C.S. Lewis
IN POETS CORNER
Conference
The unveiling of the Lewis memorial in Poets’ Corner will be the culmination of a two-day conference in Westminster Abbey.
Proceedings will begin on the afternoon of Thursday 21st November. Professor Alister McGrath will give a lecture on Lewis’s apologetics, followed by Dr Malcolm Guite who will speak about Lewis’s fiction and poetry.
After a service of Choral Evensong, there will be a panel discussion of Lewis’s life and legacy, chaired by Dr Michael Ward. On the panel will be Michael Ramsden, Dr Jeanette Sears, Peter S Williams, and Dr Judith Wolfe.
On Friday 22nd November, there will be a Service of Thanksgiving with a distinguished guest preacher. During this service, the memorial to C.S. Lewis in Poets’ Corner will be unveiled by a guest of honour and blessed by the Dean, Dr John Hall.
Attendance at the conference is free, but you will need to register. Registration has not yet opened. If you’d like to be notified when registration opens, please enter your name and address here.
With many thanks for your support,
Dr Michael Ward, author of Planet Narnia and The Narnia Code
Professor Helen Cooper, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, University of Cambridge
(the professorial Chair which Lewis held, 1955-1963)
Jason Lepojärvi, President of the Oxford University C.S. Lewis Society
Professor Alister McGrath, author of C.S. Lewis, A Life
Michael Ramsden, Director of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics
Dr Judith Wolfe, co-editor of C.S. Lewis and the Church and General Editor of The Journal of Inklings Studies