MONDAY, JUNE 30
TH
Centro Congressi Le Benedettine
REGISTRATION 15:30 – 18.30
WELCOME COCKTAIL 19.00
TUESDAY, JULY 1ST
Centro Congressi Le Benedettine
PLENARY LECTURE I (9:45 -11:00)
ROOM A
Diego SAGLIA
Università di Parma, Italy
PARALLEL SESSIONS I (11:30 – 13:00)
Manuscripts and fragments (ROOM A)
11:30 STABLER Jane – What Happened to Byron’s “Epistle to Augusta”?
11:50 ISAAC Rhian – Byron’s Legacy in a Public Library Collection: An Unrecorded Fragment of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
12:10 COZZI Elisa – Byron, Ireland, and a New MS of The Irish Avatar in the Holland House Papers
Discussion
Bicentennial Byron: Taking care of the poet’s legacy (ROOM B)
11:30 KUCICH Greg – Bicentennial Byron in Rome: Byron’s Trans-Mediterranean Water of Consciousness
11:50 STAUFFER Andrew,SACHS Jonathan – The Making of Byron: 1824-2024
Discussion
Byron: his life and times (ROOM C)
11:30 MAKRIDIS Andreas – The Rainbow: “A sweet repentance of the skies” and a Family Reunion
11:50 WHARTON Steve – Stags, Satire, and Similarity: Thomas Hood, The Stag-Eyed Lady, and The Giaour
12:10 BAIESI Serena – Lord Byron and Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Love, Lies, and Lyre
Discussion
New insights into Byron’s works (ROOM E)
11:30 PATERSON MORGAN Emily – Don Juan: “a moral tale, though gay”
11:50 SCHMID Susanne – Urban Shopping and Consumerism in Byron’s Don Juan
12:10 WARD Matthew – “What matter a few syllables?”: Byron’s Open Variants in Marino Faliero
Discussion
PARALLEL SESSIONS II (14:30 – 16:00)
Byron in the 19th-century (ROOM A)
14:30 MARKUS Julia – Lord Byron and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
14:50 MITCHELL Andrew – The Influence of Lord Byron on the Brontës
15:10 WEISMAN Karen – Byron, Pirates and Anglo-Jewish Poetry of the 19th Century
Discussion
Byron in translation I (ROOM B)
14:30 POMARÈ Carla – Le avventure di Don Giovanni: Don Juan‘s Metamorphoses in 20th-century Italian Translations
14:50 ROLLI Chiara – Manfredo/Manfredi: Italian Versions of Byron’s Manfred (1818-1926)
15:10 VALLI Rubina – “Mio più caro amore”: Translating Lord Byron and Augusta Leigh
Discussion
Byron and the Orient (ROOM C)
14:30 RAMMAHI Reyam – “Rose Lara’s hand and pointed to the East”: Curses, Possession, and Socialization in Byron’s The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, The Corsair, and Lara
14:50 HODALI Suleiman – Romancing the Crusades: Historicism, Occidentalism, and Byron’s Lament of Tasso
Discussion
Temporalities I (ROOM E)
14:30 WALL Dan – “According to Medwin”: Byron in His Own Words?
14:50 BOWERS WILL – Byron’s Classroom Legacy
15:10 OUEIJAN Naji – Lord Byron’s Abiding Legacy
Discussion
PARALLEL SESSIONS III (16:30 – 18:00)
Byron and/in music. (ROOM A)
16:30 REGGIANI Enrico – “A Byron in [musical] daring”: Robert Schumann’s Compositional Reception of the Hebrew Melodies
16:50 DEGLI ESPOSTI Paola – Between Byron and Bene: Which Manfred?
17:10 DELLAROSA Franca, ANNESE Angela – The Posthumous Life of Count Manfred, Covent Garden, 29 October, 1834
Discussion
Byron in translation II (ROOM B)
16:30 MERABISHVILI Innes – Translating Byron into Georgian
16:50 PÉTI Miklós – “This virtuoso wrestling”: A First Look at Dezső Kosztolányi’s Recently Found Translation of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Discussion
Byron, the Orient and Classical Antiquity (ROOM C)
16:30 MARINO Elisabetta – “Indian Byrons”: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and Michael Madhusudan Dutt
16:50 BECCONE Simona – H.L.V. Derozio’s Byronic Dashes of Resistance
17:10 STANYON Miranda – Andromache’s Nachleben: impure time in Don Juan and The Age of Bronze
Discussion
Byron, Greece, Hellenism (ROOM E)
16:30 BEATON Roderick – Byron on the Future of Greece. Was He a Philhellene?
