Events Archive

 

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MICHAELMAS TERM 2023 EVENTS

1st Week (October 10)

Prof. Paul Fiddes

“Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Arthurian Poetry and the Image of Co-inherence”

2nd Week (October 17)

Elena Vermeer

“Tolkien’s ‘Sellic Spell’: Old English Poetics, the Artist, and the Critic”

3rd Week (October 24)

Charlie Reeder

“‘Sing About the Hidden Country’: C. S. Lewis and the Condition of Longing”

4th Week (October 31)

Dr. Michael Ward

“The Silver Chair: Lewis and Lunacy Seventy Years On.”

5th Week (November 7)

Dr. Jahdiel Perez

"An Amateur of Genius: C. S. Lewis on Professional Theology"

6th Week (November 14)

Dr. Michael Ward

“C. S. Lewis and Sermons”

7th Week (November 21)

Graham Shea

“Tolkien as Allegory: A Study in Smith of Wootton Major”

8th Week (November 28)

Christmas Party at The Kilns

TRINITY TERM 2023 EVENTS

1st Week (April 25)

Dr Simon Horobin

Stealing past watchful dragons in The Hobbit and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

2nd Week (May 2)

Dr Steven Beebe

Exploring C. S. Lewis’s Role as Editor of Nelson’s Medieval and Renaissance Library Series

3rd Week (May 9)

Dr Michael Ward

The Most Elusive Convert: How Lewis concludes Surprised by Joy

4th Week (May 16)

Clinton Collister

The Last Things in the elegies of John Heath-Stubbs: Echoes of Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis

5th Week (May 23)

Dr Paul Copan

Lewis, Aquinas, et al. on Conscience — with Discussion on the Moral Law and the State

6th Week (May 30)

Dr Matthew Carey Jordan

That Was New: Speculations on the Content of C. S. Lewis's Hegemony of Moral Values

7th Week (June 6)

Fr Paolo Prosperi

Melkor’s subcreative fall: Tolkien and the mysterium iniquitatis

8th Week (June 13)

Walk to The Perch pub from Pusey House

HILARY TERM 2023 EVENTS

1st Week (January 17)

Rev Anthony Buckley

Facing the challenges of new term, thoughts from Narnia

2nd Week (January 24)

Bring a Book

3rd Week (January 31)

Dr Michael Ward

‘Love is Tears’: C.S. Lewis on the Beauty of the Gospel

4th Week (February 7)

Eduardo Gutiérrez González

Tolkien, Cosmopoiesis, and the Imagination with a Thousand Faces

5th Week (February 14)

Dr Holly Ordway

Iron Sharpening Iron: Tolkien and Lewis’s Ecumenical Friendship and Mutual Influence

6th Week (February 21)

Lewis or Tolkien?

A Balloon Debate between Dr Michael Ward and Dr Holly Ordway

7th Week (February 28)

Dr Charles Taliaferro

A Narnian Vision of the Atonement; A Defense of the Ransom Theory

8th Week (March 7)

Benjamin Sharkey

C. S. Lewis, Narnia and Scythia

MICHAELMAS TERM 2022 EVENTS

1st Week (October 11)

Dr Michael Ward

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader on its Platinum Jubilee”

2nd Week (October 18)

David Bates

Pints With Jack podcast

3rd Week (October 25)

Dr Jason Lepojärvi

“Misreading C.S. Lewis on Friendship: The Charges of Sexism, Secrecy, and Snobbery”

4th Week (November 1)

Bring a book

5th Week (November 8)

Ravi Jain

6th Week (November 15)

Dr David Pickering

7th Week (November 22)

Fr Michael Halsall

8th Week (November 29)

Christmas Party at The Kilns

TRINITY TERM 2022 EVENTS

1st Week (April 26)

Dr Joy Clarkson

“Final Participation in Piranesi: Owen Barfield's Evolution of Consciousness in Susannah Clarke's Literary Imagination”

2nd Week (May 3)

Professor Guiseppe Pezzini

“Not ‘About’ Anything but Itself: Tolkien and the Purpose of Gratuitous Art”

3rd Week (May 10)

Jim Pennell:

“The Anscombe-Lewis Debate: A Model for Christian Truth-Seeking”

4th Week (May 17)

Dr Michael Ward

“Reflections on Mere Christianity on its Platinum Jubilee”

5th Week ( May 24)

Dr Paul Copan

“The Imprecations Are Staggering: CS Lewis and the Psalms of Severity”

6th Week (May 31)

