THE ALF GOES TO ELF
This year, at the 40th REALIA Conference, the Institute
for Advanced Philosophic Research's Alfred E. Koenig Memorial Award
was given to Dr. Elfie S. Raymond, Joseph Campbell professor in the
Humanities at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. She has been
associated with the IAPR since 1978.
The ALF went to Elf in recognition of her fact-based,
learned, open-minded contributions in the form of essays and conference
talks, her service as editor and advisor to REALIA'S journal Contemporary
Philosophy, and for her loyalty to Philosophy's, especially Philosophy
of History's, indispensable role in catalyzing possibilities for the
emergence of a more just world society.
Elf S. Raymond is a Fulbright Exchange Scholar from
France with a doctorate in classics and philosophy, an associate of
the Columbia University Seminar on Studies in Religion, a researcher
at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, and the senior member
of the philosophy faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. She has been awarded
scholarly residencies at Northwestern University, the Graduate Theological
Seminary at Berkeley, the Institute for Reformation History in Zurich,
a.o. Her work has been facilitated by grants from the Hewlett-Mellon
Foundation, the Lilly Foundation, and the National Endowment for the
Humanities. She has been honored by the Institute for International
Education with the Distinguished Service Award for her work on the national
screening committee for graduate study Fulbright grants. At Sarah Lawrence,
her home institution, she is teaching writing seminars in Classical
Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Classical Rhetoric, and the History
of Hermeneutics. In order to open up educational resources to the wider
public, Elf S. Raymond documented and interpreted the use of religious
art in the formation of the philosophy of history. This documentation
is now available as a pedagogic experiment on her college home page
on the Internet under the title Signs
of Plenty: the Altar of Verdun.
The IAPR and Contemporary Philosophy can be found on the web
at:
http://www.contemporaryphilosophy.com
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