Monday 7th August
9:15am – 10:15am
Registration in Fromm Hall Atrium
10:15m – 10:45am
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Welcome & Introduction
10:45m – 11am
Break
11am – 12:30pm
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Roundtable: Biographizing, Fictionalizing, and Editing Byron
Chair: Celeste Langan
• Bernard Beatty, University of Liverpool & Saint Andrews, UK
• Alice Levine, Fordham University, USA
• Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University, Canada
• Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia, USA
12:30pm – 2pm
Lunch Break & Campus Walk-Around
2pm – 3:30pm
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Session 1: The Byron Matrix
Chair: Tony Howe
• Amal Bou Sleiman, Saint Joseph University & the Lebanese University Beruit
"When the Outer becomes inner: The Shared Matrix in Byron’s Childe Harold Pilgrimage"
• Robin Hammerman, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
"Strange New Worlds: Resurrecting Byron in AI Interfaces"
• Stephen Webb, University of Alberta, Canada
“A Very Curious Map” of Byron’s Books: Virtuality and Digital Approaches to a Byronic “book-map”
3:30pm – 3:45pm
Break
3:45pm – 4:45pm
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Session 2: Printing and Practicing Byron
Chair: Jonathan Gross
• Gary Dyer, Cleveland State University, USA
"Reading Material Byron, Summer 1823"
4:45pm – 5pm
Break
5pm – 7:30pm
Fromm Hall: Berman Room
Cocktail Reception
* sponsored by The Byron Society
Tuesday 8th August
8:30am – 9:15am
Fromm Hall: Atrium
Coffee, Tea, Breakfast
9:15am – 10:45am
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Session 3: “You say you want a revolution”
Chair: Fuson Wang
• Jonathan Gross, DePaul University, USA
"Byron, Pushkin, and the Harlem Renaissance"
• Miroslawa Modrzewska, University of Gdańsk, Poland
"The World of the Future and the World of the Past in Selected Lyrical Poetry by G.G. Byron”
• Brian Goldberg, University of Minnesota, USA
"The Siege of Ismail, the Just War, and Don Juan’s Mental Fight"
10:45am – 11am
Break
11am – 12:30pm
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Session 4: On Byron’s Contemporaries
Chair: Omar F. Miranda
• Callan Cimino, University of San Francisco, USA
• Cornelius Green, University of San Francisco, USA
• Zero Ramos Laforga, University of San Francisco, USA
• Mallory Shafer, University of San Francisco, USA
12:30pm – 2pm
Lunch Break
IABS Advisory Board Meeting
in Fromm Hall: Berman Room
2pm – 3:30pm
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Session 5: Building Empires
Chair: Gary Dyer
• Tobiah Agurkis, DePaul University, USA
"Tennyson and Imperial Britain’s Conception of Economy"
• Marc Gotthardt, University of Cambridge, UK
"Byron’s Speculative Utopias"
• Jake Spangler, Chicago PS
“I could not deem myself a slave:” Lord Byron and Greek Abolition in Don Juan"
3:30pm – 3:45pm
Break
3:45pm – 5:15pm
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Session 6: The Americas
Chair: David Roessel
• Naji Oueijan, IABS Joint President, Lebanon
"The Byronic Hero and the American Settler"
• Daniela Paolini, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
"A New Arcadia: the Río de la Plata as a Utopian Space for Romantic Imagination (1806-1807)"
• John Owen Havard, Binghamton University, UK
"'Now new no more': Byron's Americas"
5:15pm – 5:30pm
Break
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Plenary
• Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, University of Tennessee, USA
"Sex with Byron
6:45pm – on . . .
