International Milton Symposium - IMS12
17-21 June 2019, Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg
IMS12 Milton's Politics of Religion
Conference programme
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Gordon Campbell (U. of Leicester), Joan Blythe (U. of Kentucky), Ann B. Coiro (Rutgers), Stephen B. Dobranski (Georgia State U.), Steve Fallon (U. of Notre Dame), John Hale (U. of Otago, NZ), John Leonard (Ontario), David Loewenstein (Penn State), John Rogers (Yale), Hiroko Sano (Aoyama Gakuin U., Tokyo), and Gordon Teskey (Harvard).
PANEL SESSIONS: There will be 56 panels on 5 days, starting Monday, from 9am to 6pm.
The final version of the programme is now online. All the website pages have been updated today (14/06/2019).
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08h15-09h15: Welcome Coffe & Registration
09h15-09h45: Opening Speech and Inaugural Lecture by Michel Deneken, President of the University of Strasbourg
09h45-10h15: Opening speech by Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester (video recording)
10h15-12h00: Plenary talks I by Hiroko Sano (Professor Emerita, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan): "Doré’s Illustrations to Paradise Lost and his Bible Illustrations", and Joan Blythe (Professor Emerita, University of Kentucky, USA): "Milton's Role in the Reestablishment of Religion in France under Napoleon"
- Chair: Neil Forsyth12h00-14h00: Lunch break at "Le 32" - 32, avenue de la Victoire, Strasbourg
14h00-15h45: PANEL SESSIONS 1
(1a) Reason in Paradise Lost - Chair: Ayelet Langer (Room 113)
(1b) Milton and Rhyme - Chair: John Leonard (Room 120)
(1c) Milton's Prose (I) - Chair: Tobias Gregory (Room 124)
(1d) 'Delectable to Behold': Milton and the Visual Arts (I) - Chair: Angelica Duran (Room Pasteur)
(1e) More on Milton's Monism - Chair: Steve Fallon (Room 112)
(1f) Milton and Materiality - Chair: James Grantham Turner (Room 118)
15h45-16h15: Coffee break (Great Hall)
16h15-18h00: PANEL SESSIONS 2
(2a) Eve - Chair: Ross T. Leasure (Room 113)
(2b) Translations - Chair: Neil Forsyth (Room 112)
(2c) A Maske - Chair: William Shullenberger (Room 124)
(2d) Milton and Divorce - Chair: Martin Dzelzainis (Room 118)
(2e) Milton and the Visual Arts (II) - Chair : Mario Murgia (Room Pasteur)
(2f) Milton's Borrowings in Paradise Lost - Chair: John Hale (Room 120)
19h00-20h00: Visit of the Cathedral and cruise on l'Ill.
08h30-09h45: PANEL SESSIONS 3
(3a) The Inexpressible and the Invisible in Paradise Lost - Chair: Stephen B. Dobranski (Room Pasteur)
(3b) Samson Agonistes (I) - Chair: Karen Clausen-Brown (Room 113)
(3c) Milton and Philosophy - Chair: Joshua Scodel (Room 120)
(3d) Politics in Paradise Lost - Chair: Katherine Cox (Room 124)
(3e) Milton's Theology - Chair: Ben Myers (Room 118)
09h45-10h15: Coffee break (Great Hall)
10h15-12h00: Plenary talks II by David A. Loewenstein (Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Penn State, University-Park, Pennsylvania, USA): "Milton and the Struggles of England’s Reformation", and Ann Baynes Coiro (Professor, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA): "Milton and Charles I: Modern Authorship" (Room Pasteur)
12h00-14h00: Lunch break at "Le 32" - 32, avenue de la Victoire, Strasbourg
14h00-15h45: PANEL SESSIONS 4
(4a) Paradise Lost, Mary Shelley, and James Joyce (CANCELLED)
(4b) Milton and Difficulty: a Roundtable - Chair: Sarah Knight (Room Pasteur)
(4c) Milton and Science - Chair: Charlotte Nicholls (Room 118)
(4d) A Roundtable on the Hume commentary of Paradise Lost - Chair: David A. Loewenstein (Room 113)
(4e) Samson Agonistes (II) - Chair: William Kolbrener (Room 120)
(4f) Milton's Prose (II) - Chair: Daniele Borgogni (Room 124)
15h45-16h15: Coffee break (Great Hall)
16h15-18h00: PANEL SESSIONS 5
(5a) Metaphors, Similes, and Similitudes in Paradise Lost - Chair: Andrea Walkden (Room Pasteur)
(5b) Milton's Language - Chair: Chia-yin Huang (Room 120)
(5c) Accommodation and Originality - Chair: Grant Horner (Room 124)
(5d) International Milton - Chair: Matt Dolloff (Room 118)
(5e) Milton and Contemporary Writers - Chair: Vladimir Brljak (Room 112)
(5f) Samson Agonistes (III) - Chair: Jane Raisch (Room 113)
18h30-20h30: Reception at the Town Hall, place Broglie, Strasbourg.
