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NINTH TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOHN BUNYAN SOCIETY 
14-17 August 2019 
University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada 

Networks of Dissent: Connecting and Communicating Across the Long Reformation

 

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This is an early preview of the next IJBS triennial conference in 2019. We warmly invite you to join us. Information on events, keynote speakers and registration information will become available as the next conference approaches.

Our theme can be broadly and flexibly imagined. We welcome your ideas on relevant topics, examples and areas. We will also welcome proposals for special panels.

Our theme is not exclusive. We will welcome papers on all aspects of Bunyan’s writings and early modern dissent. Papers from a variety of disciplines are welcome.

The University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Special Collections Library has one of the largest rare Bunyan collections in the world, ranking with the British Library and the New York Public Library. An exhibition of rare books curated by Sylvia Brown will be a main feature of the conference. Your conference visit could include research time in our special collections library.

We plan to add cultural and recreational opportunities to our conference schedule. Edmonton is a great summertime city, featuring theatre and music festivals. Edmonton is also a gateway to Canada’s spectacular Rocky Mountains, making it an ideal prospect for combining conference and holiday time.

Download a copy of our preview flyer here.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.

Organizing Committee: David Gay (University of Alberta david.gay@ualberta.ca); Sylvia Brown (University of Alberta sb9@ualberta.ca); Arlette Zinck (The King’s University Arlette Zinck Arlette.Zinck@kingsu.ca)

IJBS 2016 Aix conference: CFP

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VOICING DISSENT IN THE LONG REFORMATION

The 8th Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society

 Aix-en-Provence (France), 6–9 July 2016

 Plenary speakers: Alec Ryrie (Durham), Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes), Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge), Helen Wilcox (Bangor).

The conference will concentrate on the expression and representation of Protestant Dissent, Nonconformity and Puritanism (1500–1800), with an emphasis on the relationship between written and oral cultures. Topics might include: preaching, singing and praying; public and private devotion; conferences and disputations; epistolary conversation; religion and politics; rumour and defamation; reading and publishing Dissent; the representation of emotions…

The conference will be hosted conjointly by the research centres on the anglophone world of Aix-Marseille and Montpellier Universities, with Montpellier Faculty of Theology.

CFP poster

For further information about possible topics, please visit the CFP page.

For practical details and accommodation, please visit the 2016 Conference home page on this website.

To download a copy of the CFP poster, please click here.

Members of the IJBS are of course very welcome to propose papers specifically on John Bunyan, and his legacy, that fit the general theme.

Applicants are invited to send proposals for 30-minute papers or for panels (3 x 30-minute papers). Please include a title for the paper; a summary of no more than 300 words; a 100-word biographical outline; and a one-page CV.

Bursaries are available for doctoral students and young researchers. To apply, explain your need for support, your likely travel costs, and include a reference letter (from e.g. a supervisor). See our Bursaries page.

Send all proposals and communications (Word documents only, no pdf) to: voicingdissentconference@gmail.com

Deadline: 31 May 2015

All answers by August 2015

ORGANISERS: Dr Paula Barros (Montpellier), Prof. Luc Borot (Montpellier), Prof. Anne Dunan-Page (Aix-Marseille), Prof. Pierre Lurbe (Montpellier), Dr Laurence Lux-Sterritt (Aix-Marseille), Prof. Jean Viviès (Aix-Marseille).

ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Prof. Margaret S. Breen (Connecticut, US); Prof. Sylvia Brown (Alberta, Canada); Prof. Vera Camden (Kent State, US); Dr Nathalie Collé-Bak (Lorraine, France); Dr Laurent Curelly (Mulhouse, France); Dr Michael Davies (Liverpool, UK); Prof. Françoise Deconinck-Brossard (Paris Ouest Nanterre, la Défense); Dr Rémy Duthille (Bordeaux-Montaigne, France); Prof. Katsuhiro Engetsu (Doshisha, Japan); Prof. David Gay (Alberta, Canada); Prof. Isabel Hofmeyr (Witwatersrand, South Africa); Prof. Jeffrey Hopes (Le Mans, France); Dr Galen Johnson (Ashford, US); Prof. N. H. Keeble (Stirling, UK); Prof. Thomas Luxon (Dartmouth, US); Prof. W. R. Owens (Bedfordshire, UK); Dr Roger Pooley (Keele, UK); Prof. Stuart Sim (Sunderland, UK); Prof. Nigel Smith (Princeton, US); Dr Tamsin Spargo (Liverpool John Moores, UK); Prof. David Walker (Northumbria, UK); Prof. Arlette Zinck (King’s College, Canada).

A donation for IJBS

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It is with very great pleasure that I announce that an anonymous donor has donated the sum of £10,000 (€12,500/US$16,500) to the International John Bunyan Society.

The donation is primarily intended to establish a number of bursaries for doctoral students, and for young researchers not in full-time employment, who wish to attend and present a paper at the 2016 triennial conference in Aix-en-Provence, with the remainder to be targeted towards key strategic areas identified by the Executive Committee for the development of the Society.

Thanks to the bursaries, young scholars will be given a unique opportunity to present their work and projects at the conference. More information about the application and selection process will be posted in due course on the website, but may I encourage all supervisors to start publicising the bursaries as widely as possible in their institutions and among their students.

I know all members will all join me in expressing our deepest thanks to our donor whose generosity will ensure that the IJBS carries on promoting the study of Bunyan and the history and culture of Dissent, through a renewed attention to its young and talented scholars.

Anne Page, Aix-Marseille Université

Aix-en-Provence 2016

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“Voicing Dissent in the Long Reformation”

The Eighth Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society

(Aix-en-Provence, 6-9 July 2016)

The preparations for the Aix-en-Provence triennial conference of the IJBS are well under way and we have posted a preliminary announcement on our ‘Conference’ page. Please check the page regularly as we will keep updating it. The Call for Papers will be issued in January 2015 and proposals for papers and panels will be accepted until 31st May 2015.

We are looking forward to hearing from you all in due course and welcoming you to Provence!

Anne Page, Aix-Marseille Université

By Guillaume 1995 (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Sénanque Abbey. By Guillaume 1995 (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.