All sessions at the Strand Campus, King’s College London, WC2R 2LS, except where indicated.
Monday 1 July
14.3015.30
Registration (tea and coffee provided) Entrance Hall
15.3016.15
Welcome & opening of the conference: Professor Sir Richard Trainor, Principal of King’s College
London; Lord Byron, President of the Byron Society; the Reverend Professor Richard Burridge, Dean of
King’s College London Chapel
16.1517.30
Opening plenary session Chapel
Chair: Lord Byron
Jonathan Gross (DePaul University, Chicago): Up from Liberalism: Byron criticism in the age of
Michael Foot and Margaret Thatcher
David McClay (National Library of Scotland): Introduction to the special exhibition: Byron and Politics
17.3020.00
18.3020.00
Reception Entrance Hall
Exhibition Byron & Politics open at the Maughan Library, King’s College London
(Exhibition open throughout the conference between 9.30 and 17.00, but closed Wednesday 8.3013.00 and Friday 8.30-13.00)
Tuesday 2 July
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9.1511.15
Registration (tea and coffee provided) Council Room
Session 2. Politics of culture and language (plenary) Chapel
Chair: Naji Oueijan (Notre Dame University, Lebanon)
Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia): Byron’s lyrics and the politics of publication
Charles E Robinson (University of Delaware): Byron and Hazlitt: a new look at The Liberal
Peter Graham (Virginia Tech): Don Juan, politics, and the English language – and ‘Politics and the
English Language’
11.1511.45
Break (tea and coffee provided) Council Room
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Session 3a. Politics of the Other (1) Safra Theatre
Chair: Stephen Minta (University of York)
Natalia Solovyova (Moscow State University): Byron and Russia: politics of the other
Naji Oueijan (Notre Dame University, Lebanon): Byron’s virtual mapping of an Oriental myth
Trevor Grimshaw: The Corsair: orientalism and imperialism questioned
Session 3B. Italy (1) K2.31 (Nash Theatre)
Chair: Itsuyo Higashinaka (Ryukoku University, Emeritus)
Alan Rawes (University of Manchester): ‘The very poetry of politics. Only think – a free Italy!!!’: Byron
and the liberation of Italy
Joseph Luzzi (Bard College, New York): The unwritten lady: Byron’s Francesca da Rimini
Rosa Mucignat (King’s College London): History, prophecy, revolution: Italian politics in Byron and
Foscolo
13.1514.00
14.0016.00
Lunch Break (sandwich lunch provided) Council Room
Session 4a. ‘The poetry of politics’ Safra Theatre
Chair: Rowan Boyson (King’s College London)
Michael O’Neill (Durham University): ‘A wilderness of the most rare conceits’: imagining politics in
Byron’s poetry
Mark Sandy (Durham University): ‘Ruinous decay’: Byron, fallen nations, politics and poetic memory
Alexander Regier (Rice University, Texas): Byron’s dark side
Rosemarie Rowley (Irish Byron Society): Byron and the symbolism of his poetry and politics
Session 4b. Greece K2.31 (Nash Theatre)
Chair: Peter Graham (Virginia Tech)
Amy Muse (University of St Thomas, Minnesota): Byron and the maids of Athens
David Roessel (The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey): «Ζωή μου, σας αγαπώ»: the strange
literary afterlife of the Maid of Athens
Martin Prochazka (Charles University, Prague): The politics and poetry of Byron’s Romantic
Hellenism: fragmentation as a discursive strategy in The Giaour
Alex Grammatikos (Carleton University, Ottawa): Byron in the archives: Modern Greek print culture
and Byronic philhellenism
16.0016.30
Book launch: Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution by Roderick Beaton (Cambridge
University Press) (tea and coffee provided) Council Room
16.4517.30
Orthodox Vespers, sung by members of King’s College Choir, conducted by David Trendell.
Celebrant: Father Alexander Fostiropoulos, Orthodox Chaplain, King’s College London Chapel
Meeting of the Advisory Board of the International Byron Society Old Committee Room
18.4521.00
Byron, Elgin & the Marbles (viewing of the Parthenon Sculptures, reading and reception)
British Museum (advance booking required). Allow 35 minutes’ travel time.
