In the year following the poet’s bicentenary, the 49th International Byron Association Conference will delve into the poet’s enduring and multifaceted legacy from the immediate aftermath of his death to the twenty-first century. The Conference aims to investigate Byron’s perspectives on various forms of futurity– historical, political, personal, and spiritual, among others – as well as the place he and his works have held in culture and literature since 1824, both in Britain and overseas.

Hosted in the historic city of Pisa, where Byron himself once resided, the conference will convene literary scholars, historians, and enthusiasts from around the world. Through keynote addresses, scholarly presentations, and panel discussions, participants will have the opportunity to engage in a rich debate about the poet, his times and his works.

Complementing the academic program, the conference will offer a wide range of cultural events, including visits to sites of significance to Byron and other English Romantics, both in Pisa and the surrounding areas (Bagni di Lucca and Bagni di Pisa, Lerici and San Terenzo), as well as musical performances, exhibitions, and poetry readings.

Byron’s long shadow touches many traditions: this Conference welcomes critical explorations of his legacy in all its transnational and interdisciplinary dimensions. The Organising Committee invites paper proposals of 250 words, together with a short bionote (roughly 150 words), on topics including, but not necessarily limited to:

• Byronic prophesies and/or curses
• Byron and/on Futurity
• Byron and/on posterity
• Byron and/on death
• Byron and/on afterlife celebrity
• Byron on the translation/reception/value of his own work
• Byron and/on the future of politics
• Byron and/on the future of Italy
• Byron and/on the future of Greece
• Byron and/on the future of Europe
• Visions of the future in the Pisan Circle
• Reactions to Byron’s Death
• The editing of Byron’s poetry after his death
• Writing the Poet’s lives: Byron and his biographers
• Byron in world literature
• Byronic heroes
• Translating Byron
• Anglo-Italian and Anglo-Greek Byron
• Byron as a cultural icon
• Byron in the media
• Byron and/in music
• Byron and Tuscany
• Byron and Italian tourism

The Committee welcomes submissions for both individual 20-minute presentations and roundtable discussions. Roundtable session proposals should include a description of the topic as well as a list of participants (along with a short bionote for each participant).

To send your proposals visit the conference website    https://www.iabsconferencepisa2025.com/