Friday: Lewis for scholars
5 May 2006
Venue: New College, University of New South Wales, Anzac Parade, Kensington. (Use WhereIs.com to find the location on a street directory.)
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Cost: $120 ($80 full-time students). (All meals included. Please contact us if you have special dietary requirements and we will see what can be arranged.)
Program
8:30 am |
Arrivals |
9:00 am |
Welcome by Greg Clarke |
9:15 am |
Opening by Stuart Barton Babbage |
9:30 am |
Keynote: Christopher Mitchell—“Faith and Learning in a Post-Christian World: The Christian Impulse of C.S. Lewis” |
11:00 am |
Morning tea. |
11.30 am |
Papers session 1Apologetics: Ivan Head on miracles, Nathan Brown on grief, Greg Clarke on Screwtape. Science: Bruce Mewjork on the sci-fi trilogy, Byron Smith on “Hope and the Future in Lewis”. |
1:00 pm |
Lunch |
2:00 pm |
Interview with Douglas Gresham on the Inklings. |
2:45 pm |
Robert Banks: “C.S. Lewis as a communicator”. |
3:30 pm |
Afternoon tea. |
4:00-5:30 pm |
Papers session 2Ethics: Rod Benson on the Pullman controversy, Gordon Preece on Lewis’s narrative ethics, Andrew Cameron on The Inner Ring. Literature: Diane Speed on allegory, Ian Keast on Lewis’s poetry, Paul Tankard on emotions in Narnia. |
6:00 pm |
Dinner in New College. |
7:30 pm |
Dialogue: “Misogynist, madman or mere Christian? The debate over the character of C.S.Lewis”. |
8:30 pm |
Supper. |
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