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Trinity Prizes 2025: Celebrating Academic and Sporting Excellence and Community Building

It's that time of year again when we celebrate all the incredible achievements of Pembrokians, teaching staff and students alike, and their commitment to the college community. A range of awards and prize money offer college the opportunity to recognise those who have shown extraordinary leadership skills, community building and academic and sporting excellence.

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Exhibition in Pembroke JCR Art Gallery sheds light on the darkness of disappearance

An important exhibition has just opened in the JCR Art Gallery. Showcasing works by Mexican artist Chantal Meza, the exhibition forces us to confront what for many of us is unimaginable: disappearing without a trace. A series of public talks attached to the exhibition reveals that for some families, the disappearance of loved ones is far from unimaginable, it is their reality. 

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Professor Henrietta Harrison Releases New Book ‘The Perils of Interpreting’

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Congratulations to Professor Henrietta Harrison, Pembroke’s Stanley Ho Fellow and Tutor in Chinese, for releasing her new book ‘The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire.’

Published by Princeton University Press, this book focuses on the lives of the two interpreters who participated in the famed Macartney embassy in 1793 and how they intervened in the exchanges they mediated between China and Britain.

Sarah Bramao-Ramos from History Today praised the book saying "Harrison could not have picked two more fascinating men to focus her book on. . .  not only is The Perils of Interpreting an empathetic portrait of two men, it also deftly reveals the critical importance of translation and of interpreters for without them neither cross-cultural interactions nor cross-cultural understanding can even begin."

The purchase link and more details of the book can be found here.

 

The Perils of interpreting