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!
Author: Andrew Stauffer
BSA at MLA 2023
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”
BSA at MLA 2022
Byron’s Stanzas: The 1822 Cantos of Don Juan
FRIDAY, 7 JANUARY 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, SCARLET OAK (MARRIOTT MARQUIS)
AV Equipment: Projector and Speakers
Keywords: Byron, Romanticism, British, Nineteenth Century, Poetry
Sponsoring Entity: Byron Society of America
How do we read and teach Byron’s long poems, especially Don Juan, and what reading strategies are most productive and relevant to his work? Panelists center on a discussion of specific stanzas of Byron’s Don Juan, emphasizing the connections among poetics, thematics, and the larger cultural contexts and theoretical concerns of the Romantic era.
Speakers
Celeste G. Langan (U of California, Berkeley)
Deidre Lynch (Harvard U)
Omar F. Miranda (U of San Francisco)
Emily Rohrbach (Durham U)
Mariam Wassif (U of Paris 1, Paris-Sorbonne)
Presiding: Mai-Lin Cheng (U of Oregon)
Michael Steier wins the Elma Dangerfield Award for 2020
We are pleased to announce that BSA member Michael Steier has won this year’s Elma Dangerfield Prize from the IABS for his book, Byron, Hunt, and the Politics of Engagement, published in the Routledge Studies in Romanticism series. Steir wrote his dissertation with Charles Robinson at the University of Delaware, and the book is based on that project.
The award committee calls Steier’s book “an assured performance…a hugely enjoyable book…This monograph will become the reference book on the Hunt/Byron connection, as well as a very useful resource on Byron generally, and on a large cast of figures, coteries, and literary-cultural phenomena from the 1810s to the 1820s.”
Quoting the Routledge description:
“Byron, Hunt, and the Politics of Literary Engagement is the first full-length study of the friendship and literary relationship of two of the most important second-generation Romantic authors. Challenging long-held critical attitudes, this study shows that Byron and Hunt engaged in a creative and meaningful dialogue at each major stage in their careers, from their earliest published volumes of juvenile poetry and verse satire to their most celebrated contributions to Romantic literature: The Story of Rimini and Don Juan. Drawing upon newly recovered letters and unpublished manuscript material, this bookilluminates the surprisingly durable and artistically significant friendship of Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt.”
Congratulations to Dr. Steier on this fine achievement!
Previous winners of the Elma Dangerfield Prize include Roderick Beaton, Peter Cochran, Paul Douglass, Paul Elledge, Caroline Franklin, Peter Graham, Malcom Kelsall, Ghislaine McDayter, Tom Mole, Diego Saglia, Miranda Seymour, Jonathon Shears, Clara Tuite, and Sarah Wootton.
https://www.internationalassociationofbyronsocieties.org/index.php/news
International Byron Conference 2021 (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki)
NEW DATES for the 46th International Byron Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece:
28th June – 4th July 2021
We are happy to announce the new dates for the 46th International Byron Conference which was postponed due to covid-19 concerns. The conference will coincide with the 200th Anniversary of the Greek War of Independence of 1821, a landmark event that will be celebrated throughout the country.
Please note that the Call for Papers has opened again. The new deadline for abstracts is 31 January 2021. The exact format of the conference will be decided in the next few months and relevant information will be posted on the conference website as we go forward.
Delegates who had their proposals accepted are kindly requested to confirm their intention to participate by 31 January 2021 to our dedicated email address: byronthess@gmail.com
We very much hope that you will join us for this rescheduled event!
John Murray Archive: free trial access via Adam Matthew Digital
Adam Matthew Digital has published a large selection of materials from The John Murray Publishing Archive at the National Library of Scotland:
Nineteenth Century Literary Society
The John Murray Publishing Archive
This resource makes available the most complete archival collection of Byron’s manuscripts and personal papers in a digital, full-text searchable format. Highlights include annotated drafts of Don Juan or letters around Byron’s affair with Lady Caroline Lamb. You can find out more via the brochure available here.
Given the importance of these materials for many any of you, even more so in light of the current limitations on international travel, I’m very excited to announce that Adam Matthew Digital is offering a free 30-day trial for all members until the end of the year. I’d encourage you to make use of this offer and to spread the word about this important collection among your fellow Byronists.
If you’re interested in the trial, please contact us. We will forward on your contact information to Adam Matthew Digital, and they will set you up with a username/password for the trial.
CFP: 15th International Student Byron Conference (Messolonghi, Greece), 26-31 May 2021
Postponed: 2020 International Byron Conference (Thessaloniki)
From the organizers of the 2020 IABS Conference at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki:
We re regret to announce that it has been necessary to postpone the International Byron Conference in Thessaloniki scheduled for 29 June-5 July 2020 as part of measures related to COVID-19. We hope that it will be possible to run the conference in late June/early July 2021.The new dates will be announced in due course.
CFP for MLA 2021 (Toronto): Byron in 1821
Call for Papers
The Byron Society of America at MLA 2021:
“Byron in 1821: A Retrospective”
This bicentennial panel sponsored by the Byron Society of America will examine Byron’s work written or published in 1821, including Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, Heaven and Earth, Cain, and Werner. 250 word abstracts by 26 March 2020.
Organizer: Omar F. Miranda, U of San Francisco (ofmiranda@usfca.edu )
CFP: 2020 International Byron Conference (Thessaloniki, Greece), Jan 31 deadline
http://www.new.enl.auth.gr/ibc2020/
Proposals are invited for the 2020 Conference of the International Association of Byron Societies, “Byron: Wars and Words”, to be held at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from 29th June to 5th July. The aim of this conference is to look at how war in all its meanings, symbolisms, and manifestations influenced Byron’s words and worlds, and shaped his poetic and political sensibility. Drawing on recent scholarship in Romantic studies, it will also explore Romantic authors’ preoccupations with war, and how these intersected with Byron’s. How are the events of wars transformed into words, images and spectacle? Conversely, how do words become weapons and trigger literary, cultural, and political struggles? What kind of ideological conflicts, dilemmas, and anxieties does the print culture of the time embody when treating the issue of war? How does Romantic-period conflict extend our understanding of modern warfare?
The conference welcomes 20-minute proposals for papers on topics including, but not necessarily limited to:
- Byron as revolutionary fighter and/or critic of war
- Byron and Napoleon
- Byron and epic
- Warfare as inspiring force for poetic subjects, new genres, language forms and styles
- Romantic nationalism
- “Intellectual war”: newspapers, magazines, reviews and broadsides
- The representation of military action and violence in literature and art
- Famous critical wars that Byron’s words produced
- War and gender
- Revolution and knowledge production
- Science and war
- Media and military technologies
Please send 250-word proposals by 31st January 2020 to byronthess@gmail.com, directing any enquiries to Dr. Maria Schoina. Confirmation of acceptance by 29th February 2020.