Alumni Friends events

Join UQ’s Friends of Antiquity for the June Sunday Series, presented by ANCH2050 Ancient World Study Tour and Field School students, titled ‘Travels in Greece'.
Cost: $10
Location: Room E302 Forgan Smith Building, St Lucia campus

Join Alastair Blanshard, Paul Eliadis Professor of Classics and Ancient History, as he revisits the birth of portraiture in ancient Greece. Hear the story of how art originally designed to represent images of the immortal gods was transformed to capture the faces of mortal men and women.

Join us for an exclusive behind the scenes tour at the Integrated Pathology Learning Centre. The event will include morning tea.

Join us for an exclusive behind the scenes tour at the home of Queensland Ballet, the Thomas Dixon Centre, with the opportunity to partake in an optional ballet class. The event will include morning tea.
Cost$15

Join our student-led tour as we explore the ecology behind the redeveloped lake and learn about the life that calls our campus home, followed by morning tea in the Dr Mary Mahoney AO Amphitheatre.

Join Professor Alan Rowan, Institute Director, AIBN, as he explains what AIBN is doing in personalised medicine and then take a behind-the-scenes tour of the labs and meet some of the researchers making it happen.

Join us for a special 3T event at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), where you will hear from researchers specialising in healthy ageing and the brain, followed by a tour of the research labs. This event has sold out - join the waitlist.

Join us for the August Sunday Series event titled: The battle of the Hydaspes – Alexander’s Indian campaign as colonial warfare, presented by Kathy Toohey, Friends of Antiquity member. Location: Forgan Smith Building, St Lucia campus

Spend an insightful afternoon with us, where we shed light on world elder abuse and tour the unique UQ Healthy Living facility, a first of its kind allied health facility that supports people over fifty years of age to improve health, well-being and function.

Join us to hear from leading professors and researchers who are undertaking ground-breaking research, before embarking on a tour of the Institute of Molecular Biosciences.

Join us for the April Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series. The event will be held at The University of Queensland Forgan Smith Building, followed by an afternoon tea.

In this special 3T event, Dr Rojas-Lizana chats with Contact editor Michael Jones about the hidden memories of her childhood, when one false move could have led to the death of her family and the ‘criminals’ they harboured.

Join us at The Women's College as UQ alum Associate Professor Con Aroney AM shares his historical knowledge of the Asia Minor Catastrophe. The event begins with morning tea, and concludes with an optional lunch

We spend approximately a third of our lives asleep: that’s roughly twenty-five years we could spend awake and living, and yet evolution has fettered us to hours spent every night in our most vulnerable state – unconscious and unaware. It’s an easy question to ask: what’s the point?

Join Olympic historian and Honorary Director of the UQ Centre for Olympic Studies, Professor Ian Jobling, as he delves into the early modern Olympic games. Let's find out how they compare to Tokyo 2021!

Join us for morning tea with fellow UQ alumni, and hear from renewable energy expert, Professor Lianzhou Wang as he shares how UQ research is harnessing the energy from the sun and utilising long-lasting lithium-ion batteries in ways never seen before.

Join us at The Women's College for morning tea followed by an in-depth presentation from Dr Gary Smith, founder of Gary Smith Prosthodontics and UQ alumnus. The presentation will look at the origins of dentistry in the 13th century through to the early 18th century. Gary will also look at the advances in tooth replacement up to the commencement of the modern era.

Join us at The Women's College for morning tea followed by an in-depth presentation from Professor Trent Munro, Senior Group Leader at the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, where we will venture behind the scenes of UQ’s COVID-19 vaccine project, including what's next for the team.