[ezcol_1third]
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]
Newstead Abbey Byron Society
Annual Conference
Friday 22nd April- Saturday 23rd April 2022
At Newstead Abbey[/ezcol_2third_end]
Postponed since 2020, this conference aptly marks the bicentenary of a troubling year plagued by loss. George III had lost his life and, many would argue, George IV lost what little shreds remained of his dignity, pursuing his errant wife with hypocritical vengeance during the so-called Queen Caroline Affair. The monarchy and government had lost the trust of the people, and many of them would have lost their lives had the Cato Street Conspiracy succeeded. Meanwhile Byron, now in the fourth year of his self-imposed exile, was rapidly losing his hair, teeth, famous good looks, and – some might argue – his dignity. It is against this backdrop that he became interested in Italian politics, or rather the loss of political authority and national autonomy.
To mark the year of 1820, and in recognition of the troubling experiences of the past two years, we are hosting a conference around the theme of Byron and loss.
Event Information
Programme:
| Friday 22nd April | |||
| 11.30-11.45 | Coffee | ||
| 11.45-1.15 | Panel 1 | Chair: Paul Whickman | |
| Francesco Marchioni | ‘“But grief should be the instructor of the wise”: Performing Grief in Byron’s Manfred’ | ||
| Peter Francev | Byron and the sublime in Cain | ||
| Alex Dougherty | ”Lost in thy light – Eternity!’: Byron’s metaphysical horizon.’ |
||
| 1.15-2.15 | Lunch | ||
| 2.15-3.15 | Simon Brown | Newstead’s Treasures Chair: Emily Paterson-Morgan | |
| 3.15-3.30 | Coffee | ||
| 3.30-5.00 | Panel 2 | Chair: John Gardner | |
| Edwina Watson | Loss in an Age of Bronze | ||
| Marc Gotthardt | No time to lose: Byronic moments in history | ||
| Paul Whickman | A drop of ink instead of speech: Writing and Voice in Don Juan | ||
| 5.15 | Minibus to hotel | ||
| 6.30 | Minibus to conference dinner | ||
| Saturday 23rd April | |||
| 10-11.30 | Panel 3 | Chair: Kaila Rose | |
| Andrea Lambert | Losing Passivity: The Emergence of a New Byronic Heroine | ||
| Hannah Burke-Tomlinson | Byron the Roman(tic) Love Elegist: Love, Loss and Lament in ‘Edleston’ | ||
| Emily PM | Byron and the loss of Innocence | ||
| 11.30-11.45 | Coffee | ||
| 11.45-12.45 | Mirka Horova Plenary | Chair: TBC | |
| 12.45-1.45 | Lunch | ||
| 1.45-2.15 | Round table | Byron’s Juvenilia, loss and absence | |
| 2.15-4.15 | Panel 4 | Chair: Peter Francev | |
| Bernard Beatty | Byron and Loss’: à la recherche of youth and paradise. | ||
| John Gardner | ‘Byron and Loss: Rejection and Suicide in Byron’s Deformed Transformed’ | ||
| Kaila Rose | A Secondary and Neglected Object: Musings of Loss in Byron’s “Detached Thoughts” | ||
| Ralph Lloyd Jones | Byron and Loss: the Byronic Drownings | ||
| 4.15-5.00 | Walk round Newstead | ||
Registration:
The cost of the conference to each delegate will be £75.00 to be paid in cash, on arrive at Newstead.
The cost includes:
- Lunch on two days including tea & coffee breaks.
- Dinner on Friday evening and coaching to and from Newstead and Travel Lodge in Mansfield (overnight accommodation please book separately see below).
Travel and Accommodation
We will be staying at the Travel Lodge in Mansfield.
BE AWARE THERE ARE 2 TRAVEL LODGES IN MANSFIELD. YOU WANT THE BELOW:
Unit 1 St Christopher’s Place, Gilcroft Street,
Mansfield, NG18 1BG, United Kingdom.
- On Friday 22nd you will need to find your way to Newstead Abbey. From the Travel Lodge by taxi will cost about £15.00.
- If you are travelling from London by rail use St Pancras to Nottingham, then change at Nottingham to the Robin Hood Line to Mansfield. Alternatively, you can get a taxi out from Nottingham.
- The Travel Lodge is 10 minutes walk from the Station.
- We will have dinner at the Porters Lodge on Friday Night.
Register to attend by email, by emailing both the organisers at newsteadbyronconference@gmail.com and Ken Purslow at purslowken@gmail.com.