2023 Newstead Abbey Conference Programme

DAY 1 – 21 APRIL 

12pm-1pm LUNCH
1pm-2.30pm PANEL 1
Emily Paterson Morgan ‘The laudable practise of lovemaking’: Sexual Independence and Epistolary Subversion in Byron’s Italian Letters
Shellie Audsley ‘The hands of Dyers’: Referentiality and the Paradox of the Self in Don Juan
Patrick Vincent Byron, Ruskin, and the Geneva Nexus
2.30pm-3pm COFFEE
3pm-4.30pm PANEL 2
Tony Howe The Integrity of Byron’s Silence
Mirosława Modrzewska The Politics of Lyrical Expression in Byron’s Hebrew Melodies, Stanzas for Music and Songs
Bernard Beatty Byron: Independence and Integrity
4.30-5pm PANEL 3 (lightning round)
Alex Dougherty Integrating Heaven and Earth: Byron, Enoch, and Newstead Abbey as cosmic setting
Sarah Copsey Alsader Independent and of integrity – the development of the Byronic hero and the necessity of Islam in the ‘Turkish Tales’
Sion Pope Byron the Incel
5pm-5.45pm BUS TO PORTLAND COLLEGE
6pm-7pm KEYNOTE AND DRINKS  Matthew Ward ‘Byron at Sea’
7pm-7.30pm IABS ANNOUNCEMENTS
7.30-9.30 DINNER

DAY 2 – 22 APRIL

10am-11.30am PANEL 4
Christine Kenyon Jones ‘Byron and slavery’
Ioannes P. Chountis Byron and the Free Press: A New Approach
Edwina Watson Byron and ‘literary England’ in 1823
11.30am-12pm COFFEE
12pm-1.30pm PANEL 5
Marc Gotthard ‘The interregnum of some malady’: Thoughts on Freedom
Madeleine Callaghan Freedom From “you as me”: Byron’s Lyric ‘I’
Chiara Rolli Byron’s Juvenile Integrity: The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus
1.30pm-2.30pm LUNCH
2.30pm-4pm PANEL 6
William Edwards The ‘many-headed multitude’ and the ‘hundred-handed senate’: Byron’s rewriting of Coriolanus
Emily Holland “To Displace Athena’s Poor Remains”: Lord Byron and the Tomb of Minerva
Peter Graham A Tale of Two Liberals: Lord Byron and Captain Jonathan Peckham Miller
4pm-5pm TOUR OF ABBEY OR GARDENS