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Bunyan and the Dissenting Tradition
International John Bunyan Society
Sixth Triennial Conference, 26-28 July 2010
Keele University, UK
Announcement and Call for Papers
You are invited to join the members of the Society for our triennial meeting. Keele is a campus university near the city of Stoke-on-Trent, easily reached by rail and motorway. Plenary speakers include Professor Lori Branch (University of Iowa), author of Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth; Professor John Coffey (University of Leicester), biographer of Samuel Rutherford and John Goodwin and historian of the mid-seventeenth century; and Professor Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary University of London), co-director of Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, and author of the two-volume Reason, Grace and Sentiment.
Proposals for twenty minute papers will be welcomed on all aspects of John Bunyan’s life, writing and influence, as well as work on his contemporaries, his influence and his afterlife, particularly in the dissenting tradition. We hope to offer a reduced rate for postgraduates and post-docs not in full-time employment.
As at the last conference, there will also be a round table on teaching Bunyan. Indications of willingness to contribute to that session are sought from delegates who may or may not be offering research papers as well. The business meeting of the Society, to include the election of officers for the following three years and the award of the Richard Greaves Prize, will take place at the conference.
Please address all enquiries to Dr Roger Pooley, School of Humanities, Keele University, Keele, Staffs ST5 5BG, email r.f.pooley@keele.ac.uk. Please send abstracts up to 500 words as an email attachment. The deadline for proposals is 26 February 2010, though we will accept proposals in advance of this date for those who are seeking funding.
Follow this link to The Bunyan Society’s website.
AGM (2010) Reports
The Reports offered at the Society's AGM can be read or downloaded in pdf format. Please use these links:
Editor's Report
Trustee's Report
Summary of Accounts 2009
AGM and Lecture 2009 Report
A brief report of the AGM Lecture .