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SUMMARY:A Special Panel on Change over Time in Technology and Ethics- from 2000 to 2021 [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nFollow this link to register! \nA Panel on Change over Time in Technology and Ethics- from 2000 to 2021\nThis special panel\, moderated by Christine Finn and featuring Nicholas Hall and Mike Cassidy as discussants\, will explore and debate the issues surrounding technology and our relationship with its ethics. Finn first interviewed the discussants in 2000 while adopting a left-field take on technology though its fast-changing material culture\, (Artifacts: an archaeologist’s year in Silicon Valley: MIT Press 2001). They will cover the state of tech around the year 2000\, before and after the dot com bubble burst\, through the era of startups\, the beginnings of social media as a benign means to connect people and ideas\, and apps to make life simpler\, to our present concerns about social media leaving us vulnerable\, and divided by technology. While innovation has the potential for positive and sweeping change\, have the technologies developed in the last two decades grown too large and powerful\, and beyond regulation we rely upon to protect us? Inspired in part by recent popular documentaries such as The Social Dilemma and The Great Hack\, panelists will share their recollections of the early days of tech and Silicon Valley\, and reflect upon how we got here\, where we might go next\, and what an ethics of technology might look like.\n\n\n\n \n  \nChristine Finn is a journalist and creative archaeologist\, and author of Artifacts: an Archaeologist’s Year in Silicon Valley (MIT Press\, 2001) and Past Poetic: Archaeology and the Poetry of WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney (Duckworth\, 2004). She began her journalism career at 16\, and has followed it from analogue to digital\, print\, blog\,  photography and broadcast\, including the BBC’s “From Our Own Correspondent”\, Wired.com\, and Edge.org. In 2003 she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She is a former Reuter Fellow at Oxford\, before returning in 1992 as one of the first undergrads to read Archaeology and Anthropology\,  continuing to a doctorate in archaeology and poetry. She has received seven Arts Council England awards as a visual artist. Her site-specific work engages with change-over-time in technology and media. \n\n\n\n\n \n  \n\n\n\nMike Cassidy\, Signifyd lead storyteller: I was a long-time journalist at the newspaper of Silicon Valley\, covering the valley’s rise and fall and rise and\, well\, you get the idea. I worked and watched as the Mercury News became one of the best newspapers in the U.S.\, shortly before a death-defying collapse that has rendered it almost invisible. I fled to a tech start-up and then another\, called Signifyd\, where I tell the story of a company that protects merchants from online fraud. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nNicholas Hall: I met Christine Finn when she wrote a little piece about my community website\, Startupfailures\, back in 2001. I created the community website after the collapse of my startup\, Intori\, which was focused on becoming an online tool to support offline business networking. At one time I had over 4\,000 connections on LinkedIn but now under 100. The same was true with Facebook. As the noise grows\, our ability to listen lessens. Can you hear me now?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/a-special-panel-on-change-over-time-in-technology-and-ethics/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210114T193000
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SUMMARY:The American Library in Paris Book Award 2020 [Virtual Event]
DESCRIPTION:Honoring literature. Interpreting France.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: 14 January 2021 at 19h30 CET \nLocation: Hosted live on Zoom \n\nRSVP required- please follow this link to register. \n\nDigital tickets to the 2020 Book Award Ceremony are now available. For the first time\, the ceremony will be open to the public and there is no cost to attend. Please sign up below to be added to the event’s guest list and login information will be sent to you in January. \nThe winner of the 2020 prize will be announced and will deliver a live talk on their winning book. The evening will also include a tribute to Library supporters\, remarks from the jury about the six shortlisted books\, and many other special surprises. \nThe Book Award ceremony is the Library’s most significant donor appreciation event of the year\, and the Library will host a separate gathering to celebrate the generosity of its community. If you haven’t donated this year and you would like to join the hundreds of supporters who have made a contribution in 2020\, please use the donate button on this page.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/the-american-library-in-paris-book-award-2020/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:The Ship We Built: A Discussion with Lexie Bean and Noah Grigni (ages 9-adult) [VIRTUAL—BY RSVP]
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an interactive book talk on The Ship We Built with author Lexie Bean and illustrator Noah Grigni.  \nfor ages 9-Adult \nPlease join us for an interactive book talk on The Ship We Built with author Lexie Bean and illustrator Noah Grigni. We’ll talk about the creative process\, and how identity shaped the story\, as well as how the author and illustrator worked together to find artwork to fit the story. Lexie will read a passage from The Ship We Built\, and Noah will share several of the sketches used in the book\, then following a discussion moderated by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste\, we will move into a Q&A with the audience. Both Lexie and Noah identify as queer and trans\, and The Ship We Built\, which received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist\, is the first middle grade book from a major American publisher centering a trans boy and written by one. The text deals with themes of isolation\, faith\, gender and sexuality\, abuse\, addiction\, incarceration\, and imagination as a tool for survival. This event is sure to interest young readers\, aspiring writers\, activists\, and artists of all ages. You can check out the book from our collections. \nAbout Lexie: Lexie Bean is a queer and trans multi-media artist from the Midwest USA whose work revolves around themes of bodies\, homes\, cyclical violence\, and LGBTQIA+ identity. They are a member of the RAINN National Leadership Council and are Lambda Literary Finalist for their anthology Written on the Body\, centering trans survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault. The Ship We Built is their debut novel\, which began with a text message dare from a crush in 2014. It has also taken the form of an animated short\, and soon a feature-length script. Like Rowan\, Lexie has a deep resonance with water and letter writing\, and is also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.\n\n  \n\nAbout Noah: Noah Grigni is a children’s book illustrator and trans activist from Atlanta\, Georgia. Influenced by queer futurism\, magical realism\, dreams\, and the subconscious\, Noah uses art to imagine a radically inclusive future and uplift voices fighting for change. Their art ranges from vibrant watercolor illustrations\, to meticulous anatomical drawings\, to promotional graphics for activist groups. Noah is the illustrator of It Feels Good To Be Yourself by Theresa Thorn\, The Every Body Book by Rachel Simon\, The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean\, and The Gender Identity Workbook For Kids by Kelly Storck. Last year\, The American Library in Paris hosted Noah’s first-ever book signing event! Noah is excited to return to the library virtually for this discussion.\n\n  \n\nThis event is free and open to the public (ages 9-Adult). This event will be hosted virtually via Zoom. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event. Advance registration is required (register HERE).  \n  \nSend an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about events and collections for ages 0-18: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/the-ship-we-built-a-discussion-with-lexie-bean-and-noah-grigni-ages-9-adult-virtual-by-rsvp/
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Fiona Sze-Lorrain [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Dominique Nabokov \n*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nClick here to register for this event! \nJoin us for an evening of poetry and art\nFiona Sze-Lorrain is one of the rare few English-language poets of our times who works across genres and artistic expressions\, as well as more than three languages or cultures.  In this reading\, she will present poems from her latest collection\, Rain in Plural (Princeton\, 2020)\, and her new translations of contemporary Chinese-language and American poets.  She will also discuss the role and aesthetics of poetry beyond language/culture in a seemingly globalized yet politically fragile world\, and the relationship between her writing\, music\, art\, and life.\n\n“If ordering the book via the link above\, attendees can use the code RAI21 for a 20% discount on the website. This code will expire on 28 February 2021.”\nFiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet\, translator\, editor\, and zheng harpist who writes and translates in