2nd GOTH Symposium

Gender and Otherness in the Humanities (GOTH) is a research centre based in the School of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University. Our interests are broad-ranging across research areas: our affiliated academics work in a variety of fields within the Humanities including English Literature, Creative Writing, Music, History, Theatre Studies, Art History, Classical Studies and more, exploring topics related to the themes of gender and otherness.

GOTH - Gender and Otherness in the Humanities

The 2nd GOTH (Centre for Research into Gender and Otherness in the Humanities) Symposium, 19-20 May 2022, 10:00-17:15. Online via MS Teams

<h2>Thursday 19 May 2022 </h2><h3><strong>10:10-10:30 Welcome and Introduction to the 2nd GOTH Symposium:</strong> </h3><p>M. A. Katritzky (Director, GOTH &amp; Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies, OU) and Prof. Nicola Watson (Research Lead, English &amp; Creative Writing)</p><h3><strong>10:30-12:00   POSTGRADUATE PANEL:</strong></h3><p>Chair: Christine Plastow</p><p>o	Polyphemos the Cyclops to Frankenstein’s Creature: Defending the Monstrous Other, Kim Pratt (OU)</p><p>o	‘Multivalent Silence and the Destruction of Otherness’: Gender and Genre in Shakespeare’s Treatment of Silence, Kate Newsholme (OU) </p><p>o	Fragments of unreliability: a creative writer’s take on story made monstrous in Ahmed  Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone (OU) </p><p>o	A sign of things to come? - The use of typesetting and illustration to convey signed language to young readers, Eleanor Dodd (OU) </p><p>o	Women and Crime in early modern Oxford, Amy Moore (OU)</p><p>o	Gender in Early Childhood Education and Care in England, Rochelle Mallet (OU)</p><p>o	Contexts: Reading nineteenth-century histories and novels about Jewish identity, Antonia Saunders (OU) </p><p>o	Prisoner 25: Marginalia, Sarah Bower (OU) </p><p><em><strong>12:00-14:30  Lunch Break</strong></em></p><p></p><h3>Session 2:</h3><h3><strong>14:30-16:30 AUTO/BIOGRAPHY PANEL:</strong></h3><p>Chairs: Gemma Allen &amp; M A Katritzky</p><p>o	Personal Manifestos: women’s activist autobiography and the 1960s, Sinead McEneaney (OU, Hist)</p><p>o	Fabular tale or documentary novel? Reading Xiaolu Guo’s Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up, Fiona Doloughan (OU ECW)</p><p>o	Stitching a Life Story, Heather Richardson (The Open University ECW)</p>

<h2>Friday 20 May 2022</h2><h3>Session 3:</h3><h3>10:30-12:30	     WOMEN &amp; BUILDINGS PANEL</h3><p>Chairs: Clare Taylor &amp; Christine Plastow</p><p>o	Decedam ego illi: Matronal mobility privileges in public spaces in Republican Rome, Lewis Webb</p><p>o	(University of Gothenburg and University of Oxford)</p><p>o	The Adam sisters: forgotten figures in the Adam brothers’ architectural practice, Sydney Ayers Mercer (The Prince’s Foundation)</p><p>o	Dear friend, I can no longer hear your voice…: Reclaiming Eliza Soane, Anne-Marie Creamer (Artist) and Louise Stewart (Head of Exhibitions, Sir John Soane’s Museum)</p><p><em><strong>12:30-14:00  	Lunch Break</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>14:00-15:30	        Board Meeting</strong></em><em> (Board, Committee &amp; PG convenors only)</em></p><p><em><strong>15:30-16:00	        Break</strong></em></p><p></p><h3>Session 4:</h3><h3>16:00-17:00		KEYNOTE</h3><p> Chair: Christine Plastow</p><p>Prof. James Robson (Classical Studies, OU): </p><p><em><strong>&#x27;Sexy, sexist, feminine and feminist: staging Lysistrata ancient and modern&#x27;</strong></em></p><p><strong>17:00-17:10	Closing Remarks</strong> </p><p>Christine Plastow and Gemma Allen (GOTH Committee, OU)</p>

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