Walk to the Perch Pub from Pusey House - starting at 7.15pm

7th Week (June 7)

Dr JE Gefenstette

“Owen Barfield on the Incarnation and the Poetic Imagination”

8th Week (June 14)

40th Anniversary Celebration at the Magdalen Arms 

HILARY TERM 2022 EVENTS

1st Week (January 18)

Rev. Dr. Michael Ward

“Secret Fire: The Hidden Climax of The Lord of the Rings

2nd Week (January 25)

(Meeting cancelled due to illness)

3rd Week (February 1)

Dr Nick Swarbrick

“Hedges and a Gate”

4th Week (February 8)

“Bring a book”

5th Week (February 15)

Max Jones

“The Pilgrim’s Regress: C. S. Lewis and the Misappropriation of Christian ritual in Fascist Dictatorships”

6th Week (February 22)

Clinton Collister

“Modernist Problems: C.S. Lewis’ Case for Realism and Long Narrative Poetry”

7th Week (March 1)

Dr. Holly Ordway

“St. Philip Neri and Middle-earth: The Oratorian Influence on Tolkien’s Spirituality and Writings”

8th Week (March 8)

Gabriel Calvo

“How to End a Christian Story: A Defense of Lewis’s Endings”

MICHAELMAS TERM 2021 EVENTS

1st Week (October 12th)

Rev. Dr. Michael Ward

The Abolition of Man:

Lewis’s Most Philosophical Work, But Is It Christian?

2nd Week (October 19th)

Prof. Alister McGrath

C. S. Lewis: How I discovered him, and what I found in him. Reflections of a Theologian and Apologist

3rd Week (October 26th)

Please Bring a Book: Please bring your favourite passage from C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, any of the Inklings, their predecessors, or related writers. We will enjoy the art of reading aloud as well as a lively discussion about the selected passages.

4th Week (November 2nd)

Dr. David Pickering

G.K. Chesterton and Natural Theology as a Medium of Communication

5th Week (November 9th)

Dr. Stuart Lee

A Close Reading of J.R.R. Tolkien

6th Week (November 16th)

Sarah Selden

‘What Do They Teach Them in These Schools?’ An Ecocritical Reading of The Chronicles of Narnia

7th Week (November 23rd)

Owen A. Barfield:

What Owen Barfield Taught His Fellow Inklings

8th Week (November 30th)

Christmas at the Kilns

TRINITY TERM 2021 EVENTS

1st Week (April 27)

Prof. John Lennox

Interview

2nd Week (May 4)

Book Launch:

‘From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with My Nine Year-Old Self ’

by Katherine Langrish

3rd Week (May 11)

Dr. Steven Beebe

‘How to Communicate Like C.S. Lewis’

4th Week (May 18)

Dr. Jason Lepojärvi

‘Love and the Winter War: C.S. Lewis on Loving Your Enemy’

5th Week (May 25)

Rowan Williams (The Lord Williams of Oystermouth)

‘Making Worlds: The Logic of Fantasy’

6th Week (June 1)

Max McLean

‘Being C.S. Lewis’

7th Week (June 8)

Prof. Simon Horobin

‘C.S. Lewis and The Wind in the Willows’

8th Week (June 15)

Book Launch:

‘After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man’

by Michael Ward

HILARY TERM 2021 EVENTS

1st Week (January 16)

Walter Hooper: In Memoriam


2nd Week (February 2)

Dr. Holly Ordway

Book launch: ‘Tolkien’s Modern Readings’


3rd Week (February 16)

Dr. Michael Ward

‘Prince Caspian and Planet Narnia’

4th Week (March 2)

Andrew Lazo

‘Sehnsucht as Signpost: The Autobiographical Impulse of C. S. Lewis.’

[Due to pandemic restrictions, no meetings took place during

Trinity and Michaelmas terms in 2020.]

HILARY TERM 2020 EVENTS

1st Week (January 21)

Dr. Amy Orr-Ewing

‘Truth, Story and Pattern in the works of Dorothy L. Sayers’


2nd Week (January 28)

Revd. Dr. Malcolm Guite

‘Poetry and Prayer: Some poetic reflections and responses to C.S.Lewis and George Herbert’


3rd Week (February 4)

Dr. Michael Ward

‘C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and the Seven Heavens’


4th Week (February 11)

Rev. Anthony Buckley

‘The Lord of the Rings - Why it matters’


5th Week (February 18)

Ms. Amanda Vernon

‘Reading with George MacDonald’


6th Week (February 25)

