IMS10: The New Schedule

Aoyama Gakuin
The IMS10 is now rescheduled to take place at Aoyama Gakuin University from Monday, August 20th to Friday, August 24th, 2012. (Please feel free to print out our new poster.)

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We are delighted to report that the cultural programme, planned for August 2011, will now take place in association with the 2012 symposium.

And that, of course, is excellent news.

All papers accepted during last year's call for papers will be automatically included in the 2012 programme.

*Please note: We should be grateful if you would advise us if you no longer wish to deliver a paper that was accepted for the original program.

We can be contacted at ims10japan(at)gmail(dot)com.

Once again, we thank all of you for your patience and encouragement.

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The IMS10: Japan

The IMS9 held in London was special because it celebrated the quatercentenary of Milton's birth and because it also led participants to his home turf.

Also the London conference demonstrated how expansive Milton's influence is, not only in his homeland, but across the world.

Milton's influence is universal, and Milton scholarship has never been more multicultural and multinational than it is now.

In order to celebrate Milton's far-reaching influence, the IMS10 will be held in Tokyo, Japan.


Tokyo is a superb location for exploring Milton's cultural and global influences. By name, Tokyo also collaborates the symposium with Milton's poetic vision. When translated from its Japanese characters, Tokyo means "eastern capital," allowing a resonant pairing of Milton's eastern garden with Tokyo and also with Japan.

Participants in the IMS10 will therefore travel east, and well beyond Milton's England, to explore Milton's far-reaching global and cultural legacy.

To supplement this eastern theme, the conference will feature two highly engaging cultural events. The poet, Mutsuo Takahashi, will adapt Samson Agonistes to the Noh style. There will also be a concert by mezzo-soprano, Mutsumi Hatano, and lute-player, Takashi Tsunoda, with a performance of Milton’s poems byTimothy Harris, actor and director.

Just beyond the gates of Aoyama Gakuin University, there are also a number of world-class museums and galleries in the area. Tokyo itself is a vibrant metropolitan city. In 1603, coincidentally in the same year the Stuart dynasty ascended, the Tokugawa Shogunate moved the capital from Kyoto to Edo, now called Tokyo, and started their rule to continue until 1868.

There will be planned visits to places where some vestiges of the Edo period remain so that participants may imagine what life was like for Milton’s contemporaries in old Japan. Also, participants can easily visit museums and galleries on their own. In sum, the IMS10 will offer a superb forum for scholarly exploration and an exciting venue for cultural exchange.

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IMS10 Plenary Speakers

Reading Milton in Japan
Akira Arai
Seigakuin University
The Oxford Milton: Rethinking the Life and the Text
Gordon Campbell 
University of Leicester
Milton and the Politics of Jesus: From Regicide to Restoration
John Coffey 
University of Leicester 
Milton's Global Reach
Thomas Corns
Bangor University
"Lodge and Dislodge by Turns": Rethinking the Milton Controversy
John Leonard  
University of Western Ontario 
Milton: The Muse, the Spirit, the Prophets, and Prophetic Poetry
Barbara Lewalski 
Harvard University 
The Ecocritical Milton
Leah Marcus
Vanderbilt University
Portrait of the Artist as a Young ?
Debora Shuger 
University of California, Los Angeles

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IMS10: List of Speakers and Titles

The following list includes general speakers and titles for the IMS10. (If you did not access this page directly, click "Read more" to view the complete list).

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'All that follows to p.50 very indifferent': Richard Hurd Reads Milton, 1751-1800
-Hugh Adlington, University of Birmingham

Is Capitalism a Satanic System?: Satan's Confession in Paradise Lost and the Spirit of Capitalism
-Daisuke Arie, Yokohama National University

When Muslims Read Milton: Paradise Lost and a Religious Shock
-Mahe Nau Awan, University of Surrey

"For Smiles from Reason Flow": The Decorum of Smiling and Laughter in Milton's Poetry
-Stephen Barker, University of South Carolina

Milton and Lafcadio Hearn
-Joan Blythe, University of Kentucky

“His Foot-step Trace”: the Natural Theology of Paradise Lost
-Katherine Calloway, University of British Columbia

Ceremony in Milton's Samson Agonistes and Spinoza's
Theological-Political Treatise
-Karen Clausen-Brown, University of Notre Dame

