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Call for Papers
The XXXVII International Byron Society Conference Valladolid – Spain Monday 27th June to Friday 1st July 2011 "Byron & Latin Culture" The Academic committee welcomes twenty-minute papers on the theme of "Byron & Latin Culture". This broad theme can accommodate a wide range of approaches, including: Byron and Cervantes; Byron's experience of Spain and Portugal; Byron's Don Juan and Tirso's; Juan, Boscan and Garcilasso; Hobhouse, the Ladies from Cadiz, and the Master's Mate; El Diablo Mundo and Don Juan; Byron's influence on Spanish and Portuguese literature; Portuguese and Spanish translations of Byron... or similar. Byron's readings of Voltaire, Bayle, and the Encyclopaedists; "mademoiselle Byronnet": Alfred de Musset's reading of Byron; George Sand and Byron; Stendhal adapts Don Juan; The Count of Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas borrows Byron; Conrad and Captain Nemo; "He bored us in verse and betrayed us in prose" – Lamartine's reading of Byron; "le ton systematiquement byronien": Baudelaire's Byron; from The Giaour via Pushkin's Gypsies to Merimee's Carmen... or similar. Byron's love of Horace and Martial; Don Juan and Epic; Malus Animus: Byron's schoolboy reading in Terence; "Keep your piece nine years" – Hints from Horace and the Ars Poetica; Surgit amari aliquid: "Have we not been living like the gods in Lucretius?"; Byron the Juvenalian satirist... or similar. Don Juan and the Italian tradition of mock-epic; Beppo and the Novelle Galanti; did Byron know Il Poema Tartaro?; "The Ariosto of the North"; Childe Harold IV and Italy; Byron and Michele Leoni; "in Milan a celebrity, in Venice a fornicator, in Rome a tourist, in Pisa a host, in Genoa an emigrant..." Byron in Italy; how reliable a witness is Teresa Guiccioli?; Byron goes to the opera; Byron and the Carbonari; Byron and Cesare Abba; Byron and the Risorgimento; "I often read Byron…" Mussolini's inspiration... or similar. Abstracts of papers consisting of no more than 250 words should be sent to: Dr. Peter Cochran. peter.s.cochran@googlemail.com To arrive no later than 31st of December 2010. Valladolid Academic Committee Richard Cardwell Peter Cochran Jonathan Gross Alan Rawes Maria Schorna Doctora Maria Eugenia Perojo of the Department of Philosophy and English At the University of Valladolid Valladolid Valladolid is the Capital of the Province of Valladolid and of the autonomous community of Castile and Leon. It was the capital of Spain in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, one of the most important periods in Spanish history. It was the Kingdom of the Catholic Monarchs at the time of the discovery of the New World. Valladolid is where Christopher Columbus spent his last years and died in 1506. Valladolid University is the second oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe. It was founded initially in the Palace of Santa Cruz by Cardinal Mendoza in 1484. Today it contains a splendid library with hundreds of old manuscripts and books.  Faculty of English, University of Valladolid  The Palace of Santa Cruz  The Quadrangle within the Palace of Santa Cruz Two of Spain’s most famous writers and poets had connections with the town. Miguel Cervantes, born here in September 1547, author of Don Quixote, lived and worked in the town for many years: his former home is now a museum. Jose Zorilla, romantic poet and dramatist, was born in Valladolid, February 1817; he was an enthusiastic admirer of Sir Walter Scott and of Chateaubriand. The River Pisuerga passes through the city which is also within three wine-growing areas, Ribera del Duero, Rueda, and Cigales – names renowned among wine connoisseurs worldwide. How to get there. Flights from Stanstead Airport London (UK) via Ryanair go direct to Valladolid Airport (Villanubla). There are flights to Madrid Airport (Barajas) from all over the world. From the airport get a taxi to Madrid (Chamartin Railway Station) costs about 20e. From Madrid there are 10 trains daily to Valladolid. Train journey takes about one hour. From Madrid Airport go to (Mandez Alvaro Coach Station) the coach travels directly to Valladolid. A taxi from the airport to the coach station will cost about 20e By train, there is a daily service from Paris (Austerlitz Railway Station) to Valladolid. A local taxi service who will meet you at Villanubla airport costs 20e to Valladolid Taxi Mercedes Valladolid www.taximercedesvalladolis.es + 983 66 06 96 Further details to include costs accommodation and social programme will be announced later. This is an official email of the Byron Society of America, www.byronsociety.org. Post Office Box 1833 Cathedral Station, New York, NY 10025 For further information reply to membernews@byronsociety.org. |