God's Word in English - The King James Version as Translation

 






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Date: 24-25 March 2011

Venue: Antwerp and Leuven, Belgium

Dead line for abstracts: 30 November 2010

The year 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version, undoubtedly the most important English translation of the Bible. Though this version is today often associated with Fundamental Evangelical Christian circles, its historical importance and its cultural and artistic impact cannot be overlooked. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication, SIG VERBI, an international research group of CETRA under the auspices of the faculties of Theology and Arts of the KU Leuven and the Department of Translation Studies of the Lessius University College (Antwerp), is holding a conference. The conference fits into the events to commemorate the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, organized by Refo500, of which the KU Leuven is a project partner. The aim of the conference is to present research on this remarkable version of the Bible primarily from the perspective of translation, including the effects this piece of translation have exercised on various areas of religious and popular culture, and especially on the theory and practice of translation.

Confirmed speakers include, among others, prof. dr. Stephen Prickett (University of Kent),
prof. dr. Gordon Campbell (University of Leicester), prof. dr. Guido Latré (U.C.Louvain & UGent), prof. dr. Amanda Piesse (Trinity College) and prof. dr. Tibor Fabiny (Budapest).

Thursday 24 March, 2011 in Lessius (Antwerpen)

1. Historical Session

  • The Low Countries as Historical Context of the KJV
  • The origin/history of the KJV within the history of (English) Bible translations
  • How did contemporary political issues effect the translation of the KJV?
  • How did the KJV effect contemporary politics?

2. Literary/Cultural Session

  • The Low Countries as translation milieu
  • The effects of the KJV as a translation on literature/music/performing arts ,etc.
  • The influence of the KJV on later biblical and non-biblical translations (e.g. on Jewish translations of the TaNaK, English translations of the Qur'an)
  • Good/bad practices in (Bible) translation that are influenced by the KJV
  • The use of KJV quotations and allusions in secular texts and their translations

Friday 25 March, 2011 at the Faculty of Theology (KU Leuven)

3. Exegetical Session

  • Contemporary exegesis & its influence on the translation of the KJV
  • The influence of the KJV on contemporary and later exegesis

4. Practical Theology Session

  • KJV & the translatability of religious texts
  • KJV & feminist/post-colonial studies
  • KJV & inter-religious dialogue
  • Fundamentalist Bible readings & King James Onlyism

The above list is not meant to be exclusive or restrictive. All suggestions for papers relating to the topic of the conference’s theme will be taken into consideration. We welcome paper submissions from graduate students.

It is anticipated that the allocated time for each paper will be 30 minutes, with additional time for questions/discussion.

Please submit your abstract (max. 500 words) by 30 November 2010 to Dr. Gergely Juhász: gergely.juhasz@theo.kuleuven.be

Notification of acceptance by 15 December 2010.

Accomodations

Conference participants can enjoy the following discount rates at Hotel Cammerpoorte in Antwerp, which is only 100 meters from Lessius University College, in the heart of Antwerp:

Single room: €65 per room per night – including breakfast and taxes
Double room: €80 per room per night – including breakfast and taxes
Triple room: €110 per room per night – including breakfast and taxes

The hotel has a parking. The parking fee is 15 euro per car per 24 hours.

Address:

Hotel Cammerpoorte NV
Nationalestraat 38-40
B 2000 Antwerpen

For reservation, please contact the hotel directly. In order to enjoy the discount rate, be sure to mention that you are participating in the KJV Conference at Lessius University College.

Telephone: + 32 / 3 / 231 97 36
Fax: + 32 / 3 / 226 29 68
E-mail : info@hotelcammerpoorte.be
www.hotelcammerpoorte.be

 

In Leuven, conference participants can enjoy the following discount rates at hotel New Damshire, which is only 100 meters from the Faculty of Theology, in the heart of Leuven: 

  • Single room: €119 per room per night – including breakfast, complimentary internet connection and taxes
  • Double room: €132 per room per night – including breakfast, complimentary internet connection and taxes 

Address:

Hotel New Damshire
Schapenstraat 1 (Damiaanplain)
B-3000 Leuven 

For reservation, please contact the hotel directly. In order to enjoy the discount rate, be sure to mention that you are participating in the KJV Conference at the Faculty of Theology (KU Leuven). 

Telephone: +32 / 16 / 232 115

Fax: +32 / 16 / 745 246

E-mail: reservations@hotelnewdamshire.be
www.newdamshire.com

 

Costs for invited speakers can only be reimbursed if they stay in Leuven. If you are an invited speaker and you have not yet received information on accommodation in Leuven, please contact the organisers.

