Keynote address April 21; conference April 22-24; online via Zoom

April 21 keynote registration here

April 22-24 conference registation here (Zoom link for conference registrants will be sent out a few days prior to the conference.)

Sponsored by the American Weil Society; the BC Institute for the Liberal Arts; and the BC Center for Human Rights and International Justice

Keynote and conference schedule:

All Zoom links will be sent to registered participants a few days prior to the conference.

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2021

INAUGURAL ADDRESS, 4:30PM

April 21 inaugural address registration here

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021

April 22-24 conference registation here

11:00-12:30 PANEL 1 : SIMONE WEIL AND GRACE

Moderator: Sophie Bourgault

 

The Pedagogy unto Grace

• Emily King, University of Chicago Divinity School

 

For the Sake Of a Bit of Clarity – Reflections On Thibon’s Gravity And Grace

• Ron Collins, University of Washington Law School (ret.) and editor of ATTENTION

 

Mysticism and Social Implications: Comparing Grace and Justice in Simone Weil and Liberation Theology

• Alexandre A. Martins, Marquette University

 

12:30-1:00 - Break for lunch

 

1:00-3:00pm

PANEL 2: SIMONE WEIL AND SPIRITUALITY

Moderator: Kaleb Earl

 

Reality and resurrection

• Stuart Jesson, York- Saint John University, UK

 

Simone Weil’s Labor as Politics and Spirituality

• Inese Radzins, California State University, Stanislaus

 

“This agony beyond all others, this marvel of love”: Simone Weil’s Theological Aesthetic

• Mac Loftin, Harvard University

 

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence. The continuing legacy of Simone Weil’s spirituality

• David Pollard, Independent Scholar

 

FRIDAY APRIL 23, 2021

 

9:30-10:30 SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Effort and Grace: Simone Weil's Critique of Philosophy

Simone Kotva, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo

Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

 

 

11:00-12:30

PANEL 3 : SIMONE WEIL, THE IMPERSONAL AND ,ATTENTION

Moderator: Scott Ritner

 

An Exceptional Force: Simone Weil and Anne Dufourmantelle on Affective Alchemy and Societal Transformation

• Katherine Sepulveda, Villanova University

 

Leo Tolstoy’s On Life as an Introduction to the Concept of the Impersonal

• Eric O. Springsted, Santa Fe, NM

 

Decreation for the Anthropocene

• Kate Lawson, Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada

 

12:30-1:00 - Break for lunch

 

1:00-2:30pm PANEL 4: SIMONE WEIL AND JUSTICE

Moderator: Alexandre A. Martins

 

Simone Weil’s readings of Bhagavat Gita: A Study on Obligation and Legitimate Use of Force

• Rajgopal Saikumar, New York University

 

The Concentrationary Universe of Simone Weil

• Robert Reed, Boston, MA

 

Equilibrium and Hierarchy in Simone Weil's Conception of a 'New Science'

• Soto Tsuruta, University of Tokyo

 

SATURDAY APRIL 24, 2021

10:30-12:30

 

PANEL 5: SIMONE WEIL AND CONTRADICTION

Moderator: Sophie Bourgault

 

The Language of Limitation as the Key to Simone Weil’s Understanding of Beauty and Justice

• Larry Schmidt, University of Toronto

 

From Nonidentity to Le Réel: On the Role of Contradiction in Theodor Adorno and Simone Weil

• Michael Giesbrecht, Katholiek Universiteit Leuven

 

Error and Beauty: Simone Weil on Identity and Liberation

• Lindsay Lerman, The New Centre for Research and Practice

 

Weil’s Counterintuitive Legacy in Autofiction

• Peter Morgan, Independent Scholar

 

1:00-2:30pm PANEL 6: SIMONE WEIL AND BEAUTY

 

Moderator: Emily King

The Beauty of Contemplative Justice: Simone Weil and Georges Seurat

• Gael Mooney, Artist & Independent Scholar

 

Aesthetic Experience and the Cultivation of Compassionate Attention

• Suzanne McCullagh, Athabasca University

 

Beauty and the Labyrinth: Simone Weil on Decreation as Becoming in the World

• Casey Ford, Marlboro College

 

2:45- 3:45pm BUSINESS MEETING