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• Dr. Jason Lepojärvi, Director’s Welcome
• Dr. Robin Baker, President’s Welcome
• Dr. Bruce R. Johnson, “Halftime Report for the Third Generation”

Concurrent Paper Sessions #1

• “Lewis and the Orwells,” Dr. Wesley Roj
• “Lewis, Dodged: Eliot’s View of Lewis (1931–1947),” Hannah Roux 
• “Lewis and John Dover Wilson,” Dr. Joseph Ricke
• Chair: Dr. Gary Tandy

Roberts Center 170

• “Exploring Feminine Divinity in C.S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy as an Imaginative Hypothesis,” Joshua Collica
• “C.S. Lewis and the Sex/Gender Distinction,” Willa Hoard
• “The Mythos of Gender in Till We Have Faces,” Annie Crawford
• Chair: Dr. Crystal Hurd

Hoover 105

• “Prince Caspian: An ‘Aeneid’ Retold?”, Aaron Moss
• “Captured without Mars: Bacchus and his Jovial Victory in Prince Caspian,” Joshua Smith
• “Lewis’s Warrior Martyrs: Dantean Elements in Prince Caspian,” Jonathan Selstad
• Chair: Dr. Michael Christensen

Stevens 207

• “Charting Course Amidst Romantic Entanglements,” Jonathan Miller
• “Destruction, Restoration, and Hope in The Silmarillion and Perelandra,” Benjamin Lanz
• “The Atlantis Theory: Numenor and Elves in the Fictional World of C.S. Lewis,” Dr. David Russell Mosley
• Chair: Dr. Austin Freeman

Stevens 208

• “Are Angels Aliens? Lewis and Early Christians in dialogue,” Craig Keller 
• “Dr. Dimbles ‘Neutrals,’” Joseph Weigel
• “The Wisdom of Innocence,” Dr. Scott Key
• Chair: Dr. Leslie Baynes

Stevens 209

Concurrent Paper Sessions #2

• “Lost Letter to Malcolm: Chiefly on Scripture,” Dr. Michael Christensen
• “C.S. Lewis and the Gospel of John: Early Influences, Lasting Effects,” Dr. Leslie Baynes
• “On Fern-Seed, Elephants, Bultmann, and Lewis—Varied Expertise in Critical Perspective,” Dr. Paul Anderson
• Chair: Dr. Bruce Johnson

• “Die Before You Die: A Study of Marriage in Till We Have Faces," Heidi Turner
• “Encountering the Divine: Theophanies in Lewis’s Fiction,” Sarah Willhite
• “The Problem with Orual: How Lewis’ Short Stories Complicate His Evolution of Female Characters,” Kat Coffin
• Chair: Dr. Jahdiel Perez

• “The Bubbling up of Allegory in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," Dr. Conrad van Dyk
• “Girl Fight: C.S. Lewis on Women and War,” Dr. Marc LiVecche
• “Christian Worship Informed by Aslan,” Dr. William Johnston 
• Chair: Dr. Gary Tandy

• “C.S. Lewis, James Houston, and the ‘Zernov Circle,’” Dr. Dwain Tissell
• “ The (Un)Discovered C.S. Lewis in Romania,” Dr. Daniela Vasiliu
• “‘Where Are My Successors?’: C.S. Lewis and His Public Christian Legacy,” Greg Anderson
• Chair: Dr. Jim Beitler

• “Prometheus on Perelandra : The Inversion of the Satanic Hero,” Dr. Nathan Fayard
• “‘The Womb of Worlds’: Ransom’s Journey of Awakening in Out of the Silent Planet,” Alexa Tawzer 
• “Re-Veiling the Secret: Reading the Ransom Trilogy as Spiritual Exercise,” Traver Carlson
• Chair: Dr. Terry Cokenour

Concurrent Paper Sessions #3

• “Owen Barfield Busts Jak (sic) Lewis Out of Plato’s Cave,” Dr. Paul Rovang
• “Did Lewis Credit Barfield for What He Learned from Steiner?,” Dr. Lilian Lindén 
• “C.S. Lewis and Bishop Berkeley on Providence and the Laws of Nature,” Dr. Michael Latzer
• Chair: Dr. Robert Garcia

• “Jack of Hearts: C.S. Lewis’s Uneasiness about Emotion,” Dr. Adam Pelser
• “Transcending the Therapeutic: The Argument from Desire and Psychological Goods,” Stephen Wicker
• “Relational Attachment in the Early Life of C.S. Lewis: A Preliminary Psychological Analysis,” Dr. Holly Lawson
• Chair: Dr. Bart Fowler

• “‘The Sweet Poison of the False Infinite’: C.S. Lewis, Elon Musk, and Longtermism,” Aidan Arthur
• “The Children, Mr. Bultitude, and the Lost Screwtape Sequel,” Dr. Charlie Starr
• “C.S. Lewis and the Post-Christian Paganism,” Dr. Brian Gregor
• Chair: Madeleine Teel

• “Mutifaceted: C.S. Lewis and André Bazin on Artistic Creation,” Dr. Bryan Mead
• “Surprised by Similarity: C.S. Lewis and Thomas Merton on the Self,” Dr. John Gillespie
• “Theological Reflections on Technology by C.S. Lewis and Jacques Ellul,” Dr. Joshua Schultz
• Chair: Dr. Sarah Waters

• “The Menippean Key to the Surprised by Joy Mystery,” Dr. Carrie Birmingham
• “Exploring ‘Early Prose Joy’: The Crucial Centrality of Lewis’s First Spiritual Autobiography,” Andrew Lazo
• “‘A Very Ordinary Layman’: C.S. Lewis’s Prayer Life in Historical Context,” Jacqueline Wilson
• Chair: Dr. Steve Beebe

Concurrent Paper Sessions #4

• “‘Sing About the Hidden Country’: Longing in Spirits in Bondage,” Charlie Reeder
• “Revelations of a Baptized Memory: Sehnsucht in C.S. Lewis’s ‘Talking About Bicycles,’” Megan Rials
• “A Theological Analysis of Desire in C.S. Lewis,” Clayton Carver
• Chair: Dr. Katherine Cooper Wyma

• “Mayflowers of Hope: The Wartime Correspondence of C.S. Lewis and Warren Lewis,” Prof. Clark Moreland   
• “Planetary Imagery in Till We Have Faces,” Michael Oppizzi
• “On Last Battles: Facing Doom in C.S. Lewis’s Life and Literature,” Stavros Piperis, Esq.
• Chair: Dr. Marc LiVecche

• “Freedom, Suffering, and Hell in Till We Have Faces: Lewis's Shifting Views,” Stefan Knibbe
• “C.S. Lewis’s Corrective to the Modern Animal Suffering Debate,” Colton Kirby
• “Spectacles Over Spectacle: Reconsidering A Grief Observed in a Social Media Age,” Ryan Pemberton
• Chair: Dr. Bruce Johnson

• “The Positive Educational Program of The Abolition of Man,” Dr. Jon Fennell
• “After Abolition: C.S. Lewis vs. B.F. Skinner on Culture, Psychology, and Humanity’s Future,” Dr. Bart Fowler 
• “What is Nature Doing in Lewis’s The Abolition of Man?” Dr. Chris Armstrong
• Chair: Dr. Michael Ward

• “An Undiscovered Source in Lewis’s Conversion Narrative,” Dr. Sarah Waters
• “On the Shoulders of Giants: Lessons Lewis Learned from Spenser,” Dr. Josh Herring
• “The Silver Chair and Sir Gawain: Lewis’s Evolution of Medieval Literature,” Josh Hammingh
• Chair: Dr. Joseph Ricke

Concurrent Paper Sessions #5

• “‘That Old Ache’: Erotic Longing for the Eternal in the Thought of Lewis, Tolkien, Pope Benedict XVI and St. John Paul II,” Bill Donaghy
• “A Reassessment of Lewis’s Claims Against Total Depravity,” Jasper Gerhardt
• “Courtesy: The Poetry of Conduct in The Chronicles of Narnia,” Dr. Kristine Wolberg
• Chair: Josiah Peterson

• “Fifty New Short Works by C.S. Lewis, the Blurb-Writer,” Justin Keena
• “Re-covering Lewis: An Examination of Cover Art for Lewis’s Fiction,” David Isaacs
• “Was this Written by AI? C.S. Lewis and Living Well in the Digital Age,” Dr. Katherine Cooper Wyma
• Chair: Dr. Stephanie Derrick

• “‘No Ordinary People’: Lewis and von Hügel on the Uniqueness of Persons,” Dr. Robert Garcia
• “C.S. Lewis: Politics for Narnians,” Dr. Roger Newell 
• “‘No Mere Mortals’: A Lewisian Theory of Human Dignity,” Prof. Brian Ballard
• Chair: Dr. Harry Poe

• “Besides the Meetings: The Oxford University Socratic Club’s Lesser Known Events,” James Stockton
• “Miracles and the Medical Inkling: Science and Faith according to R.E. Havard and C.S. Lewis,” Dr. Sarah O’Dell
• “The Clearly Ambiguous Apologist: A New Key to Lewis’s Apologetics,” Dr. Terry Cokenour
• Chair: Dr. Holly Ordway

• “C.S. Lewis on Julian of Norwich: Dangerous but Worth Reading,” Dr. Kyoko Yuasa
• “C.S. Lewis and the Shandean Cause,” Dr. Ryan Stark
• “Jack and Jane: Why C.S. Lewis Loved Jane Austen,” Dr. Terry Glaspey 
• Chair: Dr. Gary Tandy

Keynote: Dr. Michael Ward, “Planet Narnia Revisited”

5:30-5:45 p.m.   Break