Re-Viewing Edmund Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland: a symposium

Tuesday, May 15, morning

10am:  Visit to Cleveland Museum of Art (on your own)

11am-Noon:  Private viewing of English renaissance portrait miniatures with CMA staff

Noon:  Lunch.  CMA café (on your own)

Tuesday, May 15, afternoon

1-2pm: Opening Lecture
Thwing 101, Case Western Reserve University

Welcome:  John Orlock, Director, Writers House, CWRU

Introduction:  Maryclaire Moroney, John Carroll University

What We Don't Know about the View and Who Its Audience Wasn't
Jean R. Brink, Huntington Library

2-2:15pm:  Break

2:15-4:30pm:  Panel 1 — Old and New Contexts
Presider: Bridgette Slavin, Medaille College

Historians Interpret A View of the Present State of Ireland: the Canny/Brady Debate and the Problem of Context
William Palmer, Marshall University

Rents, Garrisons, Planted Plowlands: Stasis Theory and A View
Karen Nelson, University of Maryland

--10 min Break--

Spenser's View and the Production of Political Knowledge in Elizabethan England
Nicholas Popper, College of William and Mary

4:30-5pm:  Break

Tuesday, May 15, evening

5-6pm:  Plenary Lecture
Clark Hall 309, CWRU

Introduction: Valerie McGowan-Doyle, LCCC/Kent State University

The excuses of Artegall: exploring Lord Deputy Grey’s Declaration of Irish Service of 1582
David Edwards, University College Cork

6-7pm:  Reception

7-8pm:  Poetry Reading:  Mr Trevor Joyce
Clark Hall 309, CWRU

8pm:  Dinner (on your own)

Wednesday, May 16, morning
Thwing 101, Case Western Reserve University

9-10:15am:  Panel 2 — Milk and Blood
Presider: John Soderberg, Denison University

“To make . . . one kynred and blood of all people”: Spenser and the Colonial Milieu of Ireland
Jean E. Feerick, John Carroll University

The Virtues of Irish Milk: A Reconsideration of the Wetnurse in A View
Katarzyna Lecky, Bucknell University

10:15-10:30am:  Break

10:30-12:15pm: Panel 3 — Peaceful Structures
Presider: Hannibal Hamlin, Ohio State University

Comma chameleon: centralized authority in Spenser’s later poetry and the View
Thomas Herron, East Carolina University

Peace in Spenser's View
Maggie Vinter, CWRU

12:15-1:30pm:  Lunch (on your own)

Wednesday, May 16, afternoon
Thwing 101, Case Western Reserve University

1:30-2:45pm: Panel 4 — Shifting Perspectives
Presider: Susan Oldrieve, Baldwin-Wallace College

Genius of the Soyle
Benjamin Moran, The Ohio State University

Spenser's View of the Present State of England
Denna Iammarino, CWRU

2:45-3pm:  Break

3-4:15: Panel 5 — Legacy and Historiography
Presider: Kevin O'Sullivan, Texas A&M University

Re-viewing early modern letters and policy: Spenser, Ware and the politics of historiography
Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut

“A destructive plattforme laid for the utter subversion of this kingdome”: Gaelic and Gaelicized Irish responses to Spenser’s View in the 1630s
Peter McQuillan, University of Notre Dame

4:15-4:30pm:  Break

4:30-5pm:  Round-Table:  Closing Remarks
Moderator:  Elizabeth Fowler, University of Virginia

6-8pm: Dinner

Banner Illustration: detail from Richard Bartlett, Plan of Monaghan Fort, Ulster, c. 1602

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