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NEW: Updated 6 June 2008

at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House

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Provisional programme (my selection):

Lundi 7 juillet

11h00-12h30 - Séance plénière 1:
Professor Stanley Fish (Florida International): The New Milton Criticism ***
Professor Ann Hughes (Keele University): Milton, Manhood, and Radicalism in the English Revolution ***

14h00-15h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20 minutes each) :
Milton and Religion: Sylvia Brown, David Gay, Ian Bickford

16h00-17h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20 minutes each) :
Milton in his 17th-Century Context: Warren Chernaik, Stella Revard, William Kolbrener ***
OU
Milton on Liberty: Brooke Conti, Jerome Day, Antonella Piazza

Mardi 8 juillet

9h00-10h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20 minutes each) :
Milton and Orthodoxy: Catherine Gimelli Martin, Abraham Stoll, Martin Dzelzainis ***

11h00-12h30 - Séance plénière 2 :
Professor Nicholas von Maltzahn (Ottawa): Provincializing Milton
Dr Ian Archer (Keble College, Oxford): Milton's London

14h00-15h30 - Ateliers : 
Liberty and Restraint: Karen Edwards, Lana Cable, William Shullenberger

16h00-17h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20 minutes each) : 
Thomason Tracts: Steven Zwicker, Michael Braddick, Jason Peacey
OU
Milton and Belief: Marshall Grossman, Andrew McCarthy, Gregory Chaplin
OU
Milton and the Language of Politics: Hugh Adlington, Hannah Crawforth, Thomas Fulton ***

Mercredi 9 juillet

9h00-10h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20 minutes each) :
Milton and Religion: John Coffey, Eliott Visconsi, Carlos Martinez
OU
Milton and Populism: Richard Serjeantson, Anne McLaren and Paul Hammond ***
OU
Milton as Polemicist: Walter Lim, Scott Howard, Christopher D'Addario

11h00-12h30 – Séance plénière 3 :
Professor Achsah Guibbory (Barnard): Milton, England , and Israel ***
Professor Regina Schwartz (Northwestern): Milton and Idolatry ***

Jeudi 10 juillet

9h00-10h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20 minutes each) :
Milton's Politics of Divorce: Christophe Tournu, Olivier Abel, Sandra Laugier ***
OU
Milton and Religion: Charlotte Clutterbuck, Mike Streeter, Byung-Eun Lee
OU
Milton and Republicanism: Rachel Foxley, Marion Campbell, Antti Tahvanainen ***

11.00-12h30 – Séance plénière 4 :
Professor Quentin Skinner (Christ's College, Cambridge): John Milton as a Theorist of Liberty ***
Professor Laura Knoppers (Penn State): “No fear lest dinner cool”: Milton 's Housewives and the Politics of Eden

14h00-15h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20 minutes each) :
Milton and the War of Ideas: Ceri Sullivan, Gregory Semenza, Susanne Woods
OU
Milton as Polemicist: Nick McDowell, Bill Walker, Christopher Hamel ***
OU
Perspectives on Milton's Religion: Russell Hillier, Samuel Smith, Feisal Mohamed

16h00-17h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20 minutes each) :
Milton as Polemicist: Sara van den Berg, Joseph Teller, Ben Faber

Vendredi 11 juillet

9h00-10h30 - Ateliers (Parallel Panels/short papers -- 20 minutes each) :
Milton and Orthodoxy: Catherine Gimelli Martin, Abraham Stoll, Feisal Mohamed
OU
Milton and Religious Thought: Pitt Harding, Peter Titlestad, Rebecca Buckham
OU
Milton and the War of Ideas: Kenneth Graham, Jaroslaw Pluciennik, Stephen M. Fallon
OU
Milton and Nationalism: Michael Donnelly, Eric Song, Paul Tonks ***

11h00-12h30 – Séance plénière 5 :
Geoffrey Hill, Reading from A Treatise of Civil Power and other poems
Professor John Rumrich (Texas), Milton's Reception History

14h00-15h30
Roundtable Discussion: "Milton at 400: Why Milton Matters Now" ***

Chair: Professor Martin Dzelzainis

Sharon Achinstein (St Edmund Hall, Oxford), Tom Corns (University of Wales, Bangor), David Loewenstein (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Nigel Smith (Princeton University

Archives

Ninth International Milton Symposium

Call for Papers

2008 marks the quatercentenary of John Milton’s birth in Bread Street, London – the city in which he was to live and work for much of his life. It is therefore appropriate that the Ninth International Milton Symposium will be celebrating this event with a five-day conference, 7-11 July 2008, under the auspices of the Institute of English Studies at the University of London.  Plenary speakers include Ian Archer, Stanley Fish, Achsah Guibbory, Ann Hughes, Victoria Kahn, Laura Knoppers, Nicholas von Maltzahn, John Rumrich, Regina Schwartz, and Quentin Skinner.

