Brian Cummings
(University of York, England):
“Sympathy in Milton”

Deidre Shauna Lynch
(Harvard University/University of Toronto):
“When a Free People Pays its Debts:
Milton and Grateful Reading, 1774-1784”

Stephen Fallon
(Notre Dame University):
“Milton, Newton, and the Implications of Arianism”

Feisal Mohamed
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
“Milton’s Tacitist Sovereignty”

Other speakers include:

Kenneth Borris (McGill)
Brooke Conti (SUNY Brockport)
Mary C. Fenton (West Carolina University)
Timothy Harrison (Chicago)

Program

Friday, 22 May 2015

3:30 p.m.

4:00 – 4:15 p.m.
 
 
 

SESSION I: PLENARY
Northrop Frye Hall, 003

4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
 
 
 

5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
 
 

Coffee and Registration (Northrop Frye Hall, Lower Foyer)

Welcome and Opening Remarks (Northrop Frye Hall, 003)
Alan Bewell (Chair, Department of English, University of Toronto)
Paul Stevens (University of Toronto)

Feisal Mohamed (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana):
“Milton’s Tacitist Sovereignty”
Chair: Nicholas von Maltzahn (University of Ottawa)
Northrop Frye Building, 003

Wine and Cheese Reception
Goldring Student Centre, Wendy Marion Cecil Atrium,
150 Charles Street West

Saturday, 23 May 2015

10:00 a.m.
 

10:25 a.m.
 
 

SESSION II: PLENARY
(Victoria College, Alumni Hall)

10:30 — 11:45 a.m.
 
 
 

11:45 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.
 
SESSION III: PLENARY
(Victoria College, Alumni Hall)

12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
 
 

1:15 — 2:00 p.m.
 

SESSION IV: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

2:00 — 3:30 p.m.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3:30 — 3:45 p.m.
 

SESSION V: PLENARY
(Victoria College, Alumni Hall)

3:45 — 4:45 p.m.
 
 

4:45 — 5 p.m.

5:30 — 6:30 p.m.

6:30 p.m.
 

Coffee and Registration
Victoria College, Foyer

Welcome
Matt Kavaler (Director, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto)

Deidre Shauna Lynch (Harvard University/University of Toronto):
“When a Free People Pays its Debts: Milton and Grateful Reading 1774-84”
Chair: Brian Corman (University of Toronto)
 

Coffee
 
 
 

Brian Cummings (York University, England):
“Sympathy in Milton”
Chair: John Leonard (Western University)

Lunch (Victoria College, Foyer)

(A) Victoria College, 101
Ken Borris (McGill University):
“’behold / Far off the empyreal heaven’: Allegory in Paradise Lost beyond Anne Ferry’s View”
Brooke Conti (SUNY Brockport):
“Monkish Milton”
Chair: Katie Larson (University of Toronto)
(B) Victoria College, 115
Mary Fenton (Western Carolina University)
“Regeneration in Paradise Lost”
Tim Harrison (University of Chicago):
“Experiencing Origins in the Seventeenth-Century”
Chair: Kenneth Graham (University of Waterloo)

Coffee
Victoria College, Foyer

Stephen Fallon (University of Notre Dame):
“Milton, Newton, and the Implications of Arianism”
Chair: Liza Blake (University of Toronto)

Closing Remarks: Paul Stevens

Cash Bar, Massey College, Senior Common Room

Banquet, Massey College, Upper Library