The annual UTC C. S. Lewis Lecture for 2025 will be held on March the 24th, in Derthick Hall, 201, at 7:00 p.m. The lecturer will be Dr. C. Ben Mitchell. Dr. Mitchell is the recently retired Graves Chair of Moral Philosophy at Union University and is currently serving as Distinguished Fellow of the Tennessee Center for Bioethics & Culture.
The title of the lecture will be "Lewis and the Women Were Up to Something: Reading C. S. Lewis in the Context of the Oxbridge Revolution in Ethical Theory."
Summary: Many of Lewis's writings, including The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength, were framed by a seismic revolution in ethics, philosophy, and science in Oxford and Cambridge. Several pioneering women philosophers joined him in pushing back against the subversives. Dr. Mitchell seeks to enlarge our view of the swirling debates that provided the background for Lewis's concerns and provide an introduction of some of his allies in the fray.