School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Upcoming events

The Curious Case of Private Nicholas Permakoff

18 September 2026 12:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Associate Professor Martin Crotty

The Eucharist as enacted by the Earliest Christians

18 September 2026 2:00pm
 
in Religious Studies Seminars
Emeritus Prof. John Moorhead

Rendering the whole world blank: Precarity, totalising fear and digital scrolling

18 September 2026 2:00pm–2:30pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Alex Paterson (Philosophy Progress Review 2)

Nurse or not? The Voluntary Aid Detachment and Australian Army Medical Women’s Service during the Second World War

4 September 2026 12:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Dr Jason Smeaton (Australian Army History Unit)

Radical rank-and-file workers committees and assemblies in three Australian and one Italian trade union from 1960-1980

3 September 2026 12:00pm–12:30pm
 
in History Seminars
Joseph Stark (Progress Review 1)

John Tyndall: Science and the State in Victorian Britain

28 August 2026 2:00pm–2:30pm
 
in History Seminars
Jordan Harris (Progress Review 1)

Jacques Derrida and Paul Ricoeur on the Aporias of Forgiveness: Impossible or Difficult?

28 August 2026 2:00pm–2:30pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Timothy Marshall (Progress Review 1)

How do we tell the history of 18th century Vasemania?

21 August 2026 4:00pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Prof Alastair Blanshard

A Global History of Big Things

21 August 2026 12:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Dr Amy Clarke (University of the Sunshine Coast)

World Religions Experience Day 2026

22 July 2026 9:30am–2:00pm
 
in World Religions Experience Day 2026
The World Religions Experience Day will be held at St Lucia Campus on Wednesday, 22nd 2026.

Symposium: (Dis)comfort in religious and spiritual places and practices (UQ & WSU)

24 June 2026 9:30am–4:30pm
 
in Religious Studies Seminars
Dr Kathleen Openshaw (WSU) and Dr Jerrold Cuperus (UQ).

Please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing j.cuperus@uq.edu.au with 'symposium’ in the subject line.

Moral motivation as adaptive preference

5 June 2026 2:00pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Dr Hugh Breakey

Feminist Solidarities and Beauvoir's Ethics of Generosity: Reflection on Muslim Women's Movements in India

29 May 2026 2:00pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Dr. Sameema Zahra

Connecting patterns and places of sport history and heritage in Queensland

29 May 2026 12:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Dr Kate Kirby (USQ)

Athens after the Defeat: Financing Wars from 399 to 369

22 May 2026 4:00pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Dr Annabel Florence

Chance vs Causes in History: David Hume on the Tudor Constitution

15 May 2026 12:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Dr Dennis Gibson (QUT)

Navigating a Religious Community Through Turbulence, Progress Review Alex Nocher

14 May 2026 12:30pm
 
in History Seminars
History Progress Review, Alex Nocher

Translating Catullus

8 May 2026 4:00pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Professor Stephanie McCarter (Sewanee)

Indigenous Existentialism in the Films of Warwick Thornton

8 May 2026 2:00pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Professor Damian Cox & Oscar Davis

Diggers and Collectors: Australians as antiquities collectors in the First World War, Progress Review James Donaldson

8 May 2026 12:30pm
 
in History Seminars

(The) Truth

1 May 2026 2:00pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Prof Calvin Normore (UCLA)

English Royal Supremacy and the Common Law Judiciary, 1660-1688

1 May 2026 12:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Dr David Kearns (UQ)

Against the Grain: Children’s Wooden Toys, Social Status and Identity in Ancient Rome

24 April 2026 4:00pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Kyla Duffy

Adrift in the World: Humean Perceptions without Minds

17 April 2026 2:00pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Prof Dario Perinetti (UQAM)

Rainforest Conservation from the Ground Up: Leonard Webb and the Globalisation of Ecological Heritage

17 April 2026 12:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Dr Jarrod Hore (UNSW)

Women's empowerment in the Muslim community in SE QLD

27 March 2026 2:00pm–3:00pm
 
in Religious Studies Seminars
Zerrin Afza

The Metaphysics of Biological Essentialism

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

A History of the African Diaspora in China (1956-2012) - History Progress Review, Yimei Liu

27 March 2026 11:00am
 
in History Seminars
History Progress Review (PR2), Yimei Liu

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