Reading SIMONE WEIL:

("Weil" is pronounced as "vay")

Our next discussion in the Goodman Center's "Humanities in Community" monthly lecture series has been postponed to an as yet undecided date in the Fall  of 2021:

6 PM, 2nd Monday of a Fall month, 2021, in Bolz A 

149 Waubesa St. (Ironworks), Madison, WI 53704

(608) 241-1574 (Check this page for later cancellations or postponements due to the epidemic. Attached flyer has been updated).

Author Rita Mae Reese 

will discuss with us French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil... 

   * WHO “can be read both as feminist and anti-feminist, both as Jewish and anti-Semitic (or at least as anti-Judaic)...”

   * WHO “is a radical liberal who has recently been claimed as an inspiration to the far-right party in France.”

   * WHO “is seen as a radical liberal and moral giant, and also as a pathetic neurotic who starved herself to death.”

   * WHO just “five weeks before her death... wrote to her mother: ‘I...have a growing certainty that there is a deposit of pure GOLD in me which ought to be passed on. The trouble is that I am more and more convinced...that there is no one to receive it....’” 

“Was there GOLD there, and if so, are we ready to receive it and use it to tackle some of the most difficult problems facing us in 2020?”

BRIEF BIO: Rita Mae Reese is the author most recently of The Book of Hulga. Her work has won numerous awards, including a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Stegner Fellowship and a “Discovery”/ The Nation award. She designs Lesbian Poet Trading Cards for Headmistress Press and is the Literary Arts Director at Arts + Literature Laboratory in Madison, WI.

BELOW FIND INFORMATIVE LINKS,POSTERS AND PDF HANDOUTS FOR PRINTING AND EMAILING:

Useful Youtube links to video discussions on Simone Weil:

https://youtu.be/TGFezrES-6o  Phillip Goodchild, “Why Study Simone Weil” 6 min.

 https://youtu.be/1af_z1r62Og   Stephen PLANT, 24 min.

https://youtu.be/Y8S7OsKRfBY  BBC Radio, “IN OUR TIMEL on Simone Weil

The PDF document attached below now shows the recent postponement to April 28th and may now be downloaded for sharing by either email (both sides) or by print as posters (side-1 only) or as handouts (both sides or side-2 only).