Upcoming events

This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.

This talk explores the role of language and discourse in Levinas’s ethical theory, arguing that ethical relations depend not so much on linguistic capacities, as our ability to learn deeply and authentically from the other.

This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.

This presentation surveys St Patrick’s Day parades in Brisbane from their origin in 1885 to 2019. Some attention will be paid to fluctuations in the relative importance attached to events in Ireland and Australia. The processions show how Irishness was portrayed and changed over time. They responded to changing national and international contexts. St Patrick’s Day marchers, floats and symbols reflected the changing priorities of participants over the decades.

Movie Screening: I am not your Negro - Samuel L. Jackson 2016

‘Hero of Alexandria’ (50 + 15 mins)

This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.

This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.

This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.

This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.

Helen Dick, PhD Thesis Review Seminar

This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.

This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.

The University of Queensland is delighted to host the second Australasian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (ASEMP), in Brisbane, Australia, from November 25th to 27th, 2019.

This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.

Cecily Jensen-Clayton
This presentation puts forward the potential of scripture in tracing two ways the same biblical narrative shaped a woman’s experiences during her life. The presentation describes the initial reading as shaping her experience of oppression as a young woman, while describing later in her life a re-reading of the same biblical narrative enacted the healing of her trauma that came from the initial surface reading.

John Fitz-Herbert
On the first Sunday of July every year, Australian Roman Catholic parishes commemorate National Aboriginal and TSI Sunday. This paper explores issues pertaining to this celebration especially: (ii) the norms of liturgical inculturation for the celebration of Roman Catholic liturgy since 1963; (ii) the recently established special celebration on this Sunday; (iii) pope John Paul II’s address in Blatherskite Park, Alice Springs, 1986, to indigenous Australian peoples; (iv) an evaluation of a selection of specially produced liturgical resources for parishes to celebrate this Sunday; and (v) final questions and possibilities for future celebrations.

The afternoon workshops, running from 1.30pm–5pm, are by invitation. To participate in the afternoon workshop you are invited to submit a 150 - 200 word EOI outlining why you wish to attend, what you hope to learn, and some of your initial ideas to contribute to discussion.

The morning symposium includes a panel of speakers and runs from 9.30am–12.30pm. Bookings are essential.

HDR Confirmation seminar in Studies in Religion. All are welcome.

Climate and Agriculture in Roman Italy by Duncan Keenan-Jones, Imagination in a crisis or a crisis of imagination? by Simone Thornton.

The philosophical relationship between Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), the atheistic philosopher of the ‘will to life’, and Philipp Mainländer (1841-1876), the deicidal philosopher of the ‘will to death’.