American Weil Society

Keynote Speakers for the 2022 conference

 Robert Chenavier

Keynote on March 17th, 2022

7:30 PM EDT

Robert Chenavier, Agrégé and Doctor of Philosophy, is president of the Association pour l'Étude de la Pensée de Simone Weil, director of the Cahiers Simone Weil, and chair of the group charged with the preparation of Weil's Oeuvres complètes at the Éditions Gallimard. His publications include Simone Weil: l’attention au réel (2009), Simone Weil: une philosophie du travail (2001), as well as numerous articles and book chapters devoted to Simone Weil and the philosophy of work.  

Vincent Lloyd 

Keynote on March 18th, 2022

7:30 PM EDT

Vincent Lloyd is Associate Professor of Theology, Christian Ethics and Theories & Methods of Culture at Villanova University, where he also serves as Director of the Africana Studies Program. Professor Lloyd’s publications include Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice and the Abolition of Prisons (with J. Dubler, 2019); In Defense of Charisma (2018); Religion of the Field Negro: On Black Secularism and Black Theology (2017); Black Natural Law (2016). 

 Roundtable on Peter Winch's The Just Balance

 - Saturday, March 19th, 2022 - 

2:45-4:30 EDT 

Peter Winch’s Simone Weil: The Just Balance has been one of the most important philosophical works on Simone Weil since it appeared in 1989. The book is not an easy one, and many of the questions that Winch pursued, and what he was after in pursuing them, have not been fully understood. This panel discusses Winch’s book, tackling questions such as: How did Winch read Wittgenstein? How did his reading of Wittgenstein inform his interpretation of Weil? What attracted him to Weil in the first place, and why did her work continue to occupy his thought? 

   Conversation with all colloquy participants will be encouraged. It is hoped that audience members will get a chance to read or reread Winch’s book prior to the colloquy.

With the participation of:

Eric Springstead, Chair

Mario von der Ruhr, Emeritus, Swansea University, UK

David Cockburn, Emeritus, University of Wales Trinity St David, UK

John Edelman, Emeritus, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY

Steven A. M. Burns, Emeritus, Dalhousie University, Canada

For information on our other roundtables, please see our Friday Web Series page.