After an extensive review of the Tutorial and Admissions Office the department was renamed the Academic Office. Chris Percival, who worked at the College for eight years, retired in August. Deana Shorten also left after ten years working initially as Bursarial Secretary and more recently as PA to the Senior Tutor. In the Housekeeping Department there were several changes including the retirement of Julia Morton after 12 years at Magdalene and Margaret Wilson leaving after seven years. The catering team welcomed Bronius Maciulskas to the new post of Stores Person, Dodou Sonko as Commis Chef, Luca Gentile as demi Chef de Partie. Congratulations also go to George Marrington and Terry Hughes on their promotion to Chef de Partie. CHF
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Magdalene Triennial Festival 2017–18. This was the fifth triennial festival: the Directors were Ms Mentchen and Dr Hughes and the theme chosen this year was ‘Change’. The launch event took place on 12th October, chaired by the Master, and was followed across the year by fourteen panel discussions and symposia, with topics ranging from climate change to literary translation, from art restoration to reporting revolution, and from film versioning to biological adaptation. The Festival Lecture,‘Change on the Ancient Silk Road’, was given by Dr Michael Scott (Warwick University). The Directors thank all the contributors and in particular the many Fellows who chaired sessions, participated in discussions and helped to develop the programme. MEJH&SM
Sophie Seita (2009), Clare Pollard and George Szirtes: three poets discuss translation and transformation at the Festival.
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