Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Events

Jan 9

GOTH 1st Friday PGR Forum

January 9, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00

Online

Topic: Research Exchange

Jan 9

GOTH Critical Reading Group

January 9, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00

Online

Lead: Jennie Owen; Speaker: Gill Connors

Feb 6

GOTH 1st Friday PGR Forum: Research Exchange

February 6, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00

Online

Topic: Roundtable discussion - Othered or Erased: What’s worse?

March 6

GOTH 1st Friday PGR Forum: Research Exchange

March 6, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00

Online

Guest Speaker: Professor Clare Taylor

Mar 6

Joint GOTH, HOBAR & Postcolonial & Global Literatures Writing Retreat

March 6, 2026 - 09:00 to 17:00

In-person - The Open University campus, Milton Keynes

Guest Speaker: Shaf Towheed

Apr 10

GOTH 1st Friday PGR Forum: Research Exchange

April 10, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00

Online

Topic: Roundtable discussion on the misrepresentation and fluidity of gender

Apr 17

4th GOTH Awayday

April 17, 2026 - 11:00 to 16:00

In-person

Further information will be posted closer to the date.

May 8

GOTH 1st Friday PGR Forum: Research Exchange

May 8, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00

Online

Further information will be posted closer to the date.

May 8

GOTH Teabreak

May 8, 2026 - 11:30 to 12:15

Online

Further information will be posted closer to the date.

May 15

GOTH Teabreak

May 15, 2026 - 10:00 to 17:00

Hybrid: On campus (OU Library SR7, Milton Keynes campus) and Online

Gender & otherness in pre-modern drama, literature & visual culture.

June 5

GOTH 1st Friday PGR Forum: Research Exchange

June 5, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00

In-person - The Open University, Milton Keynes campus

Further information will be posted closer to the date.

Past Events

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

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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).

GOTH Live Performance Event

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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

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

GOTH - 3rd Research Symposium

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Including the GOTH Board meeting.

GOTH Postgraduate Forum (1st Thursday)

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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.

GOTH Awayday

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

GOTH Postgraduate Forum (1st Thursday)

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

GOTH Writing Retreat

Details TBC

GOTH Committee Meeting

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

GOTH Reading Group

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