Organizers


Dr. Elizabeth Jane Doering: Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Arts and Letters, co-teacher with professor Patrick Martin of Romance Languages and Literatures, of the course "Simone Weil: Justice, Grace and Compassion" offered in the NDU disciplines of Theology, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Gender Studies, author of articles on both pedagogy and Simone Weil: "Jean-Jacques Rousseau et Simone Weil: deux théoriciens d'une politique moderne," "Simone Weil: Le Pouvoir des Mots," Cahiers Simone Weil; "Gaining Competence in Communication and Culture through French Commercials," The French Review. She has presented over a dozen academic papers on Weil's social thought and is presently preparing a manuscript on "Simone Weil and Social Justice."

Dr. Eric Springsted: President and co-founder of the American Weil Society; Chaplain and lecturer in philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary; author and editor of four books on Weil, including Christus Mediator, Simone Weil and the Suffering of Love and Spirit, Nature and Community. He has also authored "Who Will Make Us Wise: How the Church is Failing Liberal Education"and many invited articles on Simone Weil, i.e., "The Religious Basis of Culture: T.S.Eliot and Simone Weil". His most recent book, Simone Weil, Selected Essays," is being used in the new Notre Dame course on Simone Weil. He is a highly esteemed speaker on Weil's spirituality.