November Social Media Roundup
November is behind us, and so we're once again rounding up the Keats-Shelley related news shared on our social media platforms over the past month! From upcoming performances of The Cenci and newly announced #Keats200 events, to information about the Keats-Shelley Journal and the 2020 Keats-Shelley Prize--all this and more is collected here in case you missed it! (And, as always, if there’s something you think we’ve missed, please let us know!)
Upcoming Events:
- From December 4-7, 2019, students at Western University will be performing Shelley’s The Cenci. Find more information about this Romantics 200 event on the K-SAA blog!- On December 7, 2019, The Byron Society will be holding their long-awaited one-day conference, "Don Juan: Conception, Reception & Imitation," to celebrate the bicentennial of Don Juan I & II. More information about this event can be found below:https://twitter.com/byron_society/status/1192376638157271040- On January 11th, the K-SAA will be holding our Annual Awards Dinner at MLA 2020. We’ll be celebrating the 2019 K-SAA Distinguished Scholars, Mary A. Favret and Duncan Wu, as well as Pforzheimer Grant recipients and the winner of the essay prize! Find more details below:https://twitter.com/fraistat/status/1198994333292224513?s=20- Looking further ahead into the new year, a number of #Keats200 events were announced on the K-SAA blog this month—including the 2020 Keats Foundation Annual Lecture. Find more information about the lecture, and about a series of upcoming events at Keats House here:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1198917407521280000?s=20- And The Mary Wollstonecraft Fellowship has announced “Mary Wollstonecraft and Dissent: A Celebration,” to be held on April 24-25th in London. Find more information here, or below:https://twitter.com/MW_Fellowship/status/1198221193175818243?s=20
Memorials:
- Laurel Reiman Henneman wrote in memory of her father, Donald H. Reiman. Details about the memorial service can be found here.
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1199344364360622083?s=20
Blogs, Books, and Other Resources:
- New on the K-SAA blog this month, we shared information about volume 66 of the Keats-Shelley Journal, featuring articles on previously unpublished Byron letters, Frankenstein’s many puzzles, gender in P. B. Shelley’s The Banquet, quick and slow Romanticisms, 1816 in Mary Shelley’s and Lord Byron’s manuscripts; along with three essays devoted to the year 1817, which first came together as the K-SAA’s Romantics 200 panel at the 2017 MLA convention.
https://twitter.com/EleanorBryan/status/1190261632900960256?s=20
- The K-SAA launched a new blog series, "Poetic Reflections," with a first post by Sean Wojtczak reflecting on Keats' "When I Have Fears."
https://twitter.com/seanwojtczak/status/1190997149238153216?s=20
- Over at the Keats Letters Project, Brian Rejack wrote on Keats’s 12 November 1819 letter to George Keats. Read "The Misadventures of a Letter Sent Across the Atlantic in 1819; or, 'Get me that Keats'" here, and check out the KLP's Twitter thread about the letter below!
https://twitter.com/KeatsLetters/status/1194377396876664834?s=20- Over on BARS's "Romantic Reimaginings" series, Suzie Grogan explored Kim Blank's Mapping Keats’ Progress. Read her post here (and, if you're interested, check out our own blog on the project, as well!)https://twitter.com/Re_Romantic/status/1198930449420173312?s=20
- Bethan Roberts shared information about her new book, Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1194670209061335040?s=20
Conference CFPs:
– Proposals are due December 31st for the 46th International Byron Conference, “Byron – Wars and Words.” The conference will be held at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece from June 29-July 5 2020. More information can be found on the BARS blog.– Proposals for NASSR 2020 are due January 24, 2020. The conference will be held from August 6-9 at the University of Toronto. Find more information and the CFP on the conference site, here.– The 2020 BARS ECR and Postgraduate Conference, “Romantic Futurities,” will be held at Keats House, London, on June 12-13. Proposals are due on January 31st. Find the CFP here.- The 2020 Paris Symposium of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar shared a CFP for "Oaths, Odes, and Orations 1789-1830," to be held at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, on April 3-4, 2020. The Deadline for proposals is January 31, 2020. More information can be found here.– Proposals for “Global Blake: Afterlives in Art, Literature and Music,” are due February 29th. The conference will be held from September 11-12 at the University of Lincoln. Full details can be found on here.
Prizes and Contests:
- The Keats-Shelley Prize is accepting submissions on this year's theme of "Songbird." See below for more information, and for some musical inspiration!
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1191304203819474944?s=20https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/1192877440118509575?s=20- The K-SAA held our annual postcard caption contest this month. We asked our readers to share (in 140 characters or less) what Percy Shelley would write as a defence of poetry for today. The contest closed on November 30th, but look out for an announcement about the winning entry, soon!https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1197186051028074497?s=20
Miscellaneous:
- William Blake's "Ancient of Days" was projected onto St. Paul's Cathedral from November 28 to December 1.
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1200075435276668928?s=20
- French Artist Tess Dumon's first exhibition in China runs through December 29. The show's Keatsian theme is "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever":
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1197468556352512002?s=20- Over on Public Books, Arden Hegele reviewed Paul Kerschen's The Warm South, asking: What if Keats had lived?https://twitter.com/PublicBooks/status/1191960405356294145?s=20
- And our followers considered how it might be possible to join together to buy Greta Hall, the former home of Coleridge.
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1200361810303627264?s=20