CANADA MILTON SEMINAR XIII Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College University of Toronto Friday / Saturday 20-21 April 2017 PROGRAM Friday 20 April 3:30 p.m.
Coffee and Registration, Victoria College Foyer
4-4:15 p.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks Will Robins (President, Victoria College)
Alumni Hall
SESSION I: PLENARY 4:15– 5:30 p.m.
Alumni Hall
Leah Whittington (Harvard University) “Milton’s Fragments” Chair: Tom Luxon (Dartmouth College)
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Wine and Cheese Reception
Goldring Atrium
Saturday 21 April 9 a.m.
GEMMS: Gateway
to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons Workshop
Vic 115
Adam Richter and David Robinson (U of Toronto) 10 a.m.
Coffee and Registration
10:25 a.m.
Welcome
SESSION II: PLENARY 10:30-11:45 a.m.
College Foyer Alumni Hall Alumni Hall
Kristen Poole (U of Delaware) “Milton and Hieroglyphs” Chair: Edward Jones (Oklahoma State U)
11:45-12 a.m.
Coffee
SESSION III: PLENARY
Alumni Hall
12 – 1: 15 p.m.
Blair Hoxby (Stanford University) “Baroque Tragedy” Chair: Nicholas von Maltzahn (U of Ottawa)
1:15-2 p.m.
Lunch
SESSION IV: CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2-3:30 p.m.
(A) Old Victoria College Room 101 Erin Murphy (Boston U) “Rude Milton: Sexuality, Secularism, and the Politics of Queer Reading" Ryan Netzley (Southern Illinois University) “Speculative Praise: Milton, Herrick, and the Value of Encomia” Chair: Kathy Acheson ( U of Waterloo) (B) Old Victoria College Room 115 Lee Morrissey (Clemson University) "Milton and the Forms of Modernity." Madeline Bassnett (Western U) "Cooking with the Devils in Paradise Lost" Chair: John Leonard (Western U)
3:30-45 p.m.
Coffee break Old Victoria College Foyer
SESSION V: PLENARY 3:45-4:45 p.m.
Alumni Hall
John Rumrich (U of Texas at Austin) “On Satan’s Flight through Chaos: Does God play Dice with the Universe?” Chair: Steve Fallon (Notre Dame)
4:45-5:10 p.m.
Closing Remarks and Announcements: George Ramos on upcoming production of Comus Paul Stevens on the adaptation of Paradise Lost for the Stratford Festival
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cash Bar, SCR, Massey College
6:30 p.m.
Banquet, Upper Library, Massey College