Cultural Agenda

Literary Prize for Graduation Thesis JASIT - CISR (LILEC) - Third Edition

The Jane Austen Society of Italy (JASIT) and the Inter-University Center for the Study of Romanticism (CISR – LILEC) announce the third edition of the literary prize for thesis of bachelor degree on an Austenian topics, Academic Year 2022-2023.

Transcultural Women & European Romanticism

Room G04, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France

This conference will focus on transcultural female authors of the Romantic period.

Materialising Romanticism + Romanticism in 100 Objects

Online event

Celebration of the many and various contributions to the collaborative project REVE, the associated upcoming double special issue of RoN entitled Materialising Romanticism, and the new virtual walk-in exhibition, Romanticism in 100 Objects, which is linked to the special issue.

BYRON NOW Fourth Edition

Ca’ Bernardo - Sala B Dorsoduro 3199, Venezia

Fourth Edition of the event Byron Now organised by Università Ca' Foscari of Venice, in collaboration with Italian Byron Society

Inventing the Human

University of Melbourne - In presence and online event

Conference, conversations, provocations, roundtables, and exhibition. Call for Papers: this interdisciplinary and hybrid conference sets out to place the (liberal-humanist) subject dispatched by posthumanism inside the much larger field of Enlightenment/Romantic thought.

Sauver, libérer, régénérer la Grèce du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle

Aula Gambi - Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2

This seminar will focus on the situation in Greece during the XV and XVI century, on the war of Independence, on the myth of the Termopili and the culture of Risorgimento.

Human and Nonhuman Agency in British Romanticism

Sapienza Università di Roma Dipartimento SEAI Marco Polo Building, Sala Riunioni 2, terzo piano, Circonvallazione Tiburtina, 4, 00185 Roma - In presence and online event

The seminar will focus on human interactions with the environment and climate change issues.

Mary Shelley’s “Symposium”: the ruling principle of love in “Valperga” - Prof. Michael Rossington

Keats-Shelley House, Piazza di Spagna 26, 00187, Roma

Professor Micheal Rossington (Newcastle University) will give a talk on the influences of Plato and Machiavelli in Mary Shelley’s novel Valperga.

Romantic Horizons: Pushing the Boundaries of Romantic Studies

Online event

The event focuses on a broad range of writers and themes from John Clare, Disability Studies, a re-discovered Henry Kirke White to the politics of Romantic reading, PB Shelley as well as Hart Crane among others.

Sulle traduzioni dei "Promessi sposi": esperienze a confronto e lavori in corso

Strada D'Azeglio 85 - Aula H

This event focuses on the historical translation regarding the Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni.

Byron and Writer's Block? Romantic Writers and Georgian Caricature

Sala Giunta, LILEC Department, via Cartoleria 5, Bologna - In presence and online event

In this conference Prof Ian Haywood will explore the visual image of Romantic writers through portraits, caricatures and satire.

Theatres, riots, sex workers and popular protest in Georgian England - Prof Ian Haywood

Aula F Belmeloro, 2nd floor, via B. Andreatta 8, Bologna - In presence and online event