October Social Media Roundup

After a busy October, we're back again to round up some of the Keats-Shelley related news and announcements shared across our social media platforms over the past month. Upcoming events and the past month’s bicentennial celebrations, fellowship announcements and conference calls for papers, new publications and online resources—it’s all here in case you missed it! (And if there’s something you think we’ve missed, please let us know!)

Romantic Happenings: Events and Bicentennials from the Past Month

- "Byron’s Don Juan: A Romantic Bicentennial Symposium," sponsored by the K-SAA and The Byron Society of America, was held on October 18th & 19th at DePaul University, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication of the first cantos of Don Juan. See below for a few of the many tweets from the event--and a link to the livestream!

https://twitter.com/fraistat/status/1185191031362351104?s=20https://twitter.com/ByronSociety/status/1185564927081271296?s=20https://twitter.com/ByronSociety/status/1186350077603958789?s=20

- Meanwhile, the K-SAA also headed to Ravenna for Dreaming Romantic Europe Workshop 2, "Romantic Authorship," hosted by European Romanticisms in Association:

https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1185119978908999680?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1185186844679528453 

Upcoming Events & Ongoing Exhibitions

- On November 7th, Bysshe Coffey will be giving a talk on Shelley's approach to materiality at Keats House. See below for details - and check out the full lineup of upcoming Keats House events here!

https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1189898438080679937?s=20

- The bicentennial celebration of Don Juan's first cantos will continue on December 7th with "Don Juan: Reception, Conception & Imitation," a one-day conference hosted by the Byron Society. See below for details about registration - and for more information about this event, see a guest post on the K-SAA blog by Byron Society director, Dr Emily Paterson-Morgan.

For the full schedule of upcoming events with the Byron Society, including a talk by Emily Brand on November 14th, click here!

https://twitter.com/byron_society/status/1179037735681527813https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1186265628400857089?s=20- On November 15th, the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar will host an international panel, "British Responses to the 1830 Revolution in France," featuring Ian Haywood, James Grande, and Laurent Folliot. See below for the seminar's full program and more details about this next event.https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1181143124921507841?s=20- The K-SAA has announced details for our Annual Awards Dinner at MLA 2020!https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1190273499782356995?s=20- A new exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome features drawings by Roberto Einaudi, and runs until February 23rd:https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/1188811180464394247?s=20 

New Releases - Books, Blogs, and Other Resources

- A new volume on Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Sonia Hofkosh, is available now on Romantic Circles:

https://twitter.com/RomanticCircles/status/1185207773140848640?s=20

- And a new volume of The Hazlitt Review was released this month:

https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1180168760612855808?s=20- The BARS blog continues its Romantic Reimaginings, with a series of new posts including some thoughts by Garrett Jeter on Frankenstein and Revolution:https://twitter.com/Re_Romantic/status/1188887110083928071?s=20 

Conference Calls for Papers

- The 2020 Coleridge Conference will take place July 27-31 in the Lake District. Proposals are due by the end of November. Find details on the BARS blog, here.- 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.– The 2020 BARS ECR and Postgraduate Conference, “Romantic Futurities,” will be held at Keats House, London, on June 12-13. Find the CFP below:https://twitter.com/BARS_PGs/status/1182571978760298496?s=20- 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.- 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. 

Fellowships, Contests, and Other Opportunities

- Submissions for the 2020 Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize are due January 14th, 2020. Marking the bicentenaries of Shelley’s “To a Skylark” and Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” the theme for the year is “Songbird.” You can read more about the theme here and more about submission guidelines here. And find a playlist for inspiration below!https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/1185259880892063752?s=20

- Applications are open for a fully-funded, three-year PhD involving work at Keats House - see below for full details!

https://twitter.com/annamercer_/status/1189212040092626945?s=20

- BARS announced two open positions - Treasurer and Membership Secretary:

https://twitter.com/BARS_official/status/1189855045082218496?s=20 

Miscellaneous

- The K-SAA celebrated National Poetry Day 2019 with our followers' favorite Romantic poetry - including a newly found poem by Southey!

https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1179701425191956481?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1179705978226393088?s=20

- For World Animal Day, James Kidd wrote on Keats and the threat to nightingales for the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association:

https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/1180102235956617216?s=20- Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein was released this month:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1185700778276786177?s=20https://twitter.com/fraistat/status/1179458457981902848?s=20

- K-SAA celebrated Ada Lovelace Day with a throwback to our interview with Roger Whitson on Lovelace as "Romantic from the Future."

https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1181676847936851968?s=20- HBO announced plans for a new series, "The Shelley Society" (which met mixed responses from our followers).https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1187657046998638592?s=20- Conversations about Romanticism in the classroom continued, with thoughts on upcoming texts, dream courses, and--for Halloween--teaching the Gothic. For more pedagogy talk, join us on Twitter and Facebook for #TeachingTuesdays!https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1189158428482179072?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1181610699358789633?s=20- Join us, too, on Sundays to #ShareYourShelf! Here's a favorite from the past month:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1185929531166724096?s=20

- And, finally, to close out the month, we and many others celebrated the 224th birthday(s) of Keats!

https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/1189113733085356032?s=20https://twitter.com/KeatsLetters/status/1189916343669338112?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1189917201710624769?s=20 

We’ll return with another roundup next month – meanwhile, to keep up to date on news about Keats, the Shelleys, and their circles, follow us on Twitter or Facebook!

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