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9:20am Parallel Panels 55a. Milton: Science and Sense Rm 17606
Chair: Joan Blythe, University of Kentucky
When I Consider How Light Is Sent in Paradise Lost
-Katsuhiro Engetsu, Doshisha University
Toward a Semiotics of Smell in Paradise Lost
-Lauren Shohet, Villanova University
To Read Milton's Work Through Japanese Sensibility
-Rie Hase, Tohoku University
5b. Milton: Religion, Discipline, and Law Rm 17607
Chair: Joshua Scodel, University of Chicago
The Law’s Violence in Paradise Lost
-Sarah Higinbotham, Georgia State University
Discipline in Paradise
-Kenneth Graham, University of Waterloo
When Muslims Read Milton: Paradise Lost and a Religious Shock
-Mahe Nau Awan, University of Surrey
5c. Samson Agonistes: Influence and Reception Rm 17608
Chair: William Shullenberger, Sarah Lawrence College
Fame and Exile: Ovid's Tristia in Milton's Poems
-Michiko Mori, Otemae University
Ceremony in Milton's Samson Agonistes and Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise
-Karen Clausen-Brown, University of Notre Dame
The Reception of Samson Agonistes in Coleridge
-Takehiro Hashimoto, Kanto Gakuin University
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10:50am Coffee Break Foyer (Blg 17, 6th Floor)
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11:20am Plenary Session 3 Honda Memorial Hall
Chair: Beverley Sherry, University of Sydney
"Lodge and Dislodge by Turns": Rethinking the Milton Controversy
-John Leonard, University of Western Ontario
The Oxford Milton: Rethinking the Life and the Text
-Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester
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12:50pm Lunch Break
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2:10pm Parallel Panels 6
6a. Milton and Intentionality Rm 17606
Chair: David Gay, University of Alberta
Is Milton a Pacifist?
-Nobuhiro Kawashima, Ryukoku University
"The Law I Gave to Nature": The Aporetic Proclamation of Natural Law in Paradise Lost
-Bjorn Quiring, Ludwig Maximilians University
Dread in Paradise Lost
-Ken Hiltner, University of California, Santa Barbara (read by Seth Herbst, Harvard University)
6b. Milton: Nature and the Garden Rm 17607
Chair: Jonathan Olson, University of Liverpool
Is Milton's Eden Truly a "Natural Garden?: From the Viewpoint of the Japanese Concept of Shizen
-Osamu Nakayama, Reitaku University
Milton's Ideal Place in Arcades, Epitaphium Damonis and the Garden of Eden
-Yae Kanasaki, Kinki University
Milton's Garden and the Language of Georgic
-Seth Lobis, Claremont McKenna College
6c. Milton and 17th-Century Poetry Rm 17608
Chair: Kenneth Graham, University of Waterloo
Placing the Presbyter: Milton and Marvell
-Margaret Kean, University of Oxford
Milton and Dryden: The Heritage of the English Republic
-Go Togashi, Ferris University
"Paradise within": Religion and Politics in the Works of Milton and Herbert
-Fahimeh Naseri, University of Newcastle
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3:40pm Tea Break Foyer (Blg 17, 6th Floor)
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FREE TIME
4:00-5:00 Recommendation: Nezu Museum, famous for national treasures from the Edo period and a Japanese garden (10 min. walk).
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7:00pm Concert Goucher Memorial Chapel
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