Cultural Agenda

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

Romanticism and its Media

Leipzig University Library

This conference aims at establishing a dialogue between the different fields exploring Romanticism and its media. One particular goal is to explore constellations of media-related issues that correlate the Romantic age with our own historical period and its questions regarding media and mediation.

New Light on Liverpool Radical Romantic-Period Working-Class Poets and Intellectuals

Room 128, University of Liverpool (Department of English) - In presence and online event

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