The
Third Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society
October
10-14, 2001, Kent State University (held in Cleveland, Ohio)
PROGRAM
October
10, Wednesday
2:00-5:30 pm Registration
-- Foyer
5:30-6:30 pm Baker-Nord
Center Opening Reception -- Ontario Room
6:30-8:00 pm Dinner
-- Ontario Room
8:00-9:30 pm Plenary
Session: Margaret Ezell, "Bunyan's Women, Women's Bunyan,"
introduced
by Vera Camden -- Ontario Room
October
11, Thursday
7:30 am Continental
Breakfast -- Superior Room
8:30 -10:00 am Welcome
by Susanna Fein
Plenary Session: Thomas Luxon, "Friendship, Marriage, and the
Puritan
Self," introduced by Roger Pooley -- Superior Room
10:00-10:30 am Coffee
Break -- Superior Room
10:30 am-12:00 pm Panel Sessions
(2nd floor)
The Individual and the Community (Heather Meakin, Chair -- St. Clair Room)
Rhoda Cairns, "The
Sequestered Soul: Isolation and Community in Anne Wentworth's Vindication"
Galen Johnson, "Conscience
and Individualism in John Bunyan's Anti-Quaker Writings"
Methods of Address (Susanna Fein, Chair -- Carnegie Room)
Dana Och, "Do You Dare Thou Me? The
Early Quaker Influence on the Seventeenth Century Death of Thee/Thou"
Linda Mitchell, "Middle-Class School
Grammar Texts and the Development of John Bunyan's Style"
Sylvia Brown, "Bunyan's Wife:
Conversation and the Propagation of Puritan Culture"
Rebecca Potter, "From Word to Story:
Bunyan's Passive Narration"
Reading Bunyan Reading the Bible (Roger Pooley, Chair -- Chester Room)
Jameela Lares, "The
'Language of Canaan' in Later Seventeenth-Century England: The Decline of
'Scripture-Phrase'"
Hannibal Hamlin,
"Bunyan and the Psalms: Pilgrim's Progress as a Version of Psalm 23"
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch
-- Ontario Room
1:30-3:00 pm Panel
Sessions
Future Perfect (Ron Corthell, Chair -- St. Clair Room)
Ken Simpson, "'Like an
Autumnal Star': Astrology and Apocalypse in Paradise Regained"
Robert Collmer, "Using
The Holy War in Three British Crises: Catholic Emancipation, The Crimean War,
and World War One"
Mark Crees, "John
Bunyan and Mark Rutherford"
Anglicanism and Dissent (Arlette Zinck, Chair -- Carnegie Room)
Sam Thomas,
"Anglicanism, Dissent and the Contested Lectureship at Halifax, 1689
Brian Weiser, "The
Spectre of a Presbyterian King"
Dan Beaver, Respondant
3:00-3:30 pm Coffee
Break -- Prospect Room
3:30-5:00 p.m. Panel
Sessions
The Letter and the Image (Robert Collmer, Chair and Respondant -- St. Clair
Room)
Phillip Bouffard,
"Bunyan's Signatures"
Adam Sills, "John
Bunyan and the Anti-Cartographic Impulse"
Nathalie Colle-Bak,
"From Rupture to Restoration: Contextualising the Early British
Illustrated Editions of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress"
Gendering Bunyan (Margaret Breen, Chair -- Carnegie Room)
Kelly Laycock,
"Gendering Mansoul: Bunyan and the Female Body in The Holy War"
Jean Graham, "A Whore,
'Notwithstanding His Fine Tongue'" Transgressive Male Discourse in The
Pilgrim's Progress"
David Hawkes, "The
Concept of the 'Hireling' in Bunyan's Theology"
Michael Davies,
"Bunyan's Bawdy: Sex and Sexual Wordplay in the Writings of John
Bunyan"
Revisioning Royalty (Heather Meakin, Chair -- Chester Room)
David Gay, "Righteous
Rulers: The Royalist Sermon as Proverb Performance"
Megan Crosland,
"Reinventing Royalty
Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler,
"Charles Stuart and the Slough of Despond"
Roger Manning,
"Duelling and Authority"
6:00-7:45 pm Banquet,
held jointly with the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Society -- Ontario Room
8:00-10:00 pm Plenary
Session: Peter Rudnytsky, "Dissociation and Decapitation,"
introduced by Vera
Camden, David Norbrook, Respondant
A Public Lecture
and Meeting of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Society --
Ontario Room
October
12, Friday
7:30 am Continental
Breakfast -- Ontario Room
8:30 am Depart
for Excursion: Cleveland Sightseeing (return to hotel 3:45 p.m.)
