The Department of Modern Languages recently helped organise a Modern Foreign Language 6th form Conference at Simon Langton School for Girls.

Just some of the highlights included workshops on ‘the relations between the German epistolary novel and digital Social Media’, ‘the poetry of Pablo Neruda’, and ‘Pablo Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica’, run by Tobias Heinrich (Lecturer in German), and William Rowlandson (senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies) respectively.

There were also sessions on French language, and an introduction to Russian run by David Hornsby (senior lecturer in French and Linguistics for the Department of English Language and Linguistics) as well as a translation workshop led by William Rowlandson, with the help of a 4th-year Hispanic student.

Two students doing an Erasmus+ traineeship at the University of Kent were also present to moderate a German discussion forum on the 2015 refugee crisis. ‘It really made the day having Kent’s Department of Modern Languages present, and the feedback from the students has been nothing but positive,’ said Mr David Stalley, Head of MFL at Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School, ‘I would also very much like to be able to count on their support for a repeat of the conference next year.’