The 30th International Byron Conference
Université de Moncton
Moncton, New Brunswick
Canada
August 15-20, 2004
“ … but where I
sought for Ilion’s walls,
The quiet sheep feeds and the
tortoise crawls.”
Don Juan IV 615-616
L’Université de Moncton, serving the French-speaking
Acadian community of Canada’s three Maritime provinces, is pleased to
host the 30th International Byron Conference in 2004 and to welcome
Byronists from around the world.
The theme of the conference will be “Byron and the
Romantic Sublime.” From the irrational as a response to the Sublime in
the theory of Longinus, to the jeopardy of the self as an experience of
delightful pain in Burke, to art as the expression of subjectivity in Kant,
the Sublime offers many points of access to Byron’s work.
Proposals for twenty-minute papers (in English or in
French) exploring the work of Byron as an expression, example, or critique
of the Sublime in its many manifestations are welcome.
Ian Balfour, the keynote speaker, has recently published
The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy, (Stanford UP, 2002), and is currently
writing a book on the sublime. He is also co‑editing with Atom Egoyan,
Subtitles: On The Foreigness of Film; with Eduardo Cadava, And Justice for
All? The Claims of Human Rights; and with Lindsay Waters, The Paul de Man
Reader.
The deadline for the submission of proposals is February 1,
2004.
For information please contact:
Paul M. Curtis, Ph.D
Directeur
Département d’anglais
Université de Moncton
Moncton, Nouveau Brunswick
Canada E1A 4Z5
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