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Reports and College Activities We had held a small in-person workshop in Michaelmas Term – on the German poet Nora Gomringer, with her translator Annie Rutherford – but this Ethiopian event was our first major live event since the pandemic began, and the buzz in the room throughout the performance and drinks reception proved that a return to the stage was the right decision. We preceded this performance with a translation workshop, too, where university students worked together with poets, professional translators, Oxford residents and members of the Ethiopian diaspora. The power of translation came to the fore when one participant, who had travelled over eighty miles to attend, gave the caveat that she was “not a poet” before reading out her translation of the short poem – we should manage our expectations, in other words. She went on to read out a moving, powerful, creative rendering of the original. Translation makes writers of those who would not otherwise write, and this is what we see time and again in our schools’ workshops. These workshops, by the student Creative Translation Ambassadors that we train every autumn, were back in the classroom for the first time since 2019. Selected from Oxford’s undergraduate and postgraduate community, 18 Ambassadors codesigned and -delivered workshops in six languages in eight local state schools. We also began to collate the data from our research project on the impact of these workshops, which show that even these relatively short interventions can transform a pupil’s view of language-learning: from ‘boring’ to ‘interesting’, from ‘difficult’ to ‘enjoyable’ and ‘creative’. My favourite response of all came from a teacher in Lancashire, who reported that, during a Year 8 Spanish lesson using our teaching resources, a 13-year-old student had remarked, “This feels important”. That particular lesson involved translating a prose extract about migration within South America: our resources routinely bring matters of historical, social or political import into the classroom through literature in this way, as well as foregrounding youth culture, street art, instapoetry and more. The language-learning experience needs to reflect the pupils’ interests – the things that are “important” to them – even while their language skills may be relatively limited. And our work with creative translation shows that we don’t need to wait until A Level/ Highers to introduce authentic, engaging, inclusive culture into the curriculum. Inclusion has been central to our work on the Anthea Bell Prize this year, through our project on ‘Inclusive Outreach through Translation’ with the MML Faculty and several other partners. With support from Oxford Humanities ‘Culture Change Fund’, we established a new collaboration with the Institut français and Goethe-Institut in London, to develop, test and publish authentic creative translation resources that explore equality. These will be tested in schools in autumn 2022, and soon after made available to the 1000+ Modern Languages teachers who have registered to receive our resources and lesson plans. 54 The Queen’s College | College Record 2022
Our virtual book club meetings for adults and young people discussed books from Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Cameroon, and Romania, and we published guides for book clubs in schools, libraries and homes – encouraging others to bring international literature into their reading. We also launched our new ‘Re-Viewing the World’ project, which encourages 15-18-year-olds to read and review literature in translation. As well as sending selected applicants the books in translation that we recommend, we publish their reviews on the College website: supporting the young people to read beyond the curriculum and giving them a taste of the kind of literary study that they could encounter at university. Reports and College Activities This has truly been a ‘hybrid’ year of in-person and virtual events at the Translation Exchange, then, and we will certainly continue in this way. The hugely increased reach made possible by our virtual events and our partnerships with teachers and schools will sit alongside a renewed focus on bringing together audiences in Oxford for transformative, collaborative performances and workshops; always with language, translation and international culture at their heart. If you would like to find out more about how you can get involved with and support our work at the Translation Exchange, we would love to hear from you. Please do get in touch. www.queens.ox.ac.uk/translation-exchange A workshop for primary school pupils in Oxford, run by Translation Exchange student ambassadors Credit: David Fisher College Record 2022 | The Queen’s College 55
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