Stuart Curran Symposia
Forthcoming Symposia
The Emergence of Keats as a Poet
October 7 @ 1:00 pm - 6:30 pm at Fordham University2017 marks the bicentennial of the emergence of Keats as a poet in his own right. Speakers at the 2017 Symposium will discuss the contours of the 1817 volume and its importance to Keats’s larger aes...
Frankenstein Then and Now, 1818-2018
May 11, 2018 - May 12, 2018 at Huntington Library, Art Galleries, and Botanical GardensIn celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the first publication of Mary Shelley’s original novel, major scholars, scientists, and filmmakers will discuss the ongoing cultural issues raised by Frank...
Past Symposia
The Geneva Summer
May 21, 2016 @ 10:15 am - 4:45 pmThe summer of 1816 witnessed one of the great collaborative convergences of English literary history, as Percy Shelley, Mary Godwin, and Lord Byron met at the Villa Diodati near Geneva and produced so...
Networked Events
Networked Events Committee
Chairs: Jon Klancher (Carnegie-Mellon) and Jon Sachs (Concordia)
Members: Marsha Manns, Leslie Morris (Houghton Library), Adriana Craciun (UC Riverside), Nigel Leask (Glasgow), Steve Hindle (Huntington Library), Gillian Russell (Melbourne), Andrew Piper (McGill)
Sponsored Events
NWRECS 2017: “Romanticism Then and Now”
October 20 - October 22Following a highly successful works-in-progress symposium hosted by BYU and the University of Utah in Fall 2014 (at Aspen Grove, next door to Sundance in the Wasatch mountains), this second by-invitat...
Romantic Novels 1817 Series
January 27 - November 17January — November 2017: six monthly sessions University of Greenwich campus Date Speaker / Text Friday 27 January 6pm Gillian Dow (Southampton / Chawton House Library) – Jane Austen, Northanger...
The Keats Letters Project
November 28, 2016 - November 28, 2017The Keats Letters Project chronicles and engages Keats’s epistolary writing 200 years after it happened. On the 200-year anniversary of each letter, the KLP reproduces the letter, usually via...
Stevens Symposium: Technologies of Frankenstein, 1818-2018
March 7, 2018 - March 8, 2018Stevens Symposium on “Technologies of Frankenstein, 1818-2018.” More information about this event will be forthcoming....
KEATS’S READING / READING KEATS
July 20, 2018 - July 22, 2018Co-Sponsored by Romantic Bicentennials, an initiative of the Keats-Shelley Association and The Byron Society This bicentennial conference on “Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats” will be held in L...
Affiliated Events
The Revolt of Islam: Texts, Subtexts, Contexts
December 15A conference celebrating two hundred years of P. B. Shelley’s poem This conference will mark the bicentenary of Shelley’s Revolt of Islam, first published in 1817 as Laon and Cythna. Papers are in...
Romantics 200 at MLA 2018: Frankenstein, Endymion and 1818
January 4, 2018 - January 7, 2018The event will take place at the MLA annual convention in New York City, January 4-7, 2018. Calls for papers, exact dates and times, and other details to follow....
Why Frankenstein Matters at 200: Rethinking the Human through the Arts and Sciences
July 4, 2018 - July 6, 2018This bicentennial conference on the persisting cultural and scientific impact of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein will take place July 4-6, 2018 at the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway fa...
‘On This Day’ BARS Blog Series
April 2, 2016 - April 19, 2024This is a new series of posts on the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Blog curated by Anna Mercer (University of York). The series began in July 2015, and was inspired by the popularity...
Past Events
1816-2016 ‘The Year Without a Summer’: A Bicentenary Symposium
June 3, 2016Friday 3 June 2016, 11 am – 4 pm National Library, Molesworth Street, Wellington, New Zealand Keynote Speakers: Clara Tuite, John Gamble The catastrophic 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia...
SUMMER OF 1816: Creativity and Turmoil
June 24, 2016 - June 27, 2016An International Conference, hosted by the University of Sheffield KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona Professor Michael O’Neill, Durham University Professor Jane Stab...
‘On This Day in 1816’: The Bicentenary of Frankenstein’s Composition
July 14, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - July 23, 2016 @ 6:30 pm19.00, 14 July 2016 at the King’s Manor, University of York, UK. 18.30, 23 July 2016 at the Keats-Shelley House, Rome, Italy. There will be two events in July 2016 to celebrate the bicentenary of th...
Beyond the Bolt: Frankenstein and its (Un)Likenesses
October 28, 2016Una giornata di studio dedicata alla riscoperta di Frankenstein di Mary Shelley (A one-day symposium) The event celebrates the bicentenary of the composition of Frankenstein (1818). The event will inc...
Romantic Legacies
November 18, 2016 - November 19, 201618-19 November 2016 The 13th Annual Wenshan International Conference Taipei, Taiwan Keynote Speakers: Prof Rachel Bowlby, FBA (Comparative Literature, Princeton University/English, University College,...
Romantics 200 at MLA 2017: “2017 reads 1817.”
January 5 - January 8The event will take place at the MLA annual convention in Philadelphia, January 5-8, 2017. Exact dates and times, and other details to follow. Please see the Call for Papers for more information....
The Spawn of Frankenstein
February 2Thursday, February 2, 2017 3:00 PM – 5:40 PM EST 740 15th Street NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 No work of literature has done more to shape the way people think about science and its moral cons...
Romantic Studies Association of Australasia 2017
February 16 @ 8:00 am - February 18 @ 5:00 pmFebruary 16-18, 2017 Wellington, New Zealand RSAA 2017 will be the fourth biennial conference of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia. As the major professional event for Romanticists in th...
Byron’s Manfred: Dramatic Reading, Symposium
April 20 @ 7:30 pm - April 21 @ 5:00 pmNow that this event has passed, please see our post-event follow-up, with video of Dr. Jerome McGann’s keynote address and a follow-up interview. April 20-21, 2017 New York “The Bicent...
Frankenstein: the Musical
May 9 - May 11The Princeton University Players will present Frankenstein: the Musical May 9th, 10th, 11th, 2017. The performance will be staged in our historic building (the former university library), the gorgeo...
Unaffiliated Events
Rosenbach Exhibit Opening: Frankenstein and Dracula
October 13Opening: October 13, 2017 Each year during the Hallowe’en season, the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia hosts a month-long Dracula Festival. In 2017, for the bicentennial of Franken...
Arizona State University Frankenstein Bicentennial Project
September 3, 2016 @ 8:00 am - December 31, 2018 @ 5:00 pm2016-2018 Arizona State University Website Current Exhibit: “Frankenstein at 200” Hayden Library, Arizona State University through December 2016 No work of literature has done more to shap...
Past Events
Mary Shelley and the World that Created Frankenstein: Exhibition at Bakken Museum
March 11, 2016 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm2016 – Ongoing “Mary and Her Monster: Mary Shelley and the World that Created Frankenstein.” An exhibition of “Frankenstein’s Laboratory,” including an introduction...
Frankenstein’s Shadow: A Bicentennial Assessment of the Frankenstein Narrative’s Influence
June 15, 2016 @ 8:00 am - June 16, 2016 @ 5:00 pmJune 15-16, 2016 “Frankenstein’s Shadow: A Bicentennial Assessment of the Frankenstein Narrative’s Influence.” A workshop hosted by Arizona State University’s Frankenstein Bicent...
Frankenstein: Geneva Exhibition, Bodmer Foundation
May 13, 2016 - October 9, 2016May 13 – October 9, 2016 “Frankenstein, créé des ténèbres.” A temporary exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland, hosted by the Fondation Martin Bodmer, to commemorate the Frankenstein...
Sanditon: 200 Years
March 29 - March 3129-31 March, 2017 Trinity College, Cambridge ‘Sanditon: 200 Years’ is a conference that will take place at Trinity College, Cambridge from March 29-31, 2017. The conference will mark the bicentena...
John Keats, 1817: Moments, Meetings, and the Making of a Poet
May 19 - May 2119-21 May 2017 Keats House, Hampstead The Keats Foundation is delighted to announce that next year’s bicentennial John Keats Conference will be held from Friday 19 – Sunday 21 May 2017 at...
Reputations, Legacies, Futures: Jane Austen, Germaine de Staël, and their contemporaries, 1817-2017
July 13 @ 8:00 am - July 15 @ 5:00 pmJuly 13-15, 2017 Chawton House Library, Hampshire Keynote speakers: Benjamin Colbert, University of Wolverhampton Alison Finch, University of Cambridge Deidre Lynch, Harvard University July 1817 saw t...