20h45 (first group) and 21h15 (2nd group): Cruise on the River Ill
08h30-09h45: PANEL SESSIONS 6
(6a) Talking in Paradise Lost - Chair: Stephen B. Dobranski (Room 112)
(6b) The Law in Paradise Lost - Chair: David A. Currell (Room 113)
(6c) Milton and his Environment - Chair: Edward Jones (Room Pasteur)
(6d) Paradise Regained (I) - Chair: Miklòs Péti (Room 124)
(6e) Milton's Poetics (CANCELLED)
(6f) Roundtable on “The Authorship of De Doctrina Christiana” - Chair: Hugh Wilson (Room 118)
09:45-10h15: Coffee break (Lobby of the 1st floor, outside rooms 118 and 119)
10h15-12h00: Plenary talks III by John Leonard (Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada): "‘Or’ in Paradise Lost: the Poetics of Incertitude Reconsidered", and Gordon Teskey (Professor of English, Harvard, USA): "Snakes and Ladders: Some Problems in Annotating Paradise Lost"
(Room Pasteur)12h00-14h00: Lunch break
14h00-18h30: Afternoon excursions
08h30-09h45: PANEL SESSIONS 7
(7a) Samson Agonistes (IV) - Chair: Tessie Prakas (Room 124)
(7b) Paradise Regained (II) - Chair: Michiko Mori (Room 120)
(7c) Adam's Soliloquy in Paradise Lost - Chair: Michael Schoenfeldt (Room 113)
(7d) Milton's Politics - Chair: Christopher Warren (Room 119)
(7e) Screening of Pascale Bouhénic, "Gustave Doré, de l'illustrateur à l'artiste" (in French, Arte, 2014) (Room 112)
09h45-10h15: Coffee break (Lobby of the 1st floor, outside rooms 118 and 119)
10h15-12h00: Plenary talks IV by John Hale (Honorary Fellow, University of Otago, New Zealand): "Safe Belief: Hobbes, Milton, and Dryden", and Stephen M. Fallon (John J. Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA): “Milton, Newton, and the Making of a Modern World” - Chair: John Rumrich (Room 119)
12h00-14h00: Lunch break at "Le 32" - 32, avenue de la Victoire, Strasbourg
14h00-15h45: PANEL SESSIONS 8
(8a) Samson Agonistes (V) - Chair: Seth Herbst (Room 124)
(8b) Some Keywords in Paradise Lost - Chair: Leila Ghermani (Room 118)
(8c) New Directions on De Doctrina Christiana - Chair: John Rumrich (Room 119)
(8d) Milton and the Universe - Chair: Gábor Ittzès (Room 113)
(8e) Milton's 1645 Poems - Chair: Hannah J. Crawforth (Room 112)
(8f) Milton in the Arts - Chair: Wendy Furnam-Adams (Room 120)
15h45-16h15: Coffee break (Lobby of the 1st floor, outside rooms 118 and 119)
16h15-18h00: PANEL SESSIONS 9
(9a) Eco-friendly Readings of Paradise Lost - Chair: Dennis Danielson (Room 119)
(9b) Value, Prayer, and Justification in Paradise Lost - Chair: Grant Horner (Room 118)
(9c) Milton in the mid-1650s - Chair: Elizabeth Sauer (Room 113)
(9d) XVIIIth Century Readings of Paradise Lost - Chair: Yanxiang Wu (Room 124)
(9e) Race and Political Belonging in the Age of Milton - Chair: Linda Mitchell (Room 120)
(9f) Milton and Ireland (CANCELLED)
20h00-22h30: Visit of the church St Peter the Younger, place St Pierre le Jeune, Strasbourg, and concert by La Follia.
08h30-09h45: PANEL SESSIONS 10
(10a) Paradise Regained (III) - Chair: Robert Dulgarian (Room 112)
(10b) Satan and Mimetic Desire in Paradise Lost - Chair: Bjoern Quiring (Room 113)
(10c) Reception of Milton in the 19th Century - Chair: Noel Sugimura (Room 118)
(10d) Prolusions - Chair: William Kolbrener (Room 119)
(10e) Milton and Bucer - Chair: Catherine G. Martin (Room 124)
(10f) Problems of Adapting Paradise Lost - Chair: Yuko Noro (Room 120)
09h45-10h15: Coffee break (Lobby of the 1st floor, outside rooms 118 and 119)
10h15-12h00: Plenary talks V by Stephen B. Dobranski (Distinguished University Professor, Georgia State University, Georgia, USA): "What Do Adam and Eve Look Like after the Fall, and Why Does It Matter?", and John Rogers (Professor of English, Yale, USA): “Die he, or justice must?”: Paradise Lost and the Political Theology of Toleration" - Chair: Stephen M. Fallon (Room 119)
12h30-18h00: Gala lunch at Pavillon Joséphine, Orangerie Park
SOCIAL PROGRAMME:
Monday 17 June 2019: Visit of the Cathedral.
Tuesday 18 June 2019: Reception at Strasbourg Town Hall and cruise on the Ill river.
Wednesday 19 June 2019: Excursions. Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle, Alsace Wine Route (visit of a cellar and wine tasting), or Mont Sainte-Odile.
Thursday 20 June 2019: Visit of St Peter the Younger's Church, place Saint-Pierre le Jeune, Strasbourg, followed by a concert (La Follia).
Friday 21 June 2019: Gala lunch at Pavillon Joséphine, Orangerie Park.
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Updated: 15 June 2019
