Thursday, April 19

Registration: 4:00 - 7:30: McKenna Hall

7:30 p.m.: Auditorium: Opening remarks by the Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. Father Hesburgh will introduce the first keynote speaker, Louis Dupré, Professor Emeritus of Yale University, who will set the tone for the conference with his presentation:  "Christian Platonism: Its Past and Future."
 

9:00-10: Reception in the Main Lobby of McKenna Hall

Friday, April 20

8:30 - 10 a.m.: 
Session A   Auditorium, Presider: Patrick Martin, University of Notre Dame
Larry Schmidt and Pat Patterson, University of Toronto
"The Christian Materialism of Simone Weil"

Robert Chenavier, President of L'Association pour l'étude de la pensée de Simone Weil. Editor of the Cahiers Simone Weil
" Simone Weil. Platonisme achevé et matérialisme cohérent" IN FRENCH*
 

10:30 - 12:00
Session B Room 112-114, Presider: Rev. Michael Driscoll, University of Notre Dame
Richard Bell, The College of Wooster 
"Justice: Retributive or Restorative? Reflections in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission with Simone Weil"

Christine Evans, Lesley College
"Completing the Unfinished Story: Analyses of the Debacle 1940-43 by Simone Weil and Some Contemporaries"

Session C  Auditorium, Presider: John Dunaway, Mercer College
Patricia Reynaud, Miami University:  IN FRENCH
"Prise de propositions de Simone Weil sur le "monde du mélange"

Vance Morgan, Providence College
"Simone Weil and the Divine Poetry of Mathematics" 
 

12:15 - 1:30: LUNCH, in the Private Dining Rooms of the Morris Inn

1:30 - 2:30:  Auditorium, Keynote Address: Emmanuel Gabellieri, l'Université Catholique de Lyon
"Reworking Platonism: Simone Weil's Trinitarianism"

3:00 - 5:15:
Session D Auditorium, Presider: Thomas Werge, University of Notre Dame
Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame
"Counter-Mimesis and Simone Weil's Christian Platonic Hint for Overcoming the Glamor of Evil"

Eric O. Springsted, Princeton Theological Seminary
"I dreamed I saw Saint Augustine . . ."

5:30:  COCKTAILS in the Private Dining Rooms of the Morris Inn

6:00:  DINNER in the Private Dining Rooms of the Morris Inn

7:30 - 9:00: Auditorium, Keynote Address: David Tracy, University of Chicago 
"Simone Weil: Tragedy, Plato and Christianity"

9:30 Concert of Gregorian chant by Schola Musicorum in Alumni Hall Chapel

Saturday, April 21

8:30 - 10:00 a.m.:
Session E  Auditorium, Presider: Joan Dargan, St. Lawrence University
Florence DeLussy, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
"'To on'. Quelque chose sans nom sur quoi l'esprit bute" IN FRENCH*

Inese Radzins, Vanderbilt University
"Model and Monogenes: Simone Weil's Timaeus and Trinitarian Creation"

10:30 - 12:00:
Session F Auditorium, Presider: Annie Pirrucello, University of San Diego
Martin Andic, University of Massachusetts-Boston
"Freedom in Boethius and Weil"

J.P. Little, St. Patrick's College, Dublin
"Simone Weil and Tantric Buddhism"

Session G  Room 112-114, Presider: Bernard Doering, University of Notre Dame
Lissa McCullough, University of Chicago
"Simone Weil's 'Platonism'? The Argument Against"

Michael Ross, Catholic University: 
"Simone Weil on the Good: the Early and Middle Years"

12:00-1:20: Lunch, in the Private Dining Rooms of the Morris Inn

1:30 - 2:45: Auditorium, Keynote Address: Michel Narcy, Centre National de Research Scientifique
"Limites et signification du platonisme de Simone Weil" IN FRENCH*

3:00-4:30:
Session H Auditorium, Claire Fischer, Starr King School
Diogenes Allen, Princeton Theological Seminary
"The Need for History"

Miklos Veto, Université de Poitiers
"Simone Weil: Between Plato and Kant"

Free time:
6:00: COCKTAILS in the Private Dining Rooms of the Morris Inn

7 - 10: Banquet in the Private Dining Rooms of the Morris Inn
         Reading of selected poems in Stephanie Strickland's "The Red Virgin" by students in the Notre Dame course: "Simone Weil: Justice, Grace and  Creativity" 
 
 *NOTA BENE: Christopher Callahan, Illinois Wesleyan University, interpreter: French to English

Sunday April 22, 

8:00 a.m.: Mass in Alumni Hall Chapel, Rev. Patrick Gaffney

9:00 a.m. BREAKFAST in McKenna Hall Main Lobby

10:00: Auditorium, Concluding Panel Discussion on "The Relevance and Future of Weil Studies" in the university course curriculum