CFP DEADLINE: 25 February 2024
EVENT: 4th Annual GOTH Symposium
DATE: Thursday 16 to Friday 17 May 2024
ORGANIZERS: The GOTH Committee
HOST: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Arts & Humanities
LOCATION: The Open University, Milton Keynes (live, on campus event)
THEME: Gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture, II.
KEYNOTE (and guest co-organizer): Professor Dr Birgit Ulrike Münch (Art History, University of Bonn)
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 20-minute papers focusing on any aspects of gender and otherness in pre- modern drama, literature and visual culture, with particular emphasis on:
1. Gender and/or otherness in pre-1800 images of drama and literature, with topics including but not limited to:
• images relating to theatre, drama or festival culture
• the anti-hero: Don Quixote and Hudibras in book illustrations or elsewhere
• any aspect of William Hogarth or of the Littlecote House murals (on the Littlecote House murals, see https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/143837).
2. Race, disability and/or otherness in early modern theatre, with topics including but not limited to:
• depictions of otherness in dramatic writing and staging practices
• historical receptions of race and disability
• the significance of gender in representations of race and disability
3. Global Otherness and Dependency in the visual arts, with topics including but not limited to:
• early modern images of slavery and dependency and their interaction with drama
• Virtual global perspectives on Race, Dis/Ability and Illness
• Global Heritage, Collections and Otherness (such as: current curatorial approaches, coping with trauma, memorials)
Please submit your proposal (300 words max) and academic bio (150 words max) on or before 25 February 2024, to m.a.katritzky@open.ac.uk & FASS-GOTH-Admin@open.ac.uk. All presenters who participate in the full two days of the symposium will be provided with 1 night of paid accommodation. If you wish to be considered for a travel bursary, please include a brief statement explaining what sum is required and why. Inquiries on any aspect of the symposium can be emailed to FASS-GOTH-Admin@open.ac.uk. Further information on the event and registration is being posted on the GOTH website as it becomes available: http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/goth