POLSIS Research Seminar Series
Semester 2 2025
All sessions are held in-person, Friday 1 — 2:30pm, Room 537, Building 39A (unless stated)
1 August | Minran Liu (UQ) | Seminar | ‘Correcting the World: Justice and Coercion in Chinese Strategic Culture’ |
8 August | Katherine Cullerton (UQ) | Seminar | ‘Corporate influence and the nutrition policy stalemate in Australia’ |
| 15 August | Ilias Alami (Cambridge), Lee Jones (QMUL), Seth Schindler (Manchester), Shahar Hameiri (UQ) | Roundtable | 'The Second Cold War and the Politics of Polyalignment’ |
22 August | Alastair Stark (UQ) | Seminar | ‘Erase and Repeat: Institutional Amnesia in Government’ |
| 29 August | Alastair Stark (Chair) | Portfolio Event | Grad Centre Event: Participation |
5 September | Michael Gavin (UQ) | Seminar | ‘The Politics of the IMF's lending capacity’ |
12 September | Jon Piccini (ACU) | Seminar | 'The History of Left Nationalist Foreign Policy in Australia’ |
| 17 September (5-7pm) | Andrew Phillips (UQ) | Inaugural Lecture, 275 GCI Building | ‘Who Killed the Liberal International Order, and What Comes Next?’ |
19 September | Martin Weber (Chair) | Portfolio Event | Indigenous Engagement Event |
| 26 September | Kiri Ingram (UQ) | Seminar | ‘The strategic logic of gender in violent extremist ideology and propaganda strategy: from Islamic State to Incels’ |
10 October | Ryan Walter (Chair) | Portfolio Event | T&L Event: Secure Assessment Showcase |
| 17 October | Lindy Andren, Molly Murphy, Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson (UQ) | ECR Showcase | ECR Showcase |
| 24 October | Julie Ballangarry & Outi Donovan (Griffith) | Seminar | ‘First Nations and Feminist Foreign Policy’ |
29 October | Outi Donovan & Matt McDonald (Chairs) | UQ-Griffith Showcase, Ship Inn, South Bank | UQ- Griffith Research Showcase: Politics & IR in SEQ |
Enquiries:
Director of Research, Professor Matt McDonald – matt.mcdonald@uq.edu.au