Rev. Charlie Cleverly

‘Myth and True Myth in the writings and conversations of C.S.Lewis’


7th Week (March 3)

Mr. David Bennett

‘Ascesis and Ecstasy: The Apologetics of Desire in C.S. Lewis and Sarah Coakley’


8th Week (March 10)

Dr. Don King

‘Warren Lewis and Mrs. Janie Moore: An Unhappy Acquaintance’


MICHAELMAS TERM 2019 EVENTS

1st Week (October 15)

Mr. Jahdiel Perez

‘Irresistible Hilarity: The Theological Humor of C.S. Lewis’

2nd Week (October 22)

Dr. Josephine Gabelman

‘The Living Unmasked: Divine Fraud in Lewis’ Theology’

3rd Week (October 29)

Dr. Mark Vernon

‘Christianity and Consciousness’

4th Week (November 5)

Mr. Colin Duriez

‘The friendship of C.S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers’

5th Week (November 12)

Mr. Stephen Eyre

‘Thoughts about C. S. Lewis; Chiefly on Prayer’

6th Week (November 19)

Mr. Bond West

‘Wandering with the Wise: Etymological Reflections on JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

7th Week (November 26)

Dr. Michael Ward

‘One Hundred Years of Poetry: Marking the Centenary of Lewis’s First Publication’

8th Week (December 3)

Christmas Party at the Kilns

TRINITY TERM 2019 EVENTS

 

1st Week (April 30)

Dr. Michael Ward

‘What has Anscombe to do with Narnia? Did the debate about Miracles lead to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?’

2nd Week (May 7)

Dr. Marc LiVecche

‘The Odious Necessity: C.S. Lewis on War’

3rd Week (May 14)

Mr. Owen Barfield

‘Owen Barfield: Philosopher and Friend’

4th Week (May 21)

Dr. Jason Baxter

‘The Medieval Model and the Christian Future’

5th Week (May 28)

Dr. Stewart Goetz

‘C. S. Lewis's Argument from Desire’

6th Week (June 4)

Dr. Myk Habets

‘ "You Have Never Met A Mere Mortal" – C.S. Lewis’s Vision of Salvation’

7th Week (June 11)

Mr. Jahdiel Perez

‘C.S. Lewis on the Perils of Professional Theology’


8th Week (June 18)

Pub Walk to the Perch at Port Meadow

HILARY TERM 2019 EVENTS 

1st Week (January 15)

Mr. David Williams

‘Mere Evolution, Mere Christianity’

2nd Week (January 22)

Mr. John Garth

‘Tolkien’s Creation’

3rd Week (January 29)

Dr. Holly Ordway

‘Tolkien's Modern Sources: Dunsany, Shorthouse, and a Mythology for England’

4th Week (February 5)

Mr. Paul Shakeshaft

‘CS Lewis and Natural Law’

5th Week (February 12)

Dr. Michael Ward

‘Philip Pullman on CS Lewis: What’s Wrong with Him?’

6th Week (February 19)

Ms. Robin Landrith

‘Creation and Incarnation in Bonaventure and Lewis’

7th Week (February 26)

Dr. Max Baker-Hytch

‘Lewis’s Argument from Reason’

8th Week (March 5)

Dr. Piers Worth

‘Learning from C.S. Lewis’s Life’

 MICHAELMAS TERM 2018 EVENTS

1st Week (October 9)

Dr. Michael Ward

“Imagine There's no Heaven: C.S. Lewis on Making Space for Faith” 

2nd Week (October 16)

Alister McGrath

“C.S. Lewis: A Model of the Intellectual Life”

3rd Week (October 23)

Brenton Dickieson

“Dive: The Shape of the Cross in C.S. Lewis' Writing”

4th Week (October 30)

Joy Clarkson

“Breaking the Spell: Fairy Stories in the Secular Age”

5th Week (November 6)

Marc Barnes

“Should Christians use Smartphones?” 

