School Research Seminar Series

POLSIS Research Seminar Series 

Semester 2 2026

All sessions are held in-person, Friday 1 — 2:30pm, Room 537, Building 39A (unless stated)

Date

Event

Name

Title

31 July

Seminar

Page Wilson, Iceland

'Greenland, Trump and Musk: the Lesser Known Story'

14 August

ECR Roundtable

Anne Nyaard Jedzini

Sara Meija Munoz

Xuwan Ouyang

'Deliberative power-sharing in Australian Local Governance’

‘Entangled normativities: energy of life and energy transition in Colombia’

‘Multinational Companies and Atrocity Prevention’

21 August

Seminar

Shahar Hameiri, UQ

‘Limits on US Efforts to Compete with China on Infrastructure and Critical Minerals: Lobito Corridor’

28 August

Seminar

Kelly Fielding, UQ

‘Can unconventional climate advocates increase support for climate action in Australia?’

4 September

Seminar

Ferran Martinez i Coma, Griffith

‘Do Australian Election Management Bodies Learn?’

11 September

Roundtable Event

Adrian Cherney

Kiriloi Ingram

Matt McDonald

Andrew Phillips

‘9/11: 25 Years On’

12-2pm Viewpoint Room, Lunch Included 12-12.45pm, Registration required.

18 September

Seminar

Morgan Rees, QUT

‘The Paranoid Style in Australian Foreign Policy’

25 September

Seminar

Karen Crawley and Samid Suliman, Griffith

‘Democracy, the Arts and the Politics of Social Cohesion’

16 October

Seminar

Madeleine Pugin, Griffith

‘UNDRIP and Urban Aboriginal Cultural Recognition in South East Queensland’

23 October

Seminar

Heloise Weber, UQ

‘Colonial Architecture and Capitalist Transformation’

 

For further information contact Professor Matt McDonald, Director of Research: matt.mcdonald@uq.edu.au.