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11.4513.15
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9.1510.35
Registration (tea and coffee provided) Council Room
Session 5. Politics of the Other (2) (plenary) Chapel
Chair: Agustín Coletes-Blanco (University of Oviedo)
Stephen Minta (University of York): Byron and the politics of altruism
Timothy Morton (Rice University, Texas): She walks in beauty like the night in which all cows are
black: Byron’s nonhuman
10.3511.00
11.0012.30
Break (tea and coffee provided) Council Room
Session 6a. Italy (2) (Round Table) Safra Theatre
Chair: Anthony Howe (Birmingham City University)
Hiroshi Harata (University of Yamanashi): Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage IV and Shelley’s ‘Ode
to Liberty’: the poetic voice of the exiles and their political assertion
Alexandra Böhm (University of Erlangen): The ‘poetry of politics’ – the politics of poetry: Byron and
Shelley in Italy
Will Bowers (University College London): ‘Too much in my old style’: Venezia Austriaca and a new
Byron
Maya El Hage (Notre Dame University, Lebanon): Italian politics of translating Byron
Maria Gabriella Tigani Sava (independent research student): Byronism and the Italian Risorgimento
Alessandro Iannucci & Matteo Zaccarini (University of Bologna): The Ravenna adventure: Byron’s
mythopoiesis through love and war
Session 6b. Celebrity & the construction of author & reader (Round Table) K2.31 (Nash
Theatre)
Chair: Elizabeth Eger (King’s College London)
Marcin Leszczyński (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń): Byron and the politics of readership
Kaila Rose Nicholl (University of Oregon): The politics of autobiography: Byron’s ‘other Being’ and
the ruination of poetic subjectivity in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage III & IV
Gavin Sourgen (Balliol College, Oxford): The contours of authority in Childe Harold III & IV
Madeleine Callaghan (University of Sheffield): ‘The careful pilot of my proper woe’: the Byron legend
in ‘The Epistle to Augusta’
Leigh Wetherall Dickson (Northumbria University): ‘My name in capitals, like Kean’: Caroline Lamb,
notoriety and genius in A New Canto and Gordon: A Tale
Spiridoula Demetriou (University of Melbourne): Byron and Missolonghi in art
12.3014.30
Lunch break (lunch is not provided) Those attending the afternoon session at the Guildhall School
should allow 45 minutes’ travel time.
14.3016.00
Lord Byron, The Two Foscari: a dramatised reading, with excerpts from Verdi’s opera, I Due Foscari,
performed by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Guildhall School, Silk Street, Barbican,
London EC2
16.0016.30
Break Guildhall School
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Wednesday 3 July
Session 7. Dramatist (1) Guildhall School
Chair: Michael O’Neill (Durham University)
Jie-Ae Yu (Changwon National University): Unravelling the endorsement of the politics of will:
Byron’s Marino Faliero
Piya Pal-Lapinski (Bowling Green State University, Ohio): The politics of torture in The Two Foscari:
Byron and Verdi
Mirka Horova (Charles University, Prague): The politics of heroic transformation in Sardanapalus and
The Deformed Transformed
Thursday 4 July
8.309.15
9.1511.15
Registration (tea and coffee provided) Council Room
Session 8a. ‘The politics of poetry’ Safra Theatre
Chair: Malcolm Kelsall (University of Wales, Cardiff, Emeritus)
Agustín Coletes-Blanco (University of Oviedo): Byron and digital archives: poetry and politics of the
Peninsular War (1808-1814)
Olivier Feignier (French Byron Society): Byron’s ‘Dithyramb on the Death of Napoleon’ and the
lessons of apocryphal works
Mirosława Modrzewska (University of Gdańsk): Byron’s manipulation of authors and addressees in his
comical political poems
Bernard Beatty (University of Liverpool): Byron: the politics of poetry and the poetry of politics
Session 8b. Political activist K2.31 (Nash Theatre)
Chair: Timothy Morton (Rice University, Texas)
Andreas Makrides (Hellenic Byron Society): Byron versus Marx: men in revolt and Lara revisited
Maria Schoina (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): Byron and The Liberal: a reassessment
Samvel Abrahamyan (Yerevan State University): Byron’s satire as a means for social change
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud (University of Tennessee): Byropolitics
11.1511.45
Break (tea and coffee provided) with an opportunity to visit Alex Alec-Smith’s Byron bookstall
which will be available all day in the Council Room
11.4513.00
Session 9.
Chair: Sir Drummond Bone (Balliol College, Oxford)
Debate on the motion: ‘that Lord Byron has had no meaningful impact on European history or
politics’, proposed by Peter Cochran, opposed by Jack Gumpert Wasserman (plenary) Chapel
13.0014.00
Lunch break (sandwich lunch provided) with an opportunity to visit Alex Alec-Smith’s Byron
bookstall Council Room
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16.3018.00
Session 10a. Napoleon and the politics of Albion (Round Table) Safra Theatre
Chair: Jonathan Gross (DePaul University, Chicago)
Linda A Archer (Kean University, New Jersey): ‘’Tis done – but yesterday a king’: is there truly a
dichotomy of Napoleon in Byron’s Romantic vision?
