The Byron Society of America Presents
The Eleventh Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lecture
In Partnership with the Fordham Romanticism Group
Julia Markus
Author of Lady Byron and Her Daughters
http://www.juliamarkuswrites.com/
Director of Creative Writing at Hofstra University
will speak on
Celebrating Lady Byron’s Life and Ada Lovelace’s Day
Friday, October 16, 2015
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus
South Lounge
Event Details:
Wine and Cheese Reception: 5:00 – 6:00 P.M.
Lecture: 6:00 – 7:00 P.M.
Book Signing: 7:00 – 7:30 P.M.
RSVP by October 12, 2015, to John Bugg, bugg@fordham.edu
Please indicate whether you will be attending:
Reception Only
Lecture Only
Lecture and Reception
Directions to the South Lounge: Enter Fordham by the main entrance at 60th and Columbus. The South Lounge is on the Plaza Level, up one flight of escalators just beyond the cafeteria.
Author: Tom Berenato
Byron Society-sponsored panel at NASSR 2015: “Lord Byron and Rights,” August 13-16, 2015
NASSR 2015
August 13-16
University of Manitoba / University of Winnipeg
Special Session: Lord Byron and Rights
Organizer and chair: Alexander Grammatikos (Carleton University)
Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), “After ‘The Rubicon of Man’s Awakened Rights’: War, Debt, and the Rights of Nations in Byron’s The Age of Bronze (1823)”
Mark Lounibos (Finlandia University), “The Rights of Things in Byron’s Cain, or Hell as Hyperobject”
Jacob Hughes (The Pennsylvania State University), “Byron and the Right to Be Wrong”
The Leslie Marchand Lecture Series: Charles E. Robinson, “Byron and Hazlitt: Inclining Their Ears Towards Each Other”
The Leslie Marchand Lecture Series
“Byron and Hazlitt: Inclining Their Ears Towards Each Other”
Charles E. Robinson
University of Delaware
March 13, 2015
5:00 pm
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY
Room 5318
Byron and Hazlitt never met, but they certainly heard and read what the one said or wrote about the other. This talk will explore the two writers’ literary relationships, including their participation in the short-lived The Liberal (1822-1823) and the connections between Hazlitt’s Liber Amoris and Byron’s Don Juan.
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Charles E. Robinson is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Delaware, and has served as the Executive Director of The Byron Society of America and as co-chair of the Byron Society Collection. During his career, he has published primarily on Byron and Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley and William Hazlitt. His books include Shelley and Byron (1976), Mary Shelley: Collected Tales and Stories (1976), Byron and His Contemporaries (1982), William Hazlitt: Twenty-Seven New Letters (1987), The Mary Shelley Reader (1990), The Frankenstein Notebooks (1996), and The Original Frankenstein (2008; 2009). He is currently editing The Complete Letters of William Hazlitt—and still hopes to return to his Charles Ollier book.
CFP: “Byron & the Bible” Conference at Newstead Abbey, 1-2 May 2015
Call for Papers
Conference on “Byron & the Bible” at Newstead Abbey, 1-2 May 2015
Plenary speaker: Gavin Hopps (St Andrews)
Meeting on the premises of Newstead Abbey for the second time after the success of “Byron at Home” last year, this conference continues the long-standing tradition of international May gatherings of Byronists in the UK.
Encouraging a wide variety of approaches, it seeks to explore the ways in which the Bible and Biblical topics are treated and reflected in Byron’s texts, as well as finding new ways of discussing Byron’s complex relationship to God, religion, faith, atheism/secularism, sectarian doctrine/belief, scriptural ‘history’ and many other subjects.
Papers may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Byron and Catholicism; Byron and Calvinism; Byron and Judaism; Byron and Islam; Byron and the Old Testament; Byron and the New Testament; Byron and belief; Byron and Christ; Byron and individual Biblical characters; Byron and prophecy; Byron and faith; Byron and sacrifice; Byron and grace; Byron and spirituality; Byronic irreverence; Byron and religious tradition.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to Dr Mirka Horova at miraensis@yahoo.no by 15 January 2015.
There will be a talk and dinner on the evening of Friday 1 May at the 281 Restaurant & Rooms hotel in Mansfield.
The conference will take place on Saturday, 2 May, approx. 10.00 – 5.00.
More details at: http://www.internationalbyronsociety.org/images/stories/pdf_files/byron_and_the_bible_2015_cfp.pdf
CFP: “Lord Byron and Rights” Special Session at 2015 NASSR Conference (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 13-16 August 2015)
Lord Byron and Rights
The Byron Society of America
Open-Call Special Session
Organizer: Alexander Grammatikos, Carleton University
Lord Byron was a passionate and life-long defender of people’s rights. In the House of Lords he argued for the right of Catholics to be represented in parliament; in his personal correspondence he supported writers’ claims to copyright over their own works; and in a decision that led to his death, he travelled to Greece to help the Greeks realize their right to become an independent nation. His preoccupation with rights extended to his poetic works, too. For example, in Sardanapalus, the misguided but well-meaning titular leader laments “To me war is no glory—conquest no / Renown. To be forced thus to uphold my right / Sits heavier on my heart than all the wrongs / These men would bow me down with” (4.1.5.505-8). Here, in but just one example from Byron’s oeuvre, the poet demonstrates his keen understanding of the often relative nature of “rights” (for a king to retain his, he required war and conquest) and the personal price one had to pay to uphold them.
Complementing NASSR’s broader theme of “Romanticism and Rights,” we invite proposals that consider Byron’s engagement with “rights.” Submissions may include, but are not limited to:
- Byron and the right to freedom of religion
- Byron and the right to national independence
- Byron and animal rights
- Byron and authorial rights
- Byron and the right to sexual and gender expression
- Byron and the right to freedom of speech
- Byron and the rights of the disenfranchised and poor
- Byron and Eastern rights
- Byron and female rights
Proposals for papers should be a maximum of 350 words and be proposals for 20-minute papers.
All proposals must include your name, academic affiliation (if any), and preferred email address. Include the name of the session (“Lord Byron and Rights”) either on your proposal itself or in the accompanying email.
Submit proposals by 17 January 2015 to nassr15@umanitoba.ca.
See http://nassr2015.wordpress.com/ for more details about the conference.