What's On at UWA

The event will focus on the breadth of work undertaken by researchers in the School of Medicine and Pharmacology's four Units to promote collaborations within, and beyond the School. Heads of Unit will each present a brief overview of the research carried out in their respective unit, with senior (...)

Andrew Hayim De Vries will tour and discuss his latest art/design project Home Where Project #2 Garage Mahal. The house is designed and constructed using simple and cost effective industrial components and practices addressing the key areas of environmental sustainability to minimise the use of (...)

CONVOCATION, THE UWA GRADUATES ASSOCIATION

invites all graduates and other members of Convocation to attend its

SECOND ORDINARY MEETING

to be held on Friday, 11 September 2009 at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start in the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

with reports (...)

Taylor Ballet School presents Flight of the Unicorns Where: Octagon Theatre When: 11, 12 September 2009

The Colloquium aims to to enhance awareness of the significance of native plants in the general community and build stronger links between UWA’s School of Plant Biology and its associates with the conservation and mining industry and the wider community. Explore options to work towards (...)

Tournament of Minds - Awards Ceremony

Where: Winthrop Hall

When: 13 September 2009 at 4.30pm

A one act play "Hypnome", suitable for mature audience. Tickets $8, dinner is included in the price. Tickets at the door.

Entry off Park Rd or Stirling Hwy

A new UWA Public Place Recycling Project will be launched at 1pm September 14th on the Oak Lawn. The Launch will consist of unveiling of five recycling stations in the Guuild Village area, enertainment from local Musician Dave Robertson and speaches from the Vice Chancellor, invited guests and the (...)

UWA Spring Graduations

Where: Winthrop Hall and the Undercroft

When: Ceremonies held on the 14, 15, 16 and 17 September 2009

The theological vision of world peace drives conversations between Christian denominations and conversations between Christianity and other faiths. This lecture explores how approaches devised within Christian ecumenical dialogue can be brought to the discussion of the competing truth-claims of (...)

Speaker: Libby Robin, Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University and National Museum of Australia, Canberra.

This talk will consider more precisely the imagination generated by the desert in the ecological understandings of arid Australia. As part of a (...)

What’s gone wrong? Has our education system lost its way? Why aren’t the classics of Australian literature studied in school and universities? In this lecture Professor Philip Mead will discuss the recent perception that there has been a decline in the teaching of Australian literature in (...)

A free public lecture by Andrew Glikson, Earth and Paleo-climate Scientist at the Australian National University, Research School of Earth Science and School of Archaeology and Anthropology. This lecture is free and open to the public, no RSVP necessary.

This lecture is the keynote (...)

Gripping, thought-provoking and subtitled, the UWA French Club invites you to attend L'Oeuf (The Egg). From the same team that staged last year's Rhinoceros, L'Oeuf is the story of a man who has never understood the world in which he lives. While outwardly possessing all the trappings of an (...)

The New Economics Foundation in the United Kingdom is just one group to call for a ‘Green New Deal’ – an attempt to develop a single approach to address the three main policy challenges of our time. Western Australia is particularly well positioned to lead a push for a new economic and (...)

All Saints College - Arts Alive! Junior School Concert

Where: Octagon Theatre

When: 18 September 2009 at 7.00pm

In association with the Festival, the Institute of Advanced Studies at The University of Western Australia is hosting a symposium of scholarly presentations aimed at all lovers of Baroque music.

This symposium will introduce music lovers to the origins of Baroque music, and then (...)

To celebrate the UN International Day of Peace, join us to watch 'The Day after Peace', the award-winning documentary film from Peace One Day founder and chairman Jeremy Gilley. The film demonstrates how one person’s determination and persistence led to the foundation of the UN International Day (...)

Celebrate the sweet life at our annual Lunch for Leukaemia. This lunch will be a coming together of the beautiful things in life: friends, food, wine, jewellery and fashion. Miss Universe Australia 2007 and Leukaemia Foundation Ambassador, Kimberley Busteed, whose family has been personally touched (...)

Richard Gibbs is one of Australia’s leading global analysts and policy commentators. He is joined by distinguished UWA Business School academics in a panel discussion on the factors that contributed to the subprime problems, the subsequent credit crisis and global recession; the effectiveness of (...)