Milton Seminar XVI
Organized by John Rogers, University of Toronto
Friday – Saturday, May 28-29, 2022
Victoria College, University of Toronto
The Canada Milton Seminar XVI is a gathering of international scholars, presented by the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies with the Department of English and the Canada Research Chair Program.
This year’s CMS has now been confirmed as in-person only event, to be held at Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College, University of Toronto, ON.
PROGRAM
Friday 27th May: Session 1 – Plenary, 4.15-5.30 pm
Stephen Dobranski (Georgia State U.), “Milton and the Poetry of Disaster”
Saturday 28th May: Session 1 – Plenary, 9.00 am
GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons Workshop
Session 2 – Plenary, 10.30-11.45 am
David Scott Kastan (Yale U.), “‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’: Rembrandt’s Wedding Feast of Samson”
Session 3 – Plenary, 12.00-1.15 pm
Lynne Magnusson (University of Toronto), “Milton and the Grammar of Possibility”
Session 4 – Concurrent Sessions, 2.00-3.30 pm
(A) Old Victoria College Room 101
Andrew Brown (Dalhousie University), “Public Office and the Weight of Personation in Samson Agonistes”
Russ Leo (Princeton University), “Milton, Spinoza and the Critique of Institutions”
(B) Old Victoria College Room 115
Eric Song (Swarthmore College), “Shakespeare, Milton, and the Idea of Humans as Food”
Katherine Williams (University of Toronto), “Milton’s Poetics and Disability Aesthetics”
Session 5 – Plenary, 3.45-4.45 pm
Angelica Duran (Purdue U.), “Milton’s, Octavio Paz’s, and Our Pastoral Elegies”
4:45-5:10 pm Closing Remarks and Announcements
6:30 pm Banquet, Upper Library, Massey College