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Fashioning a gentleman or noble person, one morall vertue at a time
Spenser@Random in just a few minutes!

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Our next Spenser@Random is this Thursday! 12pm EST/5pm GMT

Join us for bibliomantic adventures as we spin the digital wheel of destiny and are led by the cyberfates to a randomly selected stanza from The Faerie Queene.

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November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Our next Spenser@Random is this Thursday! 12pm EST/5pm GMT

Join us for bibliomantic adventures as we spin the digital wheel of destiny and are led by the cyberfates to a randomly selected stanza from The Faerie Queene.

No registration needed; click to join: cam.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
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November 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Today!
Our next Spenser@Random is TOMORROW! 12pm EDT/5pm BST.

We'll be Colin Clout-chasing as we read a random stanza from The Shepheardes Calender. Everyone is welcome, including livestock.

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Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
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September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Our next Spenser@Random is TOMORROW! 12pm EDT/5pm BST.

We'll be Colin Clout-chasing as we read a random stanza from The Shepheardes Calender. Everyone is welcome, including livestock.

Join here: cam.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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CFP: ISS-Sponsored Panels at RSA 2026

We're accepting abstracts for:

🤣 Funny Spenser (roundtable)
🚚 Spenserian Translation (panel)
🎭 Spenserian Genres (panel)

Deadline has been *extended* to July 31. Links to CFPs below!
July 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
CFP: ISS-Sponsored Panels at RSA 2026

We're accepting abstracts for:

🤣 Funny Spenser (roundtable)
🚚 Spenserian Translation (panel)
🎭 Spenserian Genres (panel)

Deadline has been *extended* to July 31. Links to CFPs below!
July 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
We sadly need to cancel today’s Spenser@Random. Apologies to all who have registered, and we hope to reconvene randomly soon!
June 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Spenser@Random returns tomorrow! Thursday, June 26, at 12pm EDT/5pm BST. Join us as we spin the digital wheel of destiny and are led by the cyberfates to a randomly selected section from The Shepheardes Calendar!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Spenser at Random June 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Spenser at Random June 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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June 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Registration link for THE OCCASION OF THE MACLEAN now live!

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April 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🚨🚨🚨 ATTENTION: starting soon! 🚨🚨🚨
Join us on April 24 for a lively discussion of how teaching Spenser can solve the crisis of attention in the classroom! Or at least distract us from other crises. Register here: binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
SPENSER IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION, our Inclusive Pedagogy Initiative event, is tomorrow! Register here: binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Happy St. George’s Day!
April 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Seize the occasion and catch up on episodes of OCCASION OF THE SEASON here: occasionoftheseason.substack.com/podcast
April 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
SAVE THE DATE! 
ISS AGM / Maclean Event
Wednesday 21 May, 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm BST

Join us to celebrate a year of The Shepheardes Calender Podcast, hosted by Kat Addis.

Featuring producers & poets from behind the scenes, as well as a few friends of the pod.

Registration link coming soon!
April 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Join us on April 24 for a lively discussion of how teaching Spenser can solve the crisis of attention in the classroom! Or at least distract us from other crises. Register here: binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine,
April 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Thanks to all who attended our most recent Spenser@Random, where we read this stanza from Book 4, Canto 8, which offers the cure for male loneliness: find a friend who looks just like you and is easily confused with you, physically and also grammatically.
April 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGENDE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE RED CROSSE, OR OF HOLINESSE.
April 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Thanks to all who came to Spenser@Random yesterday, where the wheel of fortune fell on this stanza from Book 6. We had wonderful discussions about crying babies, space and time, sight and sound, epic and tragedy, and at last, at length, we realized there is always more to say about Spenser.
February 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Not too late to register for Spenser@Random TODAY @ 12pm EST/5pm GMT! Join us as we read a randomly selected stanza from The Faerie Queene.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: February Spenser @ Random. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: February Spenser @ Random. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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February 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The @spensersociety.bsky.social has a new website!: www.spensersociety.org
Take a look for all things Spenser, including the Spenser Review.
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February 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Guess the seminar from the whiteboard challenge.
January 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
International Spenser Society invites abstracts for a session on Spenser and catastrophe at MLA 2026 in Toronto. Come catastrophize with us! mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...
January 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Thanks to all who came to Spenser@Random with @saaupdates.bsky.social to discuss our randomly selected sonnets by Spenser and Shakespeare! Shakespeare's no-nonsense family planning sonnet is especially funny next to Spenser's exaggerated Petrarchan stylings and "sudden dumps"
January 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM