Sessions and Speakers: Monday, 20 August

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9:20am         Registration and Coffee      Lobby (Blg. 15, 3rd Floor)

10:30am       Opening Ceremony      Goucher Memorial Chapel
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10:50am       Plenary Session 1      Goucher Memorial Chapel

   Chair: Tom Luxon, Dartmouth College

Milton's Global Reach
   -Thomas Corns, Bangor University

Reading Milton in Japan
   -Akira Arai, Seigakuin University
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12:20pm       Lunch Break

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1:40pm         Parallel Panels 1

   1a. Milton and the Catholics: A Reconsideration      Rm 15305

Chair: Thomas Corns, Bangor University

Milton's Anti-Popery and Recent Studies in Early Modern English Catholicism
   -Ronald Corthell, Kent State University

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

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

Milton, Caritas, and Catholic Theology
   -Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University

   1b. Reading Milton/Milton Reread      Rm 15306

Chair: Noam Reisner, Tel Aviv University

(Mis)reading Milton: Influence and Contemporary Fiction
   -Mayra H. A. Olalquiaga, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

When Muslims Read Milton: Paradise Lost and a Religious Shock
   -Mahe Nau Awan, University of Surrey

Milton in Arabic: Transforming Paradise Lost for the Arab-Muslim Reader
   -Islam Issa, University of Birmingham

To Read Milton's Work Through Japanese Sensibility
   -Rie Hase, Tohoku University

   1c. Samson Agonistes, Theory and Reception      Rm 15309

Chair: Carter Revard, Washington University

"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

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3:40pm        Tea Break     Lobby (Blg. 15, 3rd Floor)
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4:00pm        Parallel Panels 2

   2a. Milton in China and Japan      Rm 15305

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

   2b. Milton’s International Reception      Rm 15306

Chair: Angelica Duran, Purdue University

John Milton in Brazil: a Study of Azevedo, Assis, and Ramos
   -Miriam Mansur, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

"He also saw rich Mexico": Translating Milton's Political Prose in(to) the Seat of
Montezuma
   -Mario Murgia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Literary Insights of a Non-Literary Critic: Tadao Yanaihara's Lectures on Paradise  
Lost
   -Kensei Nishikawa, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies

   2c. Milton and Methodism      Rm 15309

Chair: Jameela Lares, The University of Southern Mississippi

Paradise Redacted: Milton and Methodist Education
   -Thomas Dabbs, Aoyama Gakuin University

Educating Milton: Paradise Lost, Accommodation, and The Story of Paradise Lost, for   
Children
   -Jonathan Sircy, University of South Carolina

Paradise Founded: Milton and Wesleyan Education in Japan
   -Wayne Pounds, Aoyama Gakuin University
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6:00pm      Wine Reception      Ivy Hall
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Monday, 20th | Tuesday, 21st | Wednesday, 22nd | Thursday, 23rd | Overview