Check out the insightful Dr. Scott Ritner @podsekalnikov.bsky.social leading the reading group through Weil's "On the Abolition of All Political Parties" youtu.be/llDQDgqySFY

Happy birthday Simone Weil. RIP. You hated when what's going on in the US happened in the 1930s and 1940s. @weilsociety.bsky.social

Website and official publication date tbd, but my book, “Revolutionary Pessimism: Simone Weil’s Antifascist Politics” will be published in Fall/Winter 2026 with Stanford University Press!

Great to see @politico.com include Simone Weil's "On the Abolition of All Political Parties" on this list! Why not join our reading group and have the incredible Dr. Scott Ritner guide you through this wonderful text?! Visit our website to register! www.politico.eu/article/13-b...

If you didn't have a chance to join the reading group to discuss Weil's "Forms of the Implicit Love of God essay" with @katelawson.bsky.social, it is now available online: youtu.be/ic0MqDHfCdw

Of all the philosophers I had my students in my intro Continental philosophy of religions class read this past semester, the one they most connected to was Simone Weil, because they all said her focus on attention resonated with them in an age of constant social media stimulation.

It is just under 2 weeks until our next lecture/ reading group session on "Forms of the Implicit Love of God" with AWS Board Member Dr. Kate Lawson @katelawson.bsky.social Register now for an excuse to get reading and thinking during the busyness of the season! simoneweilsociety.org/events/readi...

one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true

Dear colleagues: Today is the final day to submit to our 2026 Colloquy. Send your 250-word abstracts and short bios to: [email protected] Please indicate whether you will present in person or online (at the earlier online conference in April). Link Below!

Today is the final day to submit to our 2026 Colloquy. Send your 250-word abstracts and short bios to: [email protected] Details: simoneweilsociety.org/membership-1... Please indicate whether you will present in person or online (at the earlier online conference in April).

If you missed @cynthiarwallace.bsky.social Dr. Cynthia Wallace's insightful talk and the rich discussion with fellow AWS members at our reading group on "The Iliad, or, Poem of Force", please feel free to watch the video. This is a conversation you will want to hear! youtu.be/zrk-GXF_E8c?...

We have confirmed our keynote speaker for our online conference. Stephen West from the podcast @philosophizethis.bsky.social will be joining us to speak about Simone Weil. Accepting abstracts until December 15. Please join us!

In efforts to make the society more inclusive and available to a broader audience, this spring we will be adding an online option for our annual conference for those who would like to present but cannot be there in person. Please consider submitting your abstract. Deadline extended to December 15.

The deadline to register for this event is November 10! Please join us!

The @CBCradio.bluesky.social Show and Podcast "Ideas" aired an episode on October 20 on Simone Weil featuring Scott Ritner and Kate Lawson of @WeilSociety.bluesky.social Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Here's the podcast link for those not in Canada (or in Canada too)! open.spotify.com/episode/7xUah9… podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/can��� https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16176502-can-abolishing-political-parties-topple-fascism

Tonight syndicated across Canada at 8pm!

The cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Show and Podcast Ideas will air an episode on October 20 on Simone Weil featuring the AWS's own Scott Ritner and Kate Lawson as well as Michael Ignatieff! More information including direct links to come!

The @weilsociety.bsky.social is hosting its annual colloquy at Texas A&M in April '26, as well as an online conference. This group was invaluable for me during my MFA program and thesis-writing process as I read work by and about Simone Weil. Register, and as Weil would say, attend.

Call for Papers is extended to December 15! And we have an online presentation option for those who cannot attend in-person!

Last day to submit!

One week left to submit your abstract. A few reminders: 1) We encourage papers that align with the theme, but ALL Weil-related papers are welcome, 2) All voices, backgrounds, and disciplines within and beyond academia are welcome, and 3) ... 🧵 simoneweilsociety.org/events/2026-...

In our first reading group, Dr. Cristina Basili (University of Bologna & New School for Social Research) shared her incredible insights on Weil's essay "Prospects: Are we Headed for a Proletarian Revolution?" Check out the video and consider joining us for our next session! youtu.be/FpWmMm8bBeM?...

