Keats and Shelley on the Move- A Romantic Bicentennials Curran Symposium

Fri, Oct 28, 2022

9:00 AM–6:00 PM

This event will take place in-person at The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022. Register below.

With additional support from The Byron Society of America and the Fordham Romanticists Group

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Co-organizers: Eric Eisner, Olivia Loksing Moy & Ann Wierda Rowland

Keats and Shelley on the Move is a Stuart Curran symposium to mark the bicentennials of the deaths of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. We look back to 1821 and 1822 as jumping off points to trace how these major figures of the Romantic period and their contemporaries have moved forward and outward – into new worlds, new languages, new media, and new material forms. Our title nods to Ann Rigney’s The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move, and we share her interest in how Romantic-era literary figures and their texts move across media, time periods, and national traditions, becoming fertile sites for both cultural memory and for new creative and cultural practices. Our speakers – poets, critics, curators, and collectors – will address the global, contemporary, remediated, translated, collected, and curated figures of Keats, Shelley, and their contemporaries. We hope the conversations of the day will offer a glimpse of these Romantic writers and texts going global, even as they are already gone, having crossed thresholds and boundaries, having escaped, still on the move. Follow this link to speaker bios.

Thursday, October 27

NYPL Pforzheimer Books and Manuscripts Display:

We invite participants to visit a display of books and manuscripts by Keats, the Shelleys, and their fellow travelers in time and space at the Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, New York Public Library, 476 Fifth Avenue, Room 319. This display is curated for the occasion by Carolyn Vega of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature and Liz Denlinger of the Pforzheimer Collection.

Visitors are welcome:

Thursday 2:00 – 5:00 pm

Friday 11:30 am – 2:00 pm

Friday, October 28

Coffee and tea are available starting 9:00 a.m.

9:15 am: Welcome and opening remarks: Kate Singer, President of the KSAA

9:30-10:45 am: Shelley’s Contemporary “Future”

Moderator: Julie Carlsen (NYPL)

(Coffee break: coffee/tea/cookies available)

11:00 am-12:15 pm: “And they are gone: ay ages long ago”

Moderator: Sonia Hofkosh (Tufts)

12:15-2:00 pm Lunch Break: attendees will lunch on their own at nearby restaurants

We invite participants to visit a display of books and manuscripts by Keats, the Shelleys, and their fellow travelers in time and space at the Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, New York Public Library, 476 Fifth Avenue, Room 319.

2:00-3:15 pm: Romantic Remediations: New Books

Moderator: Emily Sun (Barnard)

(Coffee break: coffee/tea/cookies available)

3:30-4:45 pm: Visible in the Shape of a Book

Moderator: Eve Kahn (Grolier Club)

A panel of collectors and artists featuring Romantic-era or Romantic-inspired treasures of Grolier Club members and friends:

4:45 pm: Concluding remarks: Eric Eisner, Olivia Loksing Moy, Ann Wierda Rowland & Kate Singer

5:00-6:00 pm: Wine and cheese reception. Sponsored by the Byron Society of America.

6:00-7:00 pm: The Grolier Club invites you to join their Halloween Party and Reading with food and refreshments, in the Morris Room, 3rd Floor from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. (Festive attire encouraged.)

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