THE AMERICAN WEIL SOCIETY Eric O Springsted President 908

the american weil society eric o. springsted, president 908 bellevue avenue trenton, nj 08618 [email protected] january 6

THE AMERICAN WEIL SOCIETY
Eric O. Springsted, President
908 Bellevue Avenue
Trenton, NJ 08618
[email protected]
January 6, 2011
To the Members of the Society:
The new year brings the same old announcement that it is time to renew
memberships and subscriptions. Dues and subscriptions remain the same
as last year and a form is included with this letter. I also ask that
people be timely in remitting dues and subscriptions, especially
subscriptions to Cahiers Simone Weil as these need to be delivered to
the French Association. It is helpful to everybody to have this done
as early as possible.
I remind everybody of the upcoming colloquy at the Pacific School of
Religion of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA on May 6-7,
2011. The colloquy will concentrate on Weil’s political and social
thought. Last year the members suggested that in order to do that
people think about the issue under the rubric of “Politics and
Anti-Politics.” Members are invited to think about criticisms of
Weil’s political thought, especially that it is not really political.
As usual, all timely proposals will be considered.
Please submit proposals to Inese Radzins via email: [email protected]
by January 15, 2011.
News of interest includes the world premiere showing of Julia
Haslett’s documentary
film, An Encounter with Simone Weil IDFA (International Documentary
Film Festival Amsterdam) on November 20th. The film traces director
Julia Haslett's journey to understand the controversial French
philosopher and activist Simone Weil (1909-1943) whose life and work
confront us with the rare moral vitality of a woman willing to die for
her convictions. More info can be found on their website:
www.linestreet.net and by watching the trailer,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN5P6_bLoIk The film has been reviewed
and discussed in Indigo Magazine, a journal of the humanities for
young people published in South Korea.
Jane Doering’s book Simone Weil and the Specter of Self-Perpetuating
Force has been published by the University of Notre Dame Press.
A translation of Sylvie Weil’s book Chez les Weils has also been
recently published as At Home with Andre and Simone this last fall by
Northwestern University Press.
I also remind everybody of the AWS website which Lucian Stone has done
such a good job of keeping up to date. It contains a number of links
including the very important one under “bibliography,” which gives
access to Saundra Lipton’s and Debra Jenson’s impressively huge and
growing bibliography of works on Weil. The website address is:
www.americanweilsociety.org.
Peace,
Eric
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908 Bellevue Ave.
Trenton, NJ 08618