Registration check-in will be from 12pm until 6pm on Thursday, Nov. 3 in the Beaman Student Life Center west lobby. At that time all attendees will receive a final schedule of events with room assignments, as well as additional conference and Lewis-related materials.
The Narnia on Tour room, with author/artist tables and vendor booths, will be open all afternoon and throughout the conference session hours on Friday and Saturday. At check-in, registrants will receive a bag of Lewis-related goodies and a complete schedule of events, including campus directions and room assignments.
Shuttles will run daily from/to Embassy Suites. Additionally, the floor section of the parking garage adjacent to the Curb Center will be reserved for our attendees on all three days. (See the campus map PDF. The parking garage is #40 and all Thursday events, including check-in and the Narnia on Tour room, are in #17/18.)
For directions to the Belmont University campus click here.
Tentative Schedule (Times are subject to change, and new events may be added as plans are finalized.) All events will take place on the campus of Belmont University.
THURSDAY, November 3
Opening Reception (6pm)
The Vince Gill Room
Banquet with and Keynote Speech by Douglas Gresham (7pm)
(Stepson of C.S. Lewis, Author, Speaker, and Consultant to the 2005 film The
Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe)
The Maddox Grand Atrium
FRIDAY, November 4
Scholarly Session I (9-10:30am)
(Individual room assignments to be announced.)
PANEL 1: C.S. Lewis and Theology
PAPER 1: Theology and Screwtape:
The Nature of Evil in C.S. Lewis’s Fantasy
Benjamin Saxton – Rice University
PAPER 2: Joy, the Tao, and Free Will: Some
Contours of C. S. Lewis’s Theodicy
Prof. Michael Travers – Southeastern College at
Wake Forest
PAPER 3: First and Second Things: C.S.
Lewis’ Theology and Literary Criticism
Prof. D’Anne Olsen – Barrington College
(now Gordon College)
PANEL 2: The Chronicles of Narnia
PAPER 1: “Let Villains
Be Soundly Killed at the End of the Book”: C. S. Lewis’s
Conception of Justice in The Chronicles of Narnia
Prof. Marek Oziewicz - University of Wroclaw,
Poland and Fulbright Scholar, Asbury College
PAPER 2: “Sons of Adam and Daughters
of Eve”: Lewisian Perspectives on the Human in The Chronicles
of Narnia
Prof. Donald T. Williams - Toccoa Falls College
PAPER 3: Humor in The Chronicles of
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Prof. David L. Neuhouser - Taylor University
PANEL 3: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien
PAPER 1: Not Safe But Good: Kings and
Kingdoms in the Works of Lewis and Tolkien
Randy Pope
PAPER 2: SubCreative Writing: Essential
and Executive Language in the Fantasy Writings of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R.
Tolkien
Harley Sims – University of Toronto
PAPER 3: Fairy Stories: Worlds of
Imagination in the Writings of Lewis and Tolkien
Rev. David N. Beckmann - St. Andrew's Anglican Church
PANEL 4: C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling
PAPER 1: The Magician’s Niece: The
Influence of C.S. Lewis on the Works of J.K. Rowling
Prof. Scott P. Johnson and Prof.
Alesha D. Seroczynski - Bethel College
PAPER 2: The Elfin Mystique: Fantasy and
Feminism in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
Prof. Kathryn N. McDaniel – Marietta College
PAPER 3: Lewis and Rowling as Alchemists:
Literary Alchemy in the Ransom Novels and Harry Potter
John Granger - Barnes and Noble University and www.hogwartsprofessor.com
Scholarly Session II (Friday 10:45am-12:15pm)
(Individual room assignments to be announced.)
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PANEL 1: C.S. Lewis and Faith
PAPER 1: “It All Began with a Picture:” The
Poetic Preaching of C.S. Lewis
Dr. Gregory Anderson - The International Community Church
(UK)
PAPER 2: C.S. Lewis on Vocation: The Integration
of Faith and Occupation
Prof. Devin Brown - Asbury College
PAPER 3: C.S. Lewis, Church Unity, and
the Dynamics of the Hallway
Prof. Ray Schneider - Bridgewater College
PANEL 2: C.S. Lewis in A Larger Context
PAPER 1: Surprised, But Not By Joy:
Political Comment in Out of the Silent Planet
Prof. Karen Hayes – Wittenberg University
PAPER 2: Self-Made Men: Further Reflections
on C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man
Prof. Daniel A. Kaufman - Missouri State University
PAPER 3: A Cat Sat On A Mat: C S Lewis
In A World Without Wonder
Rev. Daniel L. Scott, Jr. – Christ Church,
and Austin Cagle – Belmont University
PANEL 3: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Part II
PAPER 1: The White Witch & The
Lady of the Golden Wood: Images of a Faërie Queen in Lewis and Tolkien
Jessica Burke – C.U.N.Y. and Heren Istarion
PAPER 2: Natural Law as Expressed in Middle-earth,
Narnia, and the Theology of C.S. Lewis
Dr. Jim Woolsey - 3D Corporation
PAPER 3: The Role of Fantasy in Conveying
Truth
Amelia Harper – HomeScholar Books
PANEL 4: Belmont Undergraduate Research on C.S.
Lewis and the Inklings
Belmont undergraduates share their research about C.S. Lewis
and the Inklings.
