9.40am-11.00am

PANEL 1 (Salvin Room)

Kaila Rose (Independent): ‘“In this instance I was not so fortunate as to be prophetic”: Andamento, or the “Prophecy of Byron”’

Svetlana Koroleva (Nizhny Novgorod University): ‘Byron’s Venetian Text As a “Constant” And Its Reception in Pushkin’s The Bronze Horseman’

Emma Peacocke (Independent): ‘Abolitionism and the “Gladiator” in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage’

11.00am-11.30am BREAK (Tea/Coffee)

11.30am-1.00pm

PANEL 2 (Salvin Room)

Christine Kenyon Jones (King’s College, London): ‘Byron, Keats and the “Chameleon” poet’

Mirka Horova (Charles University, Prague): ‘Byron and the Resilience of Contrariety’

James Quinnell (Independent): ‘“Questions answerless, and yet incessant”: Byron’s Open-Mindedness’

1.00pm-2.00pm LUNCH

2.00pm-3.30pm

PANEL 3 (Salvin Room)

Sara Cole (Lancaster University): ‘Byron’s ‘Varied Wonders’: Science and Satire from English Bards to Don Juan’

James Vigus (Queen Mary University of London): ‘“[T]hou somewhat aged youth!” Byron’s portrayal of Tsar Alexander I in The Age of Bronze (1823)’ 

Gary Kelly (Alberta): ‘Nobs, Mobs, and Reformist Modernities: Byron and Egan’ 

3.30pm-5.00pm

PANEL 4 (Salvin Room)

Danièle Sarrat (French Byron Society): ‘“Once More Upon the Waters!”: The Mobility of Translating’

Olivier Feignier (French Byron Society): ‘Byron as a Multi-faceted Influencer of French Romantic Poetry’

Aneta Świder-Pióro (Independent): ‘From Melancholy to Irony – George Gordon Byron and Juliusz Słowacki: Traces of a Funereal Imagination’

5.00pm-5.15pm BREAK (Tea/Coffee)

9.30am-11.00am

PANEL 5 (Salvin Room)

Dan Wall (University of Aberdeen): ‘Byronic Contrariety and the problem of Literary Biography’

Federica Vignoli (Independent): ‘The Tension between Contrasting Forces and the Search for Stability in Byron: Teresa Gamba’s Narrative and the Process of Emotional and Identity Integration’

Qingbao Song (China University of Political Science and Law): ‘The Dissemination and Transformation of Byron’s Greek Complex and Heroic Image during the Late Qing Dynasty and Early Republic of China’

PANEL 6 (Old Library)

Sabarno Sinha (University of Texas): ‘When Byron was Anti-French, or; Teaching Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage in Victorian Calcutta’

Amy Weldon (Luther College, Decorah): ‘Going Mobile: Studying Abroad with Lord Byron’

Frederick F. J. Featham (Independent): ‘“Byron vs. Bullying”: Teaching Lord Byron through Art, Language, and Humanist Values in Contemporary Education’

11.00am-11.30am BREAK (Tea/Coffee)

11.30am-1.00pm

PANEL 7 (Salvin Room)

Rita Farah (Independent): ‘Reimagining Manfred: From Gothic Sublimity to Neuromancer’s Techno-Sublime’

Michelle Taylor (University of South Florida): ‘Taylor Swift, Byronic Heroine: Reimagining Byron’s Mobility’

Jake Hughes (Independent) – ‘Dylan & Byron: Creatures Void of Form’ 

PANEL 8 (Old Library)

Amal Bou Sleiman (Saint Joseph University, Beirut): ‘From Confinement to Consciousness: A Sartrean Reading of Byron’s The Prisoner of Chillon’

Mark Sandy (University of Durham): ‘“Living on in Shattered Guise”: Byron’s Digressive Art and Poetic Selfhood’

Maria Kalinowska (Warsaw University): ‘Two Faces of Polish Byronism: Melancholy and Nothingness Versus Dynamism and Transgression’

1.00pm-2.00pm LUNCH

2.00pm-3.00pm

The Sneyd Family Papers (Jenn Larsen)

3.30pm-5.00pm

PANEL 9 (Salvin Room)

Dexiang Liao (National Sun Yat-sen University): ‘Change and/or Constancy: Memory of Time Writing in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’

Dilara Kalkan (Atatürk University): ‘The Illusion of Change: Erasure and Failed Transformation of Identity in Byron’s Turkish Tales’

Matteo Schiavone (University of Freiburg): ‘The Gender Fluidity of the Byronic Hero: Reading Lara through a Trans Gaze’

PANEL 10 (Old Library)

Guðni Elísson (University of Iceland): ‘“I shall die at top” first: Byron and the Overcoming of Death’ 

Leon Wang (Brandeis University): ‘“I am more fit to die than people think”: Byron as an Existential Philosopher’

Young-ok An (University of St. Thomas): ‘The Ecology as/of Inheritance in Werner’

5.00pm-5.15pm BREAK (Tea/Coffee)

9.30am-11.00am

PANEL 11 (Salvin Room)

Samantha Crain (Independent) – ‘Examining Em-dashed Sincerity in Juan and Haidée’s Interlude’

Reyam Ramahi (University of Oxford): ‘Main Text vs. Footnote in Byron’s “Oriental Tales” (1813-14)’ 

Matthew Ward (University of Birmingham): ‘Byron’s Living Hand and the Posthumous Life of Poets’

10.00am-11.30am BREAK (Tea/Coffee)

11.30am-1.00pm

PANEL 12 (Salvin Room)

Madeleine Callaghan (University of Sheffield): ‘Byron: Lyric Concealment and Confession’

Peter Francev (Victor Valley College, California) ‘Love’s Labour Lost: Byron’s Conflicted Identity in “Fugitive Pieces”’

Ghislaine McDayter (Bucknell University): ‘Of Flirts and Fiends: Changing Places with Byron’

1.00pm-2.00pm LUNCH

2.15pm-4.15pm IABS AGM (Old Library)

The excursion to the World of Wedgwood Museum in Barlaston includes a talk about the history of English potter and abolitionist, Josiah Wedgwood I. Following this, we will visit the beautiful gardens of Trentham designed by Capability Brown where there will be a chance for shopping.   

10.00am DEPART / RETURN 3.00pm

Coach Collection from Marriott Hotel (Keele Campus)

6.00pm-LATE The Byron Conference Pub Quiz (KPA Pub on campus)

The excursion to Tatton Park includes a tour of the Mansion House and the Gardens and a talk about the library during the Romantic period and the rare book collection. This includes first editions of works by Byron and Jane Austen.

DEPART 9.00am / RETURN 3.00pm 

Coach Collection from Marriott Hotel (Keele Campus)