Schedule
Thursday, February 7, 2008
4-6 p.m. Registration
7 p.m Introductory Remarks: Craig A. Boyd, Ph.D., Azusa
Pacific University
7:15 p.m. Keynote Address:
“The Two Images: Discarded and Rejected?”
T.A. Shippey, Ph.D., 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, Ph.D., California Baptist University
“In the Company of Beasts: C.S. Lewis’
Ecological Vision of Christian Community”
Laura E. Ralph, Ph.D., 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, Ph.D., Azusa Pacific University
“Warren & Jack”
Constance Rice, Ph.D.???, (Wilden Gallery)
12-1 p.m. Keynote Address:
“C.S. Lewis, Charles Lamb, and the Algebra of Friendship”
Diana Glyer, Ph.D., 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, Ph.D., Boston College
“Face to Face? C.S. Lewis on Friendship?”
Randall M. Jensen, Ph.D., Northwestern College
“Lewis’s Moral Argument”
Christopher Schrock, Ph.D., Baylor University
B:
“A ‘Feminine’ Call to Christian Community: Rereading Gender Discourse in That Hideous Strength”
Monika Hilder, Ph.D., Trinity Western University
“George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis: A Possible Source of Lewis’ Great Divorce”
Charles Bressler, Ph.D., 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, Ph.D., George Fox University
(Upper Turner Campus Center)
8:30 p.m. To the Inkshed
A play by David Esselstrom, Ph.D., 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, Ph.D., Biola University
“A Thinker and a Friend Lives the Trinity”
Fred Sanders, Ph.D., 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, Ph.D., 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, Ph.D., Azusa Pacific University
(Munson Chapel)
The conference is free and does not require registration. Submission for paper proposals is closed.
The conference is held at the Azusa Pacific University main campus. Information on specific location and lecture times will be forthcoming. Please check back or contact Craig Boyd, Ph.D., director of the Institute of Faith Integration, at (626) 387-5771 or caboyd@apu.edu.
