School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Upcoming events

‘Wages for Housework’ in Australia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

12 September 2025 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Dr Belinda Eslick (Gender Studies Seminar)

Understanding Hume’s sceptical assent

11 September 2025 3:00pm–3:30pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Peter Kearney (Progress review)

Fetal Conceptions: The Development of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Construction of Normality in Pregnancy, 1955-1971

5 September 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Stella Buckby (Honours presentation)

Piety, Power, and Politics: Reading Æthelstan in Twelfth-Century Chronicles

5 September 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Sarah Harm (Honours presentation)

What’s Really Wrong With Fake News? A Spinozist Perspective

3 September 2025 5:00pm–7:15pm
 
in 2025 Atkins Public Lecture
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.'

The Professional and Working Hellenistic Women of Independent Delos (314-167 BC)

29 August 2025 4:30pm–5:00pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Ethel L. Clark-Kistowski

Alexander the Greatly Traumatised: Was the Irrational Behaviour of Alexander the Great Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?

29 August 2025 4:00pm–4:30pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Dr Carlos Robinson (Macquarie)

Young Men, Masculinity and Navigating Digital Spaces

29 August 2025 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Associate Professor Garth Stahl & Lisa Holohan (Gender Studies Seminar)

Simulating Routley - Professor Fred Kroon (Auckland)

29 August 2025 2:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Professor Fred Kroon (Auckland)

The Queensland Irish and Race: a preliminary survey

22 August 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Rod and Robin Sullivan (Honorary Research Associate Professors)

A Dewy Pregnancy: The Pearls of Roman Women

15 August 2025 4:00pm–5:15pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Professor Kelly Olson

Uncomfortable Empathy: A response to the cinematic construction of non-consensual sex

15 August 2025 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Tyla Cascaes (Gender Studies Seminar)

Analogy, political ontology, and the use of animals

8 August 2025 3:00pm–3:30pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Joel Glazebrook (Progress review)

World War I and the Stolen Generation

8 August 2025 2:30pm–3:30pm
 
in History Seminars
Kylie Blundell (Progress review)

Sin and Self-knowledge According to Gregory the Great

8 August 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Emeritus Professor John Moorhead

Understanding the factors that influence consumer trust in AI-driven healthcare technologies within the risk society using vaccine hesitancy as a case study

6 August 2025 2:00pm–2:30pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Jenna Harding (Progress review)

On Musement and Radical Thought

25 July 2025 2:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Dr Eldritch Priest (Simon Fraser)

Friendship between Subjects: A Philosophical Analysis of Authentic Relationships between Women in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Beyond

25 July 2025 12:00pm–12:30pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Talia Fell (Progress Review)

Design and Decoration of Wooden Personal Items from the Roman Imperial Period

27 June 2025 4:30pm–5:00pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Ms Kyla Duffy

The Professional and Working Hellenistic Women of Independent Delos (314-167 BC)

27 June 2025 4:00pm–4:30pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Miss Ethel L. Clark-Kistowski

Pastoral Lands & Lives: Labour Relations, Social Networks and the Impact of Technology on Pastoral Stations of the South Burnett, 1890-1920

27 June 2025 2:00pm–2:30pm
 
in History Seminars
Christina Lawrence (Progress review 1)

Intimacy-geopolitics: Exploring the utility of a peacebuilding framework to address domestic and family violence among resettled refugees in Australia

13 June 2025 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Dr Jennifer Maturi (Gender Studies Seminar)

HPI Research Celebration - 'AI and the Humanities'

6 June 2025 1:30pm–4:00pm
 
in Research Celebration Semester 1

Early Archaic Athens at War (c. 630-546 BC)

30 May 2025 4:00pm–4:30pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Mr Mischa Piekosz

Envelopes of Pain: How learning that their husbands had died affected Australian War Widows of the Great War

30 May 2025 2:00pm–2:30pm
 
in History Seminars
Melanie Roylance (HDR Progress seminar 2)

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