C.S. LEWIS Conference in Nov in Romania

7th International Interdisciplinary C.S. LEWIS Conference at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iași, Romania | 19 – 22 November 2025

Open call for artists from all fields (and over the world) to bring life to the art world.

See more details below!

Over the past two decades C. S. Lewis has not only persisted as a cultural icon, and his writings as cultural touchstones, but the impact of both his person and his work continues to reach into new mediums and find new expressions in fields he himself could not have imagined. 

This year the theme of the exhibition is RECEIVE REFLECT REINVENT.

Film, theatre, video games, board games, dance, sculptures, paintings, book illustrations, fanfiction – all join the continual burgeoning of academic papers and theses, biographies, monographs, personal blogs.

Since their publication, Lewis’s writings have attracted a wide range of readership and thus an ever-widening range of interpretive responses, such as reading a Narnia novel as basic religious allegory, medieval cosmology, or covert criticism of communism. The process goes both ways, for there is a consistent acknowledgment that these works can, in turn, change perceptions, perhaps even entire worldviews. Of particular interest is how his works – and those of the Inklings in general – have been received, reflected or re-invented through different cultural lenses, societies, languages, and the varying resulting impacts on readers; the variances in apprehension and (re)interpretation in literary criticism and literary history.

Website: https://iasi.cslks.ro/

Call for Artists: https://iasi.cslks.ro/#artists

This year we plan to develop the emerging arts contribution to the conference so that it becomes a festival which runs in, through and around the event.

Building on the successful impact of our last event, some of the papers submitted will be art works, performance art, music or spoken word. Also, contributions such as these will punctuate and shape the lecture sessions and so enable reflection, fresh perspectives and playfulness to be woven throughout each day.

There will also be a fine art exhibition once more; an evening of theatre, music and dance; late night cafe sessions for music, poetry and comedy; and artistic interaction and seminars with students at the university and high schools.

So, this is a call to creatives, to respond to the theme of Receive, Reflect and Reinvent, and bring your contributions to some or many of these moments of expression and exploration. Painting, sculpture, dance, music, song, theatre, film, poetry, improv, stand up, spoken word, as well as craftsmanship and making in all kinds of creative disciplines.

Martin Young | Creative Director | C.S. Lewis Conference Iași