International Simone Weil Seminar in Uppsala, Sweden

From 25th–27th November 2022 Christine Zyka and Emmanuel Gabellieri will give an international bilingual seminar on Simone Weil at the Newman Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. Over the last years, Emmanuel Gabellieri’s ‘Simone Weil Seminars’ have become an important meeting and melting point of current international Simone Weil scholarship. Now the seminar comes to Sweden for the first time.

The denkkollektiv will participate in this event with a contribution on the letters written by Simone and André Weil while André was in prison in 1940. Intrigued by Weil‘s concept of metaxy, Martina, Max, and Tom will approach the letters from three individual yet symbiotic angles: “Metaxy I: Darkness, Emptiness, Kenosis. Simone Weil and Zen“ (Martina), “Metaxy II: When corpora turn diaphanous. Bible, Simone Weil and the Jewish people“ (Tom), „Metaxy III: Bodies in prison. Translation and translocation: a bodily (somatic) reading“ (Max).