supporting the study of Lord Byron's life and work
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
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)
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”
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)
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
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!
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.
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.
