Report on the Triennial Conference at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 7–9 July 2022

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 26; pp. 101 - 108
• Main Author: Adcock, Rachel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2022
• Subjects: Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Church buildings; Committees; Imagery; Pilgrims; Reading; Sermons; Women; Writing; United Kingdom > UK; England
• ISSN: 0954-0970

The parallel session focused on 'Allegory, Imagery, and Reading', and saw papers from Michael Arbino (Kent State University) on the implication of Bunyan's interesting comment on Henry VIII's 'cast[ing] down of Antichristian worship'; Richard Angelo Bergen (University of British Columbia) on Bunyan's potential engagement with the Memory Arts; and Revd Allan Wilcox on Blake's illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress. The parallel session saw Andy Draycott (Biola University), Bob Owens (The Open University), Neil Keeble (Stirling University), and Vera Camden (Kent State University), participate in a roundtable on editing Bunyan and other early modern texts. [...]the Society conferred upon John Coffey Honorary Lifetime Membership of the IJBS, following the unanimous acceptance of his nomination for services to the scholarship of Protestant Dissent. [...]Shannon Murray gave her first speech as the incoming President of IJBS and invited all delegates to join her in Prince Edward Island for the next triennial conference in 2025.