GOTH Symposium 2021

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 first GOTH (Gender and Otherness in the Humanities) Symposium .

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The GOTH symposium is an interdisciplinary conference with panels on textiles, transnational theatre, and women's writing and book history. We are delighted to showcase the research of the GOTH Research group postgraduate members, and have a keynote from Noémie Ndiaye (University of Chicago). The event, which will be spread over two days, will be held online on the MS Teams platform. Organizers, the GOTH Committee:•	Dr M A Katritzky – Director, GOTH &amp; Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies•	Dr Christine Plastow – GOTH Web and Media Manager; Lecturer in Classical Studies•	Dr Gemma Allen – Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History•	Dr Clare Taylor – Senior Lecturer in Art History; Paul Mellon Centre Mid-Career Fellow•	Christopher Dobson – GOTH Studentship Scholar &amp; Co-Convenor, GOTH PG Forum.The full programme is below:

Thursday, 20 May 10:30-10:50	Welcome and Introduction to the 1st GOTH Symposium 10:50-13:00	TEXTILES PANEL Chaired by Clare Taylor &amp; Christine PlastowThis panel will bring together three speakers with expertise in the research and study of textiles, examining examples of its practice from across the ancient, early modern and modern world 11:00-11:30 	Magdalena Öhrman (Senior Lecturer in Classics, Lampeter) Valuable work: Weaving precious materials, gender, and display in Late Antiquity11:30-11:45 Break11:45-12:15	Emma Slocombe (Senior National Curator, Dress &amp; Textiles, The National Trust) Identity and politics in the needlework of Mary Queen of Scots12:15-12:55	Josephine Rout (Curator, Asia, V&amp;A Museum) Exploring the Gendering of Kimono in Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk 12:55-13:00	Summing up of morning session13:00-14:30	Lunch Break

14:30-16:00	TRANSNATIONAL THEATRE PANEL
Chaired by M. A. Katritzky &amp; Pavel Drábek 
14:30-14:45	Chairs’ Introduction to <a href="https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526139177/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre </a>(Manchester University Press, 2020), the third published collection of the transnational early modern theatre research collective Theater Without Borders. Its editors will introduce the collective, this volume and its contents:
I West: 1. Natasha Korda (Wesleyan), If the shoe fits, or the truth in pinking; 2. Susanne L. Wofford (NYU), Freedom and constraint in transnational comedy: The ‘jest unseen’ of love letters in Two Gentlemen of Verona and El perro del hortelano; 3. Barbara Fuchs (UCLA), ‘La voluntad jamás permite señor’: Transnational versions of cross-class desire in Cardenio and Mujeres y criados; 4. Noémie Ndiaye (Chicago), The African ambassadors’ travels: Playing black in late seventeenth-century France and Spain 
II North: 5. Nigel Smith (Princeton), Migration and drama: Amsterdam 1617; 6. M. A. Katritzky (OU), London and The Hague, 1638 – performing quacks at court; 7. Pavel Drábek (Hull), ‘Why, sir, are there other heauens in other countries?’: The English Comedy as a transnational style; 8. Friedemann Kreuder (Mainz), The Re-Inspired and Revived Bernardon: Metamorphoses of early modern comedy in eighteenth-century bourgeois theatre 
III South: 9. Eric Nicholson (NYU Florence), Northern lights and shadows: Transcultural encounters in early modern Italian theatre; 10. Janie Cole (Cape Town), Representations of female power: Musical spectacle at the Paris court of Maria de’ Medici, the Italian Minerva of France; 11. Erith Jaffe-Berg (California at Riverside), Ebrei and Turchi performing in early modern Venice and Mantua; 12. Jacques Lezra (NYU), Ragozine’s beheading: Dramatic and civil logics of the European state-form; Afterword: Robert Henke (Washington, St Louis).

14:45-15:45	Some of the volume’s contributing authors will introduce their work in individual presentations. 
15:45-16:00	Questions
16:00-16:30	Break

16:30-18:00	WOMEN’S WRITING AND BOOK HISTORY PANELChaired by Gemma Allen &amp; Shafquat Towheed16:30-16:35 Chairs’ Introduction to this panel, bringing together speakers with expertise in women’s writing and book history from the Early Modern period up to the present day, to interrogate the productive relationship between women’s writing as a burgeoning area of research, and the history of the book as a methodological mode of enquiry.16:35-17:00	Prof Marie-Louise Coolahan (NUI-Galway): Recovery, Reception, and Reading: Early Modern Women’s Writing and Book History17:00-17:25	Dr Cassandra Ulph (University of Manchester) Intimacy, creativity and networks: reading practices in the Mary Hamilton Papers17:25-17.50	Prof Margaretta Jolly (University of Sussex): The business of feminist creativity: Perspectives on women’s movement publishing enterprises in the UK, 1970s-today17:50-18:00 Questions &amp; Close of Day

Friday 21 May11:00-12:00 	Postgraduate PanelChaired by Christine Plastow11:00-11:10	Chairs’ Introduction to this panel, in which the convenors of the OU’s monthly GOTH Postgraduate Forum will report on the Forum’s activities and their doctoral research.11:10-11:20	Report on the GOTH Postgraduate Forum 11.20-11.25 	Chris Dobson, The performance of femininity in the plays of Christopher Marlowe11.25-11.30 	Kim Pratt, Fictional Monsters as cultural metaphor for the Other: antiquity’s Polyphemos and the Creature from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein11.30-11.35 	Sharon Wiseman, Restoration Drama and Performance11.35-11.40	 Melissa Bailey, Is there a need for the responsible depiction of sexual violence in fiction?11.40-11.45	Rochelle Mallet, Gender and Otherness in Early Childhood Education and Care11.45-11.50 	Amy Moore, Oxford, Town, County, People 1575-164011.50-12.00 	Questions12:00-14:30		Break14:30-16:00		KEYNOTE: Noémie Ndiaye (University of Chicago)	Chair: M A Katritzky		Shades of Racial Capitalism: Afro-Romani Connections in Early Modern Drama.			Noémie Ndiaye is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. She works on representations of race and gender in early modern English, French, and Spanish theatre and performance culture. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals including Renaissance Drama, Early Theatre, English Literary Renaissance, Literature Compass, and various edited collections including The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race, The Cultural History of Race in the Reformation and Enlightenment, 1550-1760 (Vol. 4), the Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography, and Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre, edited by M.A. Katritzky and Pavel Drábek. Her first monograph, tentatively entitled Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race, is forthcoming with University of Pennsylvania Press. 	Please note, the keynote session will not be recorded. 16:00-16:10	Closing Remarks

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