The Centre for Renaissance & Reformation Studies, Canada Research Chair Program and The Department of English Present 13th International Milton Symposium 10-14 July 2023
Plenary Speakers: Achsah Guibbory, Lorna Hutson, Nicholas McDowell, Feisal Mohamed, Su Fang Ng, David Quint
More information and registration can be found here
The IMS Program Committee invites proposals for 20-minute papers on all aspects of Milton studies, from established approaches to new and emerging ones. Click here to submit a proposal (500 words maximum), on or before July 1, 2022. A PDF version of the call for papers is available for download here. Please direct inquiries to miltonsymposium13 [at] gmail.com.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Atlantic, Pacific, and Global Milton
Milton in the Americas, Milton in Canada
Comparative epic, classical reception, humanism
Rhetoric, language, translingualism
Lyric, music, voice
Genre, form, adaptation
Illustration, graphic narrative, film
Cultures of reading: print, manuscript, DH
Romance, utopia, science fiction
Milton’s schoolrooms
Divorce, toleration, censorship
Chastity, marriage, polygamy
Gender, sexuality, asexuality, queerness
Theology, heresy, orthodoxy
Political theology; law and literature
Sovereignty, kingship, tyranny
Colony, empire, archipelago
Church, corporation, nation
Disability, blindness, plague
Monism, dualism, vitalism, mechanism
Animal, human, angel, deity
Ecology, environment, infrastructure
Anthropology, ethnography, indigeneity
Service, servitude, slavery, race
Milton’s Shakespeare
Milton and Cavendish
Milton and Spenser
Milton and Hobbes
Milton and . . .
Milton studies now