Fern Merrills (University of Sheffield): Quest for Promethean man: Byron’s figuring of Napoleon
Innes Merabishvili (Tbilisi State University): Stylistic allusion as way of life: reincarnating Napoleon
Mieko Miyazawa (Hokkai-Gakuen University): Byron’s radical nature and his politics: a black sheep
in Whig society
Savo Karam (Notre Dame University, Lebanon): The political dimension of Byron’s ‘An Ode to the
Framers of the Frame Bill’
Session 10b. Dramatist (2) K2.31 (Nash Theatre)
Chair: Alan Rawes (University of Manchester)
Gabriele Poole (University of Cassino): The mirror scene in Sardanapalus: (un)Byronic heroes
Laura Wallace (City University of New York): Dramatic form and poetic embodiment: redefining
Byron’s political plays
Matthew Ocheltree (Harvard University): Unsolved mysteries: the limits of finitude and the politics of
universalism in late Byron
15.3016.00
Break (tea and coffee provided) with an opportunity to visit Alex Alec-Smith’s Byron bookstall
Council Room
16.0017.30
Session 11a. Byron and his contemporaries (Round Table) Safra Theatre
Chair: Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia)
Jacob Hughes (Pennsylvania State University): Evacuating Turdsworth: the poetics and politics of
Byron’s spontaneous overflow
Elizabeth Weybright (City University of New York): Harmony, discord, and collaboration: a dialogue
between text and score in Hebrew Melodies
Charlotte May (University of Nottingham): Byron and the ‘venerable’ Rogers
Argyros Protopapas (University of Athens): Precariously suspended between nihilism and nationalism:
revolution and the galloping Byronic persona in Julian and Maddalo (1819)
Reiko Yoshida (Ryukoku University): The Deformed Transformed as a gothic story: Byron’s political
intention in portraying an obscure hero
Friederike Wolfrum (University of Innsbruck): Escapism or epoché? The politics of counterculture in
Byron’s The Island
Session 11b. Byron’s worldwide impact (Round Table) K2.31 (Nash Theatre)
Chair: Jonathon Shears (Keele University)
Qingbao Song (China University of Political Science and Law): A case study of the translation and
introduction of Byron’s Oriental Tales in China
Arnab Dutta (Jadavpur University, Kolkata): Poetry, politics and a Bengali glance at Byron: some
readings from a literary system in a Colonial chronotopicity
Nadezhda Prozorova (Kaluga State University): Byron and Silver-Age Russian culture
Irina Shishkova (AM Gorky Literary Institute, Moscow): Byron’s posthumous political influence on
Russian liberal thinking
Maria Kalinowska (Nicolas Copernicus University, Toruń and University of Warsaw): Byron, ethics
and politics from the perspective of Polish Romanticism
Nora Liassis (European University Cyprus): Byron and AD Hope: the politics of ecology and gender
18.3021.00
Reception at John Murray’s (advance booking required). Allow 40 minutes’ travel time
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14.0015.30
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9.0011.00
Registration (tea and coffee provided) Council Room. Note earlier start time of session 12
Session 12a. Social issues Safra Theatre
Chair: May Maalouf (Lebanese University, Lebanon)
Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Byron as unacknowledged
legislator: imagining slavery as a crime of piracy
Alice Levine (Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY): A prison on each hand: prison scenes and paradox
in Byron’s poetry
Anna Camilleri (Balliol College, Oxford): Byron and the politics of writing women
Lydia Emmeline Fernandez (University of Oxford): ‘The master theme of the epoch’: incest as
revolutionary symbol in Byron’s Cain
Session 12b. Satirist K2.31 (Nash Theatre)
Chair: Charles E Robinson (University of Delaware)
Peter Cochran (independent scholar): ‘I’ve seen the funds at war with house and land …’ A radical
reading of the politics of Don Juan
Halina Adams (University of Delaware): Byron’s Norman Abbey: at home in the nation
John Owen Havard (State University of New York, Binghampton): Visions of politics in The Vision of
Judgment
Itsuyo Higashinaka (Ryukoku University, Emeritus): Comic rhymes compared: Byron’s and Butler’s
11.0011.30
11.3013.30
Break (tea and coffee provided) Council Room
Closing plenary & closing of the conference Chapel
Chair: Bernard Beatty
Jane Stabler (University of St Andrews): Byron, the Pisan Circle and ‘Boccaccio’s lore’
Malcolm Kelsall (University of Wales, Cardiff, Emeritus): Byron and the Ottoman empire
Roderick Beaton (King’s College London): ‘My best Canto … / Will turn upon “Political Economy”’:
Byron’s hundred days in Greece (1824)
13.3014.30
Lunch break (sandwich lunch provided) & reception to celebrate the Byron Journal, sponsored by
Liverpool University Press Council Room
14.3016.30
International Byron Society: Council Meeting River Room
18.0019.00
Guided tour of the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament) (advance booking required)
19.00
Reception & conference dinner, Peers’ dining room, House of Lords (advance booking required)
Saturday 6 July
Visit to Harrow School, Byron’s place of learning from 1801-1805. The visit includes a tour of the historic
schoolrooms and St Mary’s Church, coffee on arrival and lunch before departure (advance booking required).
Coach departs from opposite Temple Station at 10.00. Return at approximately 16.30.
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