In the year after the poet’s bicentenary, the 2025 International Byron Conference to be held in Pisa (30 June – 5 July 2025) will focus on Byron’s richly inexhaustible legacy from the immediate aftermath of his death to the twenty-first century. The Conference aims to investigate Byron’s ideas about all kinds of futurity – historical, political, personal, and spiritual, among others – as well as the place he and his works have held in culture and literature since 1824, both in Britain and overseas.
Byron’s long shadow touches many traditions: this Conference welcomes critical explorations of his legacy in all its transnational and interdisciplinary dimensions. The Organising Committee invites paper proposals of 250 words, together with a short bionote (roughly 150 words), on topics including, but not necessarily limited to:
- Byronic prophesies and/or curses
- Byron and/on Futurity
- Byron and/on posterity
- Byron and/on death
- Byron and/on afterlife celebrity
- Byron on the translation/reception/value of his own work
- Byron and/on the future of politics
- Byron and/on the future of Italy
- Byron and/on the future of Greece
- Byron and/on the future of Europe
- Visions of the future in the Pisan Circle
- Reactions to Byron’s Death
- The editing of Byron’s poetry after his death
- Writing the Poet’s lives: Byron and his biographers
- Byron in world literature
- Byronic heroes
- Translating Byron
- Anglo-Italian and Anglo-Greek Byron
- Byron as a cultural icon
- Byron in the media
- Byron and/in music
- Byron and Tuscany
- Byron and Italian tourism
The Committee welcomes submissions for both individual 20-minute presentations and roundtable discussions. Roundtable session proposals should include a description of the topic as well as a list of participants (along with a short bionote for each participant).
The deadline for proposals is 5 FEBRUARY 2025.
The call for papers is now CLOSED. Manage your submission.
You can contact the Organizing Committee at info@iabsconferencepisa2025.com