4:00 pm Depart
for Kent State University
5:00-6:00 pm Kent
State University Campus Tour
6:00 pm Kent
State University Reception with exhibit of Bunyan editions,
Special
Collections Room, KSU Library
8:30 pm Return
to hotel
October
13, Saturday
7:30 am Continental
Breakfast -- Superior Room
8:30-10:00 am Plenary
Session: David Norbrook, "Writing, Republicanism, and
Gender: Paradise
Lost and Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder,"
introduced by
Nigel Smith
10:00-10:30 am Coffee
Break -- Superior Room
10:30 am-12:00 pm Panel Sessions
Social and Psychological Reality (Peter Marbais, Chair -- St. Clair Room)
Kathleen Lynch,
"Gathering the Church: The Principles of Gospel Fellowship in the
1650s"
Katsuhiro Engetsu,
"The Alehouse in Mr. Badman"
Lori Branch, "Wounds
of Exchange and Symptoms of the Real in Grace Abounding"
Print Texts/Digital Texts: The Brown
Women Writers Project (Margaret
Breen, Chair -- Carnegie Room)
Julia Flanders,
"Words, Texts, and Data"
Teresa Feroli, "Lady
Eleanor Davies and the Map of Reading"
Sylvia Brown, "The
Reproductive Word"
Kimberly Hill, "Jane
Sharp on Textual Access and Authority"
The Way, The Truth, and the Light (Rick Smith, Chair -- Chester Room)
U. Milo Kaufman,
"Travel Without Luggage: The Wilderness Way and Bunyan's Providential
Journey
Roger Pooley, "Bunyan
and the Antinomians"
Stuart Sim, "Bunyan
and the State of Nature"
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch
-- Ontario Room
1:30-3:00 pm Panel
Sessions
Women as Context and Content (Heather Meakin, Chair -- St. Clair Room)
Katherine Gillespie,
"Mary Rowlandson's 'Restoration' and the Puritan Restoration in the
Glorious Revolution"
Arlette Zinck, "The
Chiefs of Sinners: John Bunyan, Jane Turner and Gendered Readings of Biblical
Text"
Maxine Hancock,
"Identity, Agency, and Community: Intimations of Emerging Literacy for
Women in The Pilgrim's Progress, Second Part"
Maryanne Cole, "'The
Lord's Errand:' Alienation, Fellowship and Authority in the Transatlantic
Journey Narratives of Quaker Women Preachers"
Bunyan's Era and the History of Ideas (David Gay, Chair -- Carnegie Room)
Dayton Haskin, "The
Place of Bunyan in the First Seventeenth-Century Literature Course at Harvard
Matthew Hunter,
"Seeing Second Sight: Scottish Visions and Restoration Science"
Angelica Duran,
"Restoration Allegories of Divine Love: Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and
Isaac Newton's Daniel and the Apocalypse"
3:00-3:30 pm Coffee
Break -- Superior Room
3:30-5:00 pm Plenary
Session: Nigel Smith, "Living in the 70s,"
introduced by
Dayton Haskin -- Superior Room
5:30 pm Bus
departs hotel
6:00-7:30 pm Dinner
at Nighttown
7:45 pm Bus
departs Nighttown
8:00 pm Apollo's
Fire concert
October
14, Sunday
7:30 am Continental
Breakfast -- Superior Room
8:30-10:00 am Plenary
Session: Sharon Achinstein, "Bunyan and the Politics
of
Remembrance," introduced by Ron Corthell -- Superior Room
10:00-10:30 am Coffee
Break -- Superior Room
10:30 am-12:00 pm Panel Session
The Future of Bunyan Studies (Vera Camden, Chair -- Superior Room)
Thomas Corns, "Current
Issues in Bunyan Studies"
12:00-1:30 pm Bunyan
Society Business Meeting and Luncheon
Special thanks to:
Baker-Nord Center for the
Humanities at Case Western Reserve University l Cleveland Psychoanalytic Society and Institute l College of Arts and Sciences, Kent State University l Department of English, Kent State University l Library Special Collections, Kent State University l Office of the Provost, Kent State University l Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Kent State
University l Prose Studies l The King's University College