Organised by Keele University, University of Bedfordshire, and Northumbria University, this regional meeting of the International John Bunyan Society will address the use of memorialisation and re-appropriation in the work of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dissenters, and the ways in which these might be put to work in shaping various dissenting identities. Papers will focus on, for instance, the remembrance or re-appropriation of rituals or practices, experiences of persecution, anniversaries, memories, and events (personal or public); conservative vs subversive practices of memorialisation/re-appropriation; the collection and/or re-appropriation of particular texts, authors, or genres (devotional writing, history, biography); the contexts and/or methods for memorialisation/re-appropriation; the use of memorialisation/re-appropriation in the formation and survival of particular dissenting communities.

Our plenary speakers will be Professor John Coffey (University of Leicester) and Dr Johanna Harris (University of Exeter).

For the full day’s programme please see https://johnbunyansociety.org/2018/02/19/2018-ijbs-day-conference-programme/