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

 Senior Archivist, Donald Swann Archives

 

Eighth Week (Tue 10 June)

ANNUAL PUB WALK

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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

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, educated at Harvard

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):  Leon Pickering, 'Laughing at Satan: Humorous Representations of the Devil in Early Medieval Literature'

 

Second Week (1 May):  Richard Jefferey,

 

Third Week (8 May):  Professor Heather O'Donoghue, Tutor in English, ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Cricket Ball:  C. S. Lewis and Old Norse Mythology’

 

Fourth Week (15 May, 7.00 p.m.):  Rev Dr Jeanette Sears, 'Tracing the Inklings:  A Guided Tour through Lewis's Oxford', beginning at the Eagle & Child Pub

(NOTE change of time and meeting place. The tour will gather at the Eagle & Child, St Giles, and will last about two hours.)

 

Fifth Week (22 May):  John Holloway and Nathan Grills, ‘Reflections on a Friendship: C. S. Lewis and Sheldon Vanauken’

 

Sixth Week (29 May):  Rev Professor Paul Fiddes, Principal of Regent's Park College, ‘Lewis as a Writer of Christian Doctrine’

 

Seventh Week (5 June):  annual walk to The Trout -- a favourite walk of Lewis and the Inklings

Meet at 7:30 at the door to Pusey House, St Giles.

(NOTE change of time) 



HILARY (WINTER) TERM 2006/7

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’

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 (AUTUMN) TERM 2006

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
(NOTE change of venue.)

 

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