September Social Media Roundup
New to the K-SAA blog, we’re rounding up some of the Keats-Shelley related news and announcements shared across our social media platforms over the past month. To paraphrase Mary Shelley’s editor in The Last Man: scattered and unconnected as discussions on Twitter and Facebook can be, we felt obliged to add a bit more structure, and collect everything into a less ephemeral form. 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
- September 19 marked the 200th anniversary of Keats’s “To Autumn.” Here are just a few of many reflections on the poem, 200 years on, that came across our feeds:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1174290974320627712?s=20https://twitter.com/EleanorBryan/status/1174624496487227393?s=20https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/1174661409751425024?s=20
- A week earlier, as part of Keats 200, Keats House recreated a day in the life of Keats, tracing the exact route he took through London on September 13, 1819—see pictures from Keats House below, and then read more about what Keats saw on that day in 1819 on our blog, here.
https://twitter.com/KeatsHouse/status/1172431417495605248?s=20
https://twitter.com/KeatsHouse/status/1172568469142982656
- And earlier in the month, Kathleen Hurlock wrote a guest post for our blog to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the writing of Mary Shelley’s Mathilda (and the 60th anniversary of its first publication).
Tributes
- Bysshe Inigo Coffey wrote in tribute to Marilyn Gaull, scholar of Romanticism and founding editor of The Wordsworth Circle.
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1170401855895220237?s=20https://twitter.com/fraistat/status/1170403231970844672?s=20
Ongoing Exhibitions and Upcoming Events
- On October 3, the Keats-Shelley House in Rome will be hosting an event to explore Keats's work in 1819. Find details below:https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/1175003871304962049?s=20- "Byron’s Don Juan: A Romantic Bicentennial Symposium" will be held on October 18-19 at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. More information about the event can be found on the Byron Society of America's website.- The London-Paris Romanticism Seminar presents Timothy Webb on "Leigh Hunt and 'Romantic' Imprisonment":https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1178682662367547393?s=20- Registration is now live for "Byron's Don Juan: Conception, Reception, Imitation," The Byron Society’s bicentennial commemoration of Don Juan I & II. The conference will be held on December 7th at Nottingham Trent University, and the keynote speaker will be Jerome McGann. Find details or register here.
- Upcoming at the Keats House Museum, Hampstead: an exploration of Regency ideas of marriage, adultery, power and law in relation to Don Juan I; a guided walk through Keats's London; a talk by Bysshe Coffey on Shelley's approach to materiality; and much, much more! Check here for the full schedule.
- Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum has released their schedule of autumn and winter events--including a talk about Frankenstein on Halloween!
- Chawton House opened a new exhibition, "Mary Wollstonecraft at Versailles during the French Revolution," featuring work by Louisa Albani. The show runs until November 29, and more info can be found here.
https://twitter.com/ChawtonHouse/status/1168101308009713664?s=20
- "Trial by Media: The Queen Caroline Affair" is on view at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale's Law School. The exhibition runs until December 19.
- William Blake at the Tate Britain—a “stupendous” show, according to the Guardian—runs until February 2.
https://twitter.com/KAFender_Oxford/status/1177197098913226752?s=20
New Releases - Blogs, Books, and Other Resources
- At the beginning of the month, we on the K-SAA blog explored Kim Blank's Mapping Keats' Progress--a website dedicated to tracing the complex set of shaping forces behind Keats’s poetic development--which was recently released in version 2.0. Read about what we found, or jump into the site itself!
- Romantic Reimaginings--a new blog series for BARS run by K-SAA communications fellow Eleanor Bryan--launched this month:
https://twitter.com/Re_Romantic/status/1173645542330654721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1174000210181275649&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fk-saa.org%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D2908%26action%3Dedit
- New in Studies in Comparative Literature is Mary Shelley and Europe; and new in the European Romantic Review is a special issue on New Directions in Godwin Studies:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1169361283277295617https://twitter.com/Godwin_lives/status/1172515308273381376?s=20
Fellowship and Contest Announcements
- Applications are now open for the K-SAA’s Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Research Grants. The deadline is November 1 and more information can be found here on the K-SAA blog.
- Submissions are now being accepted for the 2020 Keats-Shelley essay and poetry prizes. 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 inspiration below!
https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/1176469248539017216?s=20
Conference CFPs
- The CFP is now out for The 46th International Byron Conference, “Byron - Wars and Words,” which will be held at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece from June 29-July 5 2020. Proposals are due December 31. More information can be found on the BARS blog.
- The Keats Foundation released a preliminary announcement for the 7th Bicentennial John Keats Conference, “John Keats in 1820,” which will be head at Keats House, London, on May 15-17 2020. Read the full announcement here.
- The Byron Society of America invites proposals on the theme of "Tides" for the 51st annual CEA conference. Proposals are due on November 1; and details can be found here.
- 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/1177527288675602432?s=20
- The 2020 Coleridge Conference will take place July 27-31 in the Lake District:
https://twitter.com/JoTayl0r0/status/1172055629411827714
- NASSR 2020's CFP, on the theme "Romanticism and Vision," is now out. The deadline for open-call panels and roundtables is October 25, 2019; and the deadline for all paper and panel proposals is January 24, 2020. The conference will be held at the University of Toronto, August 6-9 2020. Find the CFP here.
Miscellaneous
- Starting this past month, the K-SAA is inviting our social media followers to participate in #TeachingTuesdays, a day dedicated in part to sharing new ideas about teaching Romanticism. New courses? New syllabi in development? New texts? Join us on Twitter or Facebook on Tuesdays to discuss!
- ICR participants reflected on "Romanticism Now and Then":https://twitter.com/ICRMCR2019/status/1166807849948864512?s=20- An important theme this month was Shelley's Valperga as underrated:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1168145448344981509?s=20https://twitter.com/fraistat/status/1176883807959552001?s=20
- Bright Star (2009) made it on to the Guardian's list of the 100 best films of the 21st century.
- Guillermo del Toro (and many others!) helped us celebrate the birthday of Mary Shelley:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1167395496152879104?s=20
- Mary Shelley (and the Pforzheimer Collection at the New York Public Library) featured in Vogue and at New York Fashion week. Read about Graham Tyler's designs based on the life of Shelley here.
- And NASSR joined Twitter! Follow below:
https://twitter.com/nassr_romantics/status/1169972115157725185?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!