Events

UQ alumni receive a 20% discount. Designed and delivered by Professor Tyler Okimoto, this new professional development course will equip you with the knowledge and tools to adapt your leadership style to meet the needs of your team. After completing this course, you’ll be able to critically analyse your team dynamic, understand how to influence that dynamic, and formulate strategies for effective team leadership.

Improve customer satisfaction and diversify revenue streams by creating innovative and inexpensive solutions to complex problems.
This highly interactive course will set your business apart from competitors by equipping you with effective, budget-friendly techniques to address challenges, seize new opportunities and diversify service offerings. UQ alumni receive a 20% discount on all short courses delivered by Executive Education.

Join the School of Communication and Arts for a thought provoking public lecture entitled: The Evolution of #MeToo: A Comparative Analysis of Vernacular Practices Over Time and Across Languages. This talk will be followed by drinks and canapés.
Location: The Terrace Room Sir Llew Edwards

We invite you to join us for an insightful discussion with our expert panel who will explore the themes that arose and some practical and tactical elements, outlined in the Reimagining Systems of Care report. Location: UQ Brisbane City

Applications are now open for the 2024 ilab Accelerator program. During the four-month program (December to March), each startup team receives $10,000 funding to help get you ready for the market. Founders from all disciplines are encouraged to apply. Open to all UQ students, recent alumni, and staff.

Make your nomination today for the UQ Ventures LeadHers Awards. Celebrate the outstanding women and gender diverse leaders in entrepreneurship and nominate a fellow LeadHer for the following awards; Student Award, Entrepreneurship Award, and Community Award.

Join the 'Application tips with past cohort members' information session and learn more about the Ventures ilab Accelerator 2024 program. Hear from previous cohort members on their experiences and get the chance to learn more about the application process and application times.

UQ's Associate Professor Marcus Gallagher explores how AI got to this point and discusses some of the major advances and challenges in the field. Location: The Edge, State Library of Queensland, Stanley Place, South Bank

For our next Sunday Series presentation, Con O’Brien (committee member, Queensland Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute) will reflect on the myths associated with sites in the classical world, and how these places and stories might be experienced by the Betty Fletcher Memorial Travelling Scholar.

‘INDIEOPIA’ is the inaugural Indie Music Festival held by The University of Queensland Union on October 6th 2023. The music festival caters to all music fans, particularly for our current UQ students and alumni. We’ve featured a diverse line-up that features musicians who are currently popular in the Australian Indie Music Scene.

How do entrepreneurs harness the self-belief needed to make the impossible possible? UQ ChangeMakers brings together a panel of impressive alumni from the start-up space to talk about how they succeeded against the odds, and to share their advice for unlocking the productivity and drive to achieve ambitious goals.

This lecture focuses on the many ‘lives’ of Mary Magdalene as these have been imagined and reimagined within the Christian tradition. It explores the ‘idea’ of the Magdalene in the New Testament, her cult and her relics in the Medieval East and West, and her legacy in the modern West. Location: Room 212, Sir Llew Edwards Building (14), UQ St Lucia

Join us Thursday 5 October from 2-6pm for an afternoon of inspiring presentations, panel discussions, new opportunities, and networking at the German-Australian Science and Innovation Day. This event is part of Brisbane German Week 1-11 October celebrating international partnerships and collaborations. Location: Customs House

Join us for the final Global Connections event in October and support your network in raising funds for UQ research and scholarships.

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!

The UQ Future Students team is offering bookable private postgraduate advice sessions for UQ graduates throughout the month of October. Book in and have a chat with the team to understand your pathway to further study or a completely new career. Consider your options early for a strong start to 2024!

Join a curatorial tour of "Mare Amoris | Sea of Love", delivered by exhibition curators Peta Rake, Jocelyn Flynn, and Isabella Baker.

This symposium seeks to bring together scholars to reflect on and critically engage with the legal, regulatory, and social implications of historical charity law traditions, and how these traditions impact how charities operate today. Location: Terrace Room, Level 6, Sir Llew Edwards Building, UQ St Lucia.

Join the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and The University of Queensland (UQ), 28 September, for an honest conversation with women entrepreneurs from opposite sides of the globe. You will have the opportunity to connect with fellow founders, and discuss challenges and best practice on topics including networking and building a strategic network, raising funds, and building diverse teams.

This free, full day event includes presentations, panel discussions, networking opportunities and pitch sessions to promote opportunities and policies aligned with the rapid development of a successful advanced materials and battery sector in Australia. Location: Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland.

Themed, ‘powering Australia and Latin America toward a clean energy future’, the UQ-Latin American Colloquium will explore how our regions can work together to support clean, reliable and affordable energy systems. Location: Prentice Building (42), UQ St Lucia campus

A concert that celebrates the choral sounds of some of our leading contemporary voices in a program that focusses on the ocean and the stars. It includes works by Ēriks Ešenvalds and Australians Stephen Leek, Matthew Orlovich, Andrew Schultz, and others.

This year's lecture will be orated by Joe Brumm. The free annual lecture is held as a special tribute to the life of one of UQ Medicine's founding member and first Patron of the UQMS, Professor Errol Solomon Meyers, bringing together members of the medical, university and general community. Past speakers include Sir Edmund Hillary, Imran Khan and Li Cunxin. Location: Advanced Engineering Building, St Lucia campus

The 2023 Carolyn D. Baker Annual Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Associate Professor Sarah Howard on Friday 15 September. Come along to explore the implications that generative AI has for future learning. Location: May Hancock Auditorium, The Women's College, UQ

In this one-off lecture Simon Palfrey offers a new vision of Shakespeare’s history of the world. It is an epic journey from prehistoric beginnings to a conflict-torn imminent present. An empire’s fall may weigh no more than a dropped handkerchief: and a dropped handkerchief no less.