Sessions and Speakers: Thursday, 23 August

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9:20am Parallel Panels 9

   9a. 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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