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Thursday, Sept. 15

6:00	Banquet - Plenary 1 (Grant Center) Timothy George: "William Tyndale and the Making of the English Bible"
8:30	Musical Program (Savage Memorial Chapel) "Sounding through the Centuries: The Influence of the King James Version over four hundred years of musical composition"

Friday, Sept. 16

8:30	Historic Bibles, Texts, and Artifacts Exhibit Presentation (Grant Center)
10:00	Chapel - Plenary 2 (Savage Memorial Chapel) John Woodbridge - "The Status of Biblical Authority among Europeans at the Creation of the King James Bible"
11:15	Lunch - Deli Buffet (Grant Center)
12:00	Feature Film - "KJB: The Book that Changed the World" (Grant Center)
2:00	Breakout 1 (Penick Academic Complex-Classrooms) Justin Barnard, "Human Nature and the Veneration of the KJV" - C-6 Richard Wells, "From Wycliff to Bible Code: How Preaching Created the KJV . . . and What Happened Then” - C-12 Janna Chance, "Challenging the People's Bible: Mary Arnold Ward and the Elitism of Victorian Liberal Theology" - C-18 Keith Bates, "Not Fundamentalist Enough: John R. Rice, Bob Jones, Sr., and Jerry Falwell Fail the King James Only Test" - D-53 Gavin Richardson, “‘A matter... tried by custom’: The Medieval King James Bible” - D-54
3:30	Breakout 2 (Penick Academic Complex-Classrooms) Hal Poe, "The KJV and the Seven Days of Creation: When Tradition Conflicts with Text" - C-6 Steve Halla, "Art, Iconoclasm, and the Search for Unity: Reflections on Cornelis Boel's 1611 KJV Title Page Design" - C-12 Michael Penny, "The Influence of the KJV on English Hymnody" - C-18 Hunter Baker, "The King James Bible: Understanding the Reformation Drive for Literacy & Its Impact on Politics" - D-53 Gene Fant, "Give Me also This Power: Secular Writers' Simultaneous Fascination with and Denial of the Power of the KJV" - D-54
5:00	Dinner - Plenary 3 (Grant Center) Leland Ryken - "What Makes the King James Version Great?"
7:30	Play - Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" (Powell Theater)

Saturday, Sept. 17

8:30	Breakout 3 (Penick Academic Complex-Classrooms) Bradley Green, "Covenant, Canon, and Culture: Theological Reflections on the Cultural Meaning of the KJV" - C-6 Ralph Leverett, "The King James Bible: Influences on Early American Education" - C-18 James Patterson, "Divine Right or Holy Dissent? Conflicting Visions of Church and State in Early Seventeenth-Century England" - D-48 Jennifer Gruenke, "The KJV and the Scientific Revolution" - D-52 Micah Watson - "Who Appeals to Heaven? King James and John Locke on Scripture & Political Authority" - D-53 John Netland - "‘The very language of men’: Echoes of the KJV in Wordsworth's Poetic Innovations” - D-54
9:45	Breakout 4 (Penick Academic Complex-Classrooms) George Guthrie, "'Texting' in the 17th Century: The Manuscripts Behind the KJV" - C-6 Mary Anne Poe, "Social Change and Social Welfare in the Shadow of the KJV" - C-18 Ben Mitchell, "A Fly in the Ointment: The KJV and Contemporary Culture" - D-48 Walton Padelford, "Redeeming the Time: The King James Bible and American Capitalism" - D-52 Scott Huelin, "Only Prophets and Devils Speak King James: Flannery O'Connor and the Literary Use of English Bible Translations" - D-53 Bobby Rogers, "The Presence in Contemporary American Poetry of the Poetic Strategies of the King James Bible" - D-54
11:15	Plenary 4 (Grant Center) Leland Ryken - "The Legacy of the King James Bible"