The International Spenser Society is pleased to announce that the annual Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture for 2020 will be given by Professor William Oram on “What Happens in the Amoretti?”
The lecture will commence immediately following the annual business meeting of the International Spenser Society at the Modern Language Association Conference in Seattle, Washington. We would be pleased to welcome all dues paying members to attend. As a reminder, anyone interested may become a member by paying dues here. Please register for the luncheon via the Pay Pal link below by January 4, 2020.
Date and Time: Saturday January 11th from 12:00 – 2:00 pm.
Location: Blueacre Seafood restaurant at 1700 7th Ave. in Seattle WA 98101. We have secured a banquet lunch menu with vegetarian and gluten free options available. The cost is $35.50 per person and $25 for graduate students. It is a short 5-minute walk from the Washington State Convention Center, the main MLA hotel. The Society thanks Secretary Rachel Hile for her excellent work in securing this venue.
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| The 2020 Member Luncheon during the Seattle MLA Convention is at noon on 1/11/2020, Blueacre Seafood Restaurant 1700 7th Ave. in Seattle, WA 98101 (Google Map) |
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| 2020 MLA Member Luncheon, 1/11/2020, Blueacre Seafood Restaurant. | 35.50 USD | |
| 2020 MLA Member Luncheon, Grad Student, 1/11/2020, Blueacre Seafood Restaurant. | 25.00 USD | |
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79. Spenser and the Digital Humanities THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 3:30 PM-4:45 PM, 616 (WSCC)
Sponsoring Entity: International Spenser Society
Cosponsoring Entity: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
At the intersection between Spenser studies and the digital humanities, panelists present new developments: the forthcoming digital edition of Spenser’s Complete Works, novel
ways of visualizing and disseminating his texts, and more. What will the challenges and the opportunities of digitally inflected Spenser scholarship be in the future?
Respondents Tiffany Jo Werth (International Spenser Society)
Speakers
Anupam Basu (Washington U in St. Louis)
Craig Berry (independent scholar)
John Ladd (Northwestern U)
Joseph Foster Loewenstein (Washington U in St. Louis)
Presiding Tiffany Jo Werth (International Spenser Society)
Sponsoring Entity: International Spenser Society
For related material, visit MLA Commons after 20 Nov.
Presentations
1. Of Being Numerous: Monstrous Sexuality in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Joseph Campana (Rice U) [#10971]
2. Species of the Human: Spenser’s Salvage Man and the Racial Logic of Vulnerability, Jeffrey B. Griswold (U of Maryland, College Park) [#10973]
3. Disgust, Wonder, and the Perils of Strange Queenship in Spenser’s The Fairie Queene, Mira Kafantaris (Ohio State U, Columbus) [#10974]
Presiding
Kimberly Anne Coles (U of Maryland, College Park)
When: Friday,
January 10 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.
*Note that this time frame is scheduled so as to allow members to attend a number of important panels on race and early modern studies in the 5:15 - 6:30 slot.
Where: Blueacre Seafood, 1700 7th Ave, Seattle. https://blueacreseafood.com This
venue is about a five minute walk from the main conference hotel.
If you plan on attending, don’t dally; the crowds from the Milton Society are fond of taking advantage of the drink tickets and hors d’oeuvres.
The lecture will commence immediately following the annual business meeting of the International Spenser Society at the Modern Language Association Conference in Seattle, Washington. We would be pleased to welcome all dues paying members to attend. Please RSVP via the Pay Pal link below by January 4, 2020.
Date and Time: Saturday January 11th from 12:00 – 2:00 pm.
Location: Blueacre seafood restaurant (https://blueacreseafood.com) at 1700 7th Ave. in Seattle WA 9810. We have secured a banquet lunch menu with vegetarian and gluten free options available. The cost is $35.50 per person and $25 for graduate students. It is a short 5-minute walk from the Washington State Convention Center, the main MLA hotel. The Society thanks Secretary Rachel Hile for her excellent work in securing this venue.
Engaging with current trends in early modern ecocriticism and conceptions of the nonhuman, panelists explore how Edmund Spenser’s allegorical poetics can help broaden current conceptions
of anthropogenic environmental change. Spenser’s experiments in English poetics and in allegorical and narrative structures and his engagement with environments that are both symbolic and historical make his works especially ripe for ecocritical analysis.
Speakers
Joseph Campana (Rice U)
Brent Dawson (U of Oregon)
Dyani Johns Taff (Ithaca C)
William Rhodes Jr. (U of Pittsburgh)
Tiffany Jo Werth (U of California, Davis)
Alexander mcAdams (Rice U)
Presiding
Steve Mentz (St. John’s U, NY)
Panel 572, Saturday,
3:30-4:45pm, 620 WSCC. “Milton’s Unruly Environments,” chaired by John Rumrich (UT Austin), with the following papers: Tobias Menely (UC Davis), “The Climate of Allegory: Paradise Lost in
Geo-History”; Katherine Cox (U of Miami), “Climate Change and Milton’s Morally Outraged Environment”; Jason A. Kerr (BYU), “Reconsidering the Son in De doctrina Christiana”;
James C. Nohrnberg (UVa), “‘Yet Once More,’ Again: A Formula of Revolutionary and Reformist Rhetoric as Embedded in the Structures of Lycidas and Paradise
Lost.”
Panel 736, Sunday, noon-1:15pm, 620 WSCC. “Milton and Donne: Religion, Politics, Aesthetics,” co-sponsored by the John Donne Society and chaired by Brooke Conti (Cleveland State U), with the following papers: Kim Hedlin
(Newberry Library), “Milton’s and Donne’s Theodicies”; Jonathan Koch (Wash. U St. Louis), “The Limits of Religious Toleration in the Antihagiographic Writing of Donne and Milton”; Stephen Spencer (Grad Ctr, CUNY), “A Radical Joy: Pauline Affect and Religious
Politics in Donne and Milton”; and Steven Swarbrick (Baruch C, CUNY), “The God Trick; or, Poetry ex nihilo: Milton and Donne.”
312. John Donne in the Twenty-First Century 1:45 PM–3:00 PM Jan 10, 2020 WSCC - 611
Presider: Kimberly Johnson, BYU
1: ‘Compared with Me’: Four Nocturnals
Theresa Maria DiPasquale, Whitman C
2: ‘Metaphysical,’ ‘Meditative,’ and the Poetry of Donne and Ronald Johnson
Sean H. McDowell, Seattle U
3: From Donne to Busta Rhymes: Rebirth of the Baroque
Harold Aram Veeser, City C, City U of New York