Each year, the Translation Exchange organises a varied programme of events dedicated to international literature, literary translation, and languages education. Below you can find details of our upcoming events as well as an archive of our past events at Queen’s and online.
Translation Exchanges
Thursday 4 December 2025, 5PM Magrath Room, The Queen's College
Anthea Bell Prize: Webinar for Mandarin Teachers
Thursday 7 January 2026, 4:30PM Online
Anthea Bell Prize: Meet the Judges
Thursday 21 January 2026, 4:30PM Online
Anthea Bell Prize: Competition Webinar
Thursday 5 February 2026, 4:30PM Online
Past Events
MNEMOSYNE: A Reading and Response with David Brazil
Thursday 27 November 2025
Creative Translation Ambassadors: Getting Involved with QTE
Thursday 23 October 2025
Translation Exchanges: Masterclass with Polly Barton
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Think Like a Linguist: Rochdale Celebration Day
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Anthea Bell Prize: Teachers' Webinar
Monday 22 September 2025
Think Like a Linguist: Blackpool Celebration Day
Tuesday 10 June 2025
Slovak Translation Workshop with Nicol Hochholczerová
Thursday 8 May 2025
This Room is Impossible to Eat: On Writing and Translation
with Nicol Hochholczerová & translators Julia and Peter Sherwood Wednesday 7 May 2025
Pedagogies of Feminist Translation Symposium
Friday 7 February 2025
Feminist Translation Slam
Thursday 6 February 2025
Translation of the Route, with Laura Wittner and Juana Adcock
Tuesday 22 October 2024
Thomas Traherne 350: Creative Translation Workshop
Monday 21 October 2024
A Conversation with Asako Yuzuki – BUTTER
Friday 11 October 2024
Whispering Walls: Literature, Gender and Values in Translation with Choman Hardi
Friday 24 May 2024
Living, Writing, Transformation: A Conversation with Sayaka Murata
Friday 26 Apr 2024
Politics and Prose in Kurdish Literature
Thursday 1 Feb 2024
A Conversation on Translation and Where the Wild Ladies Are
Thursday 1 June 2023
Telling Japanese Ghost Stories with Aoko Matsuda and Polly Barton
Saturday 3 June 2023
Japanese Creative Translation Workshop
Saturday 10 June 2023 (as part of Oxford Translation Day)
Feminist Praxis in Writing, Translating and Publishing
Wednesday 7 June 2023
Translation Slam with Ruth Clarke and Annie McDermott
Monday 27 March 2023 (as part of the Oxford Literary Festival)
Translating for the Theatre with Anne Montfort
Friday 3 March 2023
Brazil Week: Portuguese Creative Translation Workshop
Friday 10th February 2023 (with the Portuguese Sub-Faculty)
Translation Exchanges: Jáchym Topol & Alex Zucker
Tuesday 7 February 2023