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Past Events …
… are listed here and details are noted in the Events Archive pages (as time allows for entry). Selected sessions have recorded video, audio, and chat that may be requested through our “Contact us” page.
2024
- 5 January – “Kings in Judea”: Dorothy L. Sayers’s Epiphany Play
- 12 January – 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 – Curious about George? The (200th) Year of MacDonald
- 26 January – The Medical Inkling, R.E. Havard: A Talk with Sarah O’Dell
- 2 February – “Undiscovered C. S. Lewis” Conference: An Inkling Folk Felowship Preview
- 9 February – To Iași and Back: 2023 C.S. Lewis & Kindred Spirits Society International Conference Revisited
- 16 February – ‘Beyond the Water’: Consolation in “Pearl” and The Silver Chair with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
- 23 February – Spiritual Sight: Joyce Mc Pherson’s Biography of George MacDonald for Children
- 1 March – 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 – Tolkien’s Poetry: In Honor of the Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien
- 22 November – “The Glory of Gladness”: On Lilias Trotter and George MacDonald with Jennifer Trafton
- 29 November – GIve Thanks: An Inkling Folks Opportunity
- 6 December – Best of Ben: Ironic and Not So Meditations on Advent, Christmas, and Cute Puppies
- 13 December – 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 – The First Noel: Christmas readings with Inkling Folk Fellowship
2025
- 3 January – “The Professor!”: Toasting Tolkien
- 10 January – Far Flung (Inkling) Folk: Checking in with Anne, Connor, and Sarah
- 17 January – Sonnets: Close reading
- 24 January – The List: Inklings Projects Moving Forward with Dr. Sørina Higgins
- 31 January – Ending is Beginning: Great (and Favorite) Literary Stops
- 7 February – 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 – The Inkling Collectors: Stories, Methods, Tips, and Tall Tales
- 14 March – If it was good enough for Lewis,.. Readings from The Man Born to Be King
- 21 March – What the Bird Said: The Poetry (and Prose) of Spring