The Byron Society of America

Call for Papers

The Byron Society of America at MLA 2021:
“Byron in 1821: A Retrospective”

This bicentennial panel sponsored by the Byron Society of America will examine Byron’s work written or published in 1821, including Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, Heaven and Earth, Cain, and Werner. 250 word abstracts by 26 March 2020.

Organizer: Omar F. Miranda, U of San Francisco (ofmiranda@usfca.edu )

http://www.new.enl.auth.gr/ibc2020/

Proposals are invited for the 2020 Conference of the International Association of Byron Societies, “Byron: Wars and Words”, to be held at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from 29th June to 5th July. The aim of this conference is to look at how war in all its meanings, symbolisms, and manifestations influenced Byron’s words and worlds, and shaped his poetic and political sensibility. Drawing on recent scholarship in Romantic studies, it will also explore Romantic authors’ preoccupations with war, and how these intersected with Byron’s. How are the events of wars transformed into words, images and spectacle? Conversely, how do words become weapons and trigger literary, cultural, and political struggles? What kind of ideological conflicts, dilemmas, and anxieties does the print culture of the time embody when treating the issue of war? How does Romantic-period conflict extend our understanding of modern warfare? 

The conference welcomes 20-minute proposals for papers on topics including, but not necessarily limited to: 

• Byron as revolutionary fighter and/or critic of war 
• Byron and Napoleon 
• Byron and epic 
• Warfare as inspiring force for poetic subjects, new genres, language forms and styles 
• Romantic nationalism 
• “Intellectual war”: newspapers, magazines, reviews and broadsides 
• The representation of military action and violence in literature and art 
• Famous critical wars that Byron’s words produced 
• War and gender
• Revolution and knowledge production 
• Science and war 
• Media and military technologies 

Please send 250-word proposals by 31^st January 2020 to byronthess@gmail.com, directing any enquiries to Dr. Maria Schoina. Confirmation of acceptance by 29^th February 2020.

Call for Papers

Byron Society of America at CEA 2020

March 26-28, 2020 | Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Hilton Head Marriott Resort and Spa

The Byron Society of America and the College English Association welcome proposals for presentations on Lord Byron’s life, works, and/or influences for the 51st annual CEA conference, the theme of which is Tides. 

Well—well, the world must turn upon its axis, 
     And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, 
And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, 
     And as the veering wind shifts, shift our sails; 
The king commands us, and the doctor quacks us, 
     The priest instructs, and so our life exhales, 
A little breath, love, wine, ambition, fame, 
Fighting, devotion, dust,—perhaps a name.                                                                        – Don Juan 2.4

We invite papers related to all aspects of Byron’s life and work in relation to the conference theme, e.g. Byron and the sea, the tides of his affairs and passions, self-exile and travel, the shipwreck in Don Juan, mutiny and romance inThe Island, his life on the canals of Venice, and his death near the tidal lagoons of Messolonghi.

The Byron Society of America, an affiliate organization of the College English Association, particularly encourages graduate students and contingent faculty to submit proposals for CEA 2020. Please direct inquiries about proposals to BSA at CEA affiliate liaison Robin Hammerman: rhammerm@stevens.edu

Submit your proposal for the BSA panel at CEA 2020 here: www.cea-web.org. 

Submission deadline: November 1, 2020

All presenters at the CEA 2020 conference must become members of CEA and BSA by January 1.