Reading Group One: Weil and Politics
Frida Kahlo 'El marxismo dará salud a los enfermos' (1954) Oil on masonite.
“Prospects: Are we Headed for the Proletarian Revolution?” with Cristina Basili
Sessions will be 1.5 hours in length, 45 minutes for Dr. Basili to unpack her reading of the text and 45 minutes for general questions, answers, comments, and ideas. These sessions will be held on zoom and are open to all AWS members, so if you or anyone you know is interested in participating, please join the AWS. The sessions will be recorded, edited, and made available to the public via Youtube. More details to follow.
Cristina Basili is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow in Political Philosophy at the University of Bologna and a visiting researcher at The New School for Social Research in New York City, as part of the POLEM-WO project, “Reframing the Relationship between War and Politics with 20th Century Women Thinkers.” Her research combines the history of political thought, classical reception studies, and women’s and gender studies through an interdisciplinary approach. She previously held the position of assistant professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and was a DAAD postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bonn. Additionally, she served as an adjunct lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She has been a visiting scholar at the CNRS and EHESS in Paris, as well as at NSSR in NYC. She earned her international PhD in Humanities from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid with a dissertation on Leo Strauss’s Platonism (Doctoral Excellence Award, 2016). A member of several international research groups and networks, she has published extensively on a range of thinkers, including Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and María Zambrano. Among her recent publications: María Zambrano: perspectivas contemporáneas (ed., Escolar Editor, 2024) and Entre mística y política: la actualidad de Simone Weil (ed., Logos. Anales del Seminario de Metafísica, 2023).