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… are listed here and details are noted in the Events Archive pages (as time allows for entry). To read the details in the Events Archive, click on the year of interest. Selected sessions have recorded video, audio, and chat that may be requested through our “Contact us” page.
2024
- 5 January 2024 – “Kings in Judea”: Dorothy L. Sayers’s Epiphany Play
- 12 January 2024 – Field Trip: New York C. S. Lewis Society for the talk “’Nothing can come of Nothing’: Lewis’s use of King Lear (the man and the play) as a frame of reference” by Sr. Sara Waters
- 19 January 2024 – Curious about George? The (200th) Year of MacDonald
- 26 January 2024 – The Medical Inkling, R.E. Havard: A Talk with Sarah O’Dell
- 2 February 2024 – “Undiscovered C. S. Lewis” Conference: An Inkling Folk Felowship Preview
- 9 February 2024 – To Iași and Back: 2023 C.S. Lewis & Kindred Spirits Society International Conference Revisited
- 16 February 2024 – ‘Beyond the Water’: Consolation in “Pearl” and The Silver Chair with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
- 23 February 2024 – Spiritual Sight: Joyce Mc Pherson’s Biography of George MacDonald for Children
- 1 March 2024 – In Progress (Aren’t We All?): Inkling Folks Sharing Their Stuff
- 8 March 2024 – C. S. Lewis and History: A New Book Session with Alan Snyder and Jamin Metcalf
- 15 March 2024 – The Gravity of Light Verse: Sarah Emtage on Levity, Gravity, and MacDonald
- 28 March 2024 – Annie & Zoë: A Mystery Play for Holy Thursday
- 5 April 2024 – Lewis, Vidler, and Bonhoeffer with Sarah Carter-Easter
- 12 April 2024 – Fighting Girls in Narnia: A Closer Look with Anne-Frédérique Mochel-Caballero
- 19 April 2024 – To the Romantics and Beyond: Meet Rob Jones, Inkling-inspired Poet
- 26 April 2024 – Reading with George MacDonald featuring Dr. Amanda Vernon
- 3 May 2024 – Aslan’s Breath: The Holy Spirit in Narnia with Matthew Dickerson
- 10 May 2024 – 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies: Live from Kalamazoo
- 17 May 2024 – THE SECRET “of” (in) C. S. Lewis: Dating with Charlie W. Starr
- 24 May 2024 – Taylor Hood on “Return to Wildness and Wonder: Lord Dunsany’s Critique of Modernity”
- 7 June 2024 – George MacDonald’s Books in C.S. Lewis’s Library with Dr. Roger White
- 14 June 2024 – Charles Williams, Fu Manchu, and the Problem of Shadows of Ecstasy: With Connor Salter
- 21 June 2024 – Flannery O’Connor, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Shock of Eucatastrophic Grace: With Dr. Sarah Waters
- 28 June 2024 – Russell Kirk and the Inklings: An Exploration with Dr. Camilo Peralta
- 12 July 2024 – Open mic
- 19 July 2024 – “Our Dear Charles Williams”: Tolkien’s Friendship with the Oddest Inkling (research by Sørina Higgins)
- 26 July – Papers and memories from the George MacDonald Bi-Centenary Conference 2024
- 2 August – Dr. Crystal Kirgiss on “Girls Who Do Things in Narnia”
- 9 August – Play reading: please send in suggestions
- 16 August – Jennifer Agee on “Piranesi and Neptune: Susanna Clarke and Planet Narnia“
- 23 August – Dr. Rob Garcia, Baylor University on “C. S. Lewis and the Uniqueness of Persons”
- 30 August – to be determined
- 6 September – Live from “The Undiscovered C. S. Lewis Conference”
- 13 September – 70th anniversary reading of A Horse and His Boy (part 1)
- 20 September – 70th anniversary reading of A Horse and His Boy (part 2)
- 27 September – continued celebration of the 200th birthday of George MacDonald
- 4 October – A Horse and His Boy Mini-Conference
- 11 October – From “Omnia Vanitas” to “Deum Time”: How C. S. Lewis’s “De Futilitate” Can Help Us Understand Ecclesiastes and “The Wanderer” with Dr. Karl Persson
- 18 October 2024 – Classic Conversation #1: Don Quixote
- 25 October 2024 – On Everything, On Something, On Anything, or On Nothing: The Loud Life of Hilaire Belloc with Charles Beach
- 8 November 2024 – George MacDonald: Two Hundred Years Young
- 15 November 2024 – Tolkien’s Poetry: In Honor of the Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien
- 22 November 2024 – “The Glory of Gladness”: On Lilias Trotter and George MacDonald with Jennifer Trafton
- 29 November 2024 – GIve Thanks: An Inkling Folks Opportunity
- 6 December 2024 – Best of Ben: Ironic and Not So Meditations on Advent, Christmas, and Cute Puppies
