What's On at UWA

See spectacular images produced by Pathologists and Medical Researchers as part of the art and science of Pathology. Discover the beauty within disease processes and the depth and breadth of medical research in Western Australia. Open all day.

Attack of the killer tomatoes and soylent green: what science has done with food!

How is food today different to what our parents used to eat? How has science and technology impacted what we grow and eat? What does the future hold?

Professor Garry Lee Professor of Food Science (...)

Kit will be presenting his seminar on the New methods of indeterminacy: An analysis and evaluation of note omission, shortening and contraction.

Over the past 18 months, in work towards a Masters of Music Composition, the composer has developed a new method of achieving indeterminacy in (...)

The UWA Business School, in partnership with The Australian Global Studies Research Centre invites you to attend a debate which will be sure to produce some lively discussion. There are those who would argue that the current global financial crisis and the social destruction which it has produced (...)

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be one of the largest and most ambitious international science projects ever devised. Vastly more sensitive than the world's best existing radio telescopes, it will help to answer fundamental questions about the evolution of the universe. Australia and South (...)

Starring Emma Powell and Bev Killick, this show has the critics raving, women on their feet and cheering, and men gasping with amazement. Busting Out! is tasteful, clever, liberating and laugh-out-loud funny.

Please note: this show contains partial nudity.

Where: Octagon (...)

Speaker: Dr Charley Lineweaver, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics/Research School of Earth Science, ANU.

Our current ideas of the very early universe are based on quantum cosmology. These ideas suggest that our Universe may be embedded in a larger hierarchy of parallel (...)

Saul Eslake’s address at the Shann Memorial Lecture will discuss some of the key aspects of the global financial crisis. He will also discuss the main policy responses to the crisis from an international and Australian perspective. In addition, the presentation will cover some of the challenges (...)

Speaker: Dr Susie Protschky, UWA

Still life paintings are most widely associated with seventeenth century Dutch art and culture. It is less commonly known that still lifes were also a popular visual genre in the Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia) until the twentieth century. This (...)

Tremendous progress has been made in our understanding of genetics over the last century.

This lecture will discuss the groundbreaking ideas of Mendel and Darwin, Watson and Crick’s search for the molecular basis of genetics and the recent sequencing of the human genome.

The (...)

Professor Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, will discuss his new book, "Evicted from Eternity-The Restructuring of Modern Rome", which focuses on Rome’s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social (...)

Neuro2009 is a one-day information session for people with a neurological disorder, carers and health professionals. It features talks on Parkinson's Disease, Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy, Motor Neurone Disease, Peripheral Neuropathy, Stem Cells: A Clinician's Perspective, Brain Plasticity (...)

‘Epigenetics’ refers to potentially heritable information that is not encoded by DNA sequence variation, but can change how the DNA is interpreted. This one-day symposium will include papers on epigenetic responses to the foetal environment, birth defects, neurodevelpmental disorders, common (...)

During the International Year of Astronomy (2009), and coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing, the University of Western Australia is proud to present “Starlight, Celestial Vision of Second Life” featuring the astronomical photography by local Perth astral (...)

During the International Year of Astronomy (2009), and coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing, the University of Western Australia is proud to present “Starlight, Celestial Vision of Second Life” featuring the astronomical photography by local Perth astral (...)

Anthropologists today have high expectations of language competence in the field. In countries (which include Australia) where doctoral programmes are restricted in length to three or four years, this results in (a) heavier emphasis on, and preference for, working “at home” and (b) greater (...)

Waste-for-Life (WLF) is a loosely joined network of scientists, engineers, educators, designers, cooperatives, innovators, and documentarians that work internationally and inter-disciplinarily to develop poverty-reducing solutions to environmental and social problems. WFL works at the intersection (...)

Spend a weekend indulging your urge to write; develop story ideas and discover the secrets of convincing characterisation, atmospheric settings and interweaving story lines. Whether you are planning a novel, a short story, or a memoir this workshop will get your creativity flowing and your words on (...)

The Save the Children Fund Australia (University Branch) 45th Annual Book Sale will be held in the Undercroft of Winthrop Hall between Friday 21 August and Wednesday 26 August.

Daily opening hours are:

Friday 21 August 6.00 - 9.00 pm

Saturday 22 August 6.00 am - 5.00 (...)

A practical and fun course for digital photographers to enhance your portrait skills. Learn how to capture your family, children, pets and loved ones using available light and natural poses. Tips are provided for digital enhancement plus how to archive your digital images for future generations. Co (...)