What's On at UWA

Controversial (at times), comprehensive (in parts) and rich (in cultural significance) The University of Western Australia Art Collection is one of the state's best art collections.

The exhibition ranges from Ernest Stocks' romantic 1896 view of Perth from the west through to Elise (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

concert has been cancelled due to ill health.

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The Koshka Trio;Jasmine Skinner(violin),Bernadette Peters (cello),Irina Vasil'eva (piano)

Las Cuatro estaciones porteñas (The Four Seasons of (...)

An afternoon of charm and romance, celebrating French music, song, and joie de vivre! Your favourite chansons from The Beatles, Les Miserables, Edith Piaf, and Georges Bizet. Featuring the winter school choir, vocal emsemble Tuxedo Junction, and French violin and accordian duo Eddie Stasak and Lena (...)

Wagner arr. Humperdinck: Parsifal

Australian-born Simone Young is internationally recognised as one of the leading conductors of her generation. Currently Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, she has performed on some of the world’s (...)

LIWA 2009 Medical Research Seminar Series : Dr Ben Corry

The Lung Institute of Western Australia (LIWA) is pleased to present the next in its series of monthly presentations by leading Western Australian scientists, Monday 27 July 2009.

Join Dr Ben Corry, 2008 Young Scientist (...)

Starting on the 27th of July, the Interhealth branch of the Western Australian Stuent Society (WAMSS) is proud to announce its newest initiative: the Global Health Short Course. The Global Health Short Course (GHSC) is a FREE eight week course, with a public lecture on a new topic in global health (...)

Through this course:

•You will learn a brief history of Chinese tea and be introduced to different varieties of tea.

•Through hands-on activities such as tea preparation, brewing and tasting, you will experience the healthy, artistic and sensational Chinese tea culture.

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19:00 - COURSE - TAKING STRANGERS HOME: CHARACTERISATION WORKSHOPS : A UWA Extension Course

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To bring fictional characters to life for readers, writers first need to bring them alive for themselves. These workshops are designed to equip writers with strategies for creating characters and developing them through a process of familiarisation and engagement. A variety of tools will be used to (...)

Until now, a predominant theme in analyses of family business has been to claim that the tension between the ‘family’ and ‘business’ can be to the detriment of performance of family businesses. However, evidence-based research argues that the ‘family’ can be the niche advantage for (...)

Two day Symposium. Topics - Cancer & Clinical Trials; Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine; Stem Cells & Applications; Lung, Cardiovascular & Metabolism Disease. PhD students are invited to present in the scientific program with prize for Best Student Presentation

Next Wednesday, 29th July, Professors Doug McEachern and Peter Leedman will be hosting a visit to UWA by two EMBL-EBI specialists – Maria Martin and Rodrigo Lopez. Each of these scientists is an EMBL Senior Scientist, and this provides a great opportunity to discover more about Bioinformatics at (...)

“Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, / To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” Congreve, The Mourning Bride, i, I. What is the origin of the natural human impulse to be musical? Are we “hardwired” for music? Can music enhance human health? How does music mediate human (...)

The Middle Ages is often thought to be the height of patriarchy. So how do we account for the fact that the Middle Ages also saw the rise of powerful women rulers, outstanding female dramatists, writers and scholars, great female spiritual leaders, and even Joan of Arc, a woman war-leader? Course (...)

ECRIs will share their views on how they successfully navigated the process of getting their first grant/fellowship and the strategies they used to get ahead

Senior Researchers will share their views on the challenges postdocs face and how this compares to their own postdoctoral (...)

- East and Southeast Asian universities are intensifying Asian focused internationalization efforts. Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan in particular are investing substantial amounts of public money to send postgraduate students to its Asian neighbours and to recruit the best and the brightest science and (...)

Everyone is welcome at Diversity@University seminars. Come along and learn about Kazakhstan from a real expert, Karina Diegel, and enjoy some (free!) food in convivial company. Diversity seminars are a great way to learn about other cultures from students and staff - their insights are always (...)

Inhabitate introduces current cross disciplinary research developed between dance artists Orr and Sweeney working in geologically significant sites across the UK and Australia. Since 2005 ROCKface have created innovative performance methods combining contemporary choreography with ecological and (...)

Countering Militancy in Pakistan: Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions is being organized by the Centre for Muslim States and Societies (CMSS) at the University of Western Australia (3-4 August 2009). The conference is co-sponsored by the AusAID, the ARC Asia-Pacific Futures Network (Is (...)

UWA & the Blood Service Saving Lives Together

A Donormobile will visit UWA on the August 3rd and 4th between 9:30am and 2:30pm to collect blood for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service.

The donormobile will be parked on the reserve to the north of the Arts Building (...)

HIAM-Health is a small non-government organisation, situated in the grounds of Dili Hospital, that works holistically to prevent malnutrition in East Timor. HIAM stands for Hamutuk ita ajuda malu: “together we help each other”. Staffed by East Timorese nationals and supported by AusAid (...)