- 13 December 2024 – Field Trip to New York – The New York C.S. Lewis Society talk on “C. S. Lewis, Xmas, and his Sermon for Pagans” by Dr. Joe Ricke
- 20 December 2024 – The First Noel: Christmas readings with Inkling Folk Fellowship
2025
- 3 January 2025 – “The Professor!”: Toasting Tolkien
- 10 January 2025 – Far Flung (Inkling) Folk: Checking in with Anne, Connor, and Sarah
- 17 January 2025 – Sonnets: Close reading
- 24 January 2025 – The List: Inklings Projects Moving Forward with Dr. Sørina Higgins
- 31 January 2025 – Ending is Beginning: Great (and Favorite) Literary Stops
- 7 February 2025 – American Inkling: A Session with Bruce Johnson
- 14 February 2025 – New York C.S. Lewis Society:
The Major and the Missionary: The Letters of Warren Hamilton Lewis and Blanche Biggs with Dr. Diana Pavlac Glyer - 21 February 2025 – Meet Dr. Jim Beitler, New Director of the Marion E. Wade Center
- 28 February 2025 – Susan, Joy, and a Cat Named Dorothy L. Sayers: The Inkling Folk Fellowship Welcomes Kat Coffin
- 7 March 2025 – The Inkling Collectors: Stories, Methods, Tips, and Tall Tales
- 14 March 2025 – If it was good enough for Lewis,.. Readings from The Man Born to Be King
- 21 March 2025 – What the Bird Said: The Poetry (and Prose) of Spring
- 28 March 2025 – Young C.S. Lewis’s Belfast: Session with Author, Judith McQuoid
- 4 April 2025 – C.S. Lewis in Romania: Alive and Well (and no longer illegal)
- 11 April 2025 – Bonhoeffer Readings: In Memorium (1945-2025)
- 25 April 2025 – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: In Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon
- 2 May 2025 – George MacDonald and the Scientific Imagination with Dr. Kerry Magruder
- 16 May 2025 – The First Shall Be … Sixth: The Magician’s Nephew 70th birthday reading
- 23 May 2025 – The First Shall Be … Sixth: The Magician’s Nephew 70th birthday reading (part 2)
- 30 May 2025 – What Is Christian Humanism and Why Does It Matter? A Thought Experiment with Chris Armstrong
- 6 June 2025 – The Magician’s Nephew: Inkling Folk Fellowship Pop-up Mini-conference
- 13 June 2025 – Live from New York: It’s Friday Night – Charles Beach on “The Only Truthful School Story in Existence: C. S. Lewis & F. Anstey’s Vice Versa“
- 27 June 2025 – “If You Must Weep”: Portraits of Grief in Narnia, an Exploration by Stavros Piperis
- 11 July 2025 – “C. S. Lewis at the B.B.C.” with Gabriel Shenk, Oxford University
- 18 July 2025 – “On Christopher Fry” with Janet Brennan Croft
- 25 July 2025 – “William James: The Secular Saint an Inklings Lover Could Love” with Carol Zaleski
- 8 August 2025 – Owen Barfield’s The Silver Trumpet (in honor of its republication), with Landon Loftin and Edwin Woodruff-Tait
- 15 August 2025 – 80th Anniversary of That Hideous Strength
- 22 August 2025 – Anthony Cirilla, Professor at College of the Ozarks, to present on “Beothius’s Use of Myth and Its Relevance to the Inklings”
- 29 August 2025 – Inkling Folk at Play (Original art, poetry, fiction, etc.)
- 5 September 2025 – Celebrating the Grand Opening of the New C. S. Lewis Center at Sterling (KS) College
- 12 September 2025 – Jane and Jack, Austen and Lewis: Some Preliminaries with Joyce McPherson
- 19 September 2025 – The Tortured Planet in Indianapolis
- 26 September 2025 – Happy Birthday to the Bagginsses and Us
- 3 October 2025 – Duane and Ben Tissell, “On the Road with Jack and Warnie: Landscape and Imagination In the Wye River Valley”
- 10 October 2025 – David Bratman, “John Wain: The Inkling in the Middle”
- 17 October 2025 – The Lion, the Witch, and the Oxford Comma – the 75th anniversary
- 24 October – Hannah Roux, “Understanding and Misunderstanding: C.S. Lewis’s and T.S. Eliot’s Close and Unclose Encounters.”
- 31 October – The Lion, the Witch and rhe Wardrobe – continued
- 7 November – Stone Soup, Autumn Edition
- 14 November – What Do They Teach Them in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Pop-up Mini-conferences?
- 21 November – The (Lost?) Art of Letters: A Sampling of Epistolary Greatness
- 28 November – Giving Thanks
- 5 December – Inkings Christmas: Father Christmas in Narnia, Letters from the North Pole, and the Myth of Xmas
- 12 December – The House by the Stable by Charles Williams: A Reading and Discussion