16:50 O’DONNELL Kathleen Ann – Byron and the Future of Greece, Byron and the Destiny of Greece
17:10 GRAMMATIKOS Alexander – Lord Byron’s Afterlives: Examining the Poet’s Legacy in Contemporary Greece
Discussion
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE (18:00 – 19.00)
Eric Andersen, Mingle with the Universe: The Worlds of Lord Byron
INTRODUCTION TO PISA CHOIR CONCERT (19.00-19:15)
Stefano Barandoni and Fabrizio Cigni – Introduction to Byron and Italian Opera: A Selection from I due Foscari by Giuseppe Verdi
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2ND
Centro Congressi Le Benedettine
PARALLEL SESSIONS IV (9:00 – 11:00)
Inspiring Mary (ROOM A)
9:00 SCHOINA Maria – Mary Shelley’s Re-writing of Byron and the Greek Revolution inThe Last Man (1826) and in Falkner (1837)
9:20 WOODHOUSE David – Unread in the Human Heart: Byron, Mary Shelley and “Madame D’Houtetot”
9:40 COELHO DE MOURA Mellyssa – Mary W. Shelley and the immortalization of Lord Byron
Discussion
Byron in Spain and South America (ROOM B)
9:00 COLETES BLANCO Augustin – For a Piece of Bread: Byron’s Afterlife during the First Carlist War, 1833-1840
9:20 LASPRA RODRIGUEZ Alicia – The Spanish Liberal Revolution, between Shelley and Byron, and Its Aftermath, Prophesied by Byron
9:40 FISCHER Susan – Byron’s Cain, A Mystery (1821) and Unamuno’s Abel Sánchez, Una historia de pasión (1917): Intertextual Mediations
10:00 JOANNON Felipe – Traces of Byronian Thought in Latin American Intellectual Emancipation: Andrés Bello as Translator and Disseminator of Lord Byron
Discussion
Temporalities II (ROOM C)
9:00 LUCAS Toby – “The page of her story – the brightest or blackest”: Posterity in Byron’s Napoleonic Poems, 1814-16
9:20 EL HALABI Tala – The Byronic Heroine: A Vision of Gendered Futurity
9:40 ZENIOS Simos – “Not now my theme”: Chronopolitics in The Corsair
10:00 HOLLAND Emily – “Nor raise my voice—for who would heed my wail?” Byron’s The Prophecy of Dante
Discussion
Byronic characters (ROOM E)
9:00 SILVA FERRANDEZ Maria G. – “Mad, bad, and dangerous to know”: Re-Imagining Byron from Lady Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon to 21st– century Fanfiction
9:20 DE OLIVEIRA AMATA Angel – The Byronic Hero in Comics
9:40 PINI Sara – A Solid Legacy: The Byronic Hero, Criminal Minds, and Work-Life Imbalance
10:00 WILLIAMS Alexander – From Byron to Glover: A Literary Analysis of Childish Gambino as a Black Byronic Hero
Discussion
PARALLEL SESSIONS V (11:30 – 13:00)
Byron and the visual (ROOM A)
11:30 PATANÈ Vincenzo – Byron & Art
11:50 KENYON JONES Christine – Byron’s Visual Afterlife
12:10 VARINELLI Valentina – Byron’s Netflix Afterlife: The Image of the Poet in Bridgerton
Discussion
Ecocritical Byron (ROOM B)
11:30 LINDEGGER Daniel – Byron in Switzerland: Reflections on Landscape, Exile, and Creativity
11:50 OLIVER Susan – Byron’s Transformative Geologies and the Stones of Venice
12:10 TESTORI Alessia – “Thy death is nearer than thy recent birth”: Lord Byron on Death, Posterity and Futurity in The Liberal
Discussion
European Byron I: France and Italy (ROOM C)
11:30 FEIGNER Olivier – “It is supposed to be a translation…” 1825: Byron in his First Posthumous Year in France
11:50 KAY Miriam – “A pardonable nationality”: Byron, Hobhouse, and the Classical-Romantic Debate in Milan (1816)
12:10 TIGANI SAVA Maria Gabriella – The Italian Press and Lord Byron: Emotions, Memories, and Representations in the Nineteenth Century
Discussion
Temporalities III (ROOM E)