For further enquiries please contact either of the organisers Dr. Gergely Juhász (gergely.juhasz@theo.kuleuven.be) or Dr. Paul Arblaster (p.e.t.arblaster@hszuyd.nl). It is hoped that (selected) papers from the conference will be published in a volume edited by Dr Arblaster and Dr Juhász.

 

Program


Thursday 24 March, 2011 in Lessius University College (Antwerpen)

Address: Lessius University College, Sint-Andriesstraat 2, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Room: Belpaire (01.33)

9:00 – 9:15 Opening of the Conference
Welcome by Prof. Dr. Frieda Steurs, Head of Department of Applied Language Studies (Lessius University College, Belgium)
9:15 – 11:00 Historical-Cultural Session 1
Chair: Paul Arblaster (University Zuyd, Netherlands)
9:15-10:15 Gordon Campbell (University of Leicester, UK): The English of the King James Version
10:15-10:45 Amanda Piesse (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland): Shakespeare and King James: Early-modern Literary Resonances of the King James Bible
10:45-11:00 discussion
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee in Lessius
11:15 – 13:00 Historical-Cultural Session 2
Chair: Peter Flynn (Lessius University College, Belgium)
11:15-12:05 Stephen Prickett (University of Kent, UK): Language within Language: King James’ Steamroller
12:05-12:15 discussion
12:15-12:45 Paul Quinn (University of Sussex, UK): Which Bible is it anyway? Staging the plays of the Reformation history sequence in an AV world
12:45-13:00 discussion
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch in Lessius
14:00 – 17:00 Historical-Cultural session 3: Plantin-Moretus Museum
Bible translation in the Low Countries as historical-cultural background to the KJV:
a seminar by Guido Latré (U.C.Louvain and UGent, Belgium) in the  conference room of the Plantin-Moretus Museum (Vrijdagmarkt 22, 2000 Antwerpen) (panelists: Paul Arblaster and Gergely Juhász)
After the seminar the participants can visit the museum individually or with the guidance of Guido Latré.
17:00 – 18:00 Reception in Lessius

Friday 25 March, 2011 at the Faculty of Theology (KU Leuven)

Address: Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Sint-Michielstraat 6, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Room: Romero Room (02.10), Collegium Veteranorum

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome by Prof. Dr. Lieven Boeve, dean of the Faculty of Theology
9:15 – 11:00 Theology Session 1
Chair: Wim François (KU Leuven, Belgium)
9:15-9:45 Gergely Juhász (Lessius University College, KU Leuven, Belgium): Antwerp Bibles in the King James Bible
9:45-10:15 Henry Wansbrough (University of Oxford): Rheims/Douai Version as a rival to the KJV
10:15-10:45 Yekaterina Yakovenko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia): The King James Bible and Its Reference to the Source Texts
10:45-11:00 discussion
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee
11:15 – 13:00 Historical-Cultural session 4
Chair: Guido Latré (U.C.Louvain and UGent, Belgium)
11:15-11:45 Paul Arblaster (University Zuyd, Netherlands): Dragons in their pleasant palaces: Strange Beasts in the King James Bible
11:45-12:15 Crawford Gribben (Trinity College, Ireland): King James Bible and textual criticism in Cromwellian England
12:15-12:45 Tibor Fabiny (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary): The Metaphorical World of the Sacred Word in the Prefaces of English Bible Translations from Tyndale to the King James Bible
12:45-13:00 discussion
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch in ALMA (Pauscollege)
14:00 – 15:45 Historical-Cultural session 5
Chair: Gergely Juhász (Lessius University College, KU Leuven, Belgium)
14:00-14:30 Ellie G. Bagley (Middlebury College, USA): The Influence of the KJV on the Revised Version
14:30-15:00 Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary University of London, UK): Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56)
15:00-15:30 Claudia May (University of Birmingham): Political (Re)translations and the King James Version Bible (KJV): Call and Response, African American Creativity and the KJV
15:30-15.45 discussion
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee
16:00 – 17:45 Theology session 2
Chair: Tibor Fabiny (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary)
16:00-16:30 Reimund Bieringer (KU Leuven, Belgium): Junia, Evodia and Nympha
16:30-17:00 Creighton Marlowe (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium): The Bible has lost its soul
17:00-17:30 Mahe Nau Awan (University of Surrey, UK): Paradise Lost: The Journey from Bible (KJV) to Quran and the Aftermath
17:30-17:45 discussion
17:45 – 18:00 Concluding words by Gergely Juhász (Lessius University College, KU Leuven, Belgium) and Paul Arblaster (University Zuyd, Netherlands)

The organizers wish to thank the FWO Research Foundation – Flanders for the generous support.

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