[Milton-L] Quatercentenary Conference at U of Illinois, Nov. 6

[Feisal Mohamed]

*Conference Announcement, "John Milton: Iconoclast to Icon"*

*Date: November 6, 2008*

*Location: Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, 805 W
Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana, IL *

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a
one-day conference marking the quatercentenary of Milton's birth, "John
Milton: Iconoclast to Icon."  This will coincide with a book exhibit
selected from the world-class collection of Miltoniana housed in the
university's Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

The day before the conference, November 5, will feature a public lecture by
Geoffrey Robertson, QC, author of *The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the
Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold* (2005), founder of one of the UK's
first human-rights law firms, and distinguished jurist on the UN's Internal
Justice Council (see www.geoffreyrobertson.com).  This lecture will be held
at 4:00 p.m. at the Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana.

All events are free and open to the public, but we do request that attendees
register in advance by e-mailing Feisal Mohamed (fgm at illinois.edu).  Those
traveling through Chicago may also wish to be aware of the Newberry Mlton
Seminar to be held on November 8, featuring David Quint (
http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/seminars/miltsem08-09.html).

Please see full conference programme below.


*Programme*

 9:30-10:45

*1)  Paradise Lost**: Interpretive Cruces*

Christopher Kendrick (Loyola Chicago), "Milton's Limbo and the Logic of
Creation"

Feisal Mohamed (Illinois), "Two Wights Who Are Not Knights: Jonson and the
Mock-Epic Strain in *Paradise Lost*"

John Leonard (Western Ontario), "'Doing what he Describes': Johnson Rambling
on Milton"

11:00-12:15

*2)  The Political and Religious Grounds of Milton's Thought*

Stephen Fallon (Notre Dame), "'Inspired with Contradiction': Milton's
Conflicting Certainties"

Ryan Netzley (Southern Illinois, Carbondale), "Desiring What Has Already
Happened: Reading Prolepsis and Immanence in Milton's Early Poems and *Paradise
Regained*"

Stella Revard (Southern Illinois, Edwardsville), "Charles, Christ, and the
Icon of Kingship in *Paradise Regained*"

 1:30-2:45

*3)  Imagining Nationhood *

Achsah Guibbory (Barnard), "Milton, England, and Israel"

Robin Grey (Illinois, Chicago), "Towards an Early Modern Theory of
Conspiracy: Milton's *Eikonoklastes* and Historical Process"

Nicholas von Matzahn (Ottawa), "Nation and Reception"

 3:00-4:15

*4)  Milton and the Early Modern Other*

Paul Stevens (Toronto), "International Milton and the English Nation"

Regina Schwartz (Northwestern), "Milton and Idolatry"

Mary Nyquist (Toronto), "The 'American' as Contemporary Ancestor"
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