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  • The Scottish Byron Society
  • Eric Wishart, Treasurer

Together with our Chairman Geoffrey Bond we continue to run the Society on a successful ad hoc basis as described in The Byron Journal, 40.1 (2012). We continue to maintain ties with the Edinburgh Hellenic Society and the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.

On 5 November 2012, Dr Peter Cochran addressed the Hellenic Society and SBS representatives on the theme of ‘Byron in Greece’. Look up the Edinburgh Hellenics web site and you will find a report of the fireworks experienced!

The resident two IBS joint treasurers in Edinburgh this year are lending specific support to the London 2013 conference, in connection with its exhibition catalogue.

By the good offices of the Curator of the NLS John Murray Archive, NLS was gratified with an excellent audience, including members of the Edinburgh Hispanic Society, to hear Professor Richard Cardwell on ‘Byron in Spain’. By good fortune in the literary network of Edinburgh this will hopefully lead on to a talk from Dr Patricia Andrew, possibly on the theme of the art history of Scotland at the time of Byron’s childhood in Aberdeen.

On the weekend of Friday 12 April, SBS will be joining and guiding the Irish Byron Society and some members of the Newstead Abbey Byron Society in a literary tour of the Athens of the North and a pilgrimage to Abbotsford. Jane Stabler’s St Andrews University department of English hosts a lecture on 16 April 2013, ‘Who’s Afraid of Niobe? – Lord Byron and his Scepticism of Porous Women’, by Dr Norbert Lenarz of the University of Vechta, Germany.

For the year ahead, the Edinburgh Hellenic Society already invites thoughts on a joint lecture in the forthcoming session, October 2013 to March 2014. A Scottish launch of Professor Roderick Beaton’s latest book would seem fitting and of mutual interest to Byronists and Hellenists alike.

A keen follower of IBS and SBS ongoings is Jennifer Scarce who is a prime mover with ASTENE, the Association of Scholarship to do with travel in Egypt and the Near East. This, we anticipate, will lead to fruitful contacts. Our esteemed President, Sir James Drummond Bone, otherwise preoccupied with 700 years of Balliol, continues to take an interest when in Scotland.

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