Paradise Regained: Biblical Harmony and Narrative Dissonance
-Michael Cop, University of Otago

Milton's Anti-Popery and Recent Studies in Early Modern English Catholicism
-Ronald Corthell, Purdue University Calumet

Paradise Redacted: Milton and Methodist Education
-Thomas Dabbs, Aoyama Gakuin University

Paradise Lost and the Shakespearean Rhetoric of Wonder
-Martin Dawes, University of Toronto

Milton, Sir Henry Vane the Younger, and the Toleration of Catholics
-Martin Dzelzainis, University of Leicester

Milton and the Spanish Catholic Church
-Angelica Duran, Purdue University

Polemics and Toleration: a Decorum of Engagement in Brief Notes
-Karen Edwards, University of Exeter

When I Consider How Light Is Sent in Paradise Lost
-Katsuhiro Engetsu, Doshisha University

Milton's Paradise Lost and the Everyday
-Sarah Entwistle, University of Otago

Milton's Reasonable Vision of God and the Spenserian Tradition
-Matthew Evans-Cockle, University of British Columbia

Living Matter in John Milton and Isaac Newton
-Steve Fallon, University of Notre Dame

Voicings of Dominion in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Toni
Morrison's A Mercy
-Bill Fitzhenry, California Polytechnic State University

Masking Tensions: Homeric Comus Revised as Biblical Lady
-Noam Flinker, University of Haifa

Milton's Bible
-Thomas Fulton, Rutgers University

Edward King and England's Wolfish Institutions: Concealed Satire in Lycidas
-Michael Gadaleto, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Comus and the Trial of Liturgy
-David Gay, University of Alberta

Harbinger of Hermeneutics: Performances of Samson Agonistes in the 20th and 21st Centuries
-Bill Goldstein, Hunter College, City University of New York

“Life to him would be death to me”: The Romantic Struggle against the Miltonic Legacy in John Keats’s Hyperion
-Mie Gotoh, Fukuoka University of Education

Discipline in Paradise
-Kenneth Graham, University of Waterloo

“Joy and harmles pastime”: Milton’s Rehabilitation of Otium
-Mandy Green, University of Durham

Milton and Cromwell: Another Look at the Evidence
-Tobias B. Gregory, Catholic University of America

"Me thou think'st not slow": Contemporaneous Time in Paradise Lost
-Blaine Greteman, University of Iowa

Editing De Doctrina Christiana from the Manuscript, 2012
-John Hale, University of Otago

Property in Paradise?: The Problem of Labour in Milton and Locke
-Taihei Hanada, Takushoku University

Milton in China, 1837-1911
-Tianhu Hao, Peking University

Critical Mass: The Influence of Addison on Bentley
-David A. Harper, University of Texas

To Read Milton's Work Through Japanese Sensibility
-Rie Hase, Tohoku University, Tokyo

The Reception of Samson Agonistes in Coleridge
-Takehiro Hashimoto, Kanto Gakuin University

Usury and Custom in Milton's Thought
-David Hawkes, Arizona State University

Retributive and Restorative Justice in Paradise Lost
-Sarah Higinbotham, Georgia State University

Dread in Paradise Lost
-Ken Hiltner, University of California, Santa Barbara

Milton’s ‘Awkward’ Grecism: “know” with Nominative Participle
-Horace Jeffery Hodges, Ewha Womans University, Seoul

Milton in Arabic: Transforming Paradise Lost for the Arab-Muslim Reader
-Islam Issa, University of Birmingham

Pursuing the Riddle of the Godhead: The Influence of Paradise Lost on Sri Aurobino's Savitri
-Rama Janamanchi, Oklahoma State University

"Signs to be Read": Literature and the People in Eikonoklastes
-Hugh Jenkins, Union College

John Milton and the Hearth Tax: New Records and New Possibilities
-Edward Jones, Oklahoma State University

Milton's Ideal Place in Arcades, Epitaphium Damonis and the Garden of Eden
-Yae Kanasaki, Kinki University

Is "a Spirit" Incorporeal or Corporeal?: The Materiality of God in Paradise Lost
-Kazunori Kawasaki, Nihon University

