Program
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Mercure Rome Colosseum Centre Hotel
4:00–6:00 pm Welcoming Reception
Hosted by “Romantic Circles” Website
Relaunch of “Romantic Circles” Website
Thora Brylowe, University of Colorado Boulder
Book Launches
The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Eileen Hunt, University of Notre Dame
Presenters:
Maria Schoina, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Susan Wolfson, Princeton University
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters (Cambridge University Press)
Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia
Lord Byron: Selected Writings (21st-Century Oxford Authors)
Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia, and Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University, eds.
Presenter: Omar F. Miranda, University of San Francisco
Friday, June 21, 2024
Notre Dame Rome
All sessions and roundtables take place in the Matthew and Joyce Walsh Aula
8:30 am Registration/Welcome
9:00 am Introductory Remarks
Greg Kucich, University of Notre Dame
Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado Boulder
Silvia Dall’Olio, Director, University of Notre Dame Rome
9:30–11:00 am Session 1: Byron and Madame de Staël
Moderator: Susan Oliver, University of Essex
“Byron and Staël, ou L’italie”
James Chandler, University of Chicago
“Understanding Byron’s Celebrity through Don Juan and the Tribute to Francisco de Miranda and Germaine de Staël”
Omar F. Miranda, University of San Francisco
11:00–11:30 am Coffee/Tea Break
Centioli Family Terrace and Courtyard
11:30 am–1:00 pm Session 2: Byron Looking East and West
Moderator: Jonathan Gross, DePaul University
“‘These Oriental Writings on the Wall’: Reclaiming Greece in Byron’s Don Juan”
Maria Schoina, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
“Byron’s Iberia — Place, Text, Thing”
Diego Saglia, Università di Parma
1:00–2:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
2:30–4:30 pm Session 3: Roundtable — Byron’s Ottoman and Trans-Mediterranean Contexts
Moderator and Respondent:
Grace Rexroth, Ph.D, University of Colorado Boulder
“Byron the Osmanli”
Piya Pal-Lapinski, Bowling Green State University
“The Siege of Corinth and Some Occasions for the ‘Cult of the South’”
Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado Boulder
“The Ismail Cantos of Don Juan: Complications and Speculations”
Peter Manning, Stony Brook University
“‘Strange Coincidence’: The Juans, the Mediterranean, and the World-System”
Clara Tuite, University of Melbourne
4:30–5:30 pm Travel by bus to Keats-Shelley House
5:30–7:00 pm Keats-Shelley House
Tour of Byron Exhibition and Reception
7:00 pm Bus returns to Mercure Hotel
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Notre Dame Rome
All sessions and roundtables take place in the Matthew and Joyce Walsh Aula
9:00–10:30 am Session 4: Byron and Leigh Hunt
Moderator: Emily Paterson-Morgan, Director of the Byron Society
“The ‘Marlow Moment’ of Spring 1817 and Leigh Hunt’s Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (1828)”
Nicholas Roe, University of St. Andrews
“Byron, Hunt, and the ‘Miscellaneousness’ of The Liberal’s Souths”
Greg Kucich, University of Notre Dame
10:30–11:00 am Coffee/Tea Break
Centioli Family Terrace and Courtyard
11:00 am Presentation on Museo Byron, Ravenna
Diego Saglia, Università di Parma
11:30 am–1:00 pm Session 5: Byron’s Italian and Italy
Moderator: Thora Brylowe, University of Colorado Boulder
“‘warm south’ to war south: Keats and Byron”
Susan Wolfson, Princeton University
“Ugo Foscolo and the Byron Circle in London: His Correspondence Between Demands, Anxieties, and Talents”
Lilla Crisafulli, Università di Bologna
1:00– 2:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
2:30–4:00 pm Session 6: Roundtable — Byron and Venice
Moderator and Respondent:
Michael Macovski, Georgetown University
“Rereading Byron’s Venetian Ode”
Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia
“Byron’s Life in the Frezzeria: and a Few Other Venetian Discoveries”
Richard Lansdown, University of Tasmania
“Byron and Turner in Venice: Desire, Decadence and Romantic Irony”
Anne Mellor, UCLA
4:00–4:30 pm Coffee/Tea Break
Centioli Family Terrace and Courtyard
4:30–6:00 pm Plenary Address
Moderator: James Chandler, University of Chicago
“Byroniana; or, Problems and Post-obits for Posterity”
Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
6:00–7:30 pm Closing Remarks and Symposium Reception
Centioli Family Terrace and Courtyard
Hosted by the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the Keats-Shelley Journal