Summer Creative Translation Digest

Welcome back to the Creative Translation Digest from the Stephen Spender Trust and the Queen’s Translation Exchange. After a busy start to the year, we’re delighted to be able to…

The Visible Translator: telling Japanese ghost stories

…down your spine also provide relief from the intense summer heat. Unlike in the UK, where ghosts are associated with cold, dark nights and Halloween, in Japan, summer is the…

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…the Music Faculty. I’ll then often take an hour or so to catch up with friends after lectures (Independent Cafe opposite the Music Fac is a must), and then head…

Guide for event bookings

Music Practice Room Squash Courts Cricket Grounds and Pavilion Beer Cellar New Library Multi-Purpose Room Chapel The Lodge books the piano in Chapel. For Music Practice: Students are eligible to…

Prof John Sloboda OBE FBA

…founded in 1991. John is internationally known for his work on the psychology of music and founded Europe’s first MSc course in Music Psychology. He is a Fellow of the…

"Camaraderie, kindness, and a keen faith in life"

The JCR and MCR Women’s Officers look back on “Finding our voices”, the first ever event bringing current students and Old Members together for an evening of networking and story-sharing,…

Conference organiser information

Music Room _ _ 15 _ yes/no _ yes/no Junior Common Room (JCR) set-up as seen with sofas _ _ _ _ Old Taberdars’ Room (OTR) set-up as seen with…

Beyond the spec: how one week can change your outlook

…of internships and summer schemes are unpaid – which instantly makes them impossible for so many people. I work at a café during the summer vacation, so being able to…

Translation Exchanges

…Books, Summertown, Oxford. £5 tickets including a drink. Aoko Matsuda’s brilliant Where the Wild Ladies Are is a collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese ghost stories. Funny, surreal and…

Lecturer in Music writes on guitar and the Serialists

Congratulations to Dr Oliver Chandler who has published his first monograph: A Twelve-Tone Repertory for Guitar: Julian Bream and the British Serialists, 1956-1983. View the monograph here….

The best things about Queen's, according to our students

…active music scene. We have the oldest music society in Oxford, which runs an orchestra, acapella group, jazz band and puts on termly concerts, open mic nights, musical theatre nights…

Wot! No ball?

…Stones actually turned up. The Ball Committee’s early discussions reflected our personal musical preferences rather than a hard-headed commercial approach (I remember that Genesis was floated as one possibility), but reality…

Inside poetry translation with the 2022 Stephen Spender Prize winners: Open Category First-Time Entrant

…to translate collectively poems from languages I don’t even know at the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School’s multilingual poetry translation workshop last summer, I realised why I love…

Queen's in Berlin - Reflections on our event at the Ambassador's Private Residence in Berlin

…one of the most memorable conversations of the evening was with a man who had studied Zoology at Queen’s in the 1980s, and gone on to spend 12 years living…

Become a Creative Translation Ambassador

…Timeline 2024-25 The training for Creative Translation Ambassadors runs over 3 sessions (1 full day; 2 evening sessions).  Session 1 (Saturday 9th November 10am–5pm, at Queen’s): Ambassadors learn the principles…

College map

…Whether or not you choose to attend worship in the Chapel, its presence as a space for glorious music, quiet contemplation, and challenging preaching stands as an invitation to engage…