Upcoming events

The next World Religions Symposium is scheduled for July 22, 2020. Registrations are open now.

As we look towards our post-COVID-19 society, we are likely to see more than just a recovery of the 2019 world, but something completely new. UQ historians will come together to discuss what has come after plagues throughout ancient, medieval and early modern history and what it may mean for our world today.

Each pandemic throughout history has brought suffering and civil unrest, but in their wake has come a blossoming of art, literature and new ideas. These upheavals have forced people to rethink the world around them, leading to some of history’s most influential and challenging cultural works. As we look towards our post-COVID-19 society, we are likely to see more than just a recovery of the 2019 world, but something completely new. UQ historians will come together to discuss what has come after plagues throughout ancient, medieval and early modern history and what it may mean for our world today.

‘Museum-Based Courses and Programs at the R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum for UQ Students’

‘Domestic Violence in the Athenian Law Courts: Frameworks and Methodologies’

‘Continuity and Change in Early Medieval Central Asia: An Art and Archaeological View of Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Central Asia’

POSTPONED until further notice
I use relevant logic to defend the cogency (but not the truth!) of A. J. Ayer's verificationism.

‘Imperial Greeks at Olympia: Herodes Atticus, Pausanias, and Lucian’

‘The Contexts and Functions of Health Care Advice in the Roman Republic and Empire’

‘Fury Road: Space and Civil Violence in the Late Republic and Early Empire’

‘The Influence of Genre on Voluntary Death Scenes’

POSTPONED until further notice
Jessica Whyte will discuss the historical and conceptual relations between human rights and neoliberalism in the twentieth-century.