> Dear Spenser-Sidney people--this from Scott Lucas, who hasn't quite
> won his struggle to make his computer access our list. With my
> other hat (SCSC President this year) on I'd add that the Geneva
> conference plans are shaping up nicely and it would be wonderful to
> have some more Spenser and Sidney on the program. After all, Geneva
> isn't as stern as it was in the 16th century--and we can further
> lighten it up. Note also Scott's PS on the conference in St. Louis.
> See lots of you there! Anne Prescott
>
>
> From Scott:
> Dear Spenserians,
>
> For the past ten years, the Spenser Roundtable has been a popular
> fixture at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference, a Conference
> whose
> president, as I'm sure we all know, is our own Anne Lake Prescott.
>
> Each year, the Spenser Roundtable brings together four or five
> Spenserians to present brief (10 minute) papers handling some aspect
> of
> a topic relevant to the study of Spenser. After
> their presentations, the speakers then join with each other and with
> the
> audience as a whole in a free-flowing discussion of both the papers
> presented and of the current state of critical thinking about the
> topic
> at hand. The Roundtable usually aims to bring together for the panel
> both established scholars and new, up-and-coming students of Spenser.
>
> SCSC 2009 will be held earlier than usual next year, on May 28-30 in
> Geneva, Switzerland. SCSC has moved the traditional date of the
> conference to May so that it might immediately follow Geneva's
> enormous
> "Calvin and His Influence" conference.
>
> To tie in with Geneva's celebration of all things Reformist in May,
> the
> topic of next year's Spenser Roundtable will be "Spenser and the
> Reformation." We are interpreting the topic broadly to include any
> consideration of
> Spenser's engagement with Protestantism and/or Catholicism, his use of
> religious imagery or ideas in his poetry, the influence of religious
> thought on his writings, the impact of Reformation history and culture
> on his work, or Protestant and Catholic responses to Spenser's
> writings.
>
> The organizer of the Spenser Roundtable, Scott Lucas, welcomes brief
> (about 100 words or so) abstracts of papers touching on some aspect of
> the topic Spenser and the Reformation. You can send your abstract
> as an
> email
> attachment to me at [log in to unmask], by fax to 843-953-1881,
> or
> by traditional mail to the address printed below. If you would like
> further information, please feel free to drop me a line at the email
> address above. The deadline for abstracts is November 2, 2008.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
> P.S. I invite you all to join us for the 2008 Spenser Roundtable,
> Friday, October 24, at 3:30PM, at the SCSC conference in St. Louis.
> The
> topic of the 2008 Roundtable is "Spenser and Genre," and it is just
> one
> of *seven* exciting Spenser panels SCSC has put together for the 2008
> conference! The conference promises to be a great meeting of
> Spenserian
> minds. For the SCSC 2008 program, just go to
> www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference.shtml .
>
>
> Scott Lucas
> Associate Professor
> Department of English
> The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
> Charleston, South Carolina 29409
> USA
>
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