Brontë Society Conference: The Brontës and the Bible

Opening today, August 26, in Cambridge:

Brontë Society Conference 2011
The Society's 2011 Conference will take place at Homerton College, Cambridge, 26th-28th August.
To mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, the Conference will explore the influence of the language and themes of this bible on the lives and works of the Bronte family. In addition to formal papers, we are looking to include in the Conference schedule a limited number of seminar sessions on the Conference theme. Speakers include :
Christine Alexander,
Scientia Professor of English at the University of New South Wales
Marianne Thormahlen, Professor of English Literature, Lund University, Sweden
Galia Ofek, Lecturer in English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Keith Jenkins, Vice-president, Houston Graduate School of Theology, Texas
Essaka Joshua, Associate Director of the College Seminar, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Patsy Stoneman, Emeritus Reader in English, University of Hull
Tom Winnifrith,author of Brontë Facts and Bronte Problems
Brian Wilks, author of The Brontës of Haworth.

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