supporting the study of Lord Byron's life and work
Byron’s Legacy, 200 Years On
Modern Languages Association Convention
Philadelphia, PA
4-7 January 2024
Roundtable: Byron’s legacy 200 years after his death. Short (5-7 minute) papers addressing a single category: poetry, politics, gender and sexuality, celebrity and media, race, disability. Please submit brief proposals (250 words maximum).
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 20 March 2023
Andrew M. Stauffer, U of Virginia (ams4k@virginia.edu )
The Byron Society invites applications for a PhD bursary of up to £5,000 per year.
Applications are open to new and existing full-time PhD students enrolled at a UK university and working on a thesis addressing any aspect of the life, work and /or influence of the poet Lord Byron. Applications are also welcomed from those studying multiple poets or authors, including Byron.
Each bursary covers just one year, however multiple applications can be made and postgraduates whose research focuses solely on Byron can receive up to three annual bursaries. (Those who study Byron alongside other poets and authors can only be awarded one bursary).
Applications can be made by students with additional sources of funding, but please list these in your application. The applications should also include a summary of the applicant’s academic record, an outline of his / her proposed research and the names of two referees who may be contacted. Please also state what year of study you are in.
Please download and fill out the Application Form at the bottom of this page, and notify your chosen referee that we will be in touch to request a reference. In addition to the questions below, please state what other funding you have been awarded (if any).
Applications should be sent by email to Dr Emily Paterson-Morgan, Director of the Byron Society, at contact@thebyronsociety.com.
The application form can be found here: http://www.thebyronsociety.com/phd-bursary (Scroll to bottom of page)
The application process for 2023/2024 is now open. It will close on 31st May 2023.
NEWSTEAD ABBEY BYRON CONFERENCE
21-22 April 2023
At Newstead Abbey
CALL FOR PAPERS
Bursaries available (see bottom of page)
In July 1823, Byron embarked upon his ill-fated trip to Greece. Although this trip resulted in his death at the age of 36, it also redeemed a somewhat tarnished reputation and forever immortalised him as the poet of liberty and revolution. Instead of a degenerate exile living in jaded Italian debauchery with a menagerie of animals and a string of mistresses, Byron was transformed into a globally-recognised freedom fighter, willing to sacrifice everything to challenge oppression and tyranny. 1823 also saw the continuation of Byron’s provocative and controversial poetic activities with the publication of Heaven and Earth and ‘The Blues’ in The Liberal, the writing of The Island, and the completion of Canto 16 of Don Juan.
The 2023 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference will therefore focus on the themes of independence and integrity in Byron’s life and works. Topics can include but are not restricted to:
Abstracts of no more than 300 words can be sent to Dr Emily Paterson-Morgan (newsteadbyronconference@gmail.com) by 31st January 2023.
The Byron Society will be offering 4 bursaries of £250 each to enable students, postgraduates and early career researchers to attend and present at the conference. If you would like to apply for a bursary, please include a short application statement outlining your biography, your career stage and status, and reasons for requesting the bursary, and send this with your presentation abstract to the conference organiser.
You are invited to attend a reading on Zoom by 53 readers of Byron’s The Vision of Judgment. It will take place on Sunday, January 22nd (Byron’s 235th birthday!), at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. If you would like to get on the attendance list, please contact Alice Levine (alice.levine@hofstra.edu) or Susan Wolfson (wolfson@princeton.edu). The link will be sent to you the day before the event.
University of San Francisco, California
Hosted by The Byron Society of America
Co-Sponsored by The Keats-Shelley Association of America
In the early 1820s, after having joined the Carbonari movement to aid Italian national freedom, Lord Byron contemplated moving to South America to help the revolutionary campaigns against Spain’s imperialist forces. Byron even named his yacht the Bolívar after the famous Venezuelan liberator himself, outraging the Austrian governors who were tightening their grip on occupied Italy. When the Carbonari movement collapsed in Italy, he shifted his attention towards Greece, ultimately traveling there in 1823 to support the revolution against the Ottoman Turks. As the Austrian outrage at the Bolívar shows, the South American, Italian, and Greek revolutions were all part of a global cause of liberal resistance. In both his poetry and his life, Byron championed counter-colonial resistance movements from within and without Europe, while his legacy helped to shape emergent nations and the culture of Romantic-era authors and writings around the globe.
In bicentenary tribute, the IABS 2023 conference will gather work on Byron and Romantic-era resistance while seeking to honor the global diversity of the Romantic age. Our gathering’s theme is “New Worlds,” and we invite papers both on and beyond Byron and his circle. We welcome scholars to contribute papers and convene panels and roundtables related, but not necessarily limited, to the following subjects:
On Sunday evening,
22 January 2023,
the Byron Society of America
will celebrate its
50th anniversary
with a
GALA DINNER
in New York City
Location: ALICE (126 West 13th Street)
Time: 5:30pm drinks, 6:00pm dinner
Cost: $80/person
** RSVP ASAP ** to ams4k@virginia.edu
The BSA will be covering wine and service.
This event will follow our Zoom reading of THE VISION OF JUDGMENT, scheduled to begin at 2pm that same afternoon.
This is an important day in the history of the BSA, — FIFTY years! I hope many of us can be there to celebrate together.
2022 Romantic Bicentennials Curran Symposium
“Keats and Shelley on the Move“
co-sponsored by the Byron Society of America and the Keats-Shelley Association of America.
The event will take place on Friday, October 28, 2022 at the Grolier Club in NYC. More information is available here, along with link to register:
https://www.k-saa.org/events/keats-and-shelley-on-the-move-a-romantic-bicentennials-curran-symposium
Saturday, 7 January 3:30 PM-4:45 PM, Sierra Suite J (Marriott Marquis)
Presiding: Celeste G.Langan (U of California, Berkeley)
1. Commonplaces in Uncommon Places, Mai-LinCheng (U of Oregon)
2. Orientalizing the Commons: Between Arab Subsistence and Greek Democracy, Lenora Hanson (New York U)
3. Common Disaster, Manu Samriti Chander (Rutgers U, Newark)
4. More Anon (Gratis Maureen McLane), Marjorie Levinson (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
This stunning video of the new Byron Museum in Messolonghi, Greece comes to us from Rosa Rodanthe-Florou of the Messolonghi Byron Society. Looking forward to touring the space and seeing the exhibits at the International Student Byron Conference in May 2022!
At the 2023 MLA Convention in San Francisco, the Byron Society of America will celebrate it’s 50th year as an Affiliate Organization.
Here is the information on our session. More on date / time as it emerges.
“Uncommon Wants, Common Things, Undercommons: Byron in 2023”
Celeste Langan, UC Berkeley, moderator
1. Mai-Lin Cheng, University of Oregon: “Common-places in Uncommon Places”
2. Lenora Hanson, NYU: “Orientalizing the Commons: Between Arab Subsistence and Greek Democracy”
3. Manu Samriti Chander, Rutgers-Newark: “Common Disaster”
4. Marjorie Levinson, University of Michigan: “More Anon: Gratis Maureen McLane”