The Sheen Center’s Loreto Theater and New York University, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Thursday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m., and Friday, April 21, 2017, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The Bicentenary of the Publication of Lord Byron’s Manfred: a Dramatic Reading of the Play/Poem and a Symposium, featuring a keynote by Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia
Organized by Omar F. Miranda, NYU, in partnership with the BSA and the Keats-Shelley Association of America as part of the Romantics Bicentennials series
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Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 6:15 p.m.
The Writing Lives Series: Biography, Novel, Lord Byron. – Benjamin Markovits, author of Childish Loves, the third novel in his trilogy on Byron, interviewed by Julie Salamon, journalist, critic, and author.
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Poets House
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
25th Anniversary Program – A Panel Discussion About the Life and Works of John Keats, with Stanley Plumly, author of Posthumous Keats, and poets Michael Harper, Judith Harris, and Anne Wright.
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Annual Awards Dinner at MLA
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Byron Society members planning to attend this year’s MLA Convention in Seattle, Washington, are invited to attend the Keats-Shelley Association of America’s annual awards dinner honoring Frances Ferguson and Marshall Brown.
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An evening with Benjamin Markovits, author of the new novel Childish Loves
September 19, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
Benjamin Markovits’ new novel, Childish Loves (published by W. W. Norton & Company) is a story within a story. Ben (the main character) receives unpublished manuscripts about Lord Byron from a deceased colleague.
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Byron Society Collection featured in “Love Lust: The Undead”
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 10:00 p.m.
If you are home on Tuesday, June 28, turn on the Sundance channel at 10:00 p.m., where an episode of the “Love Lust” series titled “The Undead” features a segment on Byron’s influence on the evolution of the vampire legend.
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But it’s chess: Two Lives for Academics Beyond the Academy
Thursday, April 14, 2011
On Thursday, April 14, the New York City Romanticism Group (NYCRG) presents Liz Denlinger and Doucet Fischer speaking and leading a discussion on their professional lives as (respectively) Curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and his Circle (NYPL) and as Editor of Shelley and his Circle 1773-1822.
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Lord Byron in Albanian Dress
Monday, January 10, 2011
The lecture will take place at Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower. Open door and drinks from 6.30 pm. Supper with speaker at “The Nile” thereafter.
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Actor Ian Kelly talks about Beau Brummel and Regency England
Monday, January 10, 2011
Mr. Kelly is the author of the well-received biography Beau Brummell: the Ultimate Dandy, among other works.
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House of Lords Dinner (London)
January 13, 2009
Annual House of Lord Dinner with Guest Speaker Edna O’Brien. Ms. O’Brien will talk about her new biography of Byron, Byron in Love, to be published in February 2009.
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Readings by Benjamin Markovits and Matthew Pearl
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
The Byron Society of America in cooperation with the Ticknor Society of Boston will be hosting readings by Benjamin Markovits and Matthew Pearl. Mr. Markovits will read from his new novel, A Quiet Adjustment (W. W. Norton, 2008).
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An Evening of Arts and Letters II
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
A reading and conversation with Benjamin Markovits, author of the new novel A Quiet Adjustment. A psychological thriller of passionate attachment and emotional cruelty, involving a love triangle between Lord Byron, his half-sister, and his wife.
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The Duchess (Chicago)
Monday, September 17, 2008
Paramount Vantage Invites Members of the Byron Society of America and the Jane Austen Society of North America and their guests to a pre-release screening of The Duchess A Chronicle of the Life of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
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The Duchess (New York)
Monday, September 15, 2008
Paramount Vantage Invites Members of the Byron Society of America and the Jane Austen Society of North America and their guests to a pre-release screening of The Duchess A Chronicle of the Life of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
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An Afternoon in the Assembly Rooms: A Program of Austenian
Englightenment and Entertainment
Sunday, September 14, 2008
The Jane Austen Society of North America’s Massachusetts Region has invited Boston area Byronists to “An Afternoon in the Assembly Rooms: A Program of Austenian Englightenment and Entertainment” to be held on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at the HendersonHouse Conference Center in Weston, Massachusetts.
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Austen and Byron: Together at Last
May 3, 2008
Please join us for a day-long exploration of the similarities as well as the differences between Jane Austen and Lord Byron.