Events

Reflective Motives is a two-day gathering hosted by UQ Art Museum in collaboration with the Climate Aware Creative Practices Network (CACP), and is an invitation to engage with artists working with place, Country, matter and language. Alongside hosted workshops and talks, a breakout space will provide room for unprogrammed conversations, sharing, meals, and exchanges, as well as a platform for attendees to self-organise their own creative and collective contributions to the event.

Over decades Dr Aunty Mary Graham has theorised and put forward a relational-ethical order. The relational logic developed in her political philosophy offers both a ground for imaginative possibility and everyday practices that recognise distinctiveness and autonomy as well as nourishing collective life-systems. Reflective Motives presents Relational Ordering, an in-conversation keynote between Graham and Tristen Harwood, which considers what Graham’s political philosophy asks of us, the possibilities it opens, and forms of collective life it might yet enable.

Join scholars, curators and artists at The University of Queensland on Friday 13 November 2026 for a free one-day symposium exploring the exchange between Japanese and Australian visual culture, from the late nineteenth century to today.

A half-day workshop for UQ HASS researchers on developing research partnerships with community, industry and government, presented by Kate Eltham, Senior Manager, Research Partnerships (HASS).