Just a brief reminder that the British Milton Seminar is travelling to York for its autumn 2023 meeting, where it will be kindly hosted by the University of York’s Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.

York CREMS (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies)

November 3rd, 2023, Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, Humanities Research Centre

10.00 am Coffee

10.30 – 12.00

Sarah Knight, ‘Milton’s Letters’

Carla Suthren, ‘Milton’s Anti-Tyrannical Euripides: Parrhesia, Polis, and the Politics of Citation’

Hannah Crawforth, ‘Milton, Haiti, and the Tragedy of Slavery’

12.00 – 1.00 Lunch

1.00 – 2.00

JD Eynard, ‘Dangerous Books and Expurging Indexes: Milton and the policing of intellectual bodies in early modern England’

Dave Harper, ‘“Because He Reads All Things In It”: James Paterson’s Scholia for Paradise Lost’

2.00 – 2.30 Coffee

2.30 – 4.00

Sophie Fordham, ‘Impairing Thought: Rereading Satan’s Fall(s)’

Namratha Rao, ‘Milton’s Faulty Medium: Accommodation in Paradise Lost’

Kevin Killeen, ‘A Theology of Bafflement: Towards a Definitive List of Germans whom Milton didn’t care about’

4.15 – 5.30

Noël Sugimura, Keynote Lecture: ‘“Above human flight”: Marvell and Milton’

Events will be live streamed with audio and presentations. See the webpage for registration details:

https://www.york.ac.uk/crems/events/2023-24/milton-conference/

We ask that in person attendees register as well, if possible (for numbers)

Organisers at York: Namratha Rao and Kevin Killeen

on behalf of the British Milton Seminar: Organisers – Hugh Adlington and Sarah Knight