Traditional Aboriginal art, design, song and dance in central Australia will be the focus of The University of Queensland’s Diversity Week public lecture, Singing, Dancing and Painting Country, on Friday May 24.
20 May 2013The work of Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez will feature in a University of Queensland Diversity Week concert on Tuesday 21 May.
15 May 2013Australian Cultural Studies were celebrated recently when UQ’s Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies (CCCS) hosted "Building Australian Cultural Studies: the work of Graeme Turner".
4 October 2012A powerful series of UQ art exhibitions is providing a rare opportunity to discover the human face behind the asylum seeker debate in time for 2011 Refugee Week (June 19–25).
20 June 2011When activist and former University of Queensland academic Merle Thornton chained herself to the bar at the Regatta Hotel in the mid-60s, it was a landmark moment for women’s rights in Australia.
1 March 2011It’s said all good things come to those who wait and this has never been truer than for St Lucia’s Kathy Brennan whose UQ degree has been 48 years in the making.
7 December 2010The creator of a Homework Centre at UQ's Ipswich campus designed to help Indigenous school students with their studies has been recognised with a Dadjeen Award for Services to Indigenous Education.
10 August 2010By setting group work and encouraging deep thinking, UQ’s Dr Liz Mackinlay and Dr Katelyn Barney hope to implement reconciliation in a practical way.
28 May 2010A UQ academic who has been offered an internationally competitive research scholarship says he hopes to use the opportunity to raise the profile of Japanese art in Australia.
29 April 2010