Special Events

Poetic Imagination & the Rediscovery of Meaning - A Symposium celebrating Owen Barfield. ​​   Click here
  • ​Sunday 9 November 2025    
  • Cosponsors: Temenos Academy and Rudolf Steiner House.  
  • Participants:  Jeffrey Hipolito, Mark Vernon, Sir Ben Okri, Hilary Davies, Coralee  Frederickson, Simon Blaxland de Lange, Adrian Locher, and Owen Barfield​

Annual Barfield Conference

October 24, 2026 - Online  (More information coming soon!)

June 2-3, 2025 -- Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
To see the conference program    click here
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September 14, 2024 -- University of Cambridge
To see the call for papers.  : click here 
Audio recordings of some of the talks are available:
  • Johan N. Prinsloo, "Mirrors of Arcadia: Neoplatonic Participation in Classical Mythopoeic Gardens":  Watch here
  • Andreea-Maria Lemnaru, "Nature's Consciousness in Plotinus":  Watch here
  • Mateusz Stróżyński, "Parts, Wholes, and Persons: From Plotinus to Owen Barfield":    Watch here 
  • Gareth Polmeer, "Inspiration and Consciousness: The Difference between Plato and Plotinus".   Watch here​
  • Szymon Majewski, "Plotinus and Owen Barfield: Potential for Comparative Research": Watch here 

October 11-14, 2023--Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Denver, CO  
For more information click here

​September 25, 2023 -- University of Cambridge  
For more information click here