The Queen's College Record 2023
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
an article for publication (at twice the length. Hey presto!). Now it’s back to work on<br />
my latest go-to, the Swiss-French poet Philippe Jaccottet (1925-2021). I have begun<br />
to write a book on him, and I very much hope it will be short.<br />
Jan Petrov (Law)<br />
In the second year of my Junior Research Fellowship in<br />
Law at Queen’s, I continued my research on two issues:<br />
analysing the role of courts in the context of democratic<br />
erosion and improving methods of detecting misuses and<br />
abuses of constitutional law for anti-democratic purposes.<br />
I worked on a couple of articles addressing the international<br />
and comparative dimensions of these issues and on a<br />
book project tracing the developments of East-Central European constitutional<br />
courts’ treatment of European human rights law. <strong>The</strong> turbulent developments in the<br />
real world made the research topical but also intensified the challenges of aiming<br />
at a moving target.<br />
While participating in the <strong>College</strong> and University life in Oxford was a great pleasure,<br />
I also had the luck to be involved in international academic events and collaborations.<br />
I benefited from presenting my work at conferences and workshops in Amsterdam,<br />
Berlin, Cambridge, Chicago (online), London, Oslo, and Prague. Those events led to<br />
a closer cooperation with colleagues from the Universities of Glasgow and Oslo on a<br />
project concerning the European Court of Human Rights’ responses to authoritarian<br />
practices. This project included co-organization of workshops in Oslo and Berlin and<br />
hopefully a joint publication next year.<br />
Frances Reynolds (Assyriology)<br />
Joining the welcoming and vibrant community at Queen’s<br />
has been an undoubted highlight this year. My OUP book<br />
publishing an Akkadian treatise on the calendar, rituals, and<br />
astral mythology has opened up new avenues of research<br />
(A Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the<br />
Late First Millennium BC). I have been working on three<br />
articles on Late Babylonian scholarship related to the Esagil<br />
temple and on the broader cuneiform reception of the Babylonian ‘Epic of Creation’.<br />
Research collaborations benefited from a return to more normal conditions. I gave<br />
invited conference papers in person, with more invited talks planned for next year.<br />
Consultancy work included advising on etymologies with Akkadian or Sumerian<br />
content for the Oxford English Dictionary.<br />
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