Education as Restoration in C.S. Lewis’s "Prince Caspian” with Dr. Tyler Chamberlain

Prince Caspian continues the tale of the Pevensie children’s adventures. Since their departure, Narnia has been conquered by the Telmarines from the west and the remnants of Old Narnia have been either killed or driven into hiding. The book tells how the Pevensie children help the young Prince Caspian take his rightful place as King of Narnia. However, this is not just a tale of rightful kingship restored, but of the restoration of Old Narnia itself. Because of the education Caspian had received from his nurse, and later his tutor Doctor Cornelius, Caspian has developed a love for the enchanted Narnia his ancestors had driven out, and so makes a conscious effort to bring back the old ways. In this talk, Dr. Chamberlain will highlight the importance of Caspian’s education to the restoration of Old Narnia and attempt to glean some Lewisian insights concerning the nature and role of education in our late modern age.

All are welcome!

To attend online, please email Laura.VanDyke@twu.ca for a Teams link.

About the Inklings Institute of Canada

The Inklings Institute of Canada (IIC) is one of Trinity Western University's institutes and centres of research. Led by faculty members in the Department of English and Creative Writing, the IIC is an interdisciplinary research effort that formalizes, strengthens and advances Trinity Western’s contribution to international research on the works of the Oxford Inklings group—including C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, and J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as friends such as Dorothy L. Sayers, and their literary mentors, earlier writers such as George MacDonald and G.K. Chesterton. 

IIC encourages the advancement of Inklings scholarship through literary criticism and related collaborative research across the disciplines; investigates how these authors critiqued their own cultures and therefore help us to respond to our own historical/cultural context; promotes the publication of research and scholarship in peer-reviewed journals, books, and other suitable venues appropriate to the various disciplines; fosters undergraduate and graduate student involvement in such research and scholarship; seeks funding for Inklings research; contributes to the current return of religious language to public discourse—and does so within the campus, with associated members nationally and internationally, and with the general public. IIC thus recognizes and will continue to promote TWU’s unique leadership in Inklings scholarship in Canada.