6th Week (November 13)

Eric Tippin

“G.K. Chesterton as Stylist”

7th Week (November 20)

Rev. Dr. Jonathan Brant

“The Professor and the Padre: C.S. Lewis in light of the life and writings of G.A. Studdert-Kennedy”

8th Week ( November 27)

Christmas Party at the Kilns 

TRINITY TERM 2018 EVENTS

 

1st Week (24 April)

Dr Michael Ward

“After Ten Years: Return to Planet Narnia

 

2nd Week (1 May)

Mr. Jahdiel Perez

“Between Joy and Jokes: C.S. Lewis's Theology of Laughter”

 

3rd Week (8 May)

Dr Sarah Maple

Title TBA; Subject: MacDonald’s Baptismal Imagery

 

4th Week (15 May)

Professor Michael Tomko

“Tolkien, Tragedy, and the Gift of Beauty”

 

5th Week (22 May)

Professor Steve Beebe

“C.S. Lewis and The Screwtape Letters: A Devil's Guide to Communication”

 

6th Week (29 May)

Professor Stewart Goetz

“C. S. Lewis on the Soul”

 

7th Week (5 June)

Professor Vigen Guroian

Title TBA; Subject: MacDonald’s “The Wise Woman”

 

8th Week (12 June)

Annual Pub Crawl

 

HILARY TERM 2018 EVENTS

1st Week (16 January)

Dr. Holly Ordway

“Hidden in Plain Sight: Tolkien's Influences from Children's Literature and Popular Fiction”

 

2nd Week (23 January)

Professor John Finnis

“C.S. Lewis’s Critique of 20th Century Critical Scholarship on the Gospels”

 

3rd Week (30 January)

Father Jerome Bertram

“Will Bombadil fall?”

 

4th Week (6 February)

Mr. Brian Lapsa

“Revelation by Disguise: G.K. Chesterton, Ingmar Bergman, and the War on Disenchantment”

 

5th Week (13 February)

Rev. Dr. Rowan Williams

“Beyond Left and Right: Lewis as Cultural Critic”

 

6th Week (20 February)

Dr. James Orr

“C.S. Lewis and Christian Platonism”

 

7th Week (27 February)

Father John Hunwicke

“The Cutting Edge of Biblical Scholarship”

 

8th Week (6 March)

Professor Simon Horobin

“The Lion, The Witch and the Bookcase: C.S. Lewis and his books”

 

 

 

MICHAELMAS TERM 2017 EVENTS

 

1st Week (10 October)

The Abolition of Man: Lewis’s Most Prophetic Work, But Is It Christian?”

Dr. Michael Ward

Author of Planet Narnia and a new critical edition of The Abolition of Man

 

2nd Week (17 October)

“Education and Free-Will: Lewis’s Idea of a University”

Dr. Melinda Nielsen

Associate Professor of Great Texts, Baylor University

 

3rd Week (24 October)

“Those Who Knew Chesterton”

Aidan Mackey

Foremost Scholar on G.K. Chesterton

 

4th Week (31 October)

"Language and Beauty"

A talk by Dr. Peter Kreeft on Tolkien and Lewis's use of language

To be presented by Caisen Mirassou

Treasurer, Oxford C.S.Lewis Society

 

5th Week (7 November)

“Lewis and the Eucharist”

Jacob Fareed Imam

President, C.S. Lewis Society

 

6th Week (14 November)

Walter Hooper

Former Personal Secretary of Lewis and Literary Executor of the CSL Estate

 

7th Week (21 November)

“Alcasan and Baphomet: That Hideous Strength, the Trial of the Templars, and a Tradition of Christian Anxiety”

Dr. Gregory Lippiatt

History Fellow, University of East Anglia

 

8th Week (28 November)

Kilns Christmas Party

 

 

 

TRINITY TERM 2017 EVENTS


First Week (25 April)
“Tolkien—Faith and Fiction”
Lord Alton


Second Week (2 May)
“Lewis, Happiness, and Rome”
Dr Stewart Goetz


Third Week (9 May)
“Spirits in Bondage: Pagan Passions in Lewis’ First Book”
Dr Jonathan Kirkpatrick


Fourth Week (16 May)
“Enchantment and the Weight of Glory: What Dante
Taught Lewis about Poetry”
Dr Jason Baxter


Fifth Week (23 May)
“ ‘Needles of Eternal Light’:
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
in the Works of C. S. Lewis”
Revd Dr Malcolm Guite


Sixth Week (30 May)
“C.S. Lewis and Contraception”
Dr Michael Ward


Seventh Week (6 June)
“G.K. Chesterton, Zombies, and Revolution”
David Baird


Eighth Week (13 June)
Annual Pub Walk

 

 

 

HILARY TERM 2017 EVENTS


First Week (17th January)
Atlantis and Mars: New Light on Tolkien,
Lewis and their Science-Fiction Pact
John Garth


Second Week (24th January)
Between the Study and the Smoke-filled Room:
C.S. Lewis as Political Thinker
Dr Micah J. Watson
Associate Professor, Calvin College


