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'Getting Research into Policy & Practice' Workshop

16 July 2025 9:30am–1:30pm

This interactive half-day workshop is designed for academics, research support professionals, and students who want to enhance their understanding of the political and governmental landscape and learn how to frame and promote their research to inform and help shape policy.

Future Ready with AI

24 July 2025 8:45am–3:15pm

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Join us for an exciting, full-day professional development event designed to empower educators with the practical AI tools and insights needed to transform classroom practice and administrative tasks.

Opening Night: UQ Art Museum Semester 2

25 July 2025 6:00pm–9:00pm

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Join us to celebrate the launch of UQ Art Museum’s latest exhibitions. Explore the exhibitions, enjoy a live DJ set, and food and drinks inside the UQ Art Museum.

2025 S.W Brooks Public Lecture

30 July 2025 6:00pm–8:00pm

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You are invited to join us for the 2025 S.W Brooks Public Lecture entitled, "Travels for Health in the Alps and Riviera: Literary and Medical Cultures."

2025 Daphne Mayo Public Lecture

7 August 2025 6:00pm–8:00pm

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You are invited to join us for the 2025 Daphne Mayo Public Lecture entitled, "Who Holds the Story? Solidarity, Cinema, and the Spaces Between Words." This lecture opens a constellation of reflections that connect cinema, solidarity, and the poetics of refusal.

Digital Temporalities: Slow, Quick and Everything In-between

12 August 2025 9:00am–4:30pm

in The Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies events

What happens to our understanding of the digital when we begin with time, rather than space? This symposium invites participants whose projects explore the entanglements of digital technologies and temporalities.

AI in Action

3 September 2025 2:45pm–4:00pm

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Curious about how artificial intelligence is transforming education? Join AI in Action, a speaker series exploring the practical, the ethical, the challenging and the creative ways AI is shaping the future of teaching and learning.

Earth Works | Robert Curgenven

5 September 2025 6:00pm

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Following a series of sold out shows for AGENESIS with Kat McDowall, at the 2025 Dark Mofo festival – Robert Curgenven's Earth Works will transform the pipe organ at UQ Art Museum, with its 3,283 pipes, into an instrument that breathes at an architectural scale. A collective evocation of the air, the very foundation of the pipe organ – Earth Works offers a liberation and extension of the pipe organ’s possibilities.

SUNA TOK TOK

6 September 2025 10:00am

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Join us for a day of free events and celebrations as we mark 50 years of Papua New Guinean independence. Explore artist Yuriyal Bridgeman’s large-scale installation SUNA (Middle Ground), enjoy food, talks and sing sings, and catch up with family and friends on the UQ Art Museum lawn.

HASS Great Debate 2025: The Tech Bros Killed Democracy

8 September 2025 2:00pm–4:00pm

in HASS Great Debate 2025: The Tech Bros Killed Democracy

Come along to an in-person light-hearted debate about tech culture, social media, and whether democracy can survive the age of disruption.

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Writing for Truth Telling: Dr Jackie Huggins in conversation with Cheryl Leavy at Sun Stadium

12 July 2025 3:00pm–4:30pm

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To celebrate this year's NAIDOC theme The Next Generation: Strength, Vision and Legacy, please join us for a conversation between Dr Jackie Huggins and Cheryl Leavy as they explore the nuances of truth telling through published and forthcoming work.

Art Walking Tour: First Nations Art on Campus

9 July 2025 10:30am–1:00pm

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Join UQ Art Museum during NAIDOC Week 2025 for an art walking tour exploring some of the incredible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks in the UQ Art Collection. 

2025 Lloyd Davis Public Lecture

3 July 2025 3:15pm–5:30pm

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This lecture will consider how The Tempest may have shaped how early modern English audiences felt about the enslavement of Caliban.

Nobody's Listening: The Forgotten Voices of Sinjar

3 July 2025 10:00am–4:00pm

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Join us for an immersive, award-winning virtual reality experience that commemorates the Yazidi Genocide of 2014 in Northern Iraq, and a public seminar on the current state of the Yazidi community and ongoing efforts to achieve justice and accountability for genocide survivors.

2025 Hall Annual Lecture

20 June 2025 6:00pm–8:00pm

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The 2025 Hall Annual Lecture titled 'Bones, Stones, Crocodiles and Origins: New Paleoanthropological Evidence from Africa' will be presented by Associate Professor Jackson Njau.

Orchestral Visions

1 June 2025 2:00pm–4:00pm

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The University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra invites you to experience Orchestral Visions, an afternoon of bold symphonic storytelling under the baton of Paul Dean, Kinnane Professor of Music, in his highly anticipated debut with the orchestra.

Portrait Head of Aphrodite, 88.016, marble, Classical Greek from Attica, 400 – 350 BC.

The Birth of Portraiture and the Divine

29 May 2025 5:30pm–7:30pm

in The Birth of Portraiture and the Divine

Join Alastair Blanshard, Paul Eliadis Professor of Classics and Ancient History, as he revisits the birth of portraiture in ancient Greece. Hear the story of how art originally designed to represent images of the immortal gods was transformed to capture the faces of mortal men and women.

Webinar: Language Technology and the Metacrisis

29 May 2025 3:30pm

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Join the Language Data Commons of Australia for their first webinar in their 2025 webinar series.

Interconnected Ecologies: Native Bee Futures with Dr Coen Hird

29 May 2025 11:00am–12:30pm

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In the spirit of considering the 2025 National Reconciliation Week (NRW) theme, Bridging Now to Next, which reflects the ongoing connection between past, present and future, join us at the UQ Anthropology Museum with guest Dr Coen Hird, interdisciplinary biologist in conversation with curator Mandana Mapar.

Exhibition tours - Stories through time: Living cultures, enduring connections

27 May 2025 12:00pm–3 June 2025 12:00pm

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In the spirit of considering the 2025 National Reconciliation Week (NRW) theme, Bridging Now to Next, which reflects the ongoing connection between past, present and future, join UQ Anthropology Museum staff for a guided tour of Stories through time: Living cultures, enduring connections.

Norton Fredericks, Field Samples 2024–25 and Blood test results 2024. Installation view, These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature, The University of Queensland Art Museum, 2025. Photo: Joe Ruckli.

Entangled Kin: Contaminant Conversations

23 May 2025 12:30pm–1:15pm

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Join UQ Art Museum to hear from leading voices on emerging environmental contaminants: plastics, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), and wastewater. Featuring Dr. Elvis Okoffo, Research Fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), UQ; Associate Professor Leisa-Maree Toms, School of Public Health and Social Work, QUT; and artist Norton Fredericks.

From Dreary to Theory: A Workshop on Creative Theorizing

13 May 2025 9:00am–5:00pm

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Theory can be seen as scary, boring, or irrelevant. But theorizing can be a creative and incredibly powerful way to generate new questions and push your research practice in new directions. In this two-day workshop, you’ll be introduced to theorizing as a creative practice.

Domestic and Family Violence Awareness Month Breakfast & Industry Panel

13 May 2025 7:45am–9:00am

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Join us for a breakfast and vital conversation during Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) Prevention Month as we shine a spotlight on the complexities of DFV.

Spectrum

2 May 2025 11:00am–4 May 2025 5:00pm

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The University of Queensland School of Music proudly presents Spectrum 2025, a vibrant celebration of musical artistry showcasing the breadth of talent within the UQ community. From classical masterworks to contemporary innovations, this festival offers a kaleidoscope of musical experiences across UQ's most captivating spaces.

Website Making Workshop

24 April 2025 1:00pm–3:00pm

in The Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies events

Do you want to create a website to showcase your research or professional work but unsure where to start? This workshop provides an introduction to building your own website, giving you full control over your online presence. Designed for researchers, students, and anyone wanting a personal website, using the free GitHub platform.

Mikhail Zygar on Putin’s vision for the world

27 March 2025 5:45pm–7:45pm

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In this presentation, prominent US-based Russian author and analyst Mikhail Zygar examines what Russian President Putin seeks for Russia’s future, for his own legacy, and how he intends to go about achieving it.

Digital Traces as Method

27 March 2025 12:00pm–2:00pm

in The Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies events

In this workshop run by The Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies we take participants through a range of data collection strategies that focus on different digital traces and how these strategies could be integrated into other kinds of digital methods.

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Climate Change and the Responsibility to Protect: Insights from the Pacific

25 March 2025 5:45pm–7:45pm

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Join the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect for an expert panel discussion on Climate Change in the Pacific.

Ultramarine Conversations: Recent Water Research in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

13 March 2025 12:30pm–2:00pm

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This event celebrates the launch of two books; Groundwater Politics: An Ethnography of Advanced Extractivism and Slow Resistance (2025) by Sally Babidge and Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities (2024) edited by Maxine Newlands and Claire Hansen, as well as highlighting the special issue of Oceania: Water Futures in Australia (2023) edited by Sally Babidge, Ute Eickelkamp, Linda Connor.

The HASS Gender Agenda

4 March 2025 12:30pm–1:30pm

in The HASS Gender Agenda - International Women's Day 2025

Join us for an engaging cross-disciplinary discussion offering insights into gender intersection and impacts across the humanities and social sciences.

Anthropology Mixer

4 March 2025 12:15pm–1:45pm

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The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Social Science invite you to join us for chats, food, and games at our Anthropology Mixer.

Sociology Employability Afternoon: 'Big Picture' Panel

3 March 2025 4:00pm–5:00pm

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The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Social Science invite you to join us and Sociology Professionals at our Sociology Employability Afternoon - 'Big Picture'!

International Women's Day Panel Discussion "March Forward" and the Brisbane launch of "Women's Voices from the Revolution"

3 March 2025 10:00am–11:00am

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Join UQ's Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and the School of Political Science and International Studies this International Women's Day for a special panel discussion focusing on women in Myanmar and the launch of ALTSEAN Burma's "Women's Voices from the Revolution".

Performance: Alicia Frankovich 'Feather Star' 2025 | BLOCK PARTY performance

1 March 2025 3:00pm–3:45pm

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BLOCK PARTY

1 March 2025 10:00am–4:00pm

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Explore some of UQ St Lucia's Museums for a FREE day community, art, workshops, performances, tours, learning, heritage, food and more!