What's On at UWA

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 (...)

If you understand the basics of photography but wish to explore the art of seeing, then this course is for you. Learn to develop your visual literacy, overcoming visual biases to be able to see beyond what's there. Awaken your creative potential and introduce the wow factor into your photography (...)

SER International meetings provide an essential international forum for scientists and practitioners who look to restoration as a means to conserve the planet’s dwindling biodiversity and failing ecosystems. These meetings provide a critical platform to assist us in defining the principles of (...)

Sarod virtuoso Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has enthralled audiences all over the world, taking the sarod to dizzying heights. He has performed at the WOMAD festival in Adelaide and in New Plymouth, Taranaki NZ, WOMAD Rivermeade Festival in the UK, Edinburgh Music Festival, BBC Proms, and the International (...)

Professor Tanya Dalziell will be presenting a seminar 'On understanding Nick Cave'.

In this informal presentation, I will speak about the process of compiling an edited volume on the work of Australian musician and writer, Nick Cave. In particular, I will sketch out some cross-disciplina (...)

Venezuela shows that another and better world is possible. It shows a revolution can change the way society works. Working people can take power from the corporate elite and build an economic and political system not ridden by war, inequality and injustice. This Australian speaking tour by the (...)

For 66 years it has been Australia's greatest maritime mystery; what happened to HMAS Sydney - was it beaten by the German raider Kormoran in 1941, or was there treachery afoot? Why were there no survivors? And where was the wreck? David has built a formidable reputation as the world's foremost (...)

Our national story has often omitted Indigenous experience. How can the balance be redressed – and who can frame the stories of invasion and dispossession? What can history and literature contribute to our sense of ourselves as Australians? Historian Aileen Marwung Walsh will speak about the (...)

Speaker: Dr Ethan Blue, History, UWA

The thin, spindly steel seems innocuous enough until you get too close. This lecture examines the role of barbed wire in the conquest of North America. A technological development that fenced in the wide open spaces and prairies of the West, barbed (...)

The Ear Sciences Centre, UWA and the Ear Science Institute Australia (ESIA) invite you to attend a Hearing Research Information Evening, to be held as part of Hearing Awareness Week 2009.

Presentations will provide information on some of the current research being conducted by Ear (...)

Consumers make stereotypical associations between products and countries based on their perception of a country’s know-how and reputation. For instance, people associate Switzerland with watches and Vodka with Russia. Such associations when shared globally reflect product ethnicity, a concept (...)

Dr Perdita Phillips is showing the results of her 2009 Art Meets Vet Science Artist in Residency program at Murdoch University’s School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences. Her X-ray sculptures, photographs and drawings will be situated in both the clinical and research areas. Working on themes (...)

Rob Duncan is consultant geologist and former Chief Geologist of Lynas Corporation who hold the mining rights over the Rare Earth Element (REE) deposits of Mount Weld and are currently in the process of bringing a processing route on stream. Mount Weld was discovered nearly 40 years ago and since (...)

Mozart said: "Haydn alone has the secret of making me smile and of touching my innermost soul." Haydn was hailed as a genius in Europe, admired and revered by the public and his peers. The Creation, his supreme masterpiece, sparkles with the vitality and inspiration of this remarkable (...)

Vorisek: Fantasie Op. 12; Direr: Valse Mignonne Op. 6; Vine: Sonata No. 3; Harvey: Pink Nautilus; Grieg: 4 Piano Pieces Op. 1; Grainger: Colonial Song, Country Gardens; Suk: Love Song Op. 7 No. 1; Vine: Rash

Born in Sydney in 1984, Suzanna Hlinka is one of Australia’s most exciti (...)

LIWA 2009 Medical Research Seminar Series : Dr Christopher Peacock

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 31 August 2009.

Join Dr Christopher Peacock (...)

Join UWA School of Music's Winthrop Singers as they celebrate the first day of spring with a special free recital performed at dawn from the top of Winthrop Tower.

Free event.

The Speaker: Dr Jeremy Shaw is a research associate with a Ph.D. in marine and biological sciences. His principal research interests involve the elucidation of the cellular and organic matrix driven processes of invertebrate biomineralisation. Dr Shaw’s main field of expertise is in electron (...)

Assistant Professor Nicholas Bannan will be presenting is seminar on Darwin, music and the evolution of human culture.

The impression has formed in the literature dealing with Darwin’s achievement that he was himself unmusical, and that his theories have offered little help in (...)

Speaker: Professor Richard White, Stanford University.

Nature films and animated features – largely but not entirely American – have made popular culture a critical element in shaping national and international views of the natural world. Beginning with the UR nature film, 'Bambi' (...)