Third Week (31st January)
Walking with Frodo
Benigno Blanco
Former Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Spain


Fourth Week (7th February)
C.S. Lewis and the Doctrine of the Fall
The Most Reverend Kallistos Ware
Greek Orthodox Metropolitan
and Professor Emeritus of
Eastern Orthodox Studies, University of Oxford


Fifth Week (14th February)
A recording of C.S.Lewis
reading from the chapter on Eros
in his book "The Four Loves"
followed by an extended Q&A with Michael Ward


Sixth Week (21st February)
‘The Last Trace of Something’: That Hideous Strength
and C.S. Lewis’s Intellectual Biography
Jonathan Pike, MSt, University of Oxford


Seventh Week (28th February)
Dorothy L. Sayers’ The Man Born to be King
Katy Wehr
PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews


Eighth Week (7th March)
CS Lewis and Music
Professor Dimitri Conomos
Professor of Byzantine Musicology,
St Cross College, University of Oxford

 

 

 

MICHAELMAS TERM 2016 EVENTS

 

First Week (11 October)
‘Fifty Years with C.S. Lewis’
Walter Hooper

 

Second Week (18 October)
‘C.S. Lewis and the Word of God:
Til We Have Faces Sixty Years On’
Michael Ward

 

Third Week (25 October)
‘A Star Above the Mast:
Tolkien, Faerie and The Great Escape’
Anna Thayer

 

Fourth Week (1 November)
‘The Poetics of Desire
in Thomas Traherne and C.S. Lewis’
Paul Fiddes

 

Fifth Week (8 November)
‘Dante, Lewis, and the Reordering of (the four) Love(s).’
Brian Williams

 

Sixth Week (15 November)
“Are we Restless for Heaven? Defending Lewis's Argument from Desire”
Peter S. Williams

 

Seventh Week (22 November)
‘Lewis and Newman: Comparing Oxford Converts’
Fr. Ian Ker

 

Eighth Week (29 November)
Kilns Christmas Party

 

 

 

TRINITY TERM 2016 EVENTS

 

First Week (26th April)
‘The Last Battle Sixty Years On’
Michael Ward


Second Week (3rd May)
A recording of CS Lewis
reading chapter IV, "Friendship"
from The Four Loves,
followed by a discussion


Third Week (10th May)
'Finding Meaning in the White Spaces'
Lancia Smith


Fourth Week (17th May)
‘C. S. Lewis - the Children's Literature Context’
Peter Hunt


Fifth Week (24th May)
‘C. S. Lewis:  Chronicles of a Master Communicator’
Steve Beebe


Sixth Week (31st May)
'Slow-Kindled Courage: A Study of Tolkien's Heroes'
Anna Thayer


Seventh Week (7th June)
‘C.S. Lewis at Poet’s Corner’
Book Launch Event with
Michael Ward and Peter S. Williams


8th Week (14th June)
Evening Walk and Dinner
Rickety Press Pub
 67 Cranham St, Oxford OX2 6DE

 

 

HILARY 2016 EVENTS

 

First Week (19th January)
‘Tolkien's Modern (!) Sources: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages’
Holly Ordway

Second Week (26th January)
‘Finrod, Job, and ‘estel’: the Roots of Hope in Tolkien’
Simon BerryFirst Week (13 October)

Third Week (2nd February)
‘What Did C.S.Lewis Think of Himself?’
Walter Hooper

Fourth Week (9th February)
‘C.S. Lewis and the Battle Between Classicism and Romanticism’
Jonathan Kirkpatrick

Fifth Week (16th February)
‘The Air of Narnia: Stories and True Adulthood in Prince Caspian’
Anna Thayer

Sixth Week (23rd February)
‘Horrid Red Things: Why Magic, and the Death of Magic,
Are Essential to Mere Humanity’
Mark Stafford

Seventh Week (1st March)
'C.S. Lewis and King Arthur'
Gabriel Schenk

8th Week (8th March)
Read Aloud & Nibbles

 

 

MICHAELMAS 2015 EVENTS

 

First Week (13 October)
Lame and Unconvincing? Surprised by Joy Sixty Years On
Michael Ward

Second Week (20 October)
C.S. Lewis & His Circle
Roger White and Brendan & Judith Wolfe

Third Week (27 October)
An evening with Douglas Gresham: the only man alive who lived with C.S. Lewis
Douglas Gresham

Fourth Week (3 November)
The Narnian Virtues: C.S. Lewis as Character Educator
Mark Pike

