“The Years That Followed”: The Afterlives of Lord Byron
In the year after the poet’s bicentenary, the 2025 International Byron Conference to be held in Pisa (30 June – 5 July 2025) will focus on Byron’s richly inexhaustible legacy from the immediate aftermath of his death to the twenty-first century. The Conference aims to investigate Byron’s ideas about all kinds of futurity – historical, political, personal, and spiritual, among others – as well as the place he and his works have held in culture and literature since 1824, both in Britain and overseas. Byron’s long shadow touches many traditions: this Conference welcomes critical explorations of his legacy in all its transnational and interdisciplinary dimensions.
The Organising Committee invites paper proposals of 250 words, together with a short bionote (roughly 150 words), on topics including, but not necessarily limited to:
• Byronic prophesies and/or curses
• Byron and/on Futurity
• Byron and/on posterity
• Byron and/on death
• Byron and/on afterlife celebrity
• Byron on the translation/reception/value of his own work
• Byron and/on the future of politics
• Byron and/on the future of Italy
• Byron and/on the future of Greece
• Byron and/on the future of Europe
• Visions of the future in the Pisan Circle
• Reactions to Byron’s death
• The editing of Byron’s poetry after his death
• Writing the Poet’s lives: Byron and his biographers
• Byron in world literature
• Byronic heroes
• Translating Byron
• Anglo-Italian and Anglo-Greek Byron
• Byron as a cultural icon
• Byron in the media
• Byron and/in music
• Byron and Tuscany
• Byron and Italian tourism
The Committee welcomes submissions for both individual 20-minute presentations and roundtable discussions. Roundtable session proposals should include a description of the topic as well as a list of participants (along with a short bionote for each participant).
You can submit your proposals by visiting http://www.iabsconferencepisa2025.com The deadline for proposals is 20 JANUARY 2025.
For further information, including an extended version of the Call for Papers, General and Academic Program, Venue, and more, visit http://www.iabsconferencepisa2025.com
You can contact the Organizing Committee at info@iabsconferencepisa2025.com
Academic Committee: Madeleine Callaghan,
Gregory Dowling, Roberta Ferrari, Alan Rawes,
Diego Saglia, Jane Stabler
Organising Committee: Paolo Bugliani,
Nicoletta Caputo, Camilla Del Grazia,
Laura Giovannelli, Emily Paterson-Morgan