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The Queen’s Women’s Network International Women’s Day 2025 Event and Networking: Navigating Change and Making it Happen

QWN’s annual event for International Women’s Day will take place on the evening of Thursday 27 February, at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in the City of London.  QWN members will come together to exchange experiences on the theme of change: how we can respond and deal with it effectively, and how we can be an agent for driving change ourselves.  We have an exciting group of panellists lined up (more information following soon), with the opportunity for informal networking in a welcoming and supportive space.

Booking will open shortly.

18:00 Doors open
18:30 Welcome / introduction
18:35 Panel discussion with Q&A
19:20 Networking, with drinks and nibbles served
20:45 Close

QWN is led by a community of Queen’s Alumnae, working with the support of the College.  We provide professional and social networking opportunities for current and Old Members, spanning the generations since Co-Education at Queen’s began in 1979.  Together, as a community, we celebrate success, promote equality and inclusion, and champion positive change.

You can find details of previous events on the QWN webpage.
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Queen’s Calling!

For two weeks, between 6th and 19th January, our student callers will take to the telephones to speak to Old Members about life after Queen’s, share College experiences, and seek careers advice.

Contact

If you would like to make a gift outside of the Telethon or have any questions about this initiative, please contact Sophie Elliott, our Regular Giving Officer.

The annual Benefactors’ Dinner is held to recognise and thank those Old Members and Friends who have made significant contributions to the welfare of Queen’s in recent years.

Our 2025 Benefactors’ Dinner event will be held on Saturday 21 June.

Invitations will be sent in the spring.

If you would like to know more about making a significant gift to Queen’s, please contact the Old Members’ Office.

The 2025 London Reception will take place on Wednesday 14 May 2025 at the Royal Academy of the Arts.

Further details will available in due course and booking will open in March 2025.

Please save the date for our next Subject Dinner for Physicists, Engineers and Material Scientists, which will take place on Saturday 22 March 2025.

At this event we will celebrate the contributions of Professor Robert Taylor, who joined Queen’s as Fellow in Physics in 1990 and will retire later this year.

Tickets cost £50 per person for a 3-course dinner, including wine. Discounted tickets are available for those who matriculated in or after 2011.

Old Members can bring a guest.

B&B rooms are available in College, for the Saturday night only, at an extra charge of £50 per person. You can book this at the same time as your dinner ticket. Breakfast in Hall is included. Check in from 2pm on Saturday, check out by 10am prompt on Sunday morning.

Dress code: Lounge suits and equivalent.

Invitations will be sent in late January 2025.

Programme

15:45 Arrival and refreshments in the Shulman Auditorium Foyer
16:30 Afternoon programme (TBC)
17:30 Time to change for dinner
18:30 Pre-dinner drinks in the Upper Library
19:00 Three-course dinner in Hall
20:30 Drinks in the Beer Cellar
23:00 Carriages

We look forward to welcoming Professor Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation, to Queen’s in Hilary Term.

Laurence will be giving the Provost’s Lecture on Tuesday 4 February 2025, which will be available to watch from 6pm as a livestream.

Booking is now open until 2 February 2025.

10 years since Paris: Advancing climate action in a turbulent world

Ten years ago, the Paris Agreement was adopted, confounding cynics and critics of multilateral climate action.

Today, nationalism, disinformation, and fraying trust between and within countries leave some questioning whether achieving its objectives is still possible.

In this talk, one of the architects of the Paris Agreement will look at the lessons from Paris and how they can inform and inspire efforts to accelerate progress in the critical years ahead.

Laurence Tubiana is CEO of the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and a professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. She previously chaired the Board of Governors at the French Development Agency (AFD), as well as the Board at Expertise France (the French public agency for international technical assistance). Before joining the ECF, Laurence was France’s Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for COP21, and as such a key architect of the landmark Paris Agreement. Following COP21 and through COP22, she was appointed UN High-Level Champion for climate action.

We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting a dinner in Bristol on Friday 24 January 6.30 for 7.00pm (till 9.30pm) at Hotel du Vin, The Sugar House, Narrow Lewins Mead, Bristol, BS1 2NU (map).

There will be an opportunity to meet other Old Members in the area and hear news and updates from Provost Dr Claire Craig.

The Provost will be joined by new Fellow in English, Professor Tamara Atkins and Professor Jon Keating, the Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, alongside members from the College’s Development Team.

Hosted in the beautifully appointed private dining space of the Christie’s Library and Janneau Bar at Hotel du Vin in Bristol City Centre, the venue is approximately 20 minutes’ walk from Bristol Temple Mead train station. 

Dinner tickets cost £60 (£50 for those who matriculated on or after 2011) and include Champagne on arrival with canapés and a 3-course dinner with wine.

Booking is now open until 6 January 2025.
Places are limited with only a small number of guest tickets available (on a first-come, first-served basis).

We will be heading to Berlin in the spring to meet Old Members in the area. Please save the date for Thursday 24 April 2025.

We are delighted that Old Member and new British Ambassador to Germany Andrew Mitchell (Modern Languages, 1986) is going to host us at this Private Residence for a panel discussion followed by drinks and a three-course dinner.

Mind the Gap: Germany in the World

Germany is caught up in a moment of unprecedented political change. What will the new German government look like? How will it reflect the new constellation of political feeling in the country and deal with the growth in support for populist parties?

The world is changing too. How will Germany position itself in relation to the political upheavals in Europe, the war in Ukraine, and the crisis in the Middle East – all in the context of a second Trump presidency?

And closer to home: what of the relationship between Germany and the UK? Brexit has changed the nature of that alliance, and cuts in Germany and to language-teaching in British schools have placed it under even more pressure. At the same time, German culture is booming in the UK: from Netflix films to art, music and literature – even German comedians. What can this popularity do to bridge the gap and help us explore our shared and divided histories? And what role can the university, the German Embassy’s innovative “Making the case for German” campaign and the College’s own Queen’s Translation Exchange play in making a better future?

Join UK Ambassador to Germany, Andrew Mitchell (Modern Languages, 1986), former Ambassador and Queen’s Honorary Fellow Sir Paul Lever (Literae Humaniores, 1962), historian and journalist John Kampfner (Modern History, 1981) and Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German Karen Leeder in a roundtable discussion to find out and have your say.

Booking will open shortly.

Revisit College, meet up with friends and enjoy listening to our fantastic Choir at Evensong – book now for the annual Old Members’ Dinner. It’s always a popular event and we expect to sell out!

Tickets cost £60 per person for a 5-course dinner, including wine. If you matriculated in or after 2012 a discounted dinner ticket is available again this year.

Old Members can bring a guest.

B&B rooms are available in College, for the Saturday night only, at an extra charge of £50 per person. Twin (not double) rooms are available. Book at the same time as your dinner ticket. Breakfast in Hall is included. Check-in from 2pm, check out by 10am prompt.

Dress code: Black-tie preferred

Afternoon programme: TBC

PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER

Afternoon programme TBC
6.15pm Evensong in Chapel
7.00pm Pre-dinner drinks in the Upper Library
7.30pm 5-course dinner in Hall
9.30pm Post-dinner drinks in the SCR
11.00pm Carriages

SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER
8.15am – 9.45am Breakfast in the Hall
8.45am Holy Communion in Chapel

Please note that this event coincides with Meeting Minds, the University-wide alumni weekend. Do look out for interesting sessions at the Maths Institute and at colleges and departments across Oxford from 19-21 September. Registration for Meeting Minds usually opens in June.

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