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Reports and College Activities Max Kiener (Philosophy) In the last academic year, I published an article on ‘Coercion’ in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2020) and on ‘Fictionalising Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law’ in Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (2020). I wrote for The Conversation on ‘Infecting a Volunteer with coronavirus to develop a vaccine – here’s what consent should look like’, published in June 2020. I also organised a workshop on the ethics of consent, which was scheduled to take place at Queen’s in June. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, however, it had to be postponed to December 2020 and will now be an online event. Jane Langdale (Plant Sciences) Funding for the multinational C 4 Rice project (www. c4rice.com) that I lead was renewed in December 2019 for a further five years. We had our ‘phase IV’ launch meeting in Bangkok in December and everyone was fired up for a big year of research in 2020. Of course things ground to a halt in March in all of the consortium labs except for those in Germany, and even now most people can only work three day shifts. So it has been a time for everyone to catch up on thinking, reading and writing papers. In May 2020, I was elected a Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science. I published four research papers, in the journals Frontiers in Plant Science, Communications Biology, BMC Plant Biology and Development. I taught what turns out to be my last face to face 16 lecture module on Plant Developmental Genetics and Evolution for third year undergraduates on the Biological Sciences course in Michaelmas term – the 2020 version will be online and then in 2021 we transition to teaching the new Biology course. In February I went to Japan to talk to secondary school students about careers in scientific research, and the week before lockdown I gave a research seminar at the University of Lausanne. I had a busy travel schedule planned from April-June but instead became an expert on Zoom. I also learnt to appreciate the fact that I have a great view of my garden from the kitchen table, which is fortunate as it is likely to continue to function as my office for some time to come. Charlie Louth (German) Most of my research time over the past year was spent on the production process of my book on Rilke which I finished writing a year ago thanks to a Leverhulme Fellowship 20 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
and was published in June: Rilke: The Life of the Work. It turned out to be an embarrassingly long book, though that at least helped me understand why it had taken me so long to write. What time was left was largely swallowed up by the demands of the coronavirus, which has destroyed the vital division between term time and vacation and so made research more difficult than usual. But I have gone back to an old project, which is to translate the entirety of the letters of Friedrich Hölderlin. I have already done a good selection of them; they appeared together with his essays in 2009, but no complete edition exists in English, unlike in French, Italian and I expect other languages too. And translating was a good way to spend the early mornings of lockdown in the 250th year since Hölderlin’s birth. Otherwise, I published various small things on Rilke, including a piece on his late poems about gongs, which appeared in a book exploring Rilke’s relationship with music: ‘Zu Rilkes Gong-Gedichten’, in Rilkes Musikalität, ed. by Thomas Martinec (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2019). This coming year, I am looking forward (a manner of speaking) to serving as the College’s Tutor for Undergraduates. Reports and College Activities Viktor Marinkov (Economics) In 2020 I was awarded a grant from the UK’s Money Macro and Finance Society (MMF) for organising and hosting a high-profile economics conference at the University of Oxford. The conference will be on the topic of ‘What have we learned about the macroeconomic effect of forward guidance?’ and will take place in 2021 featuring international experts from both academia and policymaking. Forward guidance is a novel monetary policy tool that central banks began using since the financial crisis and one that I have focused on in my own research. Kinan Muhammed (Medicine) I started at Queen’s in 2019 as an Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow in Clinical Sciences. Since joining the College, I have continued with my clinical work in neurology and research in cognitive neurosciences. This academic year I contributed to publications in The Journal of Psychopharmacology, Cortex, Neuropsychologia and Brain focusing on neural mechanisms of motivation and memory in neurological diseases. Outside of my clinical and academic work, I gained a place on the first College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 21
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concerts are free, open to the publ
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QCAFC Captain: Matt Suter Following
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ATHLETIC DISTINCTIONS Blues Fred Ne
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One of the highlights of the Colleg
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Old Members’ Activities cancelled
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40 YEARS OF CO-EDUCATION AT QUEEN
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Celebrate 40 years of women at Quee
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1977 Giles Orton Appointed Priest-i
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PUBLICATIONS Bettison, Norman (1983
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Teague, Anthony known as Brother An
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Comparative Literature at Columbia
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insect, a study which resulted in a
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KEITH MASLIN Dr Keith Thomas Maslin
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