Events

Keep an eye out below for our evolving list of events. 
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UQ alumni travel program

1 January 2025 2:00pm31 December 2025 3:00pm
Join us as we venture through majestic landscapes, biodiversity hotspots, historical wonders and cultural centres with UQ academic hosts, providing an exclusive and enriching travel experience.

UQ Brisbane City building and history tours

25 March 2025 12:00pm22 September 2025 1:00pm
Join UQ alum Dr Keith Treschman (BSc '71, BEdSt '75, BA '79) on monthly building tours to delve into the history of the 308 Queen Street building and uncover some of the unique and quirky discoveries from the restoration process.

Building back for a resilient future

17 June 2025 12:30pm1:30pm
Join public policy scholar and crisis management expert, Dr Alastair Stark, for a seminar and lunch at UQ Brisbane City.

Master of Medicine (Skin Cancer) information webinar

18 June 2025 6:30pm7:30pm
Join our postgraduate Master of Medicine (Skin Cancer) webinar to hear from UQ experts and explore your professional development at The University of Queensland.

2025 Hall Annual Lecture: Bones, Stones, Crocodiles and Origins – New Paleoanthropological Evidence from Africa

20 June 2025 6:00pm8:00pm
Join us for a compelling presentation that explores how research at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is deepening our understanding of human evolution through an interdisciplinary lens.
Free event
Location: Abel Smith Lecture Theatre

Smart money: tips for saving, spending and tax

26 June 2025 6:00pm7:30pm
Take control of your finances with this jam-packed 90-minute webinar designed to help you stretch your money further and grow your wealth with confidence.
Free event
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Awaken your inner linguist: IML semester 2 courses

1 July 2025 2:15pm30 November 2025 3:15pm
Awaken your inner linguist with an IML Semester 2 language course – there are 27 languages to choose from! Our online and face-to-face language classes will help you enjoy your language learning journey. Enrol by 23 June to enjoy early bird rates.

Young alumni Friday drinks

18 July 2025 5:00pm7:00pm
In 2025, we’re kicking off young alumni Friday drinks as a new way for you to have some casual fun with your fellow UQ grads.

Future ready with AI: empowering educators with practical AI knowledge and tools

24 July 2025 8:45am3:15pm
Join us for an exciting, full-day professional development event designed to empower educators with the practical AI tools and insights needed to transform classroom practice and administrative tasks.

QBI Lexus Alzheimer's Sunset Soiree

26 July 2025 4:00pm7:30pm
Join us for the QBI Lexus Sunset Soirée - a stunning late-afternoon gathering on the Brisbane River. Indulge in French Champagne, gourmet canapés, and live entertainment, all while socialising on the exclusive private lawn at this beautiful location.

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Townsville Alumni and Community Event

11 June 2025 5:15pm7:30pm
Join us at Queensland Museum Tropics as we shine a light on the extraordinary scientific research that’s happening in Townsville’s backyard, revealing the secrets of deadly reptiles and preserving our beloved Great Barrier Reef.
Free event
Location: The Great Gallery, Queensland Museum Tropics, 70-102 Flinders Street, Townsville City

Postgraduate Clinical Informatics and Digital Health info webinar

10 June 2025 5:30pm6:30pm
Learn how to be part of healthcare’s digital transformation. Hear from UQ experts and explore postgraduate study options in digital health at The University of Queensland.

Building Business Excellence: Monetising data for strategic impact – Townsville

10 June 2025 5:00pm8:00pm
Understand how to capture and analyse data to improve your strategic decision-making and make a real impact on your bottom line. Free event.

QBI Brain Research Endowment Fund Dinner

5 June 2025 6:30pm10:30pm
Please join us for a wine appreciation dinner where the Emporium’s sommelier will share thoughts on the evening’s wine selections paired with fine food and enjoy an enlightening presentation from one of QBI's top researchers.
Location: Emporium Hotel South Bank - Frangipani Room
Ticket price: $250 per person or $2500 for a table of 10

UQ Postgrad Ready

3 June 2025 5:00pm6:00pm
UQ Postgrad ready is an opportunity for you to understand your postgraduate study options at The University of Queensland with our UQ Future Students team.

Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series: Travels in Greece

1 June 2025 2:00pm4:00pm
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

Orchestral Visions

1 June 2025 2:00pm4:00pm
The University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra invites you to experience Orchestral Visions, an afternoon of bold symphonic storytelling under the baton of Paul Dean, Kinnane Professor of Music, in his highly anticipated debut with the orchestra.

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery Class of 2015 10 year reunion

31 May 2025 6:00pm10:00pm
Please join us for a reunion event as we celebrate 10 years since our Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) graduation from The University of Queensland.

