The College Record 2022
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
Outside of my ongoing clinical and teaching commitments in Neurology and my<br />
NIHR funded academic research, I was also appointed as the acting Chief Medical<br />
Officer for a biotechnology company, the role is to help accelerate clinical research<br />
trials and drug development for Central Nervous System disorders.<br />
Annalisa Nicholson (French)<br />
This year, I was happy to see the publication of my first<br />
academic articles. One appeared in French Studies and<br />
analysed the influence of Epicurus and Lucretius on the<br />
writings of the seventeenth-century French exile and<br />
self-confessed epicurean, Charles de Saint-Évremond.<br />
<strong>The</strong> second came out with Early Modern Women and<br />
re-examined the suicide of Hortense Mancini in light of<br />
overlooked manuscripts at the British Library. <strong>The</strong> broader stakes of this article<br />
converged around the responsible use of speculative history.<br />
I have also been working to turn my doctoral thesis on Hortense Mancini and<br />
French exiles in Restoration London into a monograph. I am currently finalising my<br />
book proposal, which will pitch an academic book on the influence of the French<br />
community that surrounded Mancini. Relatedly, following the award of an Amy<br />
Wygant Research Bursary from the Society for Early Modern French Studies, I am<br />
working with <strong>The</strong> Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series at Toronto Press to<br />
publish my transcriptions and translations of Mancini's letters, which will mark the<br />
first ever edition of her correspondence.<br />
In addition to these academic outlets, my research on Hortense Mancini has featured<br />
in American wine magazine, Wine Enthusiast, and in the Swedish history magazine,<br />
Historiskan.<br />
Finally, I was delighted to host a workshop on Huguenot history and culture at Oxford<br />
Town Hall in June 2021, generously funded by <strong>The</strong> Queen's <strong>College</strong>, the Society for<br />
French Studies, and the Society for the Study of French History.<br />
Credit: John Cairns<br />
Conor O’Brien (History)<br />
This year has been a busy one for me, settling into the<br />
rhythm of organising History at Queen's for the first time in<br />
the midst of a year which began with the pandemic looming<br />
but ended with something like a return to 'normality'.<br />
Admissions interviews were online for the second year<br />
running, but both Finals and Prelims were sat in person<br />
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