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.