Dear Spenserians,
The program for the upcoming "Elizabeth I and Ireland" conference at U. Connecticut-Storrs is now on the web.
It has many historians presenting and includes the following papers with Spenserian and literary relevance on the Friday morning of the conference:
8:45 a.m. Opening Remarks: Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut
9:00-10:45 Panel 1. Reassessing Spenser’s Munster: Kingdom or Colony?
Eric Klingelhofer, Mercer University
The Tudor Village in Elizabethan Ireland: fact or fiction?
Jean R. Brink, Henry E. Huntington Library
Munster Land Disputes: Edmund Spenser and Lord Roche
Brian Lockey, St. John’s University
’Equitie to measure’: Conscience and Imperial Mimicry in Edmund Spenser’s
The Faerie Queene
Adam McKeown, Tulane University
John Harrington’s Journey Home
11:00-12:15 Panel 2. Colonials and Colonial Identity
Natalie Sweet, University of Kentucky
A Noble Instrument of Prince and Country: James FitzGerald, Elizabeth I,
And the Elizabethan Discourse Towards Degeneration
Karen Holland, Providence College
Elizabeth I and Joan FitzGerald, Countess of Desmond
Kim Draggoo, Boston College
Monarchical Mimicry: Colonization, National Identity and Shakespeare’s Henry V
12:15-2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00-3:15 Plenary Speaker
Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University
Elizabeth on Ireland
Sincerely, Thomas
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