The OxNet Languages programme is run by Pembroke College, Oxford, in close collaboration with colleagues from Queen Mary, University of London and Princeton University.

 

It is aimed at pupils who wish to study any language at university, either at advanced level or ab initio (from scratch). It is a course that aims to enhance pupils' language skills and critical thinking ability by exploring areas of philosophy, politics, history, linguistics, translation, and cultural studies, among others.

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The 2024 online seminar series for this course is organised around the theme of 'Narrative Identities'. Pupils have been sent a book in the language that they are studying at A Level (or a book translated into English from their ab initio language) to be read alongside the seminar series, inviting them to consider the following key themes and questions:

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• An Introduction to Narrative Identity: How do we write ourselves?

• Writing Between Cultures, or in-between Identity

• National/International Identities: Exile, Migration, Adolescence

• Disabled Writers and Writing Disability in Autobiography

• Subjectivity, Hybridity and Multi-Identities in Life Writing

• Ecological Identities

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We welcome applications from Year 12 pupils from any OxNet Hub or Link school in West London or the North West of England.

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Photographed below is Dr Tim Farrant (Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages; Reader in Nineteenth Century French Literature at Pembroke College) addressing the Languages cohort during the 2023 Study Skills Day.

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