Past Events

by Sharon Ruston 18th October ONLINE [ezcol_1third] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] 5.30-6.30pm GMT FREE EVENT Ticket registration here. [/ezcol_2third_end] Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was the foremost chemist of the early nineteenth century. He isolated more elements than any other individual has before or since, including calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium. He was the first person to inhale nitrous oxide,…

By Marc Gotthardt 28 January 2023 Bernard Beatty is proof that one can read Byron for six decades without once being bored, as he says. For someone who has barely started on his lifelong journey with Byron, it is a special pleasure to hold the outcome of a lifetime of close and careful attention, Bernard’s…

The Byron Society is pleased to announce that it is sponsoring a panel at the 2022 BARS/NASSR annual conference on the theme Byronic Modes of Rebellion, and providing bursaries of £250.00 each for three speakers. ***DEADLINE EXTENDED IN RECOGNITION OF STRIKES, TO 7TH APRIL*** Rebellion comes in a myriad of forms, from teenage angst and…

One-day conference, Saturday 7th December 2019 Commemorating the bicentennial of the publication of Don Juan Cantos I and II Antenna Media Centre (Nottingham Trent University), Nottingham Venue Accommodation Travel Conference Programme Registration Published anonymously in the summer of 1819, the first two cantos of Byron’s ‘satirical epic’ Don Juan provided the reading public with a work which self-consciously…

One-day conference, Saturday 7th December 2019 Commemorating the bicentennial of the publication of Don Juan Cantos I and II Antenna Media Centre (Nottingham Trent University), Nottingham For more details of the conference, click here.  Keynote speaker Professor Jerome McGann (University of Virginia), ‘Byron and his Language’ Professor McGann, one of the world’s leading Byron scholars for…

Byron Society Lecture, 24th July 6.30-8.00pm, at the Art Workers Guild, London [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] Ticket Prices: £5.00 for Members; £6.00 for Students; £7.00 for Non-Members. Book now:contact@thebyronsociety.com Dr Anthony Howe, Reader in English Literature and Associate Director of Research in the School of English at Birmingham City University, will give a talk on Byron’s letter writing…

Improvisation and Mobility Ravenna, Italy 2nd to 7th July 2018 Byron’s most famous use of the word “mobility” is in Don Juan, Canto 16, stanza XCVII, where he uses it to  describe Lady Adeline Amundeville, adding a footnote in which he defines it as “excessive susceptibility of immediate impressions”. Since then the word has been…