Acknowledgements

The American Weil Society is particularly grateful for the financial support provided by

The Florence Gould Foundation and 

The Henkels Lecture Series, 

which has permitted this major international conference to bring together noted Weil scholars from France, England and the United States. This 2001 Colloquy celebrates the first official joint meeting between L'Association pour l'étude de la pensée de Simone Weil and the American Weil Society, both in their third decade of existence.

The University of Notre Dame has actively encouraged our endeavor by hospitably making available the facilities of the Notre Dame Conference Center, McKenna Hall, along with the enormous advantages of the Notre Dame campus.

In addition, I,  Jane DOERING, offer a heartfelt "Thank you." to

The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts

The Notre Dame Graduate School

The Core Course: "Ideas, Values and Images"

The Gender Studies Program

The Program for International Studies

Many colleagues have offered me their time, ideas and expertise. Their gracious willingness to help earns my sincere gratitude.

Harriet Baldwin, Conference Administrator of the Notre Dame Conference Center, McKenna Hall

Ian Baierlipp, Dome Designs

Alex Blachly, Department of Music 

Christopher Callahan, Illinois Wesleyan University, interpreter: French to English

Lawrence Cunningham, Department of Theology

Frederick Crosson, Program of Liberal Studies

Bernard Doering, Professor Emeritus, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures

Julia Douthwaite, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, & The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts

Christopher Fox, Department of English, Dean of Arts & Letters & The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts

M.L.Gude CSC, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs

Coleen Hoover, Adminsitrative Assistant to the Core Program

Ruthann Johansen, Core Course: "Ideas, Values and Images"

Ann Rathburn-Lacopo, Director of Notre Dame Foundation Relations and Development

Patrick Martin, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, co-teacher of the course "Simone Weil: Justice, Grace and Creativity" and the Notre Dame students who will do the poetry reading from Stephanie Strickland's "The Red Virgin, A Poem of Simone Weil:" Alexander Adamson, Courtney Choi, Katie Kearney, Kendahl Lund, Sheila McCarthy, Alexander Torres.

Robin Rhodes,  Department of Art

George Rugg, Curator of Special Collections in the University Libraries

The Schola Musicorum singers: Michael Driscoll, Andrew Mc Shane, Calvin Bower, Alex Blachley

Tom Werge, Department of English

Paul Wieber, Kate Russell and Laura Moran, University Communications Design Center