-----------------------------------------------
9:20am Parallel Panels 77a. Milton, God and the Cosmos Room 17606
Chair: David Hawkes, Arizona State University
Milton's Reasonable Vision of God and the Spenserian Tradition
-Matthew Evans-Cockle, University of British Columbia
Chaos and Cosmos in Paradise Lost: between Lucretius' Atomism and the Copernican Paradigm
-Antonella Piazza, University of Salerno
Galileo and the Tuscan Artist: Two Perspectives of Milton’s Cosmos in Paradise Lost, 7 and 8
-Valerie Shepard, University of California, Los Angeles
7b. Milton, Civil War and the Restoration Room 17607
Chair: Katsuhiro Engetsu, Doshisha University
Milton and Cromwell: Another Look at the Evidence
-Tobias B. Gregory, Catholic University of America
Religious Schism, Separation, and Uniformity in Paradise Lost
-David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(Carter Revard will be unable to attend.)
7c. Milton and Poetics Room 17608
Chair: Lauren Shohet, Villanova University
What Happens in Sonnets: Considering Events in Milton’s Sonnets
-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
--------------------------------------------------
10:50am Coffee Break Foyer (Blg. 17, 6th Floor)
--------------------------------------------------
11:20am Parallel Panels 8
8a. Milton and Time Room 17606
Chair: Noel Sugimura, Georgetown University
"Me thou think'st not slow": Contemporaneous Time in Paradise Lost
-Blaine Greteman, University of Iowa
Milton and McTaggart: Time Structures of the Mind in Paradise Lost
-Ayelet Langer, University of London
"Joy and harmles pastime": Milton's Rehabilitation of Otium
-Mandy Green, University of Durham
8b. Milton in China and Japan Rm 17607
Chair: Osamu Nakayama, Reitaku University
Milton in China, 1837-1911
-Tianhu Hao, Peking University
Milton and Lafcadio Hearn
-Joan Blythe, University of Kentucky
Shitsurakuen-monogatari (The Story of Paradise Lost) and Paradise Lost
-Yuko Noro, Nihon University
8c. Translating and Transferring Paradise Lost Rm 17608
Chair: Angelica Duran, Purdue University
Leveling the Sublime: Translating Milton into English in the Eighteenth Century
-Aaron Shapiro, Boston University
Anne-Marie du Boccage’s “Le Paradis terrestre” (1748) as a Model of Cultural Transfer through Translation
-Christophe Tournu, University of Strasbourg
Milton in Arabic: Transforming Paradise Lost for the Arab-Muslim Reader
-Islam Issa, University of Birmingham
-----------------------------------------------
12:50pm Lunch Break
(1:40pm IMS Standing Committee Rm 17609)
-----------------------------------------------
2:20pm Parallel Panels 9
9a. Milton, Romance, and Marriage Room 17606
Chair: Mandy Green, University of Durham
"How Human Life Began": Human Reproduction in Paradise Lost
-Thomas Luxon, Dartmouth College [unable to attend]
Milton, Marriage, and Myth in Anne Manning’s The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell
-Gregory Semenza, University of Connecticut
Milton, Polygamy, and the Orient
-Walter Swee Huat Lim, National University of Singapore
9b. Milton and Economy Rm 17607
Chair: Gordon Campbell, Leicester University
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
9c. Milton, Theology, and History Room 17608
Chair: Tobias Gregory, Catholic University of America
Editing De Doctrina Christiana from the Manuscript, 2012
-John Hale, University of Otago (read by Michael Cop)
Paradise Regained: Biblical Harmony and Narrative Dissonance
-Michael Cop, University of Otago
Milton's Bible
-Thomas Fulton, Rutgers University
-----------------------------------------------
3:50pm Tea Break Foyer (Blg. 17, 6th Floor)
-----------------------------------------------
4:20pm Plenary Session 4 Honda Memorial Hall
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
-----------------------------------------------
5:50pm Closing Ceremony
-----------------------------------------------
6:30pm Conference Banquet Ivy Hall
-----------------------------------------------