The Planning Committee (see below) invites papers on − but not restricted to − the following broad themes:

Places
London itself provides one obvious focus of interest since Milton was unquestionably the most important writer the city has ever produced. But places, whether real or imaginary, play a large and arguably under-examined part in his writings.

Beliefs
There has recently been a resurgence of interest in Milton’s religious beliefs, sparked off in particular by the debate over the authorship of De Doctrina Christiana. We would therefore welcome papers on such themes as heresy, orthodoxy and unorthodoxy, and radicalism.

Writings
Papers will be welcome on such topics as the texts, contexts, and conditions of publication of Milton’s writings in various genres on various occasions.  

Events
 Papers dealing with key events in Milton’s life and times will be welcome as will those dealing more generally with his responses to the revolutionary upheavals of the seventeenth century.

Proposals for papers (500 words maximum, and preferably in the form of an email attachment) should be submitted in the first instance to Professor Martin Dzelzainis, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX; m.dzelzainis@rhul.ac.uk.  Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2007.

Planning Committee: Warren Chernaik (King’s, London); Martin Dzelzainis (Royal Holloway, London); Karen Edwards (Exeter); Stephen M. Fallon (Notre Dame); Tom Healy (Birkbeck, London); Michael Lieb (Illinois, Chicago); Peter Lindenbaum (Indiana); David Loewenstein (Madison-Wisconsin); Regina Schwartz (Northwestern); Kevin Sharpe (Queen Mary, London)

Detailed information about registration fees and fringe events will be available shortly. For the Institute of English Studies, contact: ies@sas.ac.uk

Archives

1. Esse Conference (London, 29 Aug. - 2 Sep. 2006)

Seminar Call for Papers:
"Milton, Rights and Liberties"

Convenor: Professor Neil Forsyth (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Email: neil.forsyth@unil.ch
Co-convenor: Dr Christophe Tournu (University of Grenoble 2, France)
Email: christophe.tournu@wanadoo.fr

Any papers on Milton will be considered, but the preferred topic is “Milton, Rights, and Liberty”, like that of the International Milton Society conference of June 2005. What status does Milton lend to rights and liberty in his works, whether prose or verse? What are his conceptions of related ideas such as law and justice? What heritage has he left us? Please send a 500 word proposal, preferably by e-mail.

Please send your abstracts directly to both Professor Forsyth and Dr Tournu

ESSE-8: LONDON 2006
29 August – 2 September 2006

2. On air. 29 Januray 2006

I have been invited to talk about my translation of Milton's Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce (2nd ed., 1644), which was published last year (Paris: Belin, "Littérature & politique", 2005; 371 p.) and available at Amazon.fr. Geniève Fraisse, CNRS researcher and journalist at France Culture, will be interviewing me and the programme "L'Europe des Idées" will be aired on Sunday 29 January 2006 at 22:15 PM local time.

3. The 9th European Philosophy Conference in Lille, France. 4-26 November 2005
23 November 05: "Milton, divorce and separation"

Milton : divorce et séparation
23 novembre 25 de 16h à 18h
Palais des Beaux-Arts - grand auditorium - Place de la République – Lille

Olivier Abel
Professeur de philosophie à la faculté de théologie protestante de Paris.
A récemment publié : Le mariage a-t-il encore un avenir? (Bayard)

Christophe Tournu
Maître de conférences en anglais à l'Université de Grenoble 2, fondateur de la Société d'Etudes Miltoniennes.
A récemment publié avec Olivier Abel : Milton et le droit au divorce (Labor et Fides)

Présentation : Sandra Laugier
Professeur de philosophie à l'Université de Picardie Jules Verne, directrice de l'Ecole Doctorale en Sciences Humaines et Sociales, membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Multitudes.
A récemment publié avec Olivier Abel et Christophe Tournu : "John Milton, Doctrine et discipline du divorce" (Belin)

Les thèses de John Milton, surtout connu comme étant l'auteur du « Paradis perdu », ont été lues et revendiquées par les hommes qui accomplirent la révolution française. Il plaidait d'un même mouvement le droit de divorcer, celui de rompre le pacte politique qui nous lie au souverain, et celui de la dissidence religieuse. Où en sommes nous aujourd'hui des libres liens que ces séparations ont institués?