Events

Join UQ’s Friends of Antiquity for the AGM (optional) and July Sunday Series, presented by Dr James Lancaster, titled ‘From Tartarus to Infernus – classical figures in Dante's Inferno'.
Cost: $10
Location: Room E215 Forgan Smith Building, St Lucia campus

Join us for the UQ Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research on Friday 4 July to officially open the centre.

Join UQ's Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect for an immersive, award-winning virtual reality experience that commemorates the Yazidi Genocide of 2014 in Northern Iraq, and a public seminar on the current state of the Yazidi community and ongoing efforts to achieve justice and accountability for genocide survivors.
Free event
Location: 273 & 275, Global Change Institute Building (20), UQ St Lucia

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
Online

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

Join our postgraduate Master of Medicine (Skin Cancer) webinar to hear from UQ experts and explore your professional development at The University of Queensland.

Join public policy scholar and crisis management expert, Dr Alastair Stark, for a seminar and lunch at UQ Brisbane City.

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

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.

Understand how to capture and analyse data to improve your strategic decision-making and make a real impact on your bottom line. Free event.

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 is an opportunity for you to understand your postgraduate study options at The University of Queensland with our UQ Future Students team.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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’.

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 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

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.

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.