What's On at UWA

The UWA Albany Centre will hold its Open Day this year on Thursday 6 August. School groups, teachers and careers advisers and members of the public are invited to come along to the Centre and find out about studying at The University of Western Australia in Albany. Information will also be (...)

Speaker: Michael. L. Ondaatje, Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle

Barack Obama’s image is everywhere these days – and why wouldn’t it be? In November 2008, Americans elected a president who by virtue of his race could have been legally owned by the first (...)

The Institute of Advanced Studies is pleased to announce that the Hon Bill Shorten, MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services, will present the 2009 Western Australia Disability Collective Lecture. Mr Shorten will speak on the human rights and social justice aspects of (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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The University of Western Australia has appointed leading international geophysicist David Lumley as inaugural Woodside-Chevron Chair in Petroleum Geoscience. Professor Lumley will address the (...)

Do you have a story to tell based on your life experience? How should you shape your material and bring it to life? Will your story work best as autobiography or should it be transformed into fiction? Perhaps you are interested in creating a personal memoir or family history. This course will help (...)

Box jellyfish have no brains. Cubomedusae have 24 eyes many with sophisticated lenses, but no brain that science can see. As some sort of brain is considered indispensable to sight their need for all this sensory hard-ware confounds conventional neuro-scientific logic. Their eyes are not the (...)

Writers cannot rely on inspiration and they certainly cannot afford to wait for it. But some writers learn to cultivate it and it shows in their themes and in their words. What techniques may encourage inspiration? And how is it linked to creativity and imagination? These and many other questions (...)

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This year's UWA Open Day will run from 10am to 4pm on Sunday 9 August. It's an opportunity for you to speak to any of our faculties (...)

The financial crisis, an event scarcely comprehensible in the speed of its unfolding and severity, is likely to have significant knock-on effects on the WA economy, amongst others. In view of widespread community interest the UWA Business School’s highly regarded experts in their fields (...)

Astronomy is the oldest scientific endeavour of mankind. Over the past 400 years, the invention and the development of telescopes has allowed us to step outside our own solar system to begin a new voyage of discovery, back in time, to the birth of the cosmos. We are now nearing a period in our (...)

Barack Obama has shifted international perspectives on the US dramatically. He has moved to run US policy toward the Islamic world directly rendering his legacy hostage to measurable success. What does this mean for Australia?

Everyone 'knows' that apes can use language, and that Eskimos have 12,000 words for snow. Or do they? We put some of the most commonly held ideas about language to the test. Cherished notions about language may not survive rigorous scrutiny! Course Code: 094323 Mon 6.30-8.30pm Aug 10 17 24 31 $139 ( (...)

Sean will be presenting his seminar on The politics of performance in an Indonesian DIY hardcore scene.

Underground music has a significant role in modern Indonesian youth culture, and the city of Bandung boasts a flourishing hardcore punk scene. A committed minority within this scene (...)

The 2009 George Seddon Lecture will be given by Stephen D. Hopper, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, and School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia and is presented by UWA Friends of the Grounds and the Institue of Advanced Studies. This lecture explores the ideas (...)

Join us for some interesting and stimulating philosophical exchange. All are welcome to attend this free event hosted by Philosophy at Notre Dame, UWA and APIS Inc., WA.

Dr Bannan is Lecturer in Music Education at UWA having previously been on the staff of the University of Reading. His interests are as wide as his background. He is a graduate of Cambridge University, has taught at Eton College and the Yehudi Menuhin School. For 12 years he was the conductor of the (...)

The Conservation Council is Western Australia's peak environment group, representing over 95 community-based environment and sustainability groups throughout the state.

In this seminar, the director of the council Piers Verstegen will discuss some of the key policy challenges facing the (...)

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“We value excellence as well as fairness, independence as dearly as mateship” Draft Constitutional Preamble, John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, 1999

G’day mate: it’s the iconic Aussie greeting, and mateship is the iconic cultural attribute of Australian men. But is it or (...)

Speaker: Dr Debra McDougall, History, The University of Western Australia

This lecture will discuss how the physical environments of Oceania have shaped colonial encounters and how historians and historical anthropologists have incorporated metaphors of islands, voyages, and beaches in (...)