timor. Born in East Timor, Maria left in 1975 and spent five years in a refugee camp in Portugal before she and her family migrated to Australia in 1983. Settling in Perth, Maria pursued her love of art gaining a Bachelor of (...)

Abstract: A refugium is a refuge for organisms in environmentally inclement times. Refugia may be contemporary, as in the case of Australian alpine ecosystems, or historical, as with the last glacial rainforest refugia in eastern Australia. Many species that were confined to last glacial refugia (...)

Your guides are Elders, kids and teenagers from the Alice Springs community sharing language and culture through acrobatics, animations, songs and humour. The site keeps growing all the time and gives you an active role in saving one of the world’s disappearing languages.

Getting to (...)

This lecture seeks to explore the idea of 'contested nature' in the British countryside over the late nineteenth and the twentieth century. It will make use of a number of key case studies of British species and landscapes to illuminate the often complex and changing relationship between Nature and (...)

Tickets available from BOCS 9484 1133 or Octagon Theatre 6488 2440. $29.90 (adult) $22.50 (concession)

Composer and viola player Brett Dean has appeared as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic and his compositions are championed by Sir Simon Rattle and Markus Stenz. In this concert he plays his own 'Intimate Decisions' and 'Voices of Angles' followed by Schubert's much loved 'Trout' Quintet with (...)

Second Ordinary Meeting of Convocation 2006

Our symposium will explore the complex, and sometimes troubled, relationship between humanism and medicine from the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries. The father of humanism, Francesco Petrarca, famously attacked the medical profession in Against the Doctors (1352). Humanism spoke a new (...)

Physician, philosopher, moralist, and spy, Simone Simoni of Lucca (1532-1602) spent most of his life in exile as a doctor in N. Europe. In 1575, when plague broke out in Leipzig, he was the personal physician of the Elector of Saxony, involved also in the medical life of the town and its university (...)

Ensemble Archangelo perform French baroque chamber music - Michele Mascitti, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Nicolas Bernier and Jean-Claude Gillier

Abstract: After a brief history of the Republic of Letters as a concept and a practice in the Early Modern Period, I shall turn to one intellectual group in particular, the learned medical profession, and concentrate on one manner of transmitting knowledge which it actively developed between about (...)

Vygotsky’s attempt to build a dialectical psychology was substantially based on the Marxist theoretical culture. It would appear that the USSR would have been an ideal place for the development of this movement, but it proved more complicated than anticipated. Vygotsky’s premature death, like (...)