Is Milton a Pacifist?
-Nobuhiro Kawashima, Osaka Gakuin University

Placing the Presbyter: Milton and Marvell
-Margaret Kean, University of Oxford

Milton's Contra-pair Sonnets: "To the Lord General Cromwell" and "To Sir Henry Vane the Younger"
-Nanami Kobayashi, Doshisha University

"For change delectable": Mutability and Change in Milton's Paradise Lost
-Larisa Kocic-Zambo, University of Szeged

"The Clouded Ruins of a God" or: Why Milton's Satan
Became a Romantic Hero
-Evan Labuzetta, Independent Scholar

"Pardon may be found in time besought:" Two Time Structures of the Mind in Paradise Lost and McTaggart's Theory of Time
-Ayelet Langer, University of London, School of Advanced Studies

Lexical Choice in John Milton's Artis Logicae Plenior Institutio (1672)
-Jameela Lares, The University of Southern Mississippi

A Study of Typology in Milton's "Nativity Ode"
-Byung-Eun Lee, Hansung University, Seoul

Milton, Polygamy, and the Orient
-Walter Swee Huat Lim, National University of Singapore

Milton's Garden and the Language of Georgic
-Seth Lobis, Claremont McKenna College

Comus and English Nationhood
-David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"How Human Life Began": Human Reproduction in Paradise Lost
-Thomas Luxon, Dartmouth College

John Milton in Brazil: a Study of Azevedo, Assis, and Ramos
-Miriam Mansur, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

The Baroque Body and Milton's Lady
-Talya Meyers, Stanford University

Godly Republicanism in Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes
-Feisal G. Mohamed, University of Illinois

Fame and Exile: Ovid's Tristia in Milton's Poems
-Michiko Mori, Otemae University

"He also saw rich Mexico": Translating Milton's Political Prose in(to) the Seat of Montezuma
-Mario Murgia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Is Milton's Eden Truly a "Natural" Garden? --From the Viewpoint of the Japanese Concept of Shizen
-Osamu Nakayama, Reitaku University

"Paradise within": Religion and Politics in the Works of Milton and Herbert
-Fahimeh Naseri, University of Newcastle

What Happens When I Consider?: Events and Potential in Milton's Sonnets
-Ryan Netzley, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Restoring the Poetics of Transcendence: Tadao Yanaihara's Lectures on Paradise Lost
-Kensei Nishikawa, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies

Shitsurakuen-monogatari (The Story of Paradise Lost) and Paradise Lost
-Yuko Noro, Nihon University

(Mis)reading Milton: Influence and Contemporary Fiction
-Mayra H. A. Olalquiaga, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Two Nineteenth-Century Forgeries of a Paradise Lost Title-Page
-Jonathan Olson, University of Liverpool

What's in a Kiss: Milton's Psychology and Politics
-Antonella Piazza, University of Salerno

Paradise Founded: Milton and Wesleyan Education in Japan
-Wayne Pounds, Aoyama Gakuin University

Naked, Writhing Flesh: Exposure and the Problem of Theatrical Recursion
-Brendan Prawdzik, University of California, Berkeley

"The Law I Gave to Nature": The Aporetic Proclamation of Natural Law in Paradise Lost
-Bjorn Quiring, Ludwig Maximilians University

Desire and the Poetics of the Flesh in Paradise Lost
-Noam Reisner, Tel Aviv University

Archbishop Laud as Haman, Queen Henrietta Maria as Vashti: or, Why the Reverend Henry Burton Lost His Ears in 1637
-Carter Revard, Washington University

Milton’s Use of the Classical Messenger Scene in Samson Agonistes
-Stella P. Revard, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

"And Lichas from the top of Oeta threw": The Effect of Parallel Prose Editions on the Syntax of Paradise Lost
-Peter Roccia, Grant MacEwan University

Discipline and Disability in Paradise Lost: Rethinking the Function of Satan
-Jeff Rohner-Tensee, York University, CA

Abominable Monstrosity: Derrida and Paradise Lost
-Luiz F. F. Sa, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Samson Agonistes as a Japanese Noh Play
-Hiroko Sano, Aoyama Gakuin University

Melancholic Imagery in Paradise Lost
-Wataru Sasakawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Poetic Pleasure and Temperate Reading in Areopagitica and Paradise Lost.
Sara Saylor, University of Texas

