2023 IABS Conference in San Francisco: “New Worlds”

Andrew Stauffer

https://www.iabsconference2023.org

The International Association of Byron Societies

Annual Conference

August 7th – 11th 2023

University of San Francisco, California

Hosted by The Byron Society of America

Co-Sponsored by The Keats-Shelley Association of America

Call for Papers

In the early 1820s, after having joined the Carbonari movement to aid Italian national freedom, Lord Byron contemplated moving to South America to help the revolutionary campaigns against Spain’s imperialist forces. Byron even named his yacht the Bolívar after the famous Venezuelan liberator himself, outraging the Austrian governors who were tightening their grip on occupied Italy. When the Carbonari movement collapsed in Italy, he shifted his attention towards Greece, ultimately traveling there in 1823 to support the revolution against the Ottoman Turks. As the Austrian outrage at the Bolívar shows, the South American, Italian, and Greek revolutions were all part of a global cause of liberal resistance. In both his poetry and his life, Byron championed counter-colonial resistance movements from within and without Europe, while his legacy helped to shape emergent nations and the culture of Romantic-era authors and writings around the globe.

In bicentenary tribute, the IABS 2023 conference will gather work on Byron and Romantic-era resistance while seeking to honor the global diversity of the Romantic age. Our gathering’s theme is “New Worlds,” and we invite papers both on and beyond Byron and his circle. We welcome scholars to contribute papers and convene panels and roundtables related, but not necessarily limited, to the following subjects:

  • New Worlds for Byron and Romantic Studies
  • Byron and #Bigger6 Possibilities
  • Byron and the Americas
  • Reworlding: Utopian and Dystopian Horizons
  • New Worlds of Science in the Romantic Age
  • Revolution and Resistance
  • Migration, Diaspora, Exile, Ex-Patriotism
  • Black Studies, Race, and Byron
  • Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism
  • The Black Atlantic, Slavery, and the Slave Trade
  • Romantic Land- and Bodyscaping
  • Cosmopolitanism and New Worlds
  • Queer, Genderqueer, and Trans Romanticisms
  • Byron, Disability, and Identity
  • Worlds of Materiality in Visual Culture
  • The Poetics and Politics of Space and Climate Change

BSA 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner, NYC, January 22, 2023

Andrew Stauffer

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. 

“Keats and Shelley on the Move”: 2022 Romantic Bicentennials Curran Symposium

Andrew Stauffer

2022 Romantic Bicentennials Curran Symposium

 “Keats and Shelley on the Move“

co-sponsored by the Byron Society of America and the Keats-Shelley Association of America.

The event will take place on Friday, October 28, 2022 at the Grolier Club in NYC. More information is available here, along with link to register:
https://www.k-saa.org/events/keats-and-shelley-on-the-move-a-romantic-bicentennials-curran-symposium

BSA at MLA 2023 (San Francisco)

Andrew Stauffer

MLA 2023: San Francisco, CA

Session 563: Uncommon Wants, Common Things, Undercommons: Byron in 2023

Saturday, 7 January 3:30 PM-4:45 PM, Sierra Suite J (Marriott Marquis)  

  Presiding: Celeste G.Langan (U of California, Berkeley)

1. Commonplaces in Uncommon Places, Mai-LinCheng (U of Oregon)

2. Orientalizing the Commons: Between Arab Subsistence and Greek Democracy, Lenora Hanson (New York U)

3. Common Disaster, Manu Samriti Chander (Rutgers U, Newark)

4. More Anon (Gratis Maureen McLane), Marjorie Levinson (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

BSA at MLA 2023

Andrew Stauffer

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

Andrew Stauffer

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

Andrew Stauffer

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)

Andrew Stauffer

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

Andrew Stauffer

 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.