Events

Keep an eye out below for our evolving list of events. 
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Boyce Gardens at Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers

21 September 2025 10:00am2:00pm
Pack a picnic and join a guided tour to discover Boyce Gardens during the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers.

Resilience and Reverie

21 September 2025 2:00pm4:00pm
The University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra presents a musical exploration of human endurance and spiritual transcendence. Under the baton of the Kinnane Professor of Music Paul Dean, UQ's young musicians explore Shostakovich's monumental Symphony No. 5 alongside the luminous devotion of Poulenc's Gloria.

3T event: innovation for the future – experience UQ Gatton

24 September 2025 8:45am2:30pm
Join us for an immersive behind-the-scenes experience at UQ Gatton, where agriculture, animal science and innovation come to life on one of Australia’s most unique teaching and research campuses.

Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series: night vision – what did Greeks and Romans do at night?

5 October 2025 2:00pm4:00pm
Join UQ’s Friends of Antiquity October Sunday Series event, ‘Night vision – what did Greeks and Romans do at night?’, presented by Dr Estelle Strazdins.
Location: Room E302, Forgan Smith Building, UQ St Lucia
Cost: $10

Learn a language: spring short courses for beginners

7 October 2025 1:30pm25 November 2025 2:30pm
Unleash your language potential. Dreaming of exploring Sweden, abseiling in Dubai, or dancing flamenco in Spain — all from your living room? Kickstart your 2025 travel goals with our 'spring short courses for beginners'. With 11 languages to choose from, there’s no better time to begin your language journey.

Master of Teaching information webinar

16 October 2025 5:30pm6:30pm
Join the coordinators of both UQ’s Master of Teaching programs understand how you can become an innovative educator with teaching skills supported by your previous degree.

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery Class of 1975 50-year reunion

18 October 2025 9:30am10:30pm
The Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery Class of 1975 50-year reunion will be held across 2 events on Saturday 18 October including a morning tea with presentations at the Mayne Medical Building and a reunion dinner at Customs House.

UQ Big Band performance with Walter Taylor Ward

25 October 2025 3:00pm5:00pm
Hosted by Walter Taylor Ward’s Councillor Penny Wolff, this free, all-ages event will feature the UQ Big Band in an afternoon of music and family fun.

Master Your Career Expo

29 October 2025 4:30pm7:00pm
Explore your options to upskill, pivot careers, or pursue a passion at Queensland’s top university as the sun sets over our world class campus. Our career development staff will be on hand to offer guidance as you meet our faculty, admissions and extra-curricular teams.

Master of Laws information webinar

30 October 2025 5:30pm6:30pm
Hear from UQ Master of Laws staff and learn how you can equip yourself with transportable knowledge to take on global legal and business environments.

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Nobody's Listening: The Forgotten Voices of Sinjar

3 July 2025 10:00am4:00pm
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

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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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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