“Excess and Exhaustion: Byron in 1818”
27th-28th April
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Nottingham.
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This April in the gorgeous environs of Newstead Abbey, the Newstead Abbey Byron Society will host their annual conference.
The conference is open to Society members if they wish to travel up to Nottingham, it will start at 1 p.m. on Friday with lunch at Newstead Abbey, followed by afternoon sessions and dinner. On Saturday, the conference will run from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m
The editor of our Journal, Jonathan Shears, will give the plenary.
If you have any questions about the event, or would like to book a place, please email the Chairman of the Newstead Abbey Society, Ken Purslow: whitelady@white-lady.co.uk.
PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 27 April
LUNCH at Newstead Abbey: 1.00 – 2.00 pm
SESSION 1 2.00 – 3.30 pm Chair: Shona Allan
Christine Kenyon Jones ‘[T]hrown topsy-turvy’: Byron’s response to System
Samantha Crain Beppo, the Inverted Turkish Tale: A Satire of Prior Excess
Irina Shiskova Byron and Sassoon’s Poetic ‘Dialogue’ on War and Peace
BREAK: 3.30 – 3.45 pm
PANEL 3.45 – 4.45 pm Byron Outworn and Worn Out Chair: Anna Camilleri
Shona Allan, Peter Francev, Mirka Horova, Stephen Minta
SATURDAY 28 April
Registration 10.15 – 10.30 am
SESSION 2 10.30 – 12.00 am Chair: Mirka Horova
Bernard Beatty Byron: exhaustion, satiety, and the inexhaustible
Anna Camilleri Byron and the Exhaustion of Romance
Emily Paterson-Morgan ‘Why do you call the Katherine a Whore?’: Sexual Excess and Exhaustion in Byron’s Russian Cantos
12.00 – 1.15 pm LUNCH
SESSION 3 1.15 – 2.45 pm Chair: Peter Francev
David Woodhouse Childe Harold’s Monitor & Don Juan’s Tutors: Francis Hogdson & Byron’s Index Librorum
Lee Livingstone ‘[H]ere they know nothing – and remember nothing’: Byron’s Remembering of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Agustín Coletes Blanco ‘Byron en Venecia’: The Venetian Byron in Some Late Nineteenth Century Spanish Travelogues, Translations and Poems (1861-1892)
2.45 – 3.00 pm COFFEE BREAK
PLENARY 3.00 – 4.00 pm Jonathon Shears Byron’s Feelings
4.00 – 4.50 pm TOUR OF THE GARDENS (or the abbey, depending on the weather)