Reflections on the 2026 Undiscovered Lewis Conference
After attending the 2026 Undiscovered C.S. Lewis Conference at George Fox University, we sat down to discuss our thoughts, takeaways, and some of our favorite sessions. Below are the authors and presenters referenced in the episode. The work and scholarship discussed belongs to the respective presenters and authors.
Undiscovered Lewis Conference 2026 (https://www.georgefox.edu/cs-lewis-initiative/conference.html)
C.S. Lewis Initiative (https://www.georgefox.edu/cs-lewis-initiative/index.html)
Dr. Josh Herring - The Logres Institute (https://www.logresinstitute.org/) and the Optimistic Curmudgeon Podcast 2
The Rev’d Brian McGreevy, Theology on Tuesdays Podcast – What’s in a Name? Jadis, Narnia, and François Villon
Dr. Robert Garcia - What’s the Use of Eustace? The Redemption of Usefulness in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Mr. Anthony Klein - Dante’s Ulysses and the Un-man
Dr. Michael Faletra - Nose to the Sunrise: Dantean Spirituality in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Mr. Jonathan Selstad - No, It’s Not All In Plato: An Exploration of New Narnia through a Dantean Lens
Dr. Lindsey Scholl - The Dorothy Sayers Podcast
Prof. Harry Lee Poe - Hearing C.S. Lewis’s Wartime Broadcast to Iceland: ‘The Norse Spirit in English Literature’
Dr. Michael Ward, Author (Planet Narnia) - Cursèd fate that gave thee to the Moore? Mrs. Moore in Lewis’s Life and Works
Mr. Simon Wipf - Since our Beloved Became a Man’: The Narrative Significance of the Incarnation in Perelandra
Arches Bookhouse – Owner, Adam McInturf
Mr. Jonathan Mueller - Bicycles, Shadows, and The Music of The Spheres: Philosophical Poetics of Re-Enchantment in Lewis and MacDonald
Dr. Brenton Dickieson, MaudCast: The LMMI Podcast - On Failing to Finish Bleheris
Dr. Lilian Lindén - Why Lewis Ended the Great War Debate
Dr. Anne-Frédérique Mochel-Caballero, Derrière la porte de l'armoire Podcast - C.S. Lewis and France: The Untold Story
Mr. Joel Hawbaker – Unlikely Father Figures in Narnia and Middle-earth
Mr. Jonathan Rolfe –The Mythical Tollewis’: Tolkien and Lewis on Myth and Allegory”
Mr. Michael Oppizzi –You Flashed and You Shone’: Echoes of Confessions Book X in Till We Have Faces
Dr. Austin Freeman - Classical Literature in Narnia
Dr. Laura Van Dyke and Dr. Katharine Bubel - An Incarnational Cartography: Mapping Lewis’s Till We Have Faces
Rev’d Dr. Andrew Lazo, Pints with Jack Podcast – A New Look: Correcting Chronologies and Characterizations of Joy Davidman
Jason Lepojärvi - Director, C.S. Lewis Initiative
