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. 

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.

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

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

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)