Byron sessions at 2024 MLA convention announced!

MLA 2024: Philadelphia, PA

The Byron Society of America will sponsor two sessions at the 2024 Modern Languages Association Convention in January:

1. Roundtable Session : “Byron’s Legacy, 200 Years On”

Presiding: Alice Levine, Hofstra University

“Politics,” John Havard, Binghampton University

“Gender and Sexuality,” Ghislaine McDayter, Bucknell University

“Race,” Matt Sandler, Columbia University

“Poetry,” Jerome McGann, University of Virginia

2. Special Session : “Byron in Circulation”

Presiding: Lindsey Eckert, Florida State University

Michael Macovski (Georgetown), “The Material Byron: Book History and Textual Studies”

James Armstrong (City College of New York), “Byron and Drama”

Gary Dyer (Cleveland State ), “Byron and Textuality”

McGann and Beatty in Conversation (VIDEO)

A lively conversation in which Bernard Beatty and Jerome McGann discuss their new books on Byron.

VIDEO OF EVENT now available!

Wednesday, May 31st at 1:30pm EST

This is a joint event, hosted by the Byron Society and Byron Society of America. Join us for a lively conversation in which Bernard Beatty and Jerome McGann will discuss their new books on Byron with one another and the audience: Beatty’s Reading Byron and McGann’s Byron and the Poetics of Adversity. Hosted by Emily Paterson-Morgan and Andrew Stauffer.

CFP: BSA at MLA 2024: Byron’s Legacy, 200 Years On

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 )

Byron Society (London) PhD Bursary

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, 21-23 April

Byron: Independence and Integrity

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:

  • Byron and Greece
  • Invasion and defence
  • Democracy and despotism
  • Questions of morality and immorality
  • British radicalism and revolution
  • State control and State corruption
  • Byron’s use of non-traditional poetic modes
  • Byron and the Blessingtons
  • Byron and Teresa Guiccioli
  • Byron, Hunt and The Liberal.

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.

“The Vision of Judgment” reading, Zoom, 22 January 2023

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.

2023 IABS Conference in San Francisco: “New Worlds”

https://www.iabsconference2023.org

The International Association of Byron Societies

Annual Conference

August 7th – 11th 2023

University of San Francisco, California

Hosted by The Byron Society of America

Co-Sponsored by The Keats-Shelley Association of America

Call for Papers

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:

  • New Worlds for Byron and Romantic Studies
  • Byron and #Bigger6 Possibilities
  • Byron and the Americas
  • Reworlding: Utopian and Dystopian Horizons
  • New Worlds of Science in the Romantic Age
  • Revolution and Resistance
  • Migration, Diaspora, Exile, Ex-Patriotism
  • Black Studies, Race, and Byron
  • Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism
  • The Black Atlantic, Slavery, and the Slave Trade
  • Romantic Land- and Bodyscaping
  • Cosmopolitanism and New Worlds
  • Queer, Genderqueer, and Trans Romanticisms
  • Byron, Disability, and Identity
  • Worlds of Materiality in Visual Culture
  • The Poetics and Politics of Space and Climate Change

BSA 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner, NYC, January 22, 2023

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)

https://alicenyc.com

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. 

“Keats and Shelley on the Move”: 2022 Romantic Bicentennials Curran Symposium

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

BSA at MLA 2023 (San Francisco)

MLA 2023: San Francisco, CA

Session 563: Uncommon Wants, Common Things, Undercommons: Byron in 2023

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)