13th International Student Byron Conference

21-26 May 2018

Theme: “Byron and Fiction”

The Messolonghi Byron Research Center welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers to be delivered at the 13th International Student Byron Conference, to be held at Messolonghi May 21-26, 2018.

The conference theme will be "Byron and Fiction”, a topic that might be approached in various ways. Presentations might center on the fiction Byron read and was inspired by (for instance Tom Jones or Anastasius, or Memoirs of a Greek), fiction writers he inspired (the Brontes, Puskin, and many others), fictive representations of Byron (from Caroline Lamb’s roman a clef Glenarvon to William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s cyberpunk The Difference Engine, Ben Markovits’s Byron trilogy, and beyond)—or Byron’s own works considered as fiction. Presenters at the conference will span all academic levels from undergraduates through graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty members.

Proposals should be sent by email to Professor Peter Graham (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Mrs. Rodanthi-Rosa Florou, President of the International Byron Research Center (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by February 1, 2018.

The Ravenna conference, entitled "Byron: Improvisation and Mobility"

will be held from Monday to Saturday, July 2-7, 2018.

Here you will find in the attachments the details for the conference, including payment information etc.

Also there are details for Hotels in Ravenna.

Also you will find the individual Registration Form. Please download file and kindly fill in the Registration Form, scan it and send it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and complete payment as soon as possible.

Byron and 1817: Between Worlds, Between Works
Poetic Transitions and Continuities

Newstead Abbey
Friday & Saturday 28-29 April 2017

Plenary Speakers

Michael O’Neill (Durham)
Alan Rawes (Manchester)

1817 saw Byron bring one stage of his poetic career to an end (with the final canto of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage) while almost simultaneously opening another (with Beppo). The Spenserian stanza gave way to ottava rima; gloomy, rootless ‘Byronic’ wandering gave way to comic and satiric cosmopolitanism; the ‘ruin amidst ruins’ became the ‘broken dandy’; the English milord became the Italian exile as his rhetoric shifted from ‘high’ to ‘low’. And yet, across this transition from one kind of Byron to another, continuities abound. The author of Cain is manifestly the author of Manfred (also finished in 1817); the Byronic hero of the early tales lives on in Marino Faliero and The Island; the champion of liberty is readily seen in the libertine; the satirist of English Bards and Scotch Reviews surfaces again in The Age of Bronze and Don Juan. This conference is interested in both the transitions that mark Byron’s writing in 1817 and the continuities that cross those transitions, and invites papers on the rifts and bridges between works that lie within and either side of this annus mirabilis.

12th International Student Byron Conference

19-24 May 2017

Theme: "Byron and Nature"

Messolonghi, Greece

The Messolonghi Byron Research Center welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers to be delivered at the 12th International Student Byron Conference, to be held at Messolonghi, from Friday 19 May to Wednesday 24 May 2017. With a focus on "Byron and Nature", the conference will also include excursions to Mount Arakinthos, Kryoneri and the Byzantine cave-chapel of Agios Nikolaos on Mount Varassova, the salt pans, and the lagoon island chapel of the Virgin of the Palms that will allow students experience diverse local examples of the landscape and ecosystem. Keynote speakers will be Christine Kenyon-Jones (Kings College London) and Andrew Hubbell (Susquehanna University USA).

The 43rd International Byron Conference,

“BYRON, TIME AND SPACE”

Yerevan State University, Armenia

29 June – 4 July 2017

Yerevan State University and the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology are pleased to announce the 43rd annual International Byron Conference at Yerevan State University, from 29 June to 4 July 2017.

The conference commemorates the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s visits to the Armenian convent on the island of St Lazarus in Venice.

Announcement

The Organizing Committee of the 43rd International Byron Conference “Byron, Time and Space” to be held at Yerevan State University from 29 June to 4 July 2017 decided to extend the application deadline until March 1st.

Registration

Please fill in the Registration Form, send it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and complete payment before 30 April 2017.

Academic and Non–Academic Tentative Program

In the attached files you will find the tentative program. The organizers of the conference reserve the right to make changes, if necessary. The final program will be handed to participants on 29 June, 2017.