What's On at UWA

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 (...)

Our Galaxy has been forming stars continuously since just after the Big Bang. Its stars form in fairly large groups but they do not stay together. The groups of stars soon dissolve and their stellar debris is spread right around the Galaxy.

The goal of Galactic archaeology is to use the (...)

“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.” Margaret Mead

The nuclear family is an aberration in human history, yet it has shaped our perceptions and (...)

Speaker: Tom Griffiths, Professor of History, Research School of Social Sciences,The Australian National University.

Antarctica, once at the very edge of global knowledge and concerns, has become intellectually and environmentally central to the world. In the twenty-first century, the (...)

The speaker has called in sick; this event will be postponed until a later date TBA.

Centre for Land Rehabilitation Seminar, School of Earth and Environment, FNAS.

WA Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) presents Link Dance: The Ripple Effect

Where: The Dolphin Theatre

When: Performance 1: Friday 25 September 2009 at 7.30pm Matinee Perfomance: Saturday 26 September 2009 at 2.00pm Perfomance 2: Saturday 26 September 2009 at 6.00pm

pFARM :: Organic Fetish Biotech documents the activities of the pFarm collective and its phantasmagoric, organic bio-tech experiments in inter-species fantasies, fetishes and flea-market offerings. Created by Adam Zaretsky and the pFARM Collective, the film explores cultural power relations between (...)

Controversial (at times), comprehensive (in parts) and rich (in cultural significance) The UWA Art Collection is one of the state's best art collections. Presented in two parts, this selection of works by 100 artists includes many of Australia's and Western Australia's best known artists and (...)

Berg: Sonata Op. 1; Liszt: Sonata in B minor; Debussy: Préludes, book 2 (excerpts); Hamelin: Twelve Etudes in All The Minor Keys (excerpts)

French-Canadian pianist Marc- André Hamelin’s startlingly original blend of musicianship and virtuosity has earned him legendary status as (...)

Speaker: Professor Geraint Lewis, School of Physics, University of Sydney.

How lucky we are, finding us living on a planet with just the right conditions for liquid water to flow on its surface. More than that, we live in a universe old enough, and with just the right laws of physics, to (...)

Speaker: Dr Philippa Maddern, UWA

For medieval writers, ‘nature’ had an extraordinarily wide range of significance. Profound generic chasms separated the manorial account roll recording in apparently passionless detail the monetary value of woodlands, fields and meadows; the medieval (...)

Opera Australia's Oz Opera is proud to announce a new production of one of the world's favourite operas, Madame Butterfly directed by one of Australia's most influential directors, John Bell.

Thursday 1st, Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd October 2009 at 8pm

Fifteen years since the Mabo decision, agreements over resource development with Aboriginal people are entirely commonplace. Why and what does this mean?

In his new book 'The Native Title Market', David Ritter argues that the native title legislation has given rise to a de facto market (...)

Large areas of land around the world, including Western Australia, are drastically disturbed by mining and industry. Sustainable rehabilitation requires that soil be recreated from piles of waste so that new ecosystems are functionally stable. Real soil is full of life and to achieve this state may (...)

This event launches UWA's presence in the 3D interactive, immersive world of Second Life. From Winthrop, to Hackett, to the Reflecting Pond, our peacocks, and ducks and the Sunken Gardens, all of these can be viewed in full glory.

Everyone around the world will be able to log in from (...)

This event launches UWA's presence in the 3D interactive, immersive world of Second Life. From Winthrop, to Hackett, to the Reflecting Pond, our peacocks, and ducks and the Sunken Gardens, all of these can be viewed in full glory.

Everyone around the world will be able to log in from (...)

What is spatial information? How is it constructed, maintained and controlled? With the current social valence of spatial information, it is critical that we have an understanding of its continuing development so we can leverage and critique it effectively. This talk will seek to deeply engage the (...)

UWA Orchestra; Peter Moore/Paul Wright, conductor; Suzanna Hlinka, piano

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 K488 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9

Thanks to the generosity of the Vose family, the annual Vose Memorial Prize for Music provides the UWA School of Music with the (...)

The UWA Friends of the Grounds Plant Propagation Group will hold their 'Annual Plant Sale ' on Saturday 3 October 10:00am – Noon at the UWA Boatshed carpark on the corner of Stirling Hwy and Hackett Drive, Crawley. Most plants will be priced at $3 or $5. The group have propagated many (...)

Hayden: Insanae et Vanae Curae Mendelssohn: Three Motets op.69 Handel: Organ Concerto in F Major: op.4 No.4 HWV 292 Mendelssohn: Hymn of Praise Conductor: Burhan Guner Soloists: Dominic Perissinotto (Organ), Zoe Kikiros (Soprano), Penny Reynolds (Soprano), Roberto Abate (Tenor)

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