School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

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Replica of the City Palace in Berlin, Germany.

2026 School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry Annual Lecture

9 June 2026 5:30pm–7:30pm
 
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Join us for the 2026 School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry Annual Lecture titled, 'Empires striking back?' presented by Professor Andrew Bonnell. Registrations are essential.
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Symposium: (Dis)comfort in religious and spiritual places and practices (UQ & WSU)

24 June 2026 9:00am–5:00pm
 
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We are seeking contributions from scholars across the humanities or social sciences that reflect on (dis)comfort in religious / spiritual places or practices.

Please send an abstract (max 250 words), name, affiliation, and short bio (max 50 words) to j.cuperus@uq.edu.au before 13 May 2026.

Convenors: Dr Jerrold Cuperus (University of Queensland) & Dr Kathleen Openshaw (Western Sydney University)

Contact:
Jerrold Cuperus (j.cuperus@uq.edu.au),
Kathleen Openshaw (K.Openshaw@westernsydney.edu.au)

World Religions Experience Day 2026

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

'Why Infinitary Logic is Genuinely Logical' Guest Lecture Professor Alexander Paseau (Oxford)

3 March 2023 5:30pm
 
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Guest Lecture Professor David Makinson- 'Hamilton’s particles: an exercise in third-order logic'

10 March 2023 2:00pm
 
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Progress Review: ‘Natural Disasters in Hesiod’s Typhonomachy’ - Louise Fuller

10 March 2023 4:00pm
 
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Progress Review: ‘The Aims and Methods of the Foundation for Imperium Research Project’ - Rory McLennan

10 March 2023 4:30pm
 
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Progress Review: 'Between The Straight Mind and The Lesbian Body: Monique Wittig and Derridean Dissemination' - Josh Szymanski

17 March 2023 10:00am
 
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'Against Classical Paraconsistent Metatheory' - Guest Lecture Dr Patrick Girard (Auckland)

17 March 2023 2:00pm
 
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Ancient Piraeus: The fortified harbour and cornerstone of Athenian democracy, Dr Kyriaki Psaraki (Director of Excavations at Piraeus)

17 March 2023 5:00pm
 
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Ancient History Day (sponsored by the Friends of Antiquity), Theme: ‘Art and Politics in the Ancient World’

18 March 2023 9:00am–4:00pm
 
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QFAAIA Sunday Series Dr. Kyriaki Psaraki (AAIA Visiting Archaeologist), ‘Two Films on Dr. Psaraki’s Excavations on Kythera, with QnA’

19 March 2023 11:30am
 
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RD Milns Antiquities Museum event 'Pyanopsia: Festival of Apollo'

22 March 2023 6:30pm
 
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Progress Review: 'The Moral Revolution: custodianship as a way of life" - Paige Maguire

24 March 2023 11:00am
 
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Progress Review: 'The Reach of Place' - Mitch Gilligan

24 March 2023 4:00pm
 
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Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series: Prof. Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University, 2023 Milns Visiting Professor), ‘Political Rivalries in the Late Roman Republic’

26 March 2023 2:00pm
 
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Progress Review: 'Problems of the Beyond – Exploring Holistic Thought Through Otto Rank and David Bohm' - Sara Ekenstierna

31 March 2023 8:30am
 
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Naturalism: Modal and Spatiotemporal - Guest Lecture Professor Alastair Wilson (Birmingham)

31 March 2023 2:00pm
 
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Milns Visiting Professor, Professor Josiah Osgood Guest Lecture: 'Women as Witnesses in Roman Criminal Trials'

31 March 2023 4:00pm
 
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Guest Lecture: Mr Josh Szymanski 'Sex/gender In/distinction: Thinking Categorical Matrices with Wittig, Butler, and Gatens'

14 April 2023 2:00pm
 
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Legal Gluts? - Guest Lecture Professor Jeremiah Joven Joaquin (De La Salle)

21 April 2023 2:00pm
 
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In a recent paper, Bradley Armour-Garb (2022) outlines the debate between Graham Priest (2006, 2017) and Jc Beall (2017) concerning the existence of legal gluts -- i.e. of true contradictory laws or statutes. He argues that Priest's positive position is more plausible than Beall's negative one. In this paper, we offer some reasons to think otherwise.

Progress Review: 'Archaic Athens at War: The Evidentiary Issues' - Mischa Piekosz

21 April 2023 4:00pm
 
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Virgins, Devils and Witches: Jan Baptiste van Lamzweerde and ‘False Conceptions’ in European Medicine, 1600-1700 - Presented by Paige Donaghy

5 May 2023 1:00pm–2:00pm
 
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Progress Review: 'The Loss and Return of the Dolls in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet' - Talia Fell

5 May 2023 2:00pm
 
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Reproductive Coercion: Histories, Terms, and Intimate Partner Violence - Dr Cassandra Byrnes

8 May 2023 10:00am–11:30am
 
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RD Milns Antiquities Museum Event 'Masterclass: Wondrous Machines'

9 May 2023 11:00am
 
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'Algorithmic Randomness and Lévy's Upward Theorem' Guest Lecture Associate Professor Sean Walsh (UCLA)

12 May 2023 2:00pm
 
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Progress Review: ‘Reception of the City of Halicarnassus’ - Matthew Pearce

12 May 2023 4:00pm
 
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