The Metaphysics of Biological Essentialism

27 March 2026 2:00pm
Prof Michael Devitt (CUNY)

World Religions Experience Day 2026

22 July 2026 9:30am2:00pm
The World Religions Experience Day will be held at St Lucia Campus on Wednesday, 22nd 2026.

Age before Beauty: Pliny the Younger and the Art of Growing Old

20 March 2026 4:00pm
Dr Roslynne Bell (The University of Melbourne)

Naval History as Intellectual History: The Case of the Jeune École

20 March 2026 12:00pm
Dr Knox Peden is an Academic Research Officer and Historian at the Sea Power Centre-Australia and Visiting Fellow in the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He has taught history and philosophy at several Australian universities, including UQ, and has published widely on French intellectual history. His current research seeks to bring an intellectual-historical approach to debates within naval strategic thought about the uses of history.

Nero in the Early Years of Cinema

13 March 2026 4:00pm
Professor Maria Wyke, University College London

Nuts & Bolts of Informal Empire: Victorian Engineering Enterprise in South America

6 March 2026 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Pedro Guedes, The University of Queensland

Protestant Origins of Modern Science?

3 December 2025 6:00pm7:30pm
Emeritus Professor Peter Harrison (2025 AAHPSSS Dyason Lecture)

Doubt Aversion Theory

19 November 2025 3:00pm3:30pm
Ted Hennicke (progress review)

Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Activity-based Modelling

14 November 2025 2:00pm2:30pm
Noor Naddour (progress review)

On Biography-Writing as a Historian: Some Lessons Learnt

31 October 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Emeritus Professor Peter Hempenstall

Abstract Nonsense

29 October 2025 2:00pm2:30pm
James Carr (progress review)

Ethics in Classical Greek Commercial Activity

24 October 2025 4:00pm4:30pm
Stephen O'Brien (Queensland)

2025 School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry Annual Lecture

23 October 2025 5:30pm7:30pm
Join us for the 2025 School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry Annual Lecture titled 'Simone de Beauvoir on independence, freedom, and happiness: Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2016)' delivered by Professor Marguerite La Caze.

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