What's On at UWA

If you would like to know how a postgrad qualification can shape your future career, visit our Postgrad & Honours Expo in September.

Chat to current staff and students about the courses on offer, scholarships and the application process, and attend one of the information sessions (...)

Dr Yudhoyono was the Republic of Indonesia's sixth President and the country's first directly elected president, entering office in 2004 and serving two consecutive five-year terms. He left office in October 2014. In addition to his many achievements as Indonesia's president, Dr Yudhoyono was named (...)

This presentation is a follow-up from the overview presented for Steve's MPA thesis proposal at a Thursday Seminar in Semester I. Since that time, he has had the opportunity to complete fieldwork and submit the first draft of the thesis. For this presentation Steve would like to give you an (...)

A public lecture by Professor David Mackey, Managing Director of the Lions Eye Institute and Director, Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at UWA.

It seems like the simplest question in the world and it is one of the fundamental ways in which we define appearance. But did you (...)

A fundraising dinner, in support of the development of Perth's Early Music Project, will be held at the historic St George's College in September. Perth's Early Music Project is to be hosted by St George's College from next year and will feature the creation of an Early Music Festival and a (...)

A presentation in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII in Asia

A public lecture by Mayu Kanamori, 2015 IAS Artist-in-Residence.

Mayu Kanamori's most recent work 'Yasukichi Murakami: Through a Distant Lens' is a theatre work about the life of historical photographer Yasukichi Murakami and the modern day search of his missing photographs.

Wh (...)

A public lecture by Greg Martin, Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

This lecture will consider how criminologists have engaged in debates about human rights largely by looking at state crimes perpetrated by repressive (...)

Professor Ted Snell, Director of the Cultural Precinct at The University of Western Australia, invites you to the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Centre for the opening of 'DeMonstrable', an exhibition curated by Oron Catts with Associate Professors Jennifer Johung and Elizabeth Stephens. The exhibition (...)

The twelfth IEEE International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks will take place at the Old Swan Brewery on October 4-7. http://iwcsn.eie.polyu.edu.hk/2015/Home.html

The Workshop is sponsored by the Complex Data Modelling Research Group, the School of Mathematics and Statistics (...)

A public lecture by Stefano Carboni, Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia and Adjunct Professor of Islamic Art, The University of Western Australia.

The subject of this lecture is the so-called London Qazvini, an early 14th-century illustrated Arabic copy of an encyclopaedia of (...)

Quit Smoking Successfully!

The Robin Winkler Clinic at The University of Western Australia will be conducting a SMOKING CESSATION treatment program commencing in the first half of OCTOBER 2015.

The Smoking Cessation treatment program combines nicotine replacement therapy with (...)

A public lecture by Vicki Hansen, McKnight Presidential Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth and 2015 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.

Earth's so-called Archean Era, which ended 2.5 billion years ago, marks a time during which the Earth was a completely (...)

A public lecture by Paul Baird, Professeur Classe Exceptionnelle, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Laboratoire de Mathematiques de Bretagne Atlantique

This question is the last of J. A. Wheeler's four puzzles that challenge our conception of the world. We have a profound sense that (...)

A public lecture by Hugh Durrant-Whyte, ARC Federation Fellow, the University of Sydney.

Digital disruption - data analytics, computing, automation and robotics - is transforming the world we live in, challenging and destroying conventional business models, but in the digital wake (...)

The Callaway Lecture is one of the most prestigious events on the School of Music calendar. Over the last two decades, a host of distinguished speakers have taken to the podium to deliver their thoughts on subjects as broad ranging as the effects of music on the mind, and the place of music in the (...)

The Northern Territory's capital city, Darwin, plays host to thousands of Aboriginal visitors at any one time. Darwin also serves as a base for anthropologists who work in many different capacities throughout the northern parts of the NT, some permanent residents and others visiting for weeks or (...)

You can create a brighter future for people with blood cancer by signing up for the Leukaemia Foundation's Light the night walk on Friday, 9th October. Gather family and friends to light a beautiful lantern; gold to remember someone, white for your own journey or blue to show you care. The money (...)

Join the UWA psychology students and staff on a journey of reducing stigma and demystifying mental illness for Mental Health Week 2015.

Presentations focus on understanding and acting on mental health issues, including: What does depression and anxiety look like? What does getting help (...)

We can't end poverty without strong action on climate change. And nobody understands this better than the frontline communities already experiencing the devastating impacts of increasing droughts, floods, hunger and disease.

That's why we're bringing together activists from across the (...)