DAY 1 – 21 APRIL
12pm-1pm | LUNCH | |
1pm-2.30pm | PANEL 1 | |
Emily Paterson Morgan | ‘The laudable practise of lovemaking’: Sexual Independence and Epistolary Subversion in Byron’s Italian Letters | |
Shellie Audsley | ‘The hands of Dyers’: Referentiality and the Paradox of the Self in Don Juan | |
Patrick Vincent | Byron, Ruskin, and the Geneva Nexus | |
2.30pm-3pm | COFFEE | |
3pm-4.30pm | PANEL 2 | |
Tony Howe | The Integrity of Byron’s Silence | |
Mirosława Modrzewska | The Politics of Lyrical Expression in Byron’s Hebrew Melodies, Stanzas for Music and Songs | |
Bernard Beatty | Byron: Independence and Integrity | |
4.30-5pm | PANEL 3 (lightning round) | |
Alex Dougherty | Integrating Heaven and Earth: Byron, Enoch, and Newstead Abbey as cosmic setting | |
Sarah Copsey Alsader | Independent and of integrity – the development of the Byronic hero and the necessity of Islam in the ‘Turkish Tales’ | |
Sion Pope | Byron the Incel | |
5pm-5.45pm | BUS TO PORTLAND COLLEGE | |
6pm-7pm | KEYNOTE AND DRINKS | Matthew Ward ‘Byron at Sea’ |
7pm-7.30pm | IABS ANNOUNCEMENTS | |
7.30-9.30 | DINNER |
DAY 2 – 22 APRIL
10am-11.30am | PANEL 4 | |
Christine Kenyon Jones | ‘Byron and slavery’ | |
Ioannes P. Chountis | Byron and the Free Press: A New Approach | |
Edwina Watson | Byron and ‘literary England’ in 1823 | |
11.30am-12pm | COFFEE | |
12pm-1.30pm | PANEL 5 | |
Marc Gotthard | ‘The interregnum of some malady’: Thoughts on Freedom | |
Madeleine Callaghan | Freedom From “you as me”: Byron’s Lyric ‘I’ | |
Chiara Rolli | Byron’s Juvenile Integrity: The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus | |
1.30pm-2.30pm | LUNCH | |
2.30pm-4pm | PANEL 6 | |
William Edwards | The ‘many-headed multitude’ and the ‘hundred-handed senate’: Byron’s rewriting of Coriolanus | |
Emily Holland | “To Displace Athena’s Poor Remains”: Lord Byron and the Tomb of Minerva | |
Peter Graham | A Tale of Two Liberals: Lord Byron and Captain Jonathan Peckham Miller | |
4pm-5pm | TOUR OF ABBEY OR GARDENS |