supporting the study of Lord Byron's life and work
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.
Byron’s Don Juan: A Romantic Bicentennial Symposium
October 18-19, 2019
DePaul University
FINAL PROGRAM now available
The spirit of Romantic Bicentennials continues as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of the first cantos of Byron’s Don Juan.
Join The Byron Society of America and The Keats-Shelley Association for a symposium featuring keynote lectures by Jerome McGann, Clara Tuite, Alice Levine, and Peter Graham. Offering a unique blend of younger and established scholars, the conference converges for two days in Chicago at DePaul University and The Chicago History Museum. The conference will bring together scholars from a wide range of backgrounds––Australia, Greece, and North America––to explore the origin of Byron’s poem and its cultural value in the 21st century. At a time when free speech has become more important than ever, Byron’s Don Juan stands as a monument to the importance of literature in showing that words are things, and that writers can indeed speak truth to power.
Byron’s poem will be interpreted by poststructuralists, New Historicists, feminists, inter-disciplinary and formalist scholars, with essays offered on Lady Byron, Ada Lovelace, Rap music, Opera, and many other subjects. The conference explores Byron’s poem as a conjunction of the high and low brow, blending gossip from Regency Court trials with allusions to Homer’s Odyssey, the Ten Commandments on the one hand, and the dangers of moral self-satisfaction on the other.
Beyond the conference presentations, music will be performed on Saturday, as the conference moves to the Chicago History Museum, founded in 1856, with its rich array of Chicago lore and an Art Deco theatre. Participants will hear papers presented in a venue opposite the Art Institute of Chicago where Delacroix’s “The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan” is housed (Friday), and listen to Liszt, Chopin, and selections from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” provided by the DePaul School of Music at the Chicago History Museum (Saturday).
No conference registration fees!
Conference begins 9am 18th October at DePaul University, Daley building, 14 East Jackson Blvd., Room 805
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Hotel Recommendations
Hotel Lincoln 855-514-8112
1816 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614
Palmer House Hotel 312-726-7500
17 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 60603
The Messolonghi Byron Society has announced details for the 14th International Student Byron Conference, “Byron and Revolution.” The conference will be held in Messolonghi, Greece from 20-25 May, 2019. Details below.
CFP deadline: 10 February 2019
For more information, see the CFP at the site of The Messolonghi Byron Society
The International Association of Byron Studies has announced details for the 45th International Byron Conference, “Transgressive Romanticism: Boundaries, Limits and Taboos”. The conference will be held at the University of Vechta in Germany from 4-8 September, 2019.
CFP deadline: 15 November 2018
For more information, see: “Transgressive Romanticism: Boundaries, Limits and Taboos”
Drew University Special Collections
Invites you to Celebrate the
Bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Tuesday, October 23
Doors: 4 pm
Talk: 4:30 pm
Featuring a talk by
Stuart Curran,
Vartan Gregorian Professor of
English, Emeritus
University of Pennsylvania
on
Mary Shelley, Betty Bennett, and Frankenstein
Followed by wine and cheese reception
Accompanied by a new exhibition:
“What terrified me shall terrify others”: 200 Years of Shelley’s Frankenstein
This exhibit, curated by Head of Special Collections Brian Shetler and Special Collections Associate Candace Reilly, highlights the impact Mary Shelley’s novel has made on literature, society, and culture. Featuring materials from Drew University’s Special Collections, including rare books, manuscripts, comics, objects, and extensive works from the Betty T. Bennett archives located within the Byron Society Collection. This selection of material inspired by Frankenstein’s monster brings to life Shelley’s novel in a haunting and riveting way!
United Methodist Archives and History Center
Drew University
36 Madison Avenue
Madison, NJ 07940
Please send RSVP to
speccol@drew.edu
On January 4, 2019, the Byron Society of America will sponsor is forty-sixth annual regular session, “1819 in 2019,” at the Modern Languages Association convention, to be held in Chicago. Here are the details:
1819 in 2019
Session # 365: FRIDAY, 4 JANUARY
5:15 PM-6:30 PM
Columbus G (Hyatt Regency Chicago)
Participants will discuss the relevance of 1819 for our contemporary moment, where 1819 refers both to the events of that year and to James Chandler’s foundational work, England in 1819.
Presiding
Jonathan Sachs (Concordia U, Montreal)
Respondent
James Chandler (U of Chicago)
Speakers
Ian Duncan (U of California, Berkeley)
Amanda Jo Goldstein (U of California, Berkeley)
Deidre Lynch (Harvard U)
Josephine McDonagh (U of Chicago)
Jerome J. McGann (U of Virginia)
A symposium co-sponsored with the Keats-Shelley Association of America at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Details at https://romantics200.org/event/k-saabyron-society-symposium-the-publication-of-frankenstein/
A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Leslie A. Marchand
Thursday, November 2, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Drew University Library, United Methodist Archives and History Center,
Madison, New Jersey
Including
The Thirteenth Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lecture
by
Hermione de Almeida
Walter Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature,
The University of Tulsa
“Fluid Dynamics: Evolutionary Physics in Byron”
Accompanied by
A Showcase Exhibition of Leslie Marchand’s Papers and Ephemera
And the book launch for
Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures 2000-2015: A Legacy in Byron Studies, ed. Katherine Kernberger
Event Details:
Wine and Hors d’oeuvres Reception: 4:30-5:00 p.m., 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Marchand Showcase Exhibition: 4:30-5:00 p.m., 6:00-8:00 p.m., with remarks by the Special Collections staff
Lecture: 5:00 – 6:00 P.M.
Book Signing: 6:00 – 7:30 P.M.
Tours of the Byron Society Collection
RSVP by October 20, 2017 to Brian Shetler, bshetler@drew.edu, or call 973-408-3910
Directions to Drew University Library. From New York City: Take NJ Transit from Penn Station to Madison, NJ. The campus is a short cab ride from the train station. (Try Travelers Taxi at 973-908-9799.) Driving directions are available on the Drew website: https://www.drew.edu/about/maps-directions. For hotel
accommodations, call the Madison Hotel at 1-800-526-0729 and ask for the Drew rate.
The Byron Society of America will sponsor its forty-fifth annual session at this year’s Modern Language Association Convention in January in New York City. Session details are as follows:
Session 270: “Byron and Politics: A roundtable discussion”
Friday, 5 January 2018, 10:15 AM-11:30 AM
Presiding: Jack Wasserman, (independent scholar and longstanding Board Member of the BSA)
Roundtable participants:
Jonathan Gross (DePaul)
Piya Pal-Lapinski (Bowling Green State)
Andrew Warren (Harvard)
The participants will explore the life and works of Lord Byron in relation to the politics of his own time and ours, with emphasis on the Congress of Vienna and the future of Europe, and discuss how Byron‘s political writings and personal engagements impacted European culture, politics, and art in the post-Napoleonic context. Part of Romantic Bicentennials (http://romantics200.org), the session will engage the long legacy of Romanticism.
The Byron Society of America’s panel at January’s MLA convention in Philadelphia is entitled “Byron and Consumption.” Professor Ghislaine McDayter of Bucknell University will preside. See details of the four-speaker lineup here: https://apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=201&year=2017.
The panel will convene on Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., in room 106B of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Please consider attending.