11:30 CHIAJUNG Lee – Byron’s Sublime Ruins: Fragmented Identities and Cultural Continuities in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
11:50 MOSCHOU Vasileia – Lord Byron: Agent of Literary Afterlives
Discussion
Byron and celebrity: the currency of fame (ROOM F)
11:30 GOTTHARDT Marc – Between Common-place and Cliché
11:50 MIRANDA Omar – Global Celebrity at the End of Time
12:10 FELLUGA Dino Franco – Byron and the Future of the Humanities
Discussion
BYRON SOCIETY AGM (15:00 – 17:00)
THURSDAY, JULY 3RD
Palazzo Toscanelli (Archivio di Stato)
GUIDED VISIT 9:00 – 10:00
PLENARY LECTURE II (10:00 -11:00)
Mark SANDY
University of Durham, UK
PROJECT PRESENTATION (11:30 – 12:00)
Reviving The Liberal: Literature and Politics between Britain and Italy, 1821-23
PERFORMANCE AND READING (12:00 – 13:00)
Jamie Walters, Shilo Previti, David Roessel, Byron and Shelley in Conversation: A Performance of Poems and Letters
Performed by Jamie Walters, Mackenzie Kornbluth, Eva Leaverto
Ron Smith, Poems Inspired by Byron and His Works: Original Poems by Ron Smith
AFTERNOON EXCURSION
Bagni di Lucca and San Giuliano (Bagni di Pisa)
FRIDAY, JULY 4TH
Centro Congressi Le Benedettine
PLENARY LECTURE III (9:00 -10:00)
ROOM A
Mirka HOROVÁ
Charles University Prague, CZ
PERFORMANCE (10:00 – 11:00)
Denis Rafter, Reawakening Emotions. An Actor’s Approach to Byron
PARALLEL SESSIONS VI (11:30 – 13:00)
Byron and/on death (ROOM A)
11:30 FRANCEV Peter – Manfred Vis-a-Vis Hamlet: The Shakespearean Influence on Byron
11:50 HOWE Antony – A “Post-Obit on Posterity”: Byron’s Last Words
12:10 SLEIMAN Bou Amal – Byron and Death Anxiety in The Prisoner of Chillon: A Shift from Repression to Acceptance
Discussion
Byron in America (ROOM B)
11:30 MCDAYTER Ghislaine – Le Petit blanc que j’aime: Byron, Slavery, and the Caribbean African Diaspora
11:50 PETRELLI Marco – “Who would be free themselves must strike the blow”: African American Romanticism, Black Byronism, and Abolitionism
12:10 CALLAGHAN Madeleine – Twentieth-Century Boy: Byron and (Some) American Poets
Discussion
European Byron II: Poland (ROOM C)
11:30 KALINOWSKA Maria – Cain in Polish Theatre: Byron outside the Romantic Paradigm?
11:50 ŁACIAK Dominik – Byron Uncloseted: Revisiting Jerzy Grotowski’s 1960 Production of Cain
12:10 NOWAK Małgorzata – George Gordon Byron and Juliusz Słowacki on (D)evil
Discussion
Byron’s intellectual legacy (ROOM E)
11:30 LESZCZYŃSKI Marcin – “Fanciful Guess-work”? Byron’s Recontextualization in Scientific Discourse
11:50 SDEGNO Emma – “The truest, the sternest, Seer of the nineteenth century”: Ruskin Reading Byron
12:10 MARCHIONNI Francesco – Nietzsche Reader of Byron
Discussion
Byron on the body (ROOM F)
11:30 ROSE Kaila – “A small drop of ink”: The Link of Ages in Byron Tattoos
11:50 ZOUIDI Nizar – Performing the Rejected Body in the Deformed Transformed by Lord Byron
12:10 DAVIES Lucy – Death, Mortality, Legacy: Byron’s Hypochondriac Humour
Discussion
SESSION VII (PLENARY) (14:30 – 16:30)
Remembering and forgetting: Byron and us (ROOM A)
14:30 RAWES Alan – Forgetting Byron’s Venice in The Aspern Papers
14:50 TONUSSI Paola – Hints from Byron: Rupert Brooke’s Byronic Outlook
15:10 DOWLING Greg – Publishing Scoundrels, Charlatans and Failures: Byron Scholars in Fiction from James to Coetzee
15:30 CAPITANI Maria Elena – “Truth is far stranger than any fiction I ever concocted”: Storytelling, Authenticity, and Myth in George Costigan’s Trust Byron and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem
Discussion
SATURDAY, JULY 5
TH
DAY EXCURSION
San Terenzo, Lerici, Portovenere