Over 100 A-Level students from a number of Schools in the Kent region are expected on campus next week to attend our Sixth Form Languages Conference, on Wednesday 13 November 2013. Staff from across SECL are participating, representing the departments of English Language & Linguistics, French, German, Hispanic Studies and Italian. They will be delivering sessions to give a taster for studying culture, languages and linguistics at a university level.
The schools participating so far include Homewood School and Sixth Form, Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School, Sir Roger Manwood’s School, Dover Grammar School for Girls, Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Girls and Kent College.
The programme of events is listed below. If you would like further information on participating, please contact outreach@kent.ac.uk
PROGRAMME
9.45-10.00: Registration, Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1
10.00-10.50: ‘Welcome’, Dr William Rowlandson, Senior Lecturer, Hispanic Studies, Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1,
Parallel sessions:
11.00-11.45: ‘Victor Hugo: 24 Hours Left to Live: The Last Day of a Condemned Man’, Dr James Fowler, Senior Lecturer, French, Grimond Lecture Theatre 3
11.00-11.45: ‘Angela Merkel: Mother of the Nation?’, German Language Coordinator, Keynes Seminar Room 15
11.00-11.45: ‘Spanish Cinema’, Professor Nuria Triana-Toribio, Head of Hispanic Studies, Keynes Seminar Room 17
11.00-11.45: ‘Dante’s Inferno’, Veronica Frigeni, Department of Italian, Keynes Seminar Room 21
Break
Parallel sessions:
12.00-12.45: ‘Fantasies of the Night in the French Eighteenth Century’, Dr Marine Ganofsky, Department of French, Grimond Lecture Theatre 3
12.00-12.45: ‘”It’s a Bug’s Life”: Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis’, Dr Deborah Holmes, Head of German, Keynes Seminar Room 4
12.00-12.45: ‘Modern Spanish Theatre’, Dr Montserrat Roser i Puig, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Keynes Seminar Room 11
12.00-12.45: ‘Introduction to Italian Language’, Mr Marco Piasentier, Italian Lector, Keynes Seminar, Room 1
Lunch, Grimond Building
1.20-2.00: ‘What is European Studies?’, Kathryn Simpson, Assistant Lecturer, School of Politics & International Relations, Grimond Lecture Theatre 2
2.00-2.45: ‘Linguistics: What’s That All About?’, Dr Jeremy Scott, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Grimond Lecture Theatre 2