Fifth Week (10 November)
Lewis in Post-War Oxford
Walter Hooper for Tony Cockshut

Sixth Week (17 November)
The Seven Heavens: a special musical performance
James Whitbourn with Michael Ward
Location: St. John the Evangelist, Iffley Road

Seventh Week (24 November)
C.S. Lewis’s Understanding of Islam
Max Imam

Eighth Week (1st December)
Kilns Christmas Party
Location: The Kilns, Headington

 

 

 

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HILARY 2015 EVENTS

First Week (20 January)
The Magician’s Nephew Sixty Years On
Michael Ward


Second Week (27 January)
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Christianity: An Overview of the Arguments
Paul E. Kerry

 

 

MICHAELMAS 2014 EVENTS

Third Week (28 October)
The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis
Alister McGrath

 

 

TRINITY 2013 EVENTS

First Week:
Mr Douglas Gresham,
An Evening With Douglas Gresham

Second Week:
Prof Peter Hunt,
Lewis's Roots and Rivals - the Children's Literature Context

Third Week:
Prof Alister McGrath,
On Writing a Biography of C. S. Lewis
followed by our A. G. M.

Fourth Week:
Prof Jon Fennell,
A Polanyian Perspective on Lewis's The Abolition of Man

Fifth Week:
Dr Heather O'Donoghue,
'Touching Greatness': Lewis's Early Poetry and Old Norse Myth

Sixth Week:
Dr Jonathan Kirkpatrick,
Bacchus in Narnia: C. S. Lewis and the Classics

Seventh Week:
Dr Anna Caughey,
First Responses to Tolkien's 'The Fall of Arthur'

Eighth Week:
Society Pub Walk to Littleworth


 

HILARY TERM 2011 EVENTS

First Week (January 18th)
Catholicism in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
by Stratford Caldecott

Second Week (January 25th)
Abysmally Bright: Chesterton on Chaucer, Greatness, and Poetry
By David Baird

Third Week (February 1st)
C.S. Lewis and the Psalms
By Dr Francis Warner

Fourth Week (February 8th)
Last Things: C.S. Lewis on Hell and Heaven
By Bp Kallistos Ware

Fifth Week (February 15th)
Letting In and Shutting Out:
The Theme of Doors in Lewis's Theology
By Dr Meriel Patrick

Sixth Week (February 22nd)
Original Sin in Sayers' Plays and Novels
By Margaret Hunt

Seventh Week (March 1st).
Theology of Love: C.S. Lewis and St. Augustine in Dialogue
By Jason Lepojarvi

Eighth Week (March 8th)
Book Launch of C.S. Lewis and the Church: Essays in Honour of Walter Hooper (T&T Clark)
and Celebration of Walter Hooper's 80th Birthday

 


 

MICHAELMAS 2010 EVENTS

First Week (Tue. Oct 12th)
“C.S. Lewis and Historic Evangelicalism”

By Dr. Chris Mitchell

Second Week (Tue. Oct 19th)
“C.S. Lewis and Gender”
By Prof. Ann Loades

Third Week (Tue. Oct 26th)
Devilry in C.S. Lewis & The Inklings in the Context of War
By Colin Duriez

Fourth Week (Tue. Nov 2nd)
“Joy Davidman: Girl Communist”
By Abby Santamaria

Fifth Week (Tue. Nov 9th)
“My Godfather, C.S. Lewis”
By Laurence Harwood

Sixth Week (Tue. Nov 16th)
"Lewis and the Cowley Fathers"
By Will Vaus

Seventh Week (Tue. Nov 23rd)
“The Brightest Heaven of Invention: Solar Power in the Voyage of the Dawn Treader”
By Dr. Michael Ward

Eighth Week (Tue. Nov 30th)
Christmas Party at the Kilns

 

 

HILARY TERM 2009 EVENTS

First Week (Tue. Jan. 20th)
Life on Other Planets in English Theology Before Lewis
by Dr Mark Edwards
Lecturer in Patristics, University of Oxford

 

Second Week (Tue. Jan. 27th)

Place: Balliol College, Lecture Hall XXIII

Sub-Creation and Imagination in Lewis and Tolkien

by Prof. Ian Storey

Classics, Trent University, Ontario

 

Third Week (Tue. Feb. 3rd)

Herbert and the Temple

by Dr Beatrice Groves

Wolfson College, Oxford

 

Fourth Week (Tue. Feb. 10th)

C. S. Lewis' Mediaevalism

by Dr Santha Bhattacharji

St. Benet's Hall

 

