IMS10: Registration Information

Time to register!

IMS10 Registration fees vary depending on your status. We are offering discounts to non-residents of Japan and deeper discounts to students, retirees, and others who are not full-time scholars. These discounts are available until May 31st, 2012.

If you wish to bring a guest to the cultural events and/or banquet, please register yourself first, then register your guest(s) from the guest registration page.

Residents of Japan must register by fax and pay by postal transfer. 
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There are 4 options for non-residents of Japan to choose from:

(1) Full Package (Deeply Discounted): Admission to everything (registration, cultural events, and banquet).
(2) Registration only: Admission to all panels and plenary presentations, coffee/tea breaks, and reception.
(3) Registration plus Cultural Events (Discounted): Includes admission to the Noh Play: Samson and to Milton and Music.
(4) Registration plus Banquet: Includes admission to the final banquet. 

The piecemeal street price for the two cultural events and banquet are quite expensive (10,000 yen for the cultural events), so we have packaged the two cultural events together and discounted them for registrants.

The greatest value is the Full Package, for which all options for registration have been deeply discounted. (This package does not include special day trips, which will be handled by an independent tour company.)

Please select your status below for detailed information about options and prices.

D. Residents of Japan. (Printable form.)

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Optional Day Trips: Registration Information

The Organizing Committee for the IMS10 is offering two optional day trips that will take place on August 24th, 2012. 






Trip 1: Nikko World Heritage Site

Trip 2: Tokyo: Old and New

The price for each trip is 11,000 yen (roughly 135 US dollars). Both trips are comprehensive full-day adventures. 

The IMS10 trip reservations will be handled by Nippon Travel, a third party. We apologize if the online reservation process is a bit complicated, but we must first confirm with the travel agent that we have the minimum number for each tour.

If you wish to take one of these trips, you must first go to the IMS10 group page they made for us and set up a user name and password and then make a reservation for one of the two trips. Once the company has the minimum (30) commitments, then they will ask "members" to log in and pay with a credit card. (The trips are not included with the conference registration fee.)

Day Trip Registration 

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Traveling to Tokyo

IMS10 general travel information is featured here, and we have included a comments section at the bottom of this page. Please feel free to "comment" by asking travel questions or adding travel information. (If you do not see a "comments" link below, click here and scroll down.)


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). 
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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:
Marroad Inn Akasaka. 35 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin, but easily communtable by train (2 stops, 5 minutes). And the price is right.
Hotel Asia Center of Japan. 20 to 25 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin.
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Mid Range:
National Children's Castle Hotel. Despite the misleading name, this is a standard business hotel. Its advantage is that it is directly across the street from Aoyama Gakuin. 
Shibuya Creston Hotel: 10 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin.
Tokyu Stay Shibuya Hotel. 10 minute walk to Aoyama Gakuin.
 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).


Nippon Travel Agency can make hotel bookings as well as help with your travel plans inside Japan. Some examples of nearby hotels are listed below:


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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 Prophets, the Muses, the Spirit, 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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

Milton and Music
-Seth Herbst, Harvard 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 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

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 and Winstanley on Civil Authority
-Younkyung Kim, Seoul National University

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

Religious Schism, Separation, and Uniformity in Paradise Lost
-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

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

"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

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, Kitami Institute of Technology

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

The Limits of Worst in Paradise Lost and King Lear
-Daniel Shore, Georgetown University

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

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

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

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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