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a 12-photo grid of all the telethon callers whose biographies are contained in the news item

18 December 2024

Queen’s calling: the 2025 telethon
a holographic book cover of Newton, Isaac. Opticks: Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. Edited by Laura Schröder, Printed and bound by SYL, 2018. The Queen’s College,QC353.NE.

14 January 2025

Perception: an exhibition
Profile photo for Jennice Singh: she sits with a cup of coffee with wooden panelling and portraits behind her

18 December 2024

If trees could talk
Profile photo of Laurence Tubiana wearing a blue jacket and white t-shirt.

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6-7pm

The Provost’s Lecture 2025

Online via Zoom
Queen's Women's Network Logo

27

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18:00-20:45

QWN in London 2025

The Nave at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace 78 Bishopsgate London EC2N 4AG
Prof Phalippou pictured in a right blue suit at the film awards holding a microphone and an award. He is standing in front of a screen which has his name and the award title in large green letters

27 November 2024

Fellow in Finance receives film award
the window display for Butter at Waterstones, Oxford. There are multiple copies of the book itself along with frames images of parts of the cover, including a cow on a yellow background which is rotated vertically

10 December 2024

Waterstones Book of the Year prize for former translator in residence’s work
Hanging wooden Christmas decorations: three Christmas trees and one reindeer against a Scandi-inspired light wood background

09 December 2024

Jolly Jólabókaflóðið
Matt Shaw pictured in the Upper Library wearing a blue shirt and jacket standing in front of wooden bookcases

04 December 2024

Libraries and the Academic Book: a new book from the Librarian
Oxford Preservation Trust logo with lime green lines running parallel above and below the words 'Oxford Preservation Trust'

11 November 2024

Queen’s Lodge awarded Building Conservation Certificate
cover art for Signum Classics disc That Sweet City showing an illustration of the Oxford skyline from Boar's Hill with poppies and fields in the foreground

23 October 2024

That Sweet City: new Choir CD

15 October 2024

Photography competition 2024 now open for entries
Tamara Atkin profile shot

27 November 2024

Books and bindings
A photo of Prof Kirsty Duffy with a blue background and the text 'Even Bananas with host Kirsty Duffy' in yellow writing and a drawing of three bananas

02 December 2024

Even Bananas

What’s for lunch?

  • Soup
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    Roast Leg of Lamb, Roast Potatoes, Mixed Veg,
    Gravy, Mint Sauce
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    Chocolate And Cherry
    Bread and Butter Pudding
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    Squash & sage pithivier
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✏️ New blogpost ⛵ Staying true to the dreams of your youth: Old Member Nicholas Coghlan (Modern Languages, 1973) tells us about his voyages as student, diplomat, and explorer, and taking a path less travelled. Read more: https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/blog/staying-true-to-the-dreams-of-your-youth/ #TravelStories #Explorer #ModernLanguages #PathLessTravelled #LifeJourneys

✏️ New blogpost ⛵

Staying true to the dreams of your youth: Old Member Nicholas Coghlan (Modern Languages, 1973) tells us about his voyages as student, diplomat, and explorer, and taking a path less travelled.

Read more: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/blog/staying-true-to-the-dreams-of-your-youth/

#travelstories #explorer #modernlanguages #pathlesstravelled #lifejourneys ... See MoreSee Less

3 days ago
✏️New blogpost 🍍 A recipe from the College kitchen that pays a nostalgic nod to childhood: Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Head Chef Sean Ducie shares a recipe for a cake he remembers from his childhood, proudly presented here by Chef de Partie Bobby Mihai. Round off January with a bit of warming comfort food: https://ow.ly/nCXm50UOC0j. #PineappleUpsideDownCake #RecipeOfTheDay #ComfortFood #FoodBlog #NostalgicRecipes #ChefLife

✏️New blogpost 🍍

A recipe from the College kitchen that pays a nostalgic nod to childhood: Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Head Chef Sean Ducie shares a recipe for a cake he remembers from his childhood, proudly presented here by Chef de Partie Bobby Mihai.

Round off January with a bit of warming comfort food: ow.ly/nCXm50UOC0j.

#pineappleupsidedowncake #recipeoftheday #comfortfood #foodblog #nostalgicrecipes #cheflife ... See MoreSee Less

4 days ago
What is perception? 👀 🧠 🫀 The English word ‘Perception’—as the ‘process of becoming aware or conscious of a thing’ (OED) —is first recorded in John Trevisa’s (1342–1402) translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s (b. 1272) influential 13th-century encyclopaedia. Explore this definition, and others, in the Librarys new online exhibition and related blogpost: https://ow.ly/PfZt50UGc51, curated as part of the Colleges academic theme for 2024-25. Ten items, ranging over five centuries, are on display with visual pleasure provided by a recent edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Opticks with its holographic cover. #Perception #LibraryExhibition #AcademicResearch #NewtonOpticks

What is perception? 👀 🧠 🫀

The English word ‘Perception’—as the ‘process of becoming aware or conscious of a thing’ (OED) —is first recorded in John Trevisa’s (1342–1402) translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s (b. 1272) influential 13th-century encyclopaedia.

Explore this definition, and others, in the Library's new online exhibition and related blogpost: ow.ly/PfZt50UGc51, curated as part of the College's academic theme for 2024-25.

Ten items, ranging over five centuries, are on display with visual pleasure provided by a recent edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Opticks with its holographic cover.

#Perception #LibraryExhibition #AcademicResearch #NewtonOpticks ... See MoreSee Less

1 week ago
Delve into the remarkable life of Professor Sir Peter Russell, former Laming Resident Fellow at Queens. Old Member Colin Wight (Modern Languages, 1973) reflects on his experiences attending Sir Peters lectures and seminars in his book review of Bruce Taylor’s new biography Scholar-Spy. Read more: https://ow.ly/pAeR50UG7gH.

Delve into the remarkable life of Professor Sir Peter Russell, former Laming Resident Fellow at Queen's.

Old Member Colin Wight (Modern Languages, 1973) reflects on his experiences attending Sir Peter's lectures and seminars in his book review of Bruce Taylor’s new biography Scholar-Spy. Read more: ow.ly/pAeR50UG7gH. ... See MoreSee Less

2 weeks ago