What's On at UWA

The Confucius Institute is running our third intake of our language programmes. Our language courses are designed for those with an interest in travel, business and friendship. Our teachers are qualified Chinese language teaching professionals with many years of experience.

Focused around the theme of identity of place and origins, this concert by Austrian-based performer-composers The Mandelbrot Duo is a rich and engaging journey into the imaginative worlds of sound.

Southern Oceans Suite explores the oceanic region of the southwest coastline Australia (...)

Even after stripping away the romantic fiction that gathered around the story of Eileen Joyce through film and popular biography, the facts of her early life that would lead to an international concert career are quite extraordinary. They will be described in this talk.

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A delicious luncheon at the University Club of Western Australia will be the setting for a literary discussion with author Ian Reid, who will give an insight into his bitter-beautiful historical novel The End of Longing - a thrilling and lyrical novel about a confidence trickster, a restless woman (...)

The reproductive biology of social insects, being the social bees, ants, wasps and termites is truly spectacular, as a number of characteristics reported are either absent or very rare in other species. For example, social insect queens are the world’s record holder for long-term sperm storage (...)

What is “value”? What is “goodness” and “badness”? What does our only scientific theory of life have to say?

The mathematical logic of game theory shows that cooperation can evolve, as does the adaptationist logic of biology. Both kinds of logic rely on the assumption of (...)

Climate change is fast becoming a business reality in many parts of the world, whether because of legislated carbon emission reduction plans (including carbon pricing), or because a changing climate creates risks for business operations. By examining the environmental, social and economic (...)

‘A day in the life of an Engineering Student’ gives year 10 and 11 students the opportunity to explore the different types of engineering currently available at UWA and to participate in a range of activities which will help to explain what engineering is and how it can be applied in the real (...)

Participants must bring their own laptops.

Bayesian approaches to statistical modelling and analysis are being enthusiastically adopted in many disciplines. The course is structured as two mini-workshops each of two days: Introductory Bayesian analysis using WinBugs and Bayesian analysis (...)

The Netherlands is situated in the delta of the Rhine-Meuse Estuary.What will be the effect of sea level rise due to climate change for a country that has been struggling for centuries against the forces of nature? Will it be able to maintain its safe and pleasant living conditions foanother (...)

The Business School is offering Year 11 and 12 students the chance to take part in a wide range of hands-on activities that will be interactive, fun, competitive and very rewarding.

You will work in teams with other students and interact with lecturers and current business students who (...)

A free public lecture by by Professor Carlos Duarte, Director of UWA's Oceans Institute.

Professor Carlos Duarte was appointed Director of UWA’s Oceans Institute in March 2011. He is currently leading the Malaspina 2010 Expedition, a Spanish circumnavigation expedition that is sailing (...)

The 10 most engaging 3 Minute Thesis presenters selected at the UWA semi-finals on 21st July, will compete for prizes and the opportunity to represent UWA at the Australia-New Zealand 3MT competition in September. Please come along to support the presenters and vote for your "People's Choice&qu (...)

Thinking of excelling in New HSK test? Then enrolling in these training courses will enhance your chances!

The New HSK test is China’s officially recognised language proficiency test. All HSK results are internationally recognised as proof of Chinese language proficiency, and it is (...)

Artists operate within both the miniscule contexts of cells and molecules and the vastly larger macrocosm of human experience. While scientists ponder higher dimensions and the existence of multiple universes, the scope of knowledge encompasses once inconceivable reaches of space and time. Art is (...)

Presentations over this two-day event will cover comparisons of environments for the dawn of life on Earth and comparing with the possibility of life on the red Planet, Mars.

Written submissions from teachers, scientists, engineers, social theorists, managers, writers and artists are (...)

Celebrate the best of Australian wine and food at the Wine Show by the Bay where over 30 of the nation’s best loved estates will be represented in a wine fair like no other.

Enhance your experience and expand your knowledge with master classes by Clairault, Henschke and Thompson (...)

Sue Murphy, one of the first female UWA engineering graduates and CEO of the Water Corporation will give us an insight into her time at university, her personal achievements and the challenges ahead.

The UWA Centenary Trust for Women (CTW) was established in 2002 by a group of UWA women (...)

After 25 years of research Prof Commbe has an international reputation on the structure and function of a class of carbohydrates: GlycosAminoGlycans (GAGs). The biological activities of GAGs indicated that they may have important roles in a number of diseases and in recent years Prof Coombe’s (...)

A public lecture by Professor Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.

The lecture is based on Terry Smith’s new book which argues that, in recent (...)