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My heart has been set on working in museums – a path that brings together my interests in research, working with tangible collections, and educating visitors. This vision has led me to my current role as a Curatorial Assistant with the RD Milns Antiquities Museum at UQ.

Australians continue to study the celebrated funeral oration attributed to Pericles at school and at university. Often the French are surprised to learn this. For them Australia is simply a distant land with fierce bushfires and very strange animals. Yet studying ancient Greece in Australia dates back to the arrival of Europeans two centuries ago.

The School’s Queensland Atlas of Religion project, a partnership with the State Library of Queensland funded by an ARC Linkage grant, welcomes new HDR students!

Roman historian guides students through evidence, curiosity, and occasional silliness

A medieval historian and Head of School follows the magic of monastic spaces

A passion for weird things and being creative drew Emma into studying Latin ghost stories

The 2017 World Religions Symposium was held from 9.30am-2pm on Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at various locations on the University of Queensland, St Lucia campus. The World Religions Symposium is an annual event, run by the Studies in Religion discipline, targeted at Year 11 high school students. The Symposium featured plenary sessions and teaching sessions on topics such as Asian Religions, the Bible, Religious Pluralism, and Spirituality in the Everyday.