Gender in the Humanities

Events

GITH Re-launch
‘Knitting and Stitching’ A half-day interdisciplinary seminar
17 October at 1.30pm, Arts Faculty, Meeting Room 11

GITH (Gender in the Humanities Research Group) celebrates its re-launch on Wednesday, 17 October with a half day Interdisciplinary  research seminar exploring the themes of knitting and stitching as forms of social, cultural, aesthetic and historical practice/s.

Yarnbus in Mexico by Magda Sayeg
(cc) CarlaGates247 on Flickr

The keynote speaker is Claudia Eckert from Design in the Technology Faculty and her title is ‘Knitwear Design as a Process in a Global Industry’. Other papers include:

• Peg Katritzky: ‘The Oxburgh Hangings: Mary Queen of Scots' "Great Munkey" and Conrad Gesner's "Cercopithecus"’
• Emma Barker: ‘Chardin and the Domestic Woman’
• Gill Perry: ‘All Stitched Up: Tracey Emin’s Stitchings’
• Helen King: 'Knit your own body parts: visual representations of female organs'
• Clare Taylor: ‘Opposites attract? Stitch and paper’
• Anne Laurence: ‘Knitting, woman and industrial mechanisation’

Led by Helen King, Anne Laurence and Gill Perry.

Please email Shirley Parsons (S.A.Parsons) if you would like to attend the seminar.

Convenors: Anne Laurence e.a.laurence@open.ac.uk; Gill Perry g.perry@open.ac.uk

Previous events

See the archive section of this website for more information about events already held by the group.