https://byronrome2024conference.nd.edu

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”

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.

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 31^st 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.

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. 

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”

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)