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The Alumni Weekend will be an inspiring showcase for all the best the University has to offer – as well as a darn good party.

Some of our most respected academics and high-profile alumni will present their work and their lives in a lecture series that features international businessman and Rhodes Scholar, Sir Rod Eddington, Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall , Everest adventurer Patrick Hollingworth and Director of ICRAR, Winthrop Professor Peter Quinn .

Writers who have been nurtured at UWA and feted nationally and internationally will present a Writers’ Corner all weekend in the Undercroft. They include Emeritus Professor Dennis Haskell , Professor Brenda Walker , dual winner of the Miles Franklin Award Kim Scott, Deborah Burrows, Winthrop Professor Ian Reid , Assistant Professor Ambelin Kwaymullina , Nicholas Hasluck, Robert Drew, Associate Professor Delys Bird , Professor John Kinsella, Tracy Ryan, Dr Lucy Dougan , Professor Van Ikin and Dr Tess Williams .

Tours of buildings, highlighting the state-of-the-art Business School and the Science Library, gardens, colleges and historical sites, including what is now Shenton House (formerly Crawley Park House) are on the program, along with debates, lunches, College barbecues, panel discussions and the Arts Tea Party of the Century .

Centenary gifts to the University and the community will be launched: a beautiful Venetian glass mosaic sundial designed by Academy Award-winning artist and graduate Shaun Tan; a new history of the University, Seeking Wisdom (see page 12); the UWA Centenary Plant, Hakea laurina , launched by celebrity gardener Sabrina Hahn; and Luminosity , a CD of musical treasures composed and recorded by UWA alumni and current students.

The University Club will be open all weekend for alumni and staff to catch up with their friends, old and new.

Bookings, including reserving a place at specific events, can be made through Centenary . For any inquiries, please call (+61 8) 6488 4773.

Published in UWA News , 26 November 2012