The birth of portraiture and the divine

29 May 2025 5:30pm8:30pm
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.

The Mattick Lecture - Scientists in the Courtroom

28 May 2025 6:00pm8:00pm
In 2023, Kathleen Folbigg was released and acquitted after serving 20 years in prison, convicted by a jury of murdering her four young children over a 10-year period. She was convicted based on circumstantial evidence alone, without any physical evidence. She has always maintained that she is innocent. Danish scientists Professors Mette Nygaard and Michael Toft Overgaard shed light on how they became involved in the Australian legal inquiry into her convictions, and how their research played a central role in her acquittal.

UQ Talks: the inclusion revolution with Andrew Parsons

28 May 2025 11:30am2:00pm
You are invited to you to join us to hear from Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic Committee about the ‘inclusion revolution’ and how Brisbane 2032 can help shape a more equitable and inclusive world.

Age-Ed Carers' Cafe

27 May 2025 10:00am11:00am
Age-Ed is a support network for care partners for older persons at the University of Queensland. Join us for the very first Age-Ed Carers’ Café, a relaxed morning tea designed to bring care partners for older persons from the UQ community together. This is a safe, welcoming space to connect with others who understand the experience of being a care partner for an older person. Tea, coffee and morning tea will be provided. Registration is essential and numbers are limited.

Naida Haxton Lecture

22 May 2025 5:30pm7:30pm
This year's keynote speaker is the Honourable Justice Sarah C Derrington AM, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and former Dean of Law at UQ, who also served as President of the Australian Law Reform Commission from 2018 to 2023. She will address the topic, ‘Evolution and Revolution in the Law – A State of Origin perspective’.

Cheese and Chats: tackling the looming global threat of antimicrobial resistance

22 May 2025 5:00pm7:00pm
Join us for the next Cheese and Chats event to learn about how we are tackling this global threat, and hear perspectives from patient experience, front-line researchers and the policy experts.

Age-Ed Seminar: Decision-Making Capacity

22 May 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Age-Ed is a new support network for care partners for older persons at UQ, which is run by UQ Law academics with lived experience of aged care or research expertise on ageing. Join us for our second panel discussion on decision-making capacity, which brings together a range of perspectives and expertise to explore this challenging aspect of ageing.
Location: Sir Harry Gibbs Moot Court, UQ Law School, Room W247, Forgan Smith West, St Lucia and via Zoom

Master of Finance and Investment Management information webinar

21 May 2025 6:00pm7:00pm
Enhance your expertise in investing and financing for a connected world. Join experts from UQ's Master of Finance and Investment Management and explore your postgraduate study options in finance at UQ.

Great Court Race

21 May 2025 12:30pm2:00pm
The Great Court Race is one of UQ’s proudest traditions – a bucket-list event for competitors and a must-see spectacle. The 2025 Great Court Race – which celebrates its 40th anniversary – will be held on Wednesday 21 May from 12:30pm.

Building Business Excellence: Strategies for transformative customer experience – Longreach

20 May 2025 8:00am11:00am
Elevate customer experience beyond marketing and transform your organisation into a customer-centric leader for sustained success. Join Professor David Solnet from the UQ for a free Building Business Excellence Masterclass on strategies for delivering a transformative customer experience.

Work habit hacks: early-career essentials

15 May 2025 6:00pm9:00pm
Join us for 5 quick-fire professional development sessions designed to help young professionals work smarter and achieve their professional goals.
Location: The Atrium, UQ Brisbane City
Cost: $20

Biotech: past, present and future

14 May 2025 6:00pm8:30pm
Moderated by Emeritus Professor Paul Young, this panel will explore the impact of biotech innovation over the last 20 years and the promise the future holds in a world of AI, quantum computing, genome mapping and cell regeneration.

Domestic and Family Violence Awareness Month breakfast and industry panel

13 May 2025 7:45am9:30am
Join us for a breakfast and a vital conversation during Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) Prevention Month as we shine a spotlight on the complexities of DFV.

Language courses at The Atrium

12 May 2025 9:00am10 June 2025 5:00pm
Whether you want to travel the world, learn to speak a language, follow new interests or maintain your language skills, this new language class gives you, our alumni that opportunity to learn in a practical and supportive learning environment in the city. Limited spots, register now!

Building Business Excellence: Competing in the age of digital disruption – Sunshine Coast

8 May 2025 5:00pm8:00pm
Navigate digital hyper, debunk scaremongering, and leverage AI for strategic disruption. Uncover growth secrets with data, AI, and emerging tech in this essential course.

Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series: Greece and the birth of medicine and law

4 May 2025 2:00pm4:00pm
Join UQ’s Friends of Antiquity for the May Sunday Series, presented by Professor Alastair Blanshard, Dr Paul Eliadis AM and Michael Halliday, titled ‘Greece and the birth of medicine and law'.
Cost: $10
Location: Room E302 Forgan Smith Building, St Lucia campus

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