The International Milton Symposium welcomes scholars from across the world for five
days of convivial discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for
20 minute papers on all aspects of Milton studies, from established approaches to new
and emerging ones. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Pacific, and Global Milton
Milton in the Americas, Milton in Canada
Comparative epic, classical reception
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

See website for link to submit a proposal (500 words maximum) on or before July 1, 2022.