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Dear all, For those of you based in the UK or Ireland, and those of you who may be visiting us at or around that time, you might like to join us on the 1st of May 2004 for the second meeting of the British and Irish Spenser Seminar (for details see announcement below). We will be welcoming proposals for papers until mid-March, so please contribute if you can, or send us your colleagues, students, and friends. We had a very friendly and stimulating meeting last year, and this one is shaping up to be even more fun. Please feel free to write to me with any questions. Thanks, Andrew Zurcher wearing other hat BRITISH AND IRISH SPENSER SEMINAR Convened by Colin Burrow, Andrew Hadfield, and Patricia Coughlan Announcement and Call for Papers The second annual British and Irish Spenser Seminar will meet on Saturday 1st May, 2004 at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK. The convenors of the Seminar hope to gather and focus the energies of students and scholars of Edmund Spenser from throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. In addition to two invited papers, the Seminar will include two open sessions, proposals for which are now welcome. Thirty-minute papers may be proposed on any topic relating to Spenser, his works, his period, or the works of his close contemporaries. In 2004, the Seminar will take an especial interest in 'Spenser and the Philosophers', and proposals on this broad theme, construed broadly, will be particularly welcome. The Seminar is also committed to supporting the work of younger scholars, who are particularly encouraged to apply. The closing date for receipt of proposals will be Friday 13th March 2004. The invited speakers for this year's seminar are Gordon Teskey (Harvard University), author of Allegory and Violence, and Anthony Nuttall (New College, Oxford), author of the recent studies Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure? (Oxford, 1996) and Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake (Oxford, 1998). Participants in the Seminar will be welcomed to morning coffee and afternoon tea at Gonville and Caius, and will be swept off to a convivial lunch. Affordable accommodation can be arranged around Cambridge. Participants in 2004 will become annual members of the Seminar, and may elect to receive future correspondence and announcements relating to the Seminar's activities. The registration fee for 2004 will be £10 for the waged and £5 for the raskall crew. Please send registration requests and proposals (no more than 500 words) to the Seminar organizer, Andrew Zurcher, either by email ([log in to unmask]) or by post (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge CB2 1TA United Kingdom), before the closing date of 13th March 2004. All other enquiries should be directed to Andrew via email or by telephone at +44 (0)1223 335 427. Please see the Seminar's website, http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/biss.html, for further information and announcements.