Fifth Week (Tue. Feb. 17th)

Warren Hamilton Lewis and His 'American Lady'

Dr Diana Pavlac Glyer

Azusa Pacific University

 

Sixth Week (Tue. Feb. 24th)

What C. S. Lewis Really Did to Chaucer's Troilus & Criseyde

by Dr Simon Horobin

Magdalen College

 

Seventh Week (Tue. Mar. 3rd)

Christian Narrative: Lewis, Tolkien, and Rowling

by Matthew Hunter

Former Secretary of the Society

 

Eighth Week (Tue. Mar. 10th)

Special General Meeting

Agenda: constitutional ratification, project committees

 

Eighth Week (Thu. Mar. 12th)

Note this added Thursday meeting!

Music, Myth, and Literary Depth

in the 'Land Without Music'

by Gregory Martin

Former Member of the Society

 

 

 

MICHAELMAS TERM 2008 EVENTS

 

First Week (Oct. 14th)

The Re-invention of the Christian Myth

Rev. Hugh Rayment-Pickard

Author: The Devil's Account: Philip Pullman and Christianity

 

Second Week (Oct. 21st)

Audio and Discussion from C. S. Lewis Reading from The Four Loves

 

Third Week (Oct. 28th)

J. R. R. Tolkien and the Wanderer

Dr Stuart Lee

Director, OUCS; Author: The Keys to Middle Earth

 

Fourth Week (Nov. 4th)

G. K. Chesterton: Faith, Imagination, Literature

Rev. Torbjorn Holt

Rector, Norwegian Church in London

 

Fifth Week (Nov. 11th)

C. S. Lewis and Theological Controversy

Rev. Dr. Gerald Bray

Director of Research, The Latimer Trust

 

Sixth Week (Nov. 18th)

Documentary: C. S. Lewis, dreamer of Narnia

Featuring Society Treasurer, Peter Cousins

 

Seventh Week (Nov. 25th)

C. S. Lewis on Petitionary Prayer

Dr Tim Mawson

Tutor in Philosophy, St Peter's College

 

Eighth Week (Dec. 2nd)

Christmas Party at the Kilns

 

 

TRINITY TERM 2008 EVENTS


 

First Week (Tue 22 April)

Faerie in J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: Escape vs. Recovery

by John Robinson

Visiting Student

 

Second Week (Tue 29 April)

A Fertile Friendship: C.S. Lewis and Austin Farrer

by Revd Robert MacSwain

Ramsey Fellow and College Chaplain, St Chad's College, University of Durham

 

Third Week (Tue 6 May)

Tutored Ale Tasting at The Turf Tavern

 

Fourth Week (Tue 13 May)

Dr Who and I

by Paul Cornell

Author, "Dr Who"

 

Fifth Week (Tue 20 May)

Audio and Discussion of C. S. Lewis Reading from the Four Loves

 

Sixth Week (Tue 27 May)

C.S. Lewis and the Psalms

by Dr Francis Warner

Lord White Fellow (now Emeritus) and Tutor in English Literature at St Peter's College, Oxford; C.S. Lewis' last graduate student

 

Seventh Week (Tue 3 June)

Donald Swann, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

by Leon Berger

Administrator, Donald Swann Archives

 

Eighth Week (Tue 10 June)

Annual Pub Walk


 

HILARY TERM 2008 EVENTS

 

First Week

The Abolition of Man and the Problem of Gender

by Dr Joe Ricke

Professor of English, Taylor University

 

Second Week

J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, and the Cauldron of Story

by Catherine Barnett

Student at Taylor University

 

Third Week

Charles Williams, Iris Murdoch, and the Flight from the Enchanter

by Timothy Pitt-Payne

Barrister

 

Fourth Week

If Religion is Dangerous, What Should Happen to Believers?: The Dawkins Debate

by John Cornwell

Author of Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Riposte to The God Delusion

 

Fifth Week

Tour of the Kilns (Lewis' Home)

 

Sixth Week

Slide Show with Original Photographs relating to C.S. Lewis' Life and Work

 

Seventh Week

Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration

by Revd Dr Gavin Ashenden

Senior Chaplain and Lecturer in the Psychology of Religion, Sussex University

 

Eighth Week

Book Launch: PLANET NARNIA by Michael Ward

 

 

MICHAELMAS TERM 2007 EVENTS

 

First Week (Tue 9 October)

President's Introduction followed by a Drinks Reception


 

Second Week (Tue 16 October)

