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Improvisation and Mobility<\/strong><\/p>\n 44th International Byron Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n Ravenna 2-7 July 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n Call for Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Italian Byron Society is pleased to announce the 44th International Byron Conference to be held in Ravenna\u00a0from 2 to 7 July 2018. Website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Byron\u2019s most famous use of the word \u201cmobility\u201d is in Don Juan, Canto 16, stanza XCVII, where he uses it to\u00a0describe Lady Adeline Amundeville, adding a footnote in which he defines it as \u201cexcessive susceptibility of nimmediate impressions\u201d. Since then the word has been taken up by critics and biographers from Thomas Moore\u00a0and Lady Blessington onwards, to refer to what seems an essential quality of Byron\u2019s personality and poetry\u00a0(and, particularly in more recent years, politics). The word has sometimes been linked with the notion of\u00a0improvisation, especially when considering the spontaneity (or apparent spontaneity) of his verse: \u201cI rattle on\u00a0exactly as I\u2019d talk \/ With any body in a ride or walk.\u201d (Don Juan, 15, XIX). The conference will welcome 20-minute\u00a0papers on topics including, but not necessarily limited to:<\/p>\n – formal experimentalism and improvisation<\/p>\n – multiplicity of voices<\/p>\n – hyphenated identities<\/p>\n – genre hybridity<\/p>\n – experience and imagination, fact and fiction<\/p>\n – geographical mobility<\/p>\n – cosmopolitan visions and identities<\/p>\n – political mobility and improvisation<\/p>\n – reinterpretations of Byron\u2019s mobility in later periods<\/p>\n The organisers also welcome prospective delegates to suggest ready-formed panels (of three 20-minute papers)\u00a0on the following topics: Byron and Ravenna; Byron and Italian politics; Byron and Italian art.<\/p>\n Please send 250-word abstracts for individual papers or ready-formed panels to byronravenna@gmail.com<\/a> by 1\u00a0March 2018.<\/p>\n Information on conference registration and accommodation as well as on the cultural programme of the\u00a0conference will be posted later on the Conference website.<\/p>\n Conference academic committee:<\/p>\n \u2022 Gioia Angeletti<\/p>\n \u2022 Shobhana Bhattacharji<\/p>\n \u2022 Gregory Dowling<\/p>\n \u2022 Olivier Feignier<\/p>\n \u2022 Alan Rawes<\/p>\n \u2022 Diego Saglia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Improvisation and Mobility 44th International Byron Conference Ravenna 2-7 July 2018 Call for Papers The Italian Byron Society is pleased to announce the 44th International Byron Conference to… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}