Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Events

Nov 09

Online Drama Festival: Nick Dear, Frankenstein (Royal National Theatre 2011)

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Online

Come along to our discussion of Nick Dear's Frankenstein. This event will include three presentations about the production, followed by a Q&A with the playwright, Nick Dear. Ahead of the event, we invite you to watch the production via the Drama Online Library (available via the OU).

Jan 11

GOTH Critical Reading Group

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Online via Microsoft Teams

We invite you to join us for our GOTH Critical Reading Group event on 11 January 2024, 3pm-4pm (online Microsoft Teams details to be made available shortly). The event will feature a discussion of early modern women's writing chaired by Dr Jonathan Gibson.

Chair: Molly Ziegler. Registration: via FASS-Goth.

Feb 01

4th GOTH Interdisciplinary NetWorkshop

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OU Library Seminar Room 6, Milton Keynes campus

Details to be shared closer to the date.

Mar 22

2nd GOTH Writing Retreat

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OU Library Seminar Room 6, Milton Keynes campus

Chair (1&2): Peg Katritzky.

Apr 18

3rd GOTH Awayday

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Location to be confirmed

Details to be shared closer to the event.

Chair: Molly Ziegler.

May 16/17

4th GOTH Symposium

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Online

Gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture, II

Past Events

GOTH Live Performance Event

12th October 2023

Live performance event by two theatre companies: By Jove! and Exchange Theatre Group For Open University staff and GOTH Members only

GOTH Postgraduate Forum – Campus meet-up

8th June 2023

Interested OU PGs please contact Forum co-convenors Kim Pratt or Antonia Saunders for details.

GOTH - 3rd Research Symposium

18th May 2023 to 20th May 2023

Including the GOTH Board meeting.

GOTH Postgraduate Forum (1st Thursday)

4th May 2023

The Madwoman in the Attic: Part Two - Following on from our very lively discussion in November in reference to key works like Jane Eyre, The Yellow Wallpaper, and Wide Sargasso Sea, and other representations in the arts and social sciences of mental health.

Interested OU PGs please contact Forum co-convenors Kim Pratt or Antonia Saunders for details.

GOTH Awayday

20th April 2023

Join us for the annual GOTH Awayday at the Fitzwilliam Museum Islands exhibition and other local exhibitions in Cambridge.

GOTH Postgraduate Forum (1st Thursday)

6th April 2023

'Re-evaluating pre-modern cultural evidence': A guest presentation by Peg Katritzky, director of the GOTH Research Group. 

Interested OU PGs please contact Forum co-convenors Kim Pratt or Antonia Saunders for details.

GOTH Writing Retreat

23rd March 2023

Details TBC

GOTH Committee Meeting

2nd March 2023

A meeting of the GOTH committee. Board Members are welcome to join.

GOTH Reading Group

2nd March 2023

Please join us for a reading group hosted by Jonathan Gibson on the topic of ‘Women’s Letters’.

GOTH Postgraduate Forum (1st Thursday)

2nd March 2023

This month’s topic is ‘Gender Fluidity in the Arts’

Interested OU PGs please contact Forum co-convenors Kim Pratt or Antonia Saunders for details.