Owen Barfield: His Work and Literary Estate

by Owen Barfield

Grandson of Owen Barfield


 

Third Week (Tue 23 October)

Tolkien's Legendarium: Which is the most Authoritative Expression?

by Richard Jeffery


 

Fourth Week (Tue 30 October)

Insights from C. S. Lewis for Christian Apologetics Today

by Joe Martin

Independent scholar


 

Fifth Week (Tue 6 November)

Reflections on My Work as C. S. Lewis’ Editor

by Walter Hooper

Friend, Biographer and Editor of C. S. Lewis


 

Sixth Week (13 November)

On Charges of Racism against C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien

by Joshua Roberts


 

Seventh Week (Tue 20 November)

Advent readings from the Inklings at the Kilns (C. S. Lewis’ home)


 

Eighth Week (Tue 27 November)

Christmas in the ‘Oxford School’ of Children's Literature

by Maria Cecire

DPhil student in English Literature, Keble College

 

 

TRINITY TERM 2007 EVENTS

 

First Week (24 April):

'Laughing at Satan: Humorous Representations of the Devil in Early Medieval Literature'

by Leon Pickering

Second Week (1 May):

Richard Jeffrey

 

Third Week (8 May):

‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Cricket Ball:  C. S. Lewis and Old Norse Mythology’

Professor Heather O'Donoghue

Tutor in English, Oxford University

 

Fourth Week (15 May, 7.00 p.m.):

'Tracing the Inklings: A Guided Tour through Lewis's Oxford', beginning at the Eagle & Child Pub

Rev Dr Jeanette Sears

 

Fifth Week (22 May):

‘Reflections on a Friendship: C. S. Lewis and Sheldon Vanauken’

John Holloway and Nathan Grills

 

Sixth Week (29 May):

‘Lewis as a Writer of Christian Doctrine’

Rev Professor Paul Fiddes

Principal of Regent's Park College

 

Seventh Week (5 June):

Annual walk to The Trout -- a favourite walk of Lewis and the Inklings

 


 

HILARY TERM 2007 EVENTS


 

First Week, 16 January:
Selections from Dorothy Sayers’s The Man Born to Be King:
A Dramatic Reading by Students from Taylor University

Second Week, 23 January:
Author Colin Duriez,
‘Myth, Fact, and Incarnation: The Quest for the Real in C. S. Lewis’

Fourth Week, 6 February:
Joe Martin,
‘Insights from Lewis for Christian Apologetics Today’ [postponed]

Fifth Week, 13 February:
Romy Cerratti,
‘"Are you with me?" "To the death!": Fellowship in the Works of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien’

Seventh Week, 27 February:
Dinner and tour at The Kilns

Eighth Week, 6 March:
Rev. Dr. Michael Ward,
‘What The Heck Does It Matter If We Don't Cotton On To The Complex Patterns In Lewis's Poetry?’

 

 

MICHAELMAS TERM 2006 EVENTS

 

First Week (10 October):

'The Completion of Volume III of Lewis's Collected Correspondence:  An Evening of Questions and Answers with Editor Walter Hooper'


 

Second Week (17 October):

Dr. Judith Priestman,

'John Betjeman and C. S. Lewis: The Dilettante and the Don'


 

(NOTE change of venue and time. This is a special meeting at 2.15 p.m.

at the Bodleian Library's Betjeman exhibition.

Dr. Priestman's tour will feature unseen Lewis material

and other items relating to Oxford undergraduate life in the 1920s.)


 

Third Week (24 October):

Professor Ian Storey,

'Classical Allusions in C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces'

 

Fourth Week (31 October):

Aidan Mackey,

'The Moral Imagination: George Macdonald, G. K. Chesterton, and C. S. Lewis'

 

Fifth Week (7 November):

Richard Jeffery,

'Boxen: The Imagination of Young C. S. Lewis'

 

Sixth Week (14 November):

Brendan Wolfe,

'Philology in Lewis and Tolkien'

 

Seventh Week (21 November):

Leslie Marsh,

'The Historical Jesus: Was Lewis Right?'

 

Eighth Week (28 November):

Bring a Book to The Kilns: Favourite Christmas-Themed Readings from The Inklings

 

TRINITY 1998 EVENTS

Fourth Week(?) (19 May)
Facing the Foreign: C. S. Lewis on Toleration
Paul E. Kerry

 

HILARY 1996 EVENTS

Third Week(?) (30 January)
German Romanticism and C. S. Lewis’s Narrative Poems
Paul E. Kerry