School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Upcoming events

Sin and Self-knowledge According to Gregory the Great

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

World War I and the Stolen Generation

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

Analogy, political ontology, and the use of animals

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

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.'
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2025 Ed Conrad Memorial Lecture: The Bible and the Rise of Science

24 September 2025 5:15pm–7:15pm
 
in 2025 Ed Conrad Memorial Lecture
The University of Queensland's School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry invites you to attend the 2025 Ed Conrad Memorial Lecture titled 'The Bible and the Rise of Science' presented by Emeritus Professor Peter Harrison.
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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)

World Religions Experience Day 2025

23 July 2025 9:30am–24 July 2025 2:00pm
 
in World Religions Experience Day 2025
The World Religions Experience Day will be held at St Lucia Campus on Wednesday 23 & Thursday 24 July, 2025.

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

The Complexity of the set of validities of a theory

30 May 2025 2:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Philosophy Seminars
Professor Scott Weinstein (Pennsylvania)

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)

HPI Honours Information Session

27 May 2025 12:15pm
 
in Honours Information Session

Buddhism and Revolution: The Thai Sangha's Response to the 1932 Overthrow of the Absolute Monarchy

23 May 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Associate Professor Patrick Jory

Approaching accounts of sexual violence in the Western Christian sources for the First Crusade (1096–1099 CE)

16 May 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Dr Beth Spacey

Navigating a religious community through turbulence: Leaders of the German Lutheran Church and the Queensland Government Post First World War - Progress Review 1, Alex Nocher

9 May 2025 4:00pm–4:30pm
 
in History Seminars

Dr Ulrike Ehmig, Berlin–Brandenburg Academy of Sciences ‘New in the Old: What There is Still to Discover in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum after 170 Years’

9 May 2025 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars

The Private Language of Liberalism: Leonard and Kate Courtney - A/Prof Geoff Ginn

9 May 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in History Seminars

TERFs, Bodily Fears, and Why Transphobia is also Racist - Josh Szymanski

2 May 2025 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Gender Studies Seminars

History Honours Student Presentations - Isabella Tran and Oliver Campbell

2 May 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in History Seminars

The Triumphator's Prayers: Towards a Reception History

11 April 2025 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Ms Frances Muecke (Sydney)

Budget Politics in Modern Queensland: An Examination of the Values and Policy Priorities of Queensland Governments 1989-2024

4 April 2025 3:00pm–3:30pm
 
in History Seminars
Connor Harvey (Progress review)

“I could not help wondering whether I had an insight into Britain’s future”: Australia in the British Conservative Political Imagination after 1945

4 April 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Kit Kowal

A Socio-Technical Archaeology of Roman Glassmaking

28 March 2025 4:30pm–5:30pm
 
in Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Dr Thomas J. Derrick (Macquarie)

Navigating Masculinities and Social Change: Lessons from Single-Sex Boys’ Schools in Queensland, Australia

28 March 2025 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in History Seminars
Lisa Holohan (Gender Studies Seminar)

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