General Programme
Book of Abstracts
ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
MONDAY, JUNE 30
TH
Centro Congressi Le Benedettine
REGISTRATION 15:30 – 18.30
WELCOME COCKTAIL 19.00
TUESDAY, JULY 1ST
Centro Congressi Le Benedettine
OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
WELCOME ADDRESSES (9:00)
Michele Conti, Mayor of Pisa
Riccardo Zucchi, Rector of the University of Pisa
Jaleh Bahrabadi, Director of Pisa State Archive at Palazzo Toscanelli
Alessandro Lenci, Head of the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics
PLENARY LECTURE I (9:45 -11:00)
ROOM A
Diego SAGLIA
Università di Parma, Italy
“It is not yet time”: Tracking Byron’s Absent Presences
Chair Peter Francev
Coffee and tea break 11:00 – 11:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS I (11:30 – 13:00)
Manuscripts and fragments (ROOM A)
Chair Carla Pomarè
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)
Chair Nicoletta Caputo
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
12:10 BOWERS Will – Byron’s Classroom Legacy
Discussion
Byron: his life and times (ROOM C)
Chair Camilla Del Grazia
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)
Chair Roderick Beaton
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
Lunch 13:00 – 14:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS II (14:30 – 16:00)
Byron in the 19th century (ROOM A)
Chair Andrew Stauffer
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 (ROOM B)
Chair Elisabetta Marino
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)
Discussion
Byron in the Orient (ROOM C)
Chair Greg Kucich
14:30 HOWE Antony – A “Post-Obit on Posterity”: Byron’s Last Words
14:50 MERABISHVILI Innes – Translating Byron into Georgian
15:10 HODALI Suleiman – Romancing the Crusades: Historicism, Occidentalism, and Byron’s Lament of Tasso
Discussion
Temporalities I (ROOM E)
Chair Jonathan Sachs
14:30 WALL Dan – “According to Medwin”: Byron in His Own Words?
14:50 OUEIJAN Naji – Lord Byron’s Abiding Legacy
15:10 STANYON Miranda – Andromache’s Nachleben: Impure Time in Don Juan and The Age of Bronze
Discussion
Coffee and tea break 16:00 – 16:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS III (16:30 – 18:00)
Byron and/in music. (ROOM A)
Chair Gregory Dowling
16:30 REGGIANI Enrico – “A Byron in [musical] daring”: Robert Schumann’s Compositional Reception of the Hebrew Melodies
16:50 DELLAROSA Franca – The Posthumous Life of Count Manfred, Covent Garden, 29 October, 1834
Discussion
Byron and the Orient (ROOM B)
Chair Emily Paterson-Morgan
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 PETI Miklós – “This virtuoso wrestling”: A First Look at Dezsö Kosztolányi’s Recently Found Translation of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Discussion
Byron, Greece, Hellenism (ROOM C)
Chair Will Bowers
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
introduced by Gregory Dowling
INTRODUCTION TO CONCERT (19.00-19:30)
Fabrizio Cigni – Introduction to Byron and Italian Opera: A Selection from I due Foscari by Giuseppe Verdi
UNIVERSITY OF PISA CHOIR CONCERT (21:30)
Church of San Paolo a Ripa D’Arno
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)
Chair Omar Miranda
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
European Byron I France, Italy, Spain (ROOM B)
Chair Laura Giovannelli
9:00 FEIGNIER Olivier – “It is supposed to be a translation…” 1825: Byron in his First Posthumous Year in France
9:20 KAY Miriam – “A pardonable nationality”: Byron, Hobhouse, and the Classical-Romantic Debate in Milan (1816)
9:40 TIGANI SAVA Maria Gabriella – The Italian Press and Lord Byron: Emotions, Memories, and Representations in the Nineteenth Century
10:00 FISCHER Susan – Byron’s Cain, A Mystery (1821) and Unamuno’s Abel Sánchez, Una historia de pasión (1917): Intertextual Mediations
Discussion
Temporalities II (ROOM C)
Chair Innes Merabishvili
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)
Chair Andrea Peghinelli
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
Coffee and tea break 11:00 – 11:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS V (11:30 – 13:00)
Byron and the visual (ROOM A)
Chair Danièle Sarrat
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)
Chair Matthew Ward
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
Temporalities III (ROOM C)
Chair Alexander Grammatikos
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
12:10 LESZCZYŃSKI Marcin – “Fanciful Guess-work”? Byron’s Recontextualization in Scientific Discourse
Discussion
Byron and celebrity: the currency of fame (ROOM E)
Chair Ghislaine McDayter
11:30 GOTTHARDT Marc – Between Common-place and Cliché
11:50 MIRANDA Omar – The Last Man and the Shadownomics of Lord Byron’s Celebrity
12:10 FELLUGA Dino Franco – Byron and the Future of the Humanities
Discussion
Lunch 13:00 – 14:30
BYRON SOCIETY AGM (14:30 – 16.00)
Coffee and tea break 16:00 – 16:30
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
‘A Pleasure in the Pathless Woods’: Tracing Byron’s Poetic Legacies
in W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Hart Crane, and Louis MacNeice
Chair Madeleine Callaghan
Coffee and tea break 11:00 – 11:30
PROJECT PRESENTATION (11:30 – 12:00)
Reviving The Liberal: Literature and Politics between Britain and Italy, 1821-23
(PI: Diego Saglia with Serena Baiesi, Fernando Cioni, Roberta Ferrari and Andrea Peghinelli)
READING PERFORMANCE (12:00 – 13:00)
Jamie Walters, Shilo Previti, David Roessel, Byron and Shelley in Conversation: A Performance of Poems and Letters
Director: Vasileia Moschou
Performed by Jamie Walters, Mackenzie Kornbluth, Eva Leaverton
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
Byronic Resilience – Memos for the Present Millennium
Chair Maria Schoina
PERFORMANCE (10:00 – 11:00)
Denis Rafter, Reawakening Emotions. An Actor’s Approach to Byron
introduced by Susan Fischer
Coffee and tea break 11:00 – 11:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS VI (11:30 – 13:00)
Byron in America (ROOM A)
Chair Paolo Bugliani
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 B)
Chair Franca Dellarosa
11:30 KALINOWSKA Maria – Cain in Polish Theatre: Byron outside the Romantic Paradigm?
11:50 ŁACIAKDominik – 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 on the body (ROOM C)
Chair Christine Kenyon-Jones
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
Lunch 13:00 – 14:30
SESSION VII (PLENARY) (14:30 – 16:30)
Remembering and forgetting: Byron and us (ROOM A)
Chair Jane Stabler
14:30 SDEGNO Emma – “The truest, the sternest, Seer of the nineteenth century”: Ruskin Reading Byron
14:50 RAWES Alan – Forgetting Byron’s Venice in The Aspern Papers
15:10 TONUSSI Paola – Hints from Byron: Rupert Brooke’s Byronic Outlook
15:30 DOWLING Greg – Publishing Scoundrels, Charlatans and Failures: Byron Scholars in Fiction from James to Coetzee
15:50 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 and closing remarks
SATURDAY, JULY 5
TH
DAY EXCURSION
San Terenzo, Lerici, Portovenere