Past Events

We’re proud of all the events we’ve organised over the years, and like to keep track of them here.

  • CFP – Byron’s Don Juan: Conception, Reception, Imitation

    One-day conference, Saturday 7th December 2019 Commemorating the bicentennial of the publication of Don Juan Cantos I and II Antenna Media Centre (Nottingham Trent University), Nottingham For more details of the conference, click here.  Keynote speaker Professor Jerome McGann (University of Virginia), ‘Byron and his Language’ Professor McGann, one of the world’s leading Byron scholars for…

  • Byron’s Letters: the absence and the presence of poetry

    Byron Society Lecture, 24th July 6.30-8.00pm, at the Art Workers Guild, London [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] Ticket Prices: £5.00 for Members; £6.00 for Students; £7.00 for Non-Members. Book now:contact@thebyronsociety.com Dr Anthony Howe, Reader in English Literature and Associate Director of Research in the School of English at Birmingham City University, will give a talk on Byron’s letter writing…

  • 44th International Byron Conference

    Improvisation and Mobility Ravenna, Italy 2nd to 7th July 2018 Byron’s most famous use of the word “mobility” is in Don Juan, Canto 16, stanza XCVII, where he uses it to  describe Lady Adeline Amundeville, adding a footnote in which he defines it as “excessive susceptibility of immediate impressions”. Since then the word has been…