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Events

Mar 14

3rd GOTH Writing Retreat

Friday, March 14, 2025 - to

OU Libary (Room SR6), Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA

All welcome, any writing project welcome.

Apr 10

3rd GOTH Awayday

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - to

Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney St, Bathwick, Bath BA2 4DB

Persephone Books, Mary Shelley's House of Frankenstein, Jane Austen Centre. All welcome, limited capacity, booking via leads: Kim Pratt, Antonia Saunders, Debbie Parker-Kinch.

May 15/16

5th GOTH Annual Symposium

Thursday, May 15, 2025 - to Friday, May 16, 2025 -

Hybrid; Online (via Microsoft Teams) and In Person (Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA)

The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for two days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presentations focusing on any aspects of gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama, literature and visual culture.

Past Events

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

9th November 2023

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

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.

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.

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’.