Lamentation of Christ (1300s). Fresco at the Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padova

British Milton Seminar at York

  • Date and time: Friday 3 November 2023, 10.00am to 5:30pm
  • Location: Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, University of York Heslington West Campus

Event details


Programme for the day

10.00 Coffee 

10.30–12.00

  1. Sarah Knight, Milton’s Letters
  2. Carla Suthren, Milton’s Anti-Tyrannical Euripides: Parrhesia, Polis, and the Politics of Citation
  3. Hannah Crawforth, Milton, Haiti, and the Tragedy of Slavery 

12.00–13.00 Lunch 

13.00–14.00

  1. JD Eynard, Dangerous Books and Expurging Indexes: Milton and the policing of intellectual bodies in early modern England
  2. Dave Harper, ‘Because He Reads All Things In It’: James Paterson’s Scholia for Paradise Lost 

14.00–14.30 Coffee 

14.30–16.00

  1. Sophie Fordham, Impairing Thought: Rereading Satan’s Fall(s) 
  2. Namratha Rao, Milton’s Faulty Medium: Accommodation inParadise Lost
  3. Kevin Killeen, A Theology of Bafflement: Towards a Definitive List of Germans whom Milton didn't care about

16.15 – 17.30

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.

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