A Conference Marking the Retirement of Stephen M. Fallon, Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities Program of Liberal Studies and Department of English
For those unable to join us on campus, we invite you to join us on zoom.
9:50 a.m. Greeting: Julia Marvin (Chair, Program of Liberal Studies)
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Panel 1
Chair: Matthew Mullin (PhD candidate, Notre Dame)
Rachel Trubowitz (University of New Hampshire) “Exquisite reasons and theorems almost mathematically demonstrative”: Divine Wisdom and the New Geometrical Method in Areopagitica”
Timothy Harrison (University of Chicago) , “Milton’s Avicenna: Matter, Creation, Dialectic.”
Sanford Budick (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Milton and Kant on Co-Existent Being and the Reciprocal Forces of First Matter."
Respondent: Paul Stevens (University of Toronto)
1:30 p.m - 3:30 p.m. Panel 2
Chair: Alex Chun (PhD candidate, Notre Dame)
John Rumrich (University of Texas-Austin), "Providential Noir: Eve's Fall and Milton's Theodicy."
Samuel Fallon (State University of New York-Geneseo), “Samson’s Ransom” Russell Leo (Princeton University), “Varieties of Autodidacticism: Milton, Spinoza, and the Quakers”?
Respondent: Achsah Guibbory (Barnard College)
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Lecture
Introduction: Laura Knoppers (Chair, Department of English)
Stephen Fallon, “Milton’s Animist Materialism Revisited”
5:15-6:15 p.m. Reception, English Commons, 2nd Floor Decio Hall