University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway, June 20-22, 2024
Symposium Speakers
- James Chandler, University of Chicago
- Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado Boulder
- Lilla Crisafulli, University of Bologna
- Greg Kucich, University of Notre Dame
- Richard Lansdown, University of Tasmania
- Piya Pal-Lapinski, Bowling Green State University
- Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
- Peter Manning, Stony Brook University
- Anne Mellor, UCLA
- Omar Miranda, University of San Francisco
- Nicholas Roe, University of St. Andrews
- Diego Saglia, University of Parma
- Maria Schoina, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia
- Clara Tuite, University of Melbourne
- Susan Wolfson, Princeton University
This event, co-sponsored by the University of Notre Dame and the University of Colorado Boulder, will take place at the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway, a state-of-the-art research/teaching/conference facility located within steps of the Colosseum and offering spectacular views of the Colosseum from its rooftop terrace. Venue website: rome.nd.edu
Speakers will expand upon Marilyn Butler’s seminal investigation of a romantic “cult of the south” to address Byron’s personal, poetic, and political interactions with a wider range of cultures throughout the Mediterranean Rim: Portugal, Spain, Albania, Greece, the Balkans, and Turkey, as well as Italy. This broader cultural focus opens new critical pathways for exploring a large array of revolutionary aesthetic and political initiatives crucial to the development of European Romanticism and highly relevant for our own historical moment two centuries later.
Symposium activities will include a guided tour of the major Byron exhibition to be held at the Keats-Shelley House on the Spanish Steps of Rome (ksh.roma.it) and a link to the new Museo Byron in Ravenna (opening in 2024). A post-symposium concert of new music composed for this occasion and performed by world renowned tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake will take place at the stunning Palazzo Doria Pamphilij in Rome. Venue website: doriapamphilj.it/roma
The Symposium program is now finalized, but additional attendees are heartily welcome. More detailed announcements on Symposium registration (open to all at no charge) and website launch are forthcoming.
For additional information, contact Symposium co-organizers:
Greg Kucich Kucich.1@nd.edu
Jeffrey Cox jeffrey.cox@colorado.edu