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9:20am Parallel Panels 99a. Milton, God and the Cosmos Room 15305
Chair:
Milton's Reasonable Vision of God and the Spenserian Tradition
-Matthew Evans-Cockle, University of British Columbia
Pursuing the Riddle of the Godhead: The Influence of Paradise Lost on Sri Aurobino's Savitri
-Rama Janamanchi, Oklahoma State 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
9b. Milton, Civil War and the Restoration Room 15306
Chair:
Milton and Cromwell: Another Look at the Evidence
-Tobias B. Gregory, Catholic University of America
Why Milton Entered the Battle against the Bishops (1640-42)
-Catherine Gimelli Martin, University of Memphis
Archbishop Laud as Haman, Queen Henrietta Maria as Vashti: or, Why the Reverend Henry Burton Lost His Ears in 1637
-Carter Revard, Washington University
9c. Milton and Poetics Room 15309
Chair:
What Happens in Lycidas? Milton and Lyric Events
-Ryan Netzley, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Milton's Mountain Nymph and Pastoral Liberties
-Joshua Scodel, University of Chicago
A Study of Typology in Milton’s "Nativity Ode"
-Byung-Eun Lee, Hansung University, Seoul
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10:50am Coffee Break Lobby (Blg. 15, 3rd Floor)
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11:10am Parallel Panels 10
10a. Milton and Time Room 15305
Chair:
"Me thou think'st not slow": Contemporaneous Time in Paradise Lost
-Blaine Greteman, University of Iowa
"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
"Joy and harmles pastime": Milton's Rehabilitation of Otium
-Mandy Green, University of Durham
10b. Managing Milton's Texts Room 15306
Chair: Edward Jones, Oklahoma State University
Two Nineteenth-Century Forgeries of a Paradise Lost Title-Page
-Jonathan Olson, University of Liverpool
"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
Leveling the Sublime: Translating Milton into English in the Eighteenth Century
-Aaron Shapiro, Boston University
10c. Milton, Nation and Politics Room 15309
Chair:
Godly Republicanism in Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes
-Feisal G. Mohamed, University of Illinois
Comus and English Nationhood
-David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Milton and Winstanley on Civil Authority
-Younkyung Kim, Seoul National University
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12:40pm Lunch Break
(1:20pm IMS Standing Committee Rm 15307)
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2:00pm Parallel Panels 11
11a. Samson Agonistes, Theory and Reception Rm 15305
Chair: David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Somebody’s Fool": Samson and the Absurd
-William Shullenberger, Sarah Lawrence College
Adam's Rib and Samson's Woe: the Politics of Women in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes
-Christophe Tournu, University of Strasbourg
The Reception of Samson Agonistes in Coleridge
-Takehiro Hashimoto, Kanto Gakuin University
Ceremony in Milton's Samson Agonistes and Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise
-Karen Clausen-Brown, University of Notre Dame
11b. Milton and Economy Rm 15306
Chair:
Usury and Custom in Milton's Thought
-David Hawkes, Arizona State University
John Milton and the Hearth Tax: New Records and New Possibilities
-Edward Jones, Oklahoma State University
Is Capitalism a Satanic System?: Satan's Confession in Paradise Lost and the Spirit of Capitalism
-Daisuke Arie, Yokohama National University
Let us divide our labours': Milton's Book 9 and John Locke's 'Of Property'
-Taihei Hanada, University of Exeter
11c. Milton and Theology Room 15309
Chair: Beverley Sherry, University of Sydney
Milton's Theological Axioms
-John Hale, University of Otago
Paradise Regained: Biblical Harmony and Narrative Dissonance
-Michael Cop, University of Otago
Is "a Spirit" Incorporeal or Corporeal? The Materiality of God in Paradise Lost
-Kazunori Kawasaki, Nihon University
“His Foot-step Trace”: the Natural Theology of Paradise Lost
-Katherine Calloway, University of British Columbia
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4:00pm Tea Break Lobby (Blg. 15, 3rd Floor)
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4:20pm Plenary Session 4 Goucher Memorial Chapel
Chair: David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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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5:50pm Closing Ceremony
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6:30pm Conference Banquet Ivy Hall
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