CANADA MILTON SEMINAR XIV Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College University of Toronto Friday / Saturday 10-11 May 2019 PROGRAM Friday 10 May 3:30 p.m.
Coffee and Registration, Victoria College Foyer
4-4:15 p.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks (Will Robins, President, Victoria University)
Alumni Hall
SESSION I: PLENARY 4:15– 5:30 p.m.
Alumni Hall
Achsah Guibbory (Barnard College/Columbia U) “Exceptionalism: A Historical Perspective” Chair: Stephen Fallon (U of Notre Dame)
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Wine and Cheese Reception
Goldring Atrium
Saturday 11 May 9 a.m.
GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern
Manuscript Sermons Workshop
Vic 115
Adam Richter and David Robinson (U of Toronto) Jeanne Shami (U of Regina) 10 a.m.
Coffee and Registration
10:25 a.m.
Welcome (Matt Kavaler, Director, CRRS)
College Foyer
Alumni Hall SESSION II: PLENARY 10:30-11:45 a.m.
Alumni Hall
John Rogers (Yale) “Latter-Day Milton: Paradise Lost and the Creation of America’s God” Chair: Nicholas von Maltzahn (U of Ottawa)
11:45-12 a.m.
Coffee
SESSION III: PLENARY 12 – 1: 15 p.m.
Alumni Hall
Ian Balfour (York University, Toronto) “Milton’s Retroactive Sublimity” Chair: David Galbraith (U of Toronto)
1:15-2 p.m.
Lunch
SESSION IV: CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2-3:30 p.m.
(A) Old Victoria College Room 101 Lynne Greenberg (Hunter College, CUNY) "Rightful Legacies and Inherited Endowments: The Question of Female Inheritance in Milton’s Poetry." David Adkins (Toccoa Falls College, Georgia) “TBA” Chair: Kathy Acheson (U of Waterloo) (B) Old Victoria College Room 115 Jan Purnis (University of Regina) "An Anatomy of the Fall: Adam and Eve and the Alimentary Canal in Early Modern Literature and Medicine." Sam Fallon (SUNY, Geneseo) "Adam in Abstract" Chair: Andrew Wallace (Carleton U)
3:30-45 p.m.
Coffee break Old Victoria College Foyer
SESSION V: PLENARY 3:45-4:45 p.m.
Alumni Hall
Hannibal Hamlin (Ohio State U) “Divine Derision: What to Make of a God who Mocks” Chair: Katie Larson (U of Toronto)
4:45-5:10 p.m.
Closing Remarks and Announcements
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cash Bar, SCR, Massey College
6:30 p.m.
Banquet, Upper Library, Massey College