Scholarly Keynote Session (1:45-3pm)
(Room assignment to be announced.)
with noted C.S. Lewis scholars Christopher Mitchell - Director
of the Marion E. Wade Center and Assistant Professor of Theology, Wheaton College
Faith and Learning in the Post-Christian World: The Christian Impulse of
C. S. Lewis
and
Bruce Edwards - Associate Dean and Professor
of English at Bowling Green State University
Apologetics in the Shadowlands: The
Problem of Pain and Narnia
Scholarly Session III (3:15-4:45pm)
(Individual room assignments to be announced.)
PANEL 1: C.S. Lewis and Allegory
PAPER 1: Eustace and Edmund: Allegory
in the representations of two of Lewis’s Sons of Adam
Prof. Jerry Michael Combs - Hazard Community and Technical
College
PAPER 2: Medieval Allegory and the Christian
Experience in Perelandra
Alyson A. Johns-Robinson - University of Memphis
PAPER 3: Images of the Messiah and of Salvation
in Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams
Prof. Nancy Enright – Seton Hall University
PANEL 2: Adaptations and Dramatizations
of Lewis’s Work
PAPER 1: “Sing, my
tongue, the glorious battle”: Aslan’s Sacrifice in
Adaptations of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Hugh H. Davis - Saint Mary’s School
PAPER 2: Sometimes Films May Say Best What’s
To Be Said
Prof. Greg Wright –Puget Sound Christian College
PAPER 3: Hungry for the Amazing: The Satisfying
Agent of Lewis and Tolkien in Cinematic Adaptations
Matthew Zerrip – Saint Louis University
PANEL 3: J.R.R. Tolkien
PAPER 1: Storming the Gates of
Barad-Dûr: J.R.R. Tolkien, Christian Resistance, and the Imagination
Harry L. Reeder, IV - University of Alaska, Anchorage
PAPER 2: Hope Unlooked For: Tolkien's Eagles
as a Symbol of Mercy, Grace and Divine Intervention
Steve Hollis – Belmont University and Christ
Presbyterian Academy
PAPER 3: “A Pattern of the One to
Come”: Gandalf as a Type of Christ in Tolkien’s Arda
Elisabeth Wolfe – Baylor University
An Evening With C.S. Lewis Performance (7:30pm)
David Payne (actor and President of Rising Image Productions,
specializing in dramatizations of the works of C.S. Lewis)
Massey Performing Arts Center - doors open at 7:00pm
SATURDAY, November 5
SESSION IV (9-10:30am)
(Individual room assignments to be announced.)
PANEL 1: Literary Responses to Lewis’s
Work
PAPER 1: The Law of the Genre: Tolkien’s The
Lord of the Rings and the Redefinition of the Fairy-Story
Prof. David Oberhelman - Oklahoma State University
PAPER 2: The Pain of Susan: Neil Gaiman’s
Answer to C.S. Lewis
Grace Walker Monk – Belmont University
PAPER 3: Reimagining Worlds: Fan Creativity
in the Legacies of Lewis and Tolkien
Kimbra Wilder Gish
PANEL 2: Christianity and Myth in Lewis’s
Work
PAPER 1: Faith as Spoiler: How
and Why C. S. Lewis Disguised Archetypes in The Lion, the Witch, and
the Wardrobe
Prof. Christine Mather – Vanderbilt University
PAPER 2: Myth in the Service of Truth
Prof. Lois Westerlund – Roger Williams
University
PAPER 3: The Holy Christian Imagination
and C.S. Lewis
Dr. Shirley Holland - His Presence Restoration Ministry
PANEL 3: Screwtape Letters for the 21st Century
In keeping with Lewis's emphasis on the imagination, Belmont University
students read their own creative Screwtape letters, focusing on current
issues in the church.
SESSION V (Saturday 10:45am-12:15pm)
(Individual room assignments to be announced.)
PANEL 1: The Inklings
PAPER 1: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S.
Lewis: A Fellowship of Two
Prof. Mike Foster – Illinois Central College
PAPER 2: The Mystical Imagination of the
Inklings
Anthony S. Burdge – Heren Istarion
PAPER 3: Mythic Movements: Inklings, Modernists,
and the Problem of Placement
Andrew Lazo – Rice University
PANEL 2: Lewisian Literature: Connections
and Comparisons
PAPER 1: The Four Loves of Dorian
Gray
Prof. Ernelle Fife – SUNY-New Paltz
PAPER 2: Psychomachias in Phantastes and Till
We Have Faces
Megan Bodenschatz – SUNY-New Paltz
PAPER 3: The Mask and the Shadow: Similarities
of Story and Theme between Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
and The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
April French – SUNY-New Paltz
PAPER 4: Merlin and Mentors
Jenna Greer – SUNY-New Paltz
PANEL 3: Belmont Undergraduate Research
on J.R.R. Tolkien
Belmont undergraduates share their research on the works, themes,
and influences of J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Inconsolable Secret Concert (3:00pm)
Glass Hammer (with special guests Salem Hill)
(Literary progressive rock band, performing music from C.S. Lewis-themed double
album The Inconsolable Secret
Massey Performing Arts Center – doors open at 2:30pm
The Lord of the Rings Concert (8pm)
The Nashville Symphony (with the Nashville Symphony
Chorus)
Curb Event Center – doors open at 7pm
Questions or comments?
Contact Dr. Amy H. Sturgis at sturgisa@mail.belmont.edu or
615-460-6865
