CFP: International Milton Symposium, Toronto 10-14 July 2023
The Thirteenth International Milton Symposium will be held at the University of Toronto, Canada, 10-14 July 2023. The Symposium welcomes scholars from across the world for five days of lively discussion and convivial exchanges.
Plenary speakers include: Lorna Hutson, Achsah Guibbory, Su Fang Ng, Feisal Mohamed, and David Quint
The IMS Program Committee invites proposals for 20-minute papers on all aspects of Milton and seventeenth-century studies, from established approaches to new and emerging ones. 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
Go to https://crrs.ca/milton2023/ to submit a proposal (500 words maximum), on or before July 1, 2022. Inquiries can be emailed to MiltonSymposium13@gmail.com.