Conference Programme
Thursday 6 November 2014
12:00 – 13:30 Registration (Aula Magna “Mihai Eminescu”, University Building A)
13:30 – 14:00 Doors Open
Convenor: Prof. dr. Rodica Dimitriu
14:00 – 15:00 Official Opening (Aula Magna “Mihai Eminescu”, University Building A)
His Excellency Paul Brummell, the British Ambassador to Romania
Prof. dr. Vasile Işan, Rector of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Prof. dr. Codrin Liviu Cuţitaru, Dean of the Faculty of Letters, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Prof. dr. Antonio Patraş, Vicedean of the Faculty of Letters, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Daniela Vasiliu, PhD student: C. S. Lewis – Among the Great Poets
Prof. dr. Rodica Albu: The Legacy of C. S. Lewis
Plenary Session 1
15.00 – 16.00 Prof. dr. Joel Heck (Austin, Texas, USA): The Life of C. S. Lewis
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
Plenary Session 2
Convenor: Prof. dr. Ștefan Colibaba
16:30 – 17:30 Prof. Helen Cooper (University of Cambridge, England): C. S. Lewis as a Medievalist
17.30 – 18.00 Dr. John Lotz (Stafford, England): The Lewis Worldview; Background and Foreground
18.00 – 18.30 Dr. Emil Bartos: C. S. Lewis şi lecţiile suferinţei
Friday 7 November 2014
09:00 – 9:30 Doors Open (“Ferdinand” Conference Hall)
Convenor: Prof. dr. Rodica Albu
9:30 – 10:00 Conf. dr. George Ceauşu (Iaşi, Romania): Timp narativ şi timp descriptiv la C.S. Lewis
10:00 – 10:30 Drd. Daniela Vasiliu (Iaşi, Romania): C. S. Lewis: The Romantic Rationalist
10:30 – 11:30 Dr. Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson (Ottawa, Canada): Rooted Deep: Discovering the Literary Identity of Mythopoetic Fantasist George MacDonald
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 12:30 Dr. Christian Tămaş (Iaşi, Romania): C. S. Lewis’s trilemma seen through Muslim eyes
12:30 – 13:30 Prof. dr. Joel Heck (Austin, Texas, USA): From Atheism to Christianity.
13:30 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 14:30 Doors Open (“Ferdinand” Conference Hall)
Convenor: Dr. Dănuţ Mănăstireanu
14:30 – 15:00 Conf. dr. Radu Andriescu, Christian Fantasist. From C.S. Lewis to Left Behind.
15:00 – 16:00 Prof. Joe Rigney (Minneapolis, USA): Stealing Past Watchful Dragons: C. S. Lewis on Fairy Tales and the Christian Imagination
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 Prof. dr. Stephen Prickett (University of Kent, England): It Makes No Difference: Lewis’s Criticism, Fiction and Theology
17:30 – 18:30 Speaker Panel: Helen Cooper, Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson, Joel Heck, Joe Rigney, Stephen Prickett, Rodica Albu, Radu Andriescu, Christian Tămaş.
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