Milton's Mountain Nymph and Pastoral Liberties
-Joshua Scodel, University of Chicago

Milton, Caritas, and Catholic Theology
-Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University

Milton, Marriage, and Myth in Anne Manning’s The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell
-Gregory Semenza, University of Connecticut

Leveling the Sublime: Translating Milton into English in the Eighteenth Century
-Aaron Shapiro, Boston University

Galileo and the Tuscan Artist: Two Perspectives of Milton’s Cosmos in Paradise Lost 7 and 8
-Valerie Shepard, University of California, Los Angeles

Toward a semiotics of smell in Paradise Lost
-Lauren Shohet, Villanova University

"Somebody’s Fool": Samson and the Absurd
-William Shullenberger, Sarah Lawrence College

"Hast thou hunger then?": Milton and Embodiment
-Victoria Silver, University of California, Irvine

Educating Milton: Paradise Lost, Accommodation, and The Story of Paradise Lost, for Children
-Jonathan Sircy, University of South Carolina

“Unspeakable desire to see, and know": The Private and Public Spaces of Milton’s 1671 Poems
-Eric B. Song, Swarthmore College

Sublime Violence in Milton's Republican Sonnets
-John D. Staines, John Jay College, City University of New York

Repetition, Repentance, and Passionate Sublimity in Paradise Lost
-Noel Sugimura, Georgetown University

Milton and Ciceronian Rhetoric
-Hong Won Suh, Yonsei University

Delights and Pitfalls of Intercultural Communication in Milton's Paradise
-Sarka Tobrmanova-Kuhnova, Charles University, Prague

Milton and Dryden: The Heritage of the English Republic
-Go Togashi, Ferris University

Adam's Rib and Samson's Woe: the Politics of Women in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes
-Christophe Tournu, University of Strasbourg

Points of Contact: Nature in Milton's Paradise Lost and Wordsworth's Nature
-Hiroko Tsuji, Doshisha Women's University

Milton, Selden, and the Flourishing of English Civil Religion
-Elliott Visconsi, University of Notre Dame

Rendering Milton's Black Sisterhood Visible
-Reginald A. Wilburn, University of New Hampshire

An Anatomy of Gratitude
-Tzachi Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Modern Media, Memory, and Milton: Modern Technology's Positive Trivialisation of John Milton
-Michelle Zappa, University of Exeter

Milton and the Pleasures of Romance
-Steven Zwicker, Washington University

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Traveling to Tokyo

Flights to Japan from North America and Europe in late August are usually priced between 1,000 and 2,000 dollars (USD). 

Hotels range in price, of course, but good, clean accommodation can be found at prices ranging from 8,000 to 15, 000 yen (100-170 USD). Many hotels offer special rates through Expedia and other online travel services.
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*The Shibuya Tobu Hotel may be offering a special through Expedia.com and Hotels.com during the week of the IMS10 (less than 100 dollars US for a favorably reviewed 3 star hotel, but more on this later). 
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Here is a small sample of the range for hotels (with reviews) near Aoyama Gakuin (much of this information has been culled from Expedia.com and Trip Advisor).
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Low Range:
Hotel Asia Center of Japan. 10 to 15 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin.
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Mid Range: 
 Shibuya Tokyu Inn. 10 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin. 
APA Hotel Nishiazabu. 20 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin. Taxi   
  fare: 7-10 dollars (US).
Hotel Mets Shibuya. 10 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin.
Granbell Hotel. 10 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin.
Shibuya Tobu Hotel. 10 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin.
Shibuya Excel Hotel Tokyu 10 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin.
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High Range:
Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel. 10 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin.
The Westin Tokyo. 20-30 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin. Taxi fare: from 9-12 dollars (US).

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Cultural Activities

Aoyama Gakuin University
Aoyama Gakuin University is located in one of the most popular tourist and shopping areas in Tokyo. Within walking distance of the university are an abundant number of cultural attractions.
Tokyo Skyline

The nearby Nezu Museum, for example, features national treasures from the Edo period and has a beautiful Japanese garden and a tea house.

