The International Spenser Society are pleased to announce that the next international Spenser conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland in May and/or June 2015. The theme is 'Spenser's Places/The Place of Spenser', and a call for papers will be issued in early 2014. A note for your diary!

David Lee Miller gave the inaugural lecture in the Marshall Grossman Lectures Series entitled, “Three Things I’ve Learned from Editing Spenser” at the University of Maryland, September 20, 2102.

On September 25, 2012, The British Academy hosted the event “The Relevance of Edmund Spenser” (in association with Oxford University Press) to promote discussion after the recent publication of Andrew Hadfield’s Edmund Spenser: A Life in order to re-evaluate Spenser’s reputation.  Colin Burrow, Andrew Hadfield, Simon Jarvis, and Anne Lake Prescott spoke.  Audio recordings of the proceedings are now available.

The 2012 Sixteenth Century Society Conference, held in Cincinnati October 25-28, hosted a number of Spenser-related panels and individual papers in addition to the Spenser Roundtable.  Panels included: “Edmund Spenser: Modern Perspectives,” “Renaissance Eroticism II, Biblical Texts and English Renaissance Literature,” “Edmund Spenser and the Question of Genre,” “Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene,” “Marriage and the Maternal in Edmund Spenser’s Poetry,” “Sir Philip Sidney and his Contemporaries,” and “Aspects of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.”

Rebeca Helfer's new book Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection (University of Toronto Press, 2012) explores the importance of the art of memory to Spenser's theory and practice of poetics throughout his career.

There will be three sessions on Spenser at the 48^th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan), May 9-12, 2013.

The conference “Psalm culture and the politics of translation” will be held on July 15-17, 2013, Queen Mary, London (Charterhouse Square Campus).

The University of Bristol will host “Dan Geffrey with the New Poete: Reading and Rereading Chaucer and Spenser” from July 11-13, 2014.  Professor Judith Anderson, Indiana University, Bloomington, is the confirmed plenary speaker.