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 Matt Kavaler (Director, CRRS)
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) Jeanne Shami and Anne James (U of Regina) 10 a.m.
Coffee and Registration
10:25 a.m.
Welcome
College Foyer Alumni Hall
SESSION II: PLENARY 10:30-11:45 a.m.
Kristen Poole (U of Delaware) “Milton and Hieroglyphs” Chair: Edward Jones (Oklahoma State U)
11:45-12 a.m.
Coffee
Alumni Hall
SESSION III: PLENARY 12 – 1: 15 p.m.
Alumni Hall
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