12 pm
Towner Fellows Lounge
This talk will explore connections between Milton’s project in Paradise Lost and the efforts of seventeenth-century Baconians to erect a theodicy on the grounds of nature alone.
Coffee and refreshments will be served before the seminar.
Learn more about our speaker: Joanna Picciotto, University of California, Berkeley
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Sponsored by DePaul University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Newberry’s Milton Seminar is directed by Christopher Kendrick, Loyola University Chicago; David A. Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Paula McQuade of DePaul University; and Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University.
This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited and registration in advance is required. The paper will be precirculated to registrants. Registrations will be processed through 11 am Friday, May 17. Register online here.
Faculty and graduate students of Center for Renaissance Studies consortium institutions may be eligible to apply for travel funds to attend CRS programs or to do research at the Newberry. Each member university sets its own policies and deadlines; contact your Representative Council member in advance for details.
Learn more about the Center for Renaissance Studies’ Milton Seminar.