The provisional conference programme is below, however this will be updated and subject to changes over the coming weeks.
9.00-9.40 Registration & Coffee
9.45 Welcome
9.45-11.25 Session 1, Chaired by Dr Christine Kenyon Jones
Roderick Beaton (King’s College London)
Don Juan and Homer’s Odyssey
William Davies (The Colorado College)
’O Plato! Plato!’: Don Juan versus the Philosophers
Peter Graham (Virginia Tech)
Julia’s Letter
John Havard (State University of New York)
Don Juan in and out of Context: Byron, Hobhouse, and the Politics of Publishing Cantos I and II
11.25-12.00 Coffee
12.00 – 1.10 Session 2, Chaired by Professor Peter Graham
Professor Jerome McGann (Virginia Tech)
‘Byron and his Language’
1.10-2.00 Lunch (held at the venue)
2.00-3.20 Second Panel, Parallel Sessions.
Parallel Session 3A, Chaired by Mirka Horova
Jake Phipps (Durham University)
The Art of Easy Writing’: Satire and Celebrity in Burns and Byron
Emily Paterson-Morgan (Independent)
‘what shall I do about Ph and her epistles’: The Adulterous Love Letter in Don Juan I.192-198
Fiona Milne (University of York)
Don Juan, the law and Byronic self-defence
Parallel Session 3B, Chaired by Gregory Dowling
David Woodhouse (Independent)
The Conception of Don Juan: Lakers, Cockneys and Don Giovanni
Francesco Marchionni (Durham University)
“This sort of adoration of the real/ Is but a heightening of the ‘beau ideal’”: The (Anti-) Epic Form and Scepticism in Don Juan I-II
Hannah Britton (St Andrews)
Wordsworthian Solitudes?: ‘Tintern Abbey’ and Don Juan I and II
3.20-4.00 Coffee
4.00-5.40 Session 4, Chaired by Professor Roderick Beaton
Chris Kenyon Jones (Kings College London)
‘The brush has beat the poetry’: visual responses to Byron before and after 1819
Leigh Wetherall Dickson (Northumbria University)
Fame and Futurity in A New Canto (1819)
Shona Allan (Cologne University)
‘We need a hero’: From Byron’s Don Juan to Sinead Morrissey’s global Greek tragedy
Gregory Dowling (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Don Juan and the Greek Crisis: A. E. Stallings’s Response to Byron’s Poem
5.40-6.00 Closing from Bernard Beatty
7.00-7.45 Champagne reception (included in Conference fee)
7.45-10.00 Conference Dinner (optional extra)
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8th December, Newstead Abbey Tour.
Bus will collect everyone from outside the Mercure Hotel on George St, and leave at 10.00am. We are on a tight schedule, so please to arrive at least 10 minutes before the departure time. The tour will last 2 hours, and people can look round the house, gardens, and shop, and have a coffee. We will leave 1t 12.45, and the bus will drop everyone off at Nottingham train station.
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We are pleased to announce that this conference is organised in affiliation with BARS and Romantic Bicentennials
