This is a book launch event for the bilingual edition of Ingeborg Bachmann which was carried out by Queen’s second-year Germanists last year, with the new cohort of second-years presenting the work at the launch.
We will also be joined by Heinz Bachmann who will speak about his sister’s legacy in her centenary year. The talks will be followed by drinks, and complimentary copies of the work are available for all attendees.
Workshop organised by Clément Salah (JRF in Manuscript and Text Cultures, The Queen’s College) and Fitzroy Morrissey (Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Law, AMES/Pembroke College).
We are excited to be hosting an Old Members’ evening at The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, in Clerkenwell, London on Tuesday 2 March 2027 for Old Members working within The Arts and Creative Industries. View the map.
Details are still being finalised but to ensure your name is on the invitation list, please fill in this short Expression of Interest form. And in the meantime, please save the date!
Following the success of our first Entrepreneurs and Investors event in February, we are delighted to be hosting an informal evening of networking in London this November.
Join fellow Queen’s Old Members with a shared interest in entrepreneurship and investment to make new connections, exchange ideas and reconnect with the wider Queen’s community.
We will be meeting at The Blue Posts, 81 Newman Street, London W1T 3ET, on Wednesday 25 November, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. View the map.
Just a stone’s throw from Tottenham Court Road station, The Blue Posts has a private room upstairs where we can enjoy a relaxed evening together. Please note that the room is accessible by stairs only.
The aim is deliberately simple: to bring together people from across the Queen’s community who are building businesses, investing in them, working in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, or simply interested in the journey. There’s no formal programme; just an opportunity to meet, reconnect, share experiences and see where conversations lead.
The ticket price (£20 Old Member / £15 New Old Member) includes two drinks from the bar, with beer, wine and soft drinks available.
Special thanks to Old Member Rob Woodhead (Biochemistry, 2000) for his help in getting these events up and running.
Dress code: Business attire
If you self-identify as an entrepreneur and/or investor and would like to join us, please sign up via the Book Here button.
Any questions, please do also get in touch.
Launching Claire de Duras: Ourika, Édouard, and Olivier (Oxford University Press).
Join us on Thursday 29 October 2026 for an evening with the scholar who rediscovered much of Claire de Duras’s work, and the translator and editor of the OUP edition that includes the first English translation of one of her major works: Olivier.
The star of the evening is the French romancière Claire de Duras (1777–1828), now emerging as one of the great writers of French Romanticism.
The evening will be divided into two parts. In the first, Marie-Bénédicte Diethelm and Pratima Prasad will talk about Duras’s career and the process that led to the publication of the definitive versions of Duras’s fictions in Œuvres romanesques and Mémoires de Sophie, Amélie et Pauline: Romans d’émigration. This will be illustrated with readings of passages in translation.
In the second, Pratima Prasad and Chris Miller (respectively editor and translator of the OUP volume) will address the challenges of presenting and translating Claire de Duras in the twenty-first century.
Marie-Bénédicte Diethelm is a chercheuse associée at the CNRS/Sorbonne Université (CELLF-19-21). She has rediscovered, edited, introduced, and annotated Duras’s work, and is the editor of Humboldt’s Lettres à Claire de Duras (2016) and of Astolphe de Custine’s Aloys (2024)
Pratima Prasad is Professor of French and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a scholar of colonialism and nineteenth-century studies and the author of Colonialism, Race and the French Romantic Imagination (2009).
Chris Miller is a freelance translator and literary critic who has published widely on poetry and poetry in translation. He has translated the Brazilian poets Érico Nogueira and Marco Catalão.
This event is supported by the Queen’s Translation Exchange.
Provost Paul Johnson will be joined by Old Member and Honorary Fellow General Sir Richard Barrons.
General Sir Richard Barrons served as Commander Joint Forces Command, one of the six ‘Chiefs of Staff’ leading the UK Armed Forces, 2013-2016, and responsible for 23,000 people worldwide and a budget of over £4.Bn. His military career began as an artillery officer and included the last decade of the Cold War, leadership from Captain to General on military operations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan, and serving as the Director of all UK military operations as Lieutenant General.
Now with a portfolio of commercial interests, including as Co-Chairman of Universal Defence & Security Solutions and Global Defence Chair for Linden Park Partners, he advises on senior leadership, defence and national security matters – especially Digital Age transformation for 21st Century warfare – and is a regular media commentator. He was one of the leaders of the UK Prime Minister’s 2025 Strategic Defence Review and is a Senior Consulting Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House. His latest book, War and Peace, the Life and Times of General Sir Richard Barrons was published in 2024.
Booking will open in Michaelmas Terrm.
Provost Paul Johnson will be joined by The Rt Hon Lord Hague of Richmond CVO, Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
Born in Rotherham in 1961, he was first educated at Wath-Upon-Dearne Comprehensive School, before moving on to study at Magdalen College, becoming President of the Oxford Union and graduating in 1982 with First Class honours and the College Prize in PPE. Later he took an MBA at INSEAD in France.
After commencing a business career with McKinsey & Co, William was elected as the MP for Richmond, Yorkshire. He served for 26 years in the House of Commons in many senior roles, in particular Secretary of State for Wales 1995-1997, Leader of the Conservative Party 1997-2001, and First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary 2010-2014. As Minister for Disabled People he was responsible for the landmark Disability Discrimination Act of 1995. During his time as Foreign Secretary William received global recognition for the Campaign to Prevent Sexual Violence in Conflict, which he co-founded with Angelina Jolie.
Well known as an author, William has written biographies of William Pitt the Younger (2005 History Book of the Year award) and William Wilberforce. On leaving the Commons in 2015, William was made a life peer and has since then devoted his time to charity, business and journalism. He has served as chair of the Royal United Services Institute 2015-2020, chair of the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales 2020-2025 and is co-chair of United for Wildlife, a global effort to combat the illegal wildlife trade. He is also President of the Britain-Australia Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
William is a weekly columnist of The Times and since 2023 has co-authored, with Sir Tony Blair, a series of reports advocating a stronger national focus on science, technology and innovation.
Booking will open in Michaelmas Terrm.