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From:  Tom Herron <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To:  Sidney-Spenser Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject:  Carey as Plenary QE I
Date:  Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:29:29 -0400
>Hi Don -- I managed to contact Vincent Carey and he is very interested indeed in
>becoming a plenary speaker for the QEI society in Houston -- he is willing to do
>without honorarium or airfare expenses, but he would like to have his hotel room
>paid for (and I presume he won't have to pay conference registration fees?).  He will
>be blowing his entire year's travel budget simply on getting to Houston... the paper
>he will give was originally scheduled for a conference in England on "Queen
>Elizabeth and terrorism" but he is cancelling that and willing to give it to us
>instead.  His proposed title:
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>"The Theory and Practice of State Terror:  Elizabeth and the Elizabethans in
>Ireland."
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>He's willing to adjust the title slightly, esp. to remove the word "terror", if you feel
>it inappropriate somehow.
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>What do you say?  Can the QE I society or SCRC spring for his hotel for 2 nights?
>I would love to seem him there.  He is extremely dynamic and a solid scholar with
>many good publications and connections.  I would auction off my left foot to hear
>him in Houston.
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>I am also organizing another panel on Irish issues and will bring in Spenserian
>Judith Owens and Tom Finan (archaeologist) and Valerie McGowan-Doyle
>(historian) for that.  Also, the panel I'm organizing on "Literature and Materialism"
>will have Heather Dubrow and me and I dunno yet.  Maybe Jean Brink?  You?
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>Best wishes, Thomas
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