The AWS encourages all types of Weil-informed scholars, artists, thinkers, activists, and writers from every background and discipline to submit an abstract to our 2026 conference on Roots, Exile, and Migration: simoneweilsociety.org/events/2026-...

Reminder: Call for Papers for the AWS 2026 Colloquy is due September 30. Send your 250 word abstract and 100 word bio to [email protected] on the topic of "Roots, Exile and Migration" in Weil's thought. The conference will be at Texas A&M April 23-25 2026.

The AWS will be hosting a virtual Simone Weil reading group this coming school year. We will read four different works drawn from Weil's writings on literature, politics, and spirituality and we would love for all Weil enthusiasts to join us: simoneweilsociety.org/events . 🧵

"But to destroy cities, either materially or morally, or to exclude human beings from a city, thrusting them down to the state of social outcasts, this is to sever every bond of poetry and love between human beings and the universe." - SW "Forms of the Implicit Love of God" #philosophy #politics

Keynotes are confirmed: Anne Norton and Nicolas de Warren. Remember to submit your abstract and bio to [email protected] and share widely!

Call for Papers. Announcing the AWS 2026 Colloquy. #callforpapers #philosophy #politics #exile #migration

Check out this article on Large Language Models, translating Weil’s La Condition Ouvrière and Taylorization in the Global Labor Journal William Tilleczek, 'Practice or Product? Labour, Training, and the “Ethics” of AI'

So excited to be a part of this incredible team!

🎧 Perfect post-read listen: a three-part primer on “How to Read Simone Weil” on one of my favorite pods (Yale’s “For the Life of the World”) cc @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social @weilsociety.bsky.social @evanrosa.bsky.social @cynthiawallace.bsky.social @simoneweiluk.bsky.social #philsky

Does anyone know of translations of Giovanni Amendola’s La democrazia italiana contro il fascismo. 1922-1924 in French, Spanish, or (gulp) Russian? It’s not available in English and I can’t read Italian.

As of yesterday, our new Board took over with Benjamin Palmer Davis (Texas A&M) serving as President, Inese Radzins (Cal State Stanislaus) as Vice President, and @katelawson.bsky.social (Kings University Halifax) as Webmaster.

No Spencer, Thank you for your wonderful contributions to Weil Scholarship and thought!

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Weil colloquy at Marquette University in Milwaukee!

We have a new website! You can find information about how to join the American Weil Society; how to attend our annual Colloquy; and how to participate in member events like dissertation chapter workshops! simoneweilsociety.org Built by our Webmaster @katelawson.bsky.social! Thank you Kate!!!!!

In the most recent Newsletter of the American Weil Society, I wrote what I believe to be a minimal, yet important, few paragraphs about what I think our community should be doing and thinking about in the context of our contemporary moment. I hope you will have a chance to read. -Scott

Please take a look at this wonderful symposium in Attention dedicated to the dearly loved E. Jane Doering and her lifetime of scholarship on the work of Simone Weil: attentionsw.org/attentive-pe...

The newest edition of Attention (attentionsw.org) has a series of amazing tributes to the late E. Jane Doering. Jane was the beating heart of our community and she is deeply missed.

I'm pleased to finally be able to share the Call for Papers for the upcoming conference 'Spinoza and Simone Weil: Influences and Interconnections,' taking place in Oxford on May 22nd-23rd. See the images below for the full details, and I look forward to receiving your abstracts!

@spinoza-nl.bsky.social @simonekotva.bsky.social @simoneweiluk.bsky.social @paigeconquest.bsky.social @bennettgilbert.bsky.social @weilsociety.bsky.social @hughgaroberts.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social @tomvandeputte.bsky.social

DEADLINE EXTENDED! (There are small funding opportunities for graduate students working on Weil in their dissertations!)

The American Weil Society is pleased to announce our 42d Annual Colloquy on the theme of The Politics and Ethics of Labour at the Université de Montréal on April 26-27 2024. Please submit abstracts and a short bio to [email protected] by January 26, 2024. For guidance, see the attached cfp.