Sessions and Speakers: Wednesday, 22 August

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9:20am      Parallel Panels 6

   6a. Milton and the Senses      Rm 15305

Chair: Joan Blythe, University of Kentucky




Toward a Semiotics of Smell in Paradise Lost
   -Lauren Shohet, Villanova University

Milton and Music
-Seth Herbst, Harvard University

   6b. Milton and Intentionality      Rm 15306

Chair: Martin Dzelzainis, University of Leicester

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

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

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

   6c. Milton, Nature and the Garden      Rm 15309

Chair: Ken Hiltner, University of California, Santa Barbara

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

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

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

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10:50am      Coffee Break      Lobby (Blg 15, 3rd Floor)
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11:20am      Plenary Session 3      Goucher Memorial Chapel

   Chair: Beverley Sherry, University of Sydney

"Lodge and Dislodge by Turns": Rethinking the Milton Controversy
   -John Leonard, University of Western Ontario

The Oxford Milton: Rethinking the Life and the Text
   -Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester
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12:50pm      Lunch Break
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2:10pm        Parallel Panels 7

   7a. Milton, Religious Discourse and Law      Rm 15305

Chair: Joshua Scodel, University of Chicago

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

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

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

   7b. Classical Influences on Milton      Rm 15306

Chair: Stella P. Revard, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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

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

Self-Sacrifice, Sympathy, and the Sublime: Reading Milton’s Virgil in Paradise Lost
   -Noel Sugimura, Georgetown University

   7c. Milton and 17th-Century Poetry      Rm 15309

Chair: Stephen Zwicker, Washington University

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

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

Milton and Dryden: The Heritage of the English Republic
   -Go Togashi, Ferris University
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3:40pm      Tea Break      Lobby (Blg 15, 3rd Floor)
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4:00pm      Parallel Panels 8

   8a. Milton and the Corporeal      Room 15305

Chair: David Gay, University of Alberta

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

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

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

   8b. Milton and Sonnets      Rm 15305

Chair: Thomas Fulton, Rutgers University

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

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

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

   8c. Milton in the 18th Century      Rm 15309

Chair: John Leonard, University of Western Ontario

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

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

Critical Mass: The Influence of Addison on Bentley
   -David A. Harper, University of Texas
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7:00pm      Concert      Goucher Memorial Chapel
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