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Dedication
Celebration Committee |
| The occupational hazard of the prophet is that he without honor in his own country. Certainly Owen barfield has had a more intensive and extensive appreciation in the United States than he has had in his native England. Many Americans who have had the good fortune to meet the work of Owen barfield owe that good fortune to the activities of a relatively small number of dedicated friends and colleagues. Owen Barfield's second career as a Visiting Professor began at Drew University and it was Shirley Sugerman of Drew University who celebrated the the occasion of Mr. Barfield's seventy-fifth birthday with the collection of essays in his honor, Evolution of Consciousness: Studies in Polarity. That volume begins with a comprehensive, incisive, and luminous "Conversation with Owen Barfield," which she has graciously agreed to distribute at this gathering. This celebration of the life and work of Owen Barfield is gratefully dedicated to Shirley Sugerman. |
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The Owen Barfield Centenary Committee wants to express its gratitutde to Dean James Pain of the Graduate School of Drew University for the warm encouragement he has given to this Celebration from the very beginning. The Committee wants to thank Dean Pain, Assistant Dean William Rogers, and Administrative Assistant Leslie Riordan for their unfailing counsel and cooperation and the sacrifices they made to make the event at Drew a reality. The committee also wishes to thank Douglas Sloan for his generous help with the program at Teachers College. |
In Milbank
Chapel at Teachers’ College
Columbia
University, New York City
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| Introduction: Frederick Dennehy | ||||||
| Presenters
John Lukacs—Owen Barfield and History Christopher Bamford—Owen Barfield and Romantic Medicine Stephen Talbott—Owen Barfield and the Technological Society |
| You can’t finish a book by Owen Barfield and just put it away. You keep coming back to it, to make sure it said what you thought it said, to be convinced all over again or just to hear him say it one more time. No English-speaking writer in this century has written with greater clarity and served to awaken so many areas of thought: philosophy, science, literature, history and language. Few writers of any kind have brought to their readers what he has—the quiet, astonishing gift of changing the way they do their thinking. |
In Great
Hall, S.W. Bowne
Drew University,
Madison, New Jersey
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pm
G. B. Tennyson—The Legacy of Owen Barfield David Lavery—The Creative Life of Owen Barfield Ronald Brady—Owen Barfield and the Epistemology of Science Jeffrey Hipolito—Reading the Self in Owen Barfield Terry Hipolito—Owen Barfield as Post-Post-Modernist Paul Piehler—Owen Barfield, C.S. Lewis and the Evolution of Consciousness Respondent: Gertrude Reif Hughes |
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| 2:15 p.m.-3:15
p.m.
Jane Hipolito on Owen Barfield’s poetry Simon Blaxland de Lange on the forthcoming Biography of Owen Barfield |
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| 3:30 p.m.-4:15
p.m.
Documentary A screening of Owen Barfield: Man and Meaning (Directed and edited by Ben Levin; Videography by Wayne Derrick; Co-Written and Produced by G. B. Tennyson and David Lavery) |
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| 4:30 p.m.-6:15
p.m.
A Roundtable Discussion: Lionel Adey, Howard Fulweiler. Richard Hocks, Thomas Kranidas, G. B. Tennyson, Jane Hipolito, Fred Dennehy |
Owen Barfield Centenary Celebration
Our committee is deeply grateful to the Fetzer Institute, particularly to Rob Lehman, as well as the Rudolf Steiner Foundation for their generous support in making this celebration possible.
The Committee:
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Drew
University
Dean James Pain Dr. Shirley Sugerman |
Columbia
University
Dr. Douglas Sloan |
The
Anthroposophical Society in America
Frederick Dennehy Marsha Post Joyce Reilly |
| Christopher
Bamford
Owen Barfield and Romantic Medicine |
Simon Blaxland
de Lange
On the Forthcoming Biography of Owen Barfield |
Ronald
Brady
Owen Barfield and the Epistemology of Science |
| Jane Hipolito
On Owen Barfield’s Poetry |
Jeffrey
Hipolito
Reading the Self in Owen Barfield |
Terry Hipolito
Owen Barfield as Post-Post-Modernist |
| David Lavery
How Barfield Thought: The Creative Life of Owen Barfield |
John Lukacs
Owen Barfield and History |
Paul Piehler
On the Less Traveled Road: The Quest for Final Participation in Barfield and C. S. Lewis |
| Stephen
Talbott
Owen Barfield and the Technological Society |
G.B. Tennyson
The Legacy of Owen Barfield |