Events

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.

The University of Queensland's School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry invites you to join us for the 2025 Atkins Public Lecture delivered by Emeritus Professor Susan James entitled, 'What’s Really Wrong with Fake News? A Spinozist Perspective.'

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.

What’s gone wrong in Australian universities and how do we fix it? Join renowned cultural critic Graeme Turner as he discusses Broken: Universities, Politics & the Public Good.

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.

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.

Join us for a special UQ Talks panel discussion on the vital role family, community and culture plays in supporting the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

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."

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.

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.

Join The University of Queensland School of Political Science and International Studies in conversation with Mr Kishore Mahbubani.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.