The International Association of Byron Societies Conference 2024

48th International Byron Conference

Commemorating the Bicentenary of Lord Byron’s Death
Byron: The Pilgrim of Eternity

Athens and Messolonghi, Greece: 1 – 7 July 2024

Organized by the Messolonghi Byron Society

Tuesday, 2 July 2024, Athens

To the National Historical Museum of Athens (Old Parliament / Palaia Vouli).

  • Welcome by the President of the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece / National Historical Museum, Dr. Marietta Minotou
  • A conversation between John Earl of Lytton and Robin Lord Byron.
    Moderator: Peter Graham
  • Poetry reading by A. E. Stallings and Peter Graham
    Moderator: Roderick Beaton
  • PANEL A – Byron’s Pilgrimages
    Chair: Roderick Beaton
  • Aristides N. Hatzis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
    “Byron on Liberalism”
  • James Chandler, University of Chicago, USA
    “Byron and Plato”
  • Elias Kolovos, University of Crete, Greece, and Anne McCabe, University of Oxford, UK
    “Passport to Immortality: Lord Byron’s Firman from Sultan Mahmud II for a Grand Tour/Seyâhat in the Ottoman Empire (1810-11)”