How to Schedule Me For a C. S. Lewis Event in 2012

Scheduling a Speaking Engagement

I am available for one, two, or three-day special speaking engagements on a wide range of topics involving C. S. Lewis; these include seminars with a focus on his Narnian tales, Lewis as a reader of the Bible, Lewis on Heaven, and Lewis as teacher, mentor, counselor, theologian, and baseball card collector. (Or, maybe not that last one.)

One ready-to-go inclusive weekend seminar package on Lewis is described below. Other topics are readily available. Here are two sets of comments from the evaluations submitted from recent engagements:

“It was a day well spent”; “Very lively excellent presenter”; “Bruce is so well versed in C.S.Lewis and he is able to communicate his enthusiasm as well as his knowledge“; “Encouraged me to read more C.S.Lewis and encouraged me to grow in community”; “Excellent personable speaker”; “I never had an appreciation for C.S.Lewis but liked Narnia, now I will read him, study him and share him.”

“Dr. Bruce Edwards has a unique ability to communicate the joy, vitality, and theological depths of C.S. Lewis’ works to a diverse audience of both experts and laypersons. His multimedia presentations include detailed analyses of selected works as well as engaging digressions into the lesser known personal aspects of C.S. Lewis’ life. Dr. Edwards allows ample time for discussion and to answer questions from the audience. I highly, and without any hesitation, recommend Dr. Bruce Edwards as a main speaker or part of a lecture series.”

Understanding C. S. Lewis Workshop

How would you like to spend a few days with C. S. Lewis and a few of his friends?

This workshop may be the next best thing! The Understanding C. S. Lewis workshop is designed to be a comprehensive introduction to one of the 20th Century’s most versatile and engaging thinkers and writers: Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963).

General readers, aspiring writers, teachers, pastors, and other professionals will gain insights into Lewis’s prowess as a literary scholar, science-fiction novelist, Christian apologist, and children’s fantasist.

Workshop Leader: Dr. Bruce L. Edwards

The workshop founder/presenter is Professor Bruce L. Edwards, the editor of the newly published and highly acclaimed four volume reference set, C S Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy, and the author of four books on C. S. Lewis, including the current Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual World of Narnia (Tyndale, $12.95) and Further Up and Further In: Understanding C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Broadman and Holman, $12.95); he was a contributing editor to the C. S. Lewis: A Reader’s Encyclopedia (Zondervan, 1998); and author of numerous articles on the life and work of Lewis. Dr. Edwards, an ordained minister, was Director of BGSU’s graduate program in English for six years (1991-97), and now serves as Associate Dean for Distance Education and International Programs. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Lewis at the University of Texas at Austin (1981). He is thoroughly familiar with Lewis’s varied career, and has lectured widely on Lewis’s life and times at universities and churches across the U. S., U.K., Ireland, Australia, and, East Africa.

Dr. Edwards was a C. S. Lewis Fellow, and taught the Summer Seminar for the C. S. Lewis Foundation at Lewis’s former home, The Kilns, near Oxford, England during the summer of 2004. He regularly features Lewis’s works in his undergraduate and graduate classes at Bowling Green State University.

Typical Workshop Topics:

How best to read Lewis in order to become more fully acquainted with his many-faceted career.
Writing techniques and how they serve the interests of writers and teachers.
Lewis’s early childhood and adolescence and the impact events therein had on his conversion and adult literary career.
The relationship between Lewis’s apologetics and his fiction.
How to teach Lewis in the school, college, or church classroom, and why he may be the West’s most important cultural critic at the end of the 20th Century.
What the devotional reader of Lewis should know about his scholarly works.
Who to read and not read about Lewis’s work.
Who influenced Lewis’s writing and how he has influenced other careers.
Lewis’s relationships with the Inklings, that band of writers, including Tolkien, who critiqued each other’s work–and ideas.
The true story of “Shadowlands” and how Lewis’s relationship with Joy Gresham affected both of them, both spiritually and socially.
How to pursue publishable, popular, and scholarly work on Lewis and the Inklings.

Who should enroll in this workshop?

Lewis enthusiasts and aspiring writers who would like a more global knowledge of his life and work, and who would enjoy meeting like-minded others and engage in mutual, thoughtful inquiry.
Teachers who would like to know better how to introduce their students to Lewis and use his works in their classrooms.
Pastors and church education directors who would like to understand the foundations of Lewis’s thought and their relationship to contemporary theology.

Honoraria/Expenses:

My terms include all travel expenses, meals, and accommodations paid, and an honorarium that is negotiable, but, as a guideline, here are my “usual rates”:

one evening lecture: $1000.00;
one-day seminar (two or more lectures): $1500.00 (if it includes an additional travel day before or after the workshop, add $500.00);
two-day seminar/workshop: $2000.00 (if it includes additional travel day before or after workshop, add $500). (Some planners charge admission or workshop fees, others do not. Don’t be afraid. Let’s talk.)

For more info:

Dr. Bruce L. Edwards

PHONE: 419-372-7302
EMAIL ME HERE

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