Dear Colleagues,
A reminder that abstracts for the International Spenser Society conference in Dublin Castle are due in approximately one week, by September 15.
Please submit individual abstracts through the conference website, www.Spenser2015.com
The form is set up for individual abstracts. You can submit an abstract for a regular paper or for a "poster", which is for posterboard-style presentations that will stand unaccompanied in the conference lobby during the duration of the conference (these "poster" set-ups can include secured laptops and/or other digital equipment of your choice, at your own expense/risk; these are for presenting digital projects). If you have a particular panel that you are organizing and/or would like to be on, please indicate that at the top or bottom of your abstract (including panel organizer name, if known). Please make sure also that you give your institutional affiliation.
If you have trouble with the process, please e-mail either Jane Grogan or Thomas Herron and we will do our best to help you.
Highlights of the conference include:
1) three plenaries and various "focus" panels
2) open receptions on Thursday and Friday nights (June 18 and 19) and an optional conference dinner on Friday night in Smock Alley Theatre, downtown Dublin
3) "masterclass" in Irish poetry, taught by Dr. Marc Caball in the Royal Irish Academy on Thursday afternoon
4) optional choral concert on Saturday evening (tentatively scheduled)
5) tour of the medieval undercroft of Dublin Castle
6) optional day tour of Kilcolman and other Spenser-related sites on Sunday, June 21
Conference dues (without optional dinner, concert and tours) are estimated to be between 120-140 euros.
For conferees arriving early, please note that Bloomsday and all of its associated festivities occurs on June 16, and that optional accompanied tours of local sites (such as Maynooth, Rathfarnham and/or Drimnagh Castles... Drimnagh was a setting for "The Tudors") may be organized on the Wednesday, June 17, depending on interest.
We look forward to seeing you.
Sincerely, the Organizing Committee
Jane Grogan (UCD)
Andrew King (UCC)
Thomas Herron (ECU)
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