Celebration at Barrel Head Brewhouse
* sponsored by the BSA
Wednesday 9th August
8:30am – 9am
Fromm Hall: Atrium
Coffee, Tea, Breakfast
9am – 10:30am
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Session 7: Environment and Ecology
Chair: Amy Weldon
• Carolina Fautsch, John Hopkins University, USA
"Echolocation in the Abyss of Byron's Cain"
• Marcin Leszczynski, Institute of Polish Literature at the University of Warsaw
"Byron and the New Science of Astronomy"
• Johannah King-Slutzky, Columbia University, USA
"Geoengineering and the Capacity for Violence in Shelley’s Poetics of Soil"
10:30am – 10:45am
Break
10:45am – 12:15pm
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Session 8: Philhellenes, “Turkifications,” and The Clash
Chair: Andrew Stauffer
• David Roessel, Stockton University
"Samuel Gridley Howe, Byron, and the Greek Revolution"
• Piya Pal-Lapinski, Bowling Green University, USA
"Coffee Amongst the Ruins of Anatolia: Hobhouse and Byron’s Journey to Ephesus"
• Ioannes Chountis, University of Aberdeen, UK
"Byron vs Southey, or the Clash of Whig - Tory Historical Interpretation of George III’s Reign"
12:15pm – 1:30pm
Lunch Break
AGM in Fromm Hall: Berman Room
1:30pm – 3pm
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Session 9: The Other Byron
Chair: David Woodhouse
• Emily A. Bernhard Jackson, University of Exeter, UK
"'Hope You Guessed My Name': The Devil and the Making of Lord Byron"
• Madeleine Callaghan, University of Sheffield, UK
“Byron as Other”
• Fuson Wang, University of California, Riverside, US
"Body Swapping with Byron: Disability Theory's Fantastical Origins"
3pm - 4pm
Travel to City Lights
4pm - 5pm
City Lights Bookstore
we will meet our guide Peter Maravelis in Kerouac Alley and listen to his lecture on the history of the bookstore with Q&As to follow (and likely book shopping too)
5pm - 6pm
Free Time & Travel to Restaurant
A ten minute walk from the bookstore . . .
6pm - 8pm
Gala Dinner at Piperade
In this beautiful Basque restaurant, we will enjoy a prix fixe menu for attendees who have purchased their tickets.
* sponsored by the K-SAA
Thursday 10th August
9am – 10am
Fromm Hall: Atrium
Coffee, Tea, Breakfast
10am – 11:30am
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Session 10: Psychological Worlds
Chair: Marc Gotthardt
• Anthony Howe, Birmingham City University, UK
"Byron and the New World of Silence"
• Samantha Crain,
"Original Sin and Dystopia: Overreaching as Implicit Critique in Cain"
• Malgorzata Nowak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
"The End of the Old World: Juliusz Słowacki, Theodicy and Byronic Themes"
11:30am – 11:45am
Break
11:45am – 1:15pm
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Session 11: Identities
Chair: Piya Pal-Lapinski
• Julia Markus, Hofstra University, USA
"New Women, New World"
• Michelina Nelson-Olivieri,
"Queerly Byronic: Anne Lister, Lord Byron, and Queer Coding in the Nineteenth Century"
• Kathleen Jorge, Virginia Tech, USA
"Lord Byron’s Scandals and Contemporary Cancel Culture"
1:15pm – 2:15pm
Lunch Break
2:15pm – 3:45pm
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Session 12: Voices
Chair: Madeleine Callaghan
• David Woodhouse, The Byron Society, UK
"The Grand Napoleon of the Realms of Rhyme: Byron's Egotistical Sublime"
• Amy Weldon, Luther College, USA
""Without the Muffle:" Lord Byron, Boxing, and Authentic Life"
• Celeste Langan, University of California,Berkley, USA
"Byron and Black Cantology"
3:45pm – 4pm
Break
4pm – 5pm
Fromm Hall: Maraschi Room
Futures: Clips & Discussion
• Kaila Rose, The Byron Society of America
Closing Remarks
5pm – 5:30pm
Break
Walk up to Lone Mountain: Koret Lodge
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Lone Mountain: Koret Lodge
Cocktail Reception
* sponsored by the BSA
• Jose Alvarez, New York Playwright
Xoxo, Lord Byron
Friday 11th August
Cruise Around the San Francisco Bay
There are tours that sail at both 1:10pm and 3:30pm for $44. If there is enough interest, we can meet at Pier 33 and set sail together!
Bay Discovery Cruise: A National Park Tour – A Sightseeing Adventure On San Francisco Bay! This 90-minute sightseeing cruise is full of San Francisco icons to view from the boats, such as:
The Golden Gate Bridge
Alcatraz Island (not docking here, however)
Angel Island
Sausalito
The Marin Headlands
Fort Point / Presidio
Ghirardelli Square
Pier 39
San Francisco Skyline
* information available on www.cityexperiences.com
Journey to Alcatraz
These tours last a few hours and take you to Alcatraz Island and include:
• Round-trip ferry service to Alcatraz with admission to the Alcatraz Cellhouse
• Exploration of the Island with access to outdoor historic spaces as well as access to the New Industries Building and some exhibits
* information available on www.cityexperiences.com
• We will have to check times and availabilities for interested parties.