CALL FOR PAPERS: Eleventh International Milton Symposium

The Eleventh International Milton Symposium will be held at the University of Exeter, England, 20-24 July, 2015. The Symposium, normally held every three years, brings together scholars from across the world for five days of lively discussion and convivial exchanges about all things Miltonic.

Plenary speakers include: Maggie Kilgour (McGill), Mary Nyquist (Toronto),
David Quint (Yale), and Paul Stevens (Toronto).

Located in the beautiful Devon countryside, close to the sea and to Dartmoor National Park, the cathedral city of Exeter (founded by the Romans) is among those English cities most dramatically affected by the Civil War. Supporters of Parliament secured the city in 1642, and from early in 1643 it served as the western headquarters of the Parliamentary Army. After a determined and prolonged siege, it fell to Royalist forces in the autumn, who so strongly fortified the city that it was re-taken by the Parliamentary Army only in 1646. The rich Civil War History of Exeter will be a feature of the Symposium.

The Programme Committee warmly invites proposals for 20-minute papers on all aspects of Milton studies. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The Civil War Milton and his (near) contemporaries
• Paces – geographical, symbolic, textual Families, children, generation(s)
• Harmony, music, dancing, soundscapes The emotions, the passions, the senses
• Drama, dialogue, soliloquy Controversy, polemic, satire
• Biblical, classical, humanist scholarship Death, mortalism, memory
• Soul/Body Historiography

Proposals for papers (500 words maximum, preferably in the form of an email attachment) should be submitted by 10 June 2014 to Karen Edwards (k.l.edwards@exeter.ac.uk) and Philip Schwyzer (p.a.schwyzer@exeter.ac.uk), English Department, Queen’s Building, Exeter University, Exeter EX4 4QH, UK.

Centenary Lectures: Hugh Trevor-Roper 1914-2014

A series of papers and discussions to mark the centenary of his birth (on 15 January) and to appraise aspects of his thought and writing. The occasion is arranged by the Dacre Trust and will be held on

Saturday 11th January 2014 at Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Provisional Programme

10.00 - 11.35 SESSION 1: MID-SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY REVOLUTIONS

• Sir John Elliott, ‘Trevor-Roper and “The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century”’
• Blair Worden, ‘The Unpublished Book: The Puritan Revolution’
• Mark Greengrass, ‘“Three Foreigners: The Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution”’

COFFEE

11.55 - 1.00 SESSION 2: ERASMIANISM AND ECUMENICALISM

• Peter N. Miller, ‘Trevor-Roper and the Erasmian Tradition’
• Noel Malcolm, ‘Another Unpublished Book: “The Ecumenical Movement and the Church of England, 1598-1618”’

BUFFET LUNCH IN CORPUS

2.00 - 3.55 SESSION 3: THE SECOND WORLD WAR

• Richard Overy, ‘The Last Days of Hitler’
• Sir Michael Howard, ‘Trevor-Roper and Wartime Intelligence’
• Eberhard Jäckel, ‘Trevor-Roper and Hitler’
• Gina Thomas, ‘Trevor-Roper and Himmler’s Masseur’

TEA

4.15 - 4.50 SESSION 4: THE PROSE

John Banville, ‘Trevor-Roper as Prose Stylist’

4.50 - 5.25 SESSION 5: CONCLUDING DISCUSSION

5.30 - 7.15 RECEPTION IN ORIEL COLLEGE OXFORD

To celebrate the centenary, and to mark the publication of ONE HUNDRED LETTERS FROM HUGH TREVOR-ROPER, a selection of his letters to a variety of correspondents written between 1943 and 2001. The book is edited by Richard Davenport-Hines and Adam Sisman and will be published by Oxford University Press. All who have attended part or all of the conference will be welcome at the reception.

ARRANGEMENTS

The papers and discussions are open to all, and those who come to them are welcome to do so for either all or part of the proceedings.  There is no charge for attendance or for lunch or refreshments, but those wishing to attend will need to give notice.. Space is limited and places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.(A final closing date in December for any remaining spaces will be announced nearer the time.)  Those wishing to attend should email Blair Worden, who will be happy to answer questions.

Please whether you will:

1. join the group for lunch

2. attend the reception

3. state which sessions you plan to attend

In the autumn of 2014 a series of Dacre Centenary Lectures will be held, in association with the Oxford History Faculty, in the Examination Schools, Oxford, on Fridays at 5 p.m., provisionally under the title ‘IDEAS AND SOCIETY c. 1600-1800’. 

The speakers will be Anthony Grafton, Michael Hunter, Jonathan Israel, Colin Kidd, Noel Malcolm, David Wormersley and Brian Young

Seminar on literature, learning, and the social orders in early modern Europe (various dates, All Souls College)

The following seminars will be given at 2.00 p.m. (ending by 3.30p.m.) on Wednesdays in Hilary Term 2013 in the Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford.

Convenor: Dr Neil Kenny

PROFESSOR PETER BURKE, Univ. of Cambridge 16 Jan.: 'The social history of history in early modern Europe'

DR ROWAN TOMLINSON, Bristol Univ. 23 Jan.: 'Method, judgement, and social origin: theories and practices of historia in late Renaissance France'

DR JONATHAN PATTERSON, Univ. of Cambridge 30 Jan.:'Understanding avarice through the social orders in early modern France'

PROFESSOR JANE STEVENSON, Univ. of Aberdeen 6 Feb.: 'Martha Marchina: poetry and social mobility in Baroque Rome'

PROFESSOR HOWARD HOTSON, Univ. of Oxford 13 Feb.: 'Universal education: Comenius' pampaedia and some seventeenth-century critics'

PROFESSOR DAVID NORBROOK, Univ. of Oxford 20 Feb.: 'Gentry and gender: Lucy Hutchinson and the social interpretation of the English Civil War'

DR HELENA SANSON, Univ. of Cambridge 27 Feb.: 'Women, language, and access to learning in early modern Italy: an investigation across social classes'

PROFESSOR STEPHEN MILNER, Univ. of Manchester 6 Mar.: 'Pop go the classics: vernacular humanism and the social world of Renaissance Florence'

Fairfax 400 | Sir Thomas Fairfax 1612-1671

University of Leicester
30 June - 1 July 2012

This two-day interdisciplinary conference will investigate the impact of Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612–1671) upon his time and contemporaries.

It will combine the approaches of historians and literary scholars to examine afresh his multiple roles as a general, politician, landowner, husband and literary figure. His memory, image and reputation in art, literature, media and film will also be assessed.

The conference also includes a guided tour of Naseby battlefield.

Registration

To register for the conferenc please send your name, address, email and contact details in an envelope marked ‘Fairfax 400 Conference’ to Lucy Byrne at the address below, no later than 1 June 2012.

Please enclose a cheque payable to ‘The University of Leicester’ for £40 per person. This will cover registration, buffet lunches, refreshments and transport to Naseby for a battlefield tour (please bring waterproofs and sturdy footwear in case of poor weather).

Ms Lucy Byrne
Centre for English Local History
Marc Fitch Historical Institute
5 Salisbury Road
Leicester LE1 7QR

Conference website, including programme and booking information:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/fairfax