7 PM: Pres House Chapel, Tom Key in "Screwtape in Person"
8:45 PM: Reception, Pridham Lounge (first floor, Pres House)
(In Pridham Lounge, unless otherwise noted)
8 AM: Welcome, James Knight, President, Bradshaw-Knight Foundation
8:05 AM: Gilbert Meilaender, Valparaiso University, "Preserving Our Humanity: C. S. Lewis and 'The Abolition of Man'"
9:05 AM: Coffee Break
9:20 AM: David Downing, Elizabethtown College, "The Ransom Trilogy and the Oldest Temptation: 'Ye Shall Be As Gods'"
10:35 AM: Mark Linville, Atlanta Christian College, "C. S. Lewis and the Revival of Ethical Naturalism"
11:35 AM: Lunch on State Street (See the Restaurant Guide)
1 PM: Crystal Downing, Messiah College, "Male and Female God Created Them: Dorothy L. Sayer's Challenge to C. S. Lewis"
2 PM: Coffee Break
2:30-4 PM: Discussion between the presenters on the issues raised in the conference, with questions from the audience
5 PM: Dinner on State Street (See the Restaurant Guide)
7 PM: Pres House Chapel, Tom Key in "C. S. Lewis on Stage"
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Presenters at this conference:
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Tom Key's performances of "Screwtape in Person" and "C. S. Lewis on Stage" have been acclaimed around the country. He has appeared in performances at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and at theaters at Harvard, Yale and Oxford universities. He is well known as the actor and creator of the off-broadway musical hit "Cotton Patch Gospel." He has been featured in the award willing television series "In the Heat of the Night" and "I'll Fly Away."
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Gilbert Meilaender is author of The Taste for the Other: The Social Ethics of C. S. Lewis, The Way that Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life, The Freedom of a Christian: Grace, Vocation, and the Meaning of our Humanity, and many other works. He has been a Fellow of the Hastings Center for Bioethics and a member of the President's Council on Bioethics since 2002.
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David Downing is author of Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy, The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith, and Into the Region of Awe, among many other works on C. S. Lewis.He is the R. W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California (Los Angeles).
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Mark Linville is author of Is Everything Permitted: Moral Values in a World Without God, and has published widely in such journals as the American Philosophical Quarterly, the International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, and The Wittenburg Door. He is Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at Atlanta Christian College, Atlanta, Georgia, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin (Madison).
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Crystal Downing is author of Writing Performance: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers and How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith. She is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California (Santa Barbara).
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Sponsored by New College Madison, the Bradshaw-Knight Foundation (www.bkfnd.org), the Presbyterian Student Center, UW-Madison, and the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Faculty and Graduate Ministry in Wisconsin.
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To register, click here. To download a PDF poster, click here.
Stay at the Lowell Center during the C. S. Lewis Conference--A block of rooms has been reserved at the Lowell Center, 610 Langdon St.,
Madison, till January 18th--$81.00 per person per night singles, $91.00 double, with free parking (let them know you need a parking space when you register) and free continental breakfast.
Sign in online at www.conferencing.uwex.edu (code "Lewis") or call 608-256-2621 (code: "Lewis").
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