Yale Center for British Art, Pennsylvania State University and the Spenser Society of America will host an interdisciplinary symposium on The Faerie Queene in the World, 1596-1996 on 27-28 September 1996. The organisers welcome papers on Spenser’s works and life, on violence and rebellion, on Reformation theology, on visual history and iconology, on the history of political thought, on the poem and the theatre, on architectural theory and rhetoric, on Spenser and continental, medieval or classical culture, on colonial law and legal institutions, on sexuality, on the Munster plantation, on allegory, on ecclesiastical controversy, on the colonial administrations of the 1580s and ‘90s, on iconoclasm, on intertextuality, imitation and poetic rivalry, on treatises about Ireland, on moral philosophy, on Spenser and the
twenty-first century. Plenary lectures by Leonard Barkan, Nicholas Canny, Andrew Hadfield and Willy Maley, Maureen Quilligan and Susanne Wofford will alternate with panels, workshops and a roundtable discussion.
One-page proposals to Elizabeth Fowler, Dept. of English, YaleUniversity, PO Box 208302, New Haven, CT 06520-8302; fax (203) 4327066;e-mail fowler@minerva.cis.yale.edu; by 30 September 1995.