What is the Peace Festival?
A series of peace events from 7 March to 15 March 2025. The series is sponsored by the Social Change Lab and other peace groups.
A series of peace events from 7 March to 15 March 2025. The series is sponsored by the Social Change Lab and other peace groups.
What are our aims?
To bring attention and enthusiasm to the cause of peace!
If you would like us to add your event, please reach out to us via email at [email protected]. Let us know you’re interested and what you have in mind.
To bring attention and enthusiasm to the cause of peace!
If you would like us to add your event, please reach out to us via email at [email protected]. Let us know you’re interested and what you have in mind.
Peace Festival 2025
- Fri 7 Mar 10:30am-12pm AEST (UTC+10) PEPSS (Political and Environmental Psychology and Social Science) Seminar on academic freedom of speech and repression with speakers from Scholars at Risk and Dr Sol Iglesias. Hybrid event at UQ, hosted by the Social Change Lab. - Rego: Orange button above
- Monday 24 March 12-1pm AEST (UTC+10) Civil Liberties Forum hosted by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). Open to all Queensland members and university staff. Room 213 Richards Building (05-213). To receive the zoom link to attend online please register at Meeting Registration - Zoom
- **CANCELLED due to bad weather** Tues 11 March 11:30am-1:30pm Fukushima Anniversary Event on the grassy knoll at UQ (see outdoor space #6 in map of outdoor spaces available here online). An information sharing event marking 14 years to the day since the tsunami and resulting nuclear accident occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. Hosted by the Social Change Lab and Just Peace. No need to register, just rock up - all welcome!
- Wed 12 March 10am-2pm Peace Fair on the grassy knoll at UQ (see outdoor space #6 in map of outdoor spaces available here online). Hosted by the Social Change Lab and other groups. - Rego: Orange button above
- Wed 12 March 6-7pm AEST - UNAAQ Myanmar Peace Symposium: Resistance and Peacebuilding - webinar (online only) on resistance and peacebuilding: Myanmar, the United Nations and the pathway to peace. Register to attend online at Myanmar Peace Symposium: Resistance and Peacebuilding.
- Sat 15 March 9am-4pm Peace in Queensland in 2025 Conference. Hosted by the Social Change Lab (possibly other groups co-hosting or supporting). Hybrid event in rooms 201-204 Level 2 McElwain Building, zoom link TBC. Incls. panels on Women and Peace (co-organised by WILPF) and on Peace is a Health Issue: Intergenerational Impacts of War and Colonisation. - Rego: Orange button above
