Location: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Please register for online attendance via Eventbrite.
Symposium organizers – GOTH Committee:
- Dr M A Katritzky – Director, GOTH & Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies
- Dr Christine Plastow – GOTH Web and Media Manager & Lecturer in Classical Studies
- Dr Molly Ziegler – Lecturer in Drama and Performance Studies, Department of English & Creative Writing
- Dr Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde – Lecturer and Head of French, WELS
- Guest Co-Organizer: Prof. Dr. Birgit Ulrike Münch, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- Event Support: Dr Sally Blackburn-Daniels, The Open University & University of Teeside (FASS-GOTH-Admin@open.ac.uk)
Day 1 Thursday 18 May 2023
9:30-10:00 Registration & coffee
10:00-10:30 Welcome and Introduction to the 3rd GOTH Symposium: M.A. Katritzky (Director, GOTH & Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies, OU) & Birgit Münch (Professor of Art History, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Panel 1: 10:30-12:00 POSTGRADUATE LIGHTNING PANEL (Chair: Christine Plastow)
10:30-10:45 Chair’s Introduction; Report of the convenors of the OU’s monthly GOTH PG Forum (Kim Pratt & Antonia Saunders) on the Forum’s activities and their doctoral research.
10.45-11.45 5-minute PGR lightning presentations:
Members of the OU GOTH PG Forum:
- Kim Pratt, When is the Self not the Self?: When it’s the Other.
- Antonia Saunders, Jewish Women and English Women in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
- Rochelle Mallet, Gender in early childhood education.
- Lucy Morgan, Single men and manhood in early modern England
- Sarah Bower, The Family: The Nuclear Option? Daughters in the 1780s and the 1960s
- Gwyneth Jones, 1816, Fanny Imlay travels to Swansea
External guest speakers:
- Deirdre Parkes, Mothers and Others: Intersecting identities and otherness in a modern performance reception of the Medea myth.
- Johanna Johnen, Female ‘otherness’ in depictions of Illness in the 17th and 18th century
11.45-12.00 Q&A
12:00-13:00 Lunch (provided)
13:00-14:00 Committee & Board Meeting (Board, Committee & PG convenors only) Chair: M A Katritzky
Panel 2: 14:00-15:30 Performed otherness I (Chairs: Christine Plastow & Molly Ziegler)
- Tobias Kämpf, Queer Pictures in a Straight Frame: The Ovidian Narrative of Jupiter and Calisto in Early Modern Art
- Kathrin Wagner, (Homo)eroticism in visual translations of Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander (1593)
- Hannah Brumby, ‘Faints Aeneas to remember Troy, in whose defence he fought so valiantly?’: Aeneas’s Diminishing Masculinity in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage.
15:30-16:00 Tea & coffee
16:00-17:30 Performed otherness II (Chairs: Christine Plastow & Molly Ziegler)
- Cat Stiles, Queer Creatures: The Sexual Embodiment of Monstrosity in Early Modern Literature
- Irini Picolou, Gender and Exceptionality in Early Modern Spain: La barbuda de Peñaranda by Juan Sánchez Cotán and La mujer barbuda by Jusepe de Ribera
18:30 Conference dinner (cost & details TBC to delegates)
Day 2 Friday 19 May 2023
Panel 3: 10:00-11:15 Collectible otherness, 1500-1800, I (Chairs: M A Katritzky & Birgit Münch)
- Charlotte Colding Smith, Giants’ Teeth, Dwarf Embroidery, and Saints’ Ribs: Collectable ‘Otherness’ in Churches and Wunderkammern between 1500 and 1800
- Marina Vidas, Otherness, Gender, and Race: Portraits of African Children at the Danish Court, 1550-1700
11:15-11:45 Tea & coffee
11:45-13:00 Collectible otherness, 1500-1800, II (Chairs: M A Katritzky & Birgit Münch)
- Hannah-Louisa Hochbaum, The domesticated monster: the early modern perception of (court) ’dwarfs’ in context of European exoticism
- Michelle Moseley, Visualizing Large Primates as “Other” in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Curiosity Culture
13:00-14:30 Lunch (provided)
Panel 4: 14:30-16:00 Closing discussion: panels & publication (Chairs: M A Katritzky, Birgit Münch, Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde, Molly Ziegler)
16:00-16:15 Closing Remarks (Christine Plastow & Molly Ziegler)