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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#1F497D">An Encounter with Simone Weil</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#1F497D">Screening and Dialogue with Director</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#1F497D"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">How do we pay attention to the pain and suffering of others?</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"> This is the starting point of Julia Haslett’s amazing documentary on Simone Weil, an extraordinary French philosopher, activist, and mystic.
Born into an agnostic Jewish family in France, Simone Weil became involved in deeper philosophical and social issues at a young age. She also had three deep spiritual experiences which awakened in her a profound religious imagination.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"> Although she had found safety in New York in the early years of the war, she returned to England to join the French resistance. She developed
a life-threatening illness, but refused appropriate medical attention and adequate food in solidarity with those who suffered under the Nazi regime in France. She died in 1943. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"> This award-winning documentary by Julia Haslett discusses the life and commitments of Simone Weil. Haslett focuses on Weil’s observation
that “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity” and asks how did she pay attention to the suffering all around her. She then explores what Weil has to teach us in light of the suffering of others in the 21<sup>st</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"> You may watch the trailer for the film at:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOCE_d2R5lw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOCE_d2R5lw</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#1F497D">Sponsored by:
<b>University of Waterloo</b> Women’s Studies, History Department, Department of Religious Studies and the Sexuality Marriage and Family Department and Religious Studies Department of
<b>St. Jerome’s University</b></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">An Encounter with Simone Weil</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"> tells the story of French
philosopher, activist, and mystic, Simone Weil (1909-1943)––a woman Albert Camus described as “the only great spirit of our time.” Weil spent most of her too-short life advocating for the rights of the socially and politically disadvantaged. Co</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D">m</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">e
to a screening of this award-winning documentary followed by a discussion with its director, Julia Haslett.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:20.0pt;color:black">Thursday, March 1, 2012, 7 p.m. Parking $4 coin entry only.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:20.0pt;color:black">Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"> This event is free and open to the public.
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