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Schedule

Thursday, February 7, 2008
4-6 p.m. Registration
(Upper Turner Campus Center)
7 p.m Introductory Remarks:
Craig A. Boyd
Azusa Pacific University
(Upper Turner Campus Center)
7:15 p.m. Keynote Address:
“The Two Images: Discarded and Rejected?”
T.A. Shippey, St. Louis University
8:30 p.m. Reception

Friday, February 8, 2008
9:30-10:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. SESSION #1

A:
“Visions of Beauty: Perelandra and Lothlorien”
Scott B. Key, California Baptist University

“In the Company of Beasts: C.S. Lewis’ Ecological Vision of Christian Community”
Laura E. Ralph, Trinity Western University (APU Faculty Dining Room)

B:
“Animal Pain and the Community of All Creatures: Variations on a Theme in C.S. Lewis”
John MacAteer, Azusa Pacific University

“Warren & Jack”
Constance Rice
(Wilden Gallery)
12-1 p.m. Keynote Address:
“C.S. Lewis, Charles Lamb, and the Algebra of Friendship”
Diana Glyer, Azusa Pacific University
(Atrium)
2-3:30 p.m. Break
3:30-5 p.m. SESSION #2

A:
“Lewis and Nietzsche: Friends in Virtue of Mutual Enemies”
Sean T. MacCarthy, Boston College

“Face to Face? C.S. Lewis on Friendship?”
Randall M. Jensen, Northwestern College

“Lewis’s Moral Argument”
Christopher Schrock, Baylor University

B:
“A ‘Feminine’ Call to Christian Community: Rereading Gender Discourse in That Hideous Strength”
Monika Hilder, Trinity Western University

“George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis: A Possible Source of Lewis’ Great Divorce”
Charles Bressler, Houghton College
5:30-7 p.m. Dinner
7 p.m. Plenary Address:
“If Women were Inklings: Dorothy L. Sayers and her Inkling Friends”
Laura Simmons, George Fox University
(Upper Turner Campus Center)
8:30 p.m. To the Inkshed
A play by David Esselstrom, Azusa Pacific University
(Upper Turner Campus Center)
Saturday, February 9, 2008
8-9 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9-10:15 a.m. SESSION #3

A:
“Sentimental, Vulgar, and Dreadful Literature: C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton on Popular Literature”
Paul Spears, Biola University

“A Thinker and a Friend Lives the Trinity”
Fred Sanders, Biola University
(MMED 2)

B:
“Two Principles, a Value, and a Fact: A Philosophical Macro-Interpretation of C.S. Lewis’ Spiritual Journey”
Gayne J. Anacker, California Baptist University

“C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien: Writing from the Space Between”
Jerusha Hoffman, Loyola Marymount University
(MMED 4)
10:30-11:15 a.m. Plenary Address:
“Worlds Apart: Chaos vs. Cosmos in the Fantasy Realms of Philip Pullman and C.S. Lewis”
Thomas Parham, Azusa Pacific University
(Munson Chapel)
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m Panel Discussion

The conference is free and does not require registration. Submission for paper proposals is closed.

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