The Open University’s Gender and Otherness in the Humanities (GOTH) Research Group is pleased to invite you to our annual interdisciplinary Research Symposium, held on Microsoft Teams on 19-20 May.
The Symposium features papers on a range of humanities subjects including Classical Studies, and features a keynote talk by Professor James Robson titled: ‘Sexy, sexist, feminine and feminist: staging Lysistrata ancient and modern’.
A full programme can be found below. Please sign up for free for the event via Eventbrite.
Thursday 19 May 2022
10:10-10:30 Welcome and Introduction to the 2nd GOTH Symposium:
- A. Katritzky (Director, GOTH & Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies, OU) and Prof. Nicola Watson (Research Lead, OU English & Creative Writing)
10:30-12:00 POSTGRADUATE PANEL:
Chair: Christine Plastow
o Polyphemos the Cyclops to Frankenstein’s Creature: Defending the Monstrous Other, Kim Pratt (OU)
o ‘Multivalent Silence and the Destruction of Otherness’: Gender and Genre in Shakespeare’s Treatment of Silence, Kate Newsholme (OU)
o Fragments of unreliability: a creative writer’s take on story made monstrous in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone (OU)
o A sign of things to come? – The use of typesetting and illustration to convey signed language to young readers, Eleanor Dodd (OU)
o Women and Crime in early modern Oxford, Amy Moore (OU)
o Gender in Early Childhood Education and Care in England, Rochelle Mallet (OU)
o Contexts: Reading nineteenth-century histories and novels about Jewish identity, Antonia Saunders (OU)
o Prisoner 25: Marginalia, Sarah Bower (OU)
12:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:30 AUTO/BIOGRAPHY PANEL:
Chairs: Gemma Allen & M A Katritzky
o Personal Manifestos: women’s activist autobiography and the 1960s, Sinead McEneaney (OU, History)
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, English and Creative Writing)
o Stitching a Life Story, Heather Richardson (OU, English and Creative Writing)
Friday 20 May 2022
10:30-12:30 WOMEN & BUILDINGS PANEL
Chairs: Clare Taylor & Christine Plastow
o Decedam ego illi: Matronal mobility privileges in public spaces in Republican Rome, Lewis Webb (University of Gothenburg and University of Oxford)
o The Adam sisters: forgotten figures in the Adam brothers’ architectural practice, Sydney Ayers Mercer (The Prince’s Foundation)
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)
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Board Meeting (Board, Committee & PG convenors only)
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:00 KEYNOTE
Chair: Christine Plastow
Prof. James Robson (Classical Studies, OU):
‘Sexy, sexist, feminine and feminist: staging Lysistrata ancient and modern’
17:00-17:10 Closing Remarks
Christine Plastow and Gemma Allen (GOTH Committee, OU)