The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards 2025 are now open. They celebrate excellence, dedication, courage, ambition and inspirational contributions to Oxford’s mission across the collegiate University.

You can nominate yourself or others in one of 11 categories, and the deadline is noon on 3 February 2025.

https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancellors-awards

Professor Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation
10 years since Paris: advancing climate action in a turbulent world

Tuesday 4 February 2025
6-7 pm in the Shulman Auditorium (and on Zoom)

www.queens.ox.ac.uk/events

View a number of items that might illuminate how we perceive the world in our current Upper Library exhibition, chosen to support the College’s academic cluster theme of ‘Perception’ for 2024/2025.

Join us on the evening of Thursday 6 February for a translation slam with Spanish-to-English translators Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci and Lawrence Schimel.

The slam will be followed by a symposium on Friday morning when we’ll explore questions relating to teaching. Why and how might students be introduced to ideas about “feminist” literary translation in universities and schools?

https://tinyurl.com/feministtranslationslam

That Sweet City, features two major works written for Queen’s in the 1950s: Kenneth Leighton composed a piece here during the final year of his studies, and it was first performed by the EMS in 1951. A year later saw the première at Queen’s of one of the last major works of Ralph Vaughan Williams, An Oxford Elegy.

You can buy the CD here: https://lnk.to/ThatSweetCity.