Also near the campus is the Ota Memorial Museum, which has a fine collection of Ukiyoe, exquisite printings from the Edo period.
There will also be many options for outside trips into the countryside and other areas of Tokyo.
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The IMS10 will offer a choice of one of two day trips:
Nikko

(1) A day trip to the world heritage site, Nikko, which is famous for the shrine of Ieyasu Tokugawa, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, related temples, Lake Chuzenji and Kegon Falls. The site offers a marvelous combination of historical architecture and natural beauty.
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Day Trip: Nikko (more information)
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(2) A day trip to old and new Tokyo. This trip will include a visit to the Hamarikyu (Hama Imperial Villa) Garden, a typical Daimyo (Japanese feudal lord) garden in the Edo period with a tidal pond and two wild-duck hunting sites. 

This tour also includes a boat trip on the Sumida River, the Japanese Thames, to Asakusa in downtown Tokyo. The history of Asakusa dates back to the seventh century, and a group of temples later developed in the Edo period are located in the district, which is one of the most popular sightseeing and shopping areas in Tokyo.


This trip will also include a visit to the Edo-Tokyo Museum, a ride to Asakusa for sightseeing and shopping, and views of other significant historic and contemporary sites of interest.
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Day Trip: Old and New Tokyo (more information)
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IMS10 Schedule: Overview


IMS10: 20th-24th August, 2012

Monday, 20 August
Tuesday, 21 August
Wednesday, 22 August
Thursday, 23 August
9:20am
Registration & Coffee
Lobby (Blg 15,
3rd Floor) 
9:20am
Parallel Panels 3
(15403, 15404, 
15405)
9:20am
Parallel Panels 6
(15403, 15404, 
15405)
9:20am
Parallel Panels 9
(15403, 15404, 
15405)
10:30am
Opening Ceremony
Goucher Memorial 
Chapel
10:50am
Coffee Break
Lobby
10:50am
Coffee Break
Lobby
10:50am
Coffee Break
Lobby
10:50am
Plenary Session 1
Goucher Memorial
Chapel
11:20am
Plenary Session 2
Goucher Memorial 
Chapel
11:20am
Plenary Session 3
Goucher Memorial 
Chapel
11:10am
Parallel Panels 10
(15403, 15404, 
15405)
12:20pm
Lunch Break
12:50pm
Lunch Break
12:50pm
Lunch Break
12:40pm
Lunch Break
1:40 pm
Parallel Panels 1
(15403, 15404, 
15405)
2:10 pm
Parallel Panels 4
(15403, 15404, 
15405)
2:10 pm
Parallel Panels 7
(15403,15404, 
15405)
2:00 pm
Parallel Panels 11
(15403, 15404, 
15405)
3:40pm Tea Break
Lobby
3:40pm Tea Break
Lobby
3:40pm Tea Break
Lobby
3:30pm Tea Break
Lobby
4:00pm (to 5:30pm)
Parallel Panels 2
(15403, 15404, 
15405)
4:00pm (to 5:30pm)
Parallel Panels 5
(15403, 15404,  
15405)
4:00pm (to 5:30pm)
Parallel Panels 8
(15403, 15404,  
15405)
4:00pm
Plenary Session 4
Goucher Memorial 
Chapel
6:00-7:15pm
Wine Reception
Ivy Hall
7:00 pm
Noh Play
National Noh 
Theatre
7:00 pm 
Concert
Goucher Memorial 
Chapel
5:30pm
Closing Ceremony
6:15-8:15pm
Banquet: Ivy Hall
On Friday, 24 August, attendees will be able to choose from two scheduled trips:
Nikko: 8:20 am-6:30 pm
Historic Tokyo: 8:50 am-6:00 pm

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The above mentioned rooms may be changed to Building 17, which is scheduled to be 
completed next spring.


Key:
-Goucher Hall or Blg 15: 13 storey building, roughly 100 meters on the right after 
you pass through the Main Gate. Building 15.
-Lobby: Blg 15, 3rd Floor.
-Goucher Memorial Chapel: Blg 15, Ground Floor.
-Ivy Hall: Outside of the East Gate, to the left in the general reception hall, Aoyama Kaikan.
-National Noh Theatre: Sendagaya (15 minute taxi ride).
-Room Numbers: Numbers signify building number, floor, room number. For example 15403 is 
 Building 15, 4th floor, Room 03.

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