December Social Media Roundup
Another month--and year!--is behind us, and so we're back again to collect some of the Keats-Shelley related news that came across our social media feeds in the past month. Upcoming events and the past month’s bicentennial celebrations, fellowship announcements and conference calls for papers, new blogs and reading recommendations—all this and more is collected here in case you missed it! (And, as always, if there’s something we’ve missed, please let us know!)
Upcoming Events
- MLA 2020 is upon us! To help our readers plan a schedule for January 9-12, we put together a list of panels of interest to Romanticists:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1205118540946255872?s=20
- On the K-SAA blog, you can find information about upcoming events from the Byron Society, the Keats Foundation, and Keats House, Hampstead--take a look below!
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1201537005584175104?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1202286041002102784?s=20
- The schedule for the Cardiff Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Seminar Series was posted on the BARS blog:
https://twitter.com/BARS_official/status/1207252740424028160?s=20
- And the Shelley Conference announced its return on July 8, 2022!
https://twitter.com/shelleyconf2017/status/1207753695724756992?s=20
Romantic Happenings: Events from the Past Month
- The Byron Society held its bicentennial commemoration of Don Juan I & II on December 7th. See below for some live tweets of the event--including from Jerome McGann's keynote, "Byron, Don Juan, and Language."
https://twitter.com/CharlotteFMay/status/1203252541733122048?s=20https://twitter.com/leighwd40/status/1203590047062208514?s=20https://twitter.com/EPatersonMorgan/status/1203295401442529280?s=20
- The theater program at Western University performed Shelley's The Cenci in early December--which sold out on its opening night!
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1202247688487686144?s=20https://www.facebook.com/TheCenciAtWesternUniversity/posts/166654001400649?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDUp2a8oDUF5HppTnu_NHM-BT_acJT0OVDY1CfVwezDWN5rKbUv32BDjFHzHZUsig40whHCNpWwRHKb_UQvwEVROlkQuH-e2d2XCkyNZ2Sf3hSjg00xKCE4dh-uGfJY_rZ_MmdBqhxb_4SxDgCy_8es05Dit4hK2YvKxTECIZiseInNYr_kCpeftjVc1_NQDWmw3MKAl14HxVpGOFvo6Dk06C9Qv3aSg7HbJUPKBWVLC65es9O1AYnV1nvgCDc7T7tp5g6sUHzxO694VjgYM0UnDPOTkS8pnyC6qYRE1YmSiIejmdCpdxvx-j_tYrm1vCAicWTlHOPAiN4yRdcl2mM&__tn__=-R
Blogs and other Resources
- The newest entry in the K-SAA's "What Are You Reading" series is now available. Take a look at what Professor Chris Washington has been reading, teaching, and thinking about hope and the post-apocalyptic in Romanticism!
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1208036218547712000?s=20
- The "Romantic Reimaginings" series on the BARS blog continued with two new posts, one on Auden, MacNeice, Yeats, and Shelley, and another on Wordsworth's "Nutting":
https://twitter.com/ABDavis1816/status/1204302357602996224?s=20https://twitter.com/Re_Romantic/status/1207274225263874048?s=20
Conference CFPs
- Proposals are due December 31st for the 46th International Byron Conference, “Byron – Wars and Words.” The conference will be held at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece from June 29-July 5 2020. More information can be found on the BARS blog.- Proposals for NASSR 2020 are due January 24, 2020. The conference will be held from August 6-9 at the University of Toronto. Find more information and the CFP on the conference site, here.- The 2020 BARS ECR and Postgraduate Conference, “Romantic Futurities,” will be held at Keats House, London, on June 12-13. Proposals are due on January 31st. Find the CFP here.- The 2020 Paris Symposium of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar has posted a CFP for “Oaths, Odes, and Orations 1789-1830,” to be held at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, on April 3-4, 2020. The deadline for proposals is January 31, 2020. More information can be found here.- A CFP has been posted for "Byron and Loss," the 2020 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference. The conference will be held on April 24-25th at Newstead Abbey, and the deadline for proposals is February 1. Find more details here. Additionally, The Maureen Crisp Young Scholars Fund is offering five £100 travel bursaries for postgraduate students and ECRs presenting papers at "Byron and Loss." More information can be found here.- Proposals for “Global Blake: Afterlives in Art, Literature and Music,” are due February 29th. The conference will be held from September 11-12 at the University of Lincoln. Full details can be found on here.- "Pacific Paratexts," an interdisciplinary symposium exploring paratexts in writing from and about the Pacific, is accepting proposals. This two-day symposium will be held November 7-8, 2020, at Meji University in Tokyo, Japan. The deadline for proposals is May 1. See the full CFP here.
Fellowship and Prize Opportunities
- The 2020 Keats-Shelley Prize is accepting submissions on the theme of "Songbird." The deadline for submission has been extended until January 31st. Find more information below, or at the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association's website.
https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/1204720940271251456?s=20
- Information about the 2020 Stephen Copley research awards was shared this month. Find more details about the deadline and application process here or below.
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1203997870589972482?s=20
Miscellaneous
- At the beginning of the month, we announced the winner of our annual postcard competition, Dana Moss! Here's Dana's defense of poetry for today's world: “To write poetry is to call to attention. Our poets must be the preservers of our natural world, because we know now it cannot last forever.”
You can find these postcards at upcoming conferences and #Romantics200 events--and for more poetic defenses from our followers, take a look at our runners up on the blog!
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1202585160266461184?s=20
- The Masque of Anarchy, featuring Maxine Peake, was named as one of Michael Billington's ten favorite shows from a five-decade career as a reviewer:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1206593071229652997?s=20
- Jesper Koch premiered "Shelley's Fragments," a piece inspired by Shelley's Julian and Maddalo:
https://twitter.com/fraistat/status/1202997684107448320?s=20
- And Byron's home in Nottingham was listed for sale:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1207326151653244928?s=20