Stuart Curran Symposia
Forthcoming Symposia
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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...
The Emergence of Keats as a Poet
October 7, 2017 @ 1:00 pm - 6:30 pm2017 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, 2018In 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...
Don Juan Symposium in Chicago
October 18, 2019 - October 19, 2019October 18 in Chicago at DePaul University and at October 19 at Chicago Historical society. The event will also feature music inspired by Don Juan on Saturday on an Art Deco stage at the Chicago His...
1820: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Legacies of Romanticism
October 23, 2020Update: This event has been postponed to Friday Oct 29, 2021. More details to follow. K-SAA Symposium to be held at the Harvard’s Houghton Library on Friday 23 Oct 2020: “1820: Aesthe...
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
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‘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, 2017 - January 8, 2017The 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 2, 2017Thursday, 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, 2017 @ 8:00 am - February 18, 2017 @ 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, 2017 @ 7:30 pm - April 21, 2017 @ 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, 2017 - May 11, 2017The 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
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, 2017 - March 31, 201729-31 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, 2017 - May 21, 201719-21 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, 2017 @ 8:00 am - July 15, 2017 @ 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...
Rosenbach Exhibit Opening: Frankenstein and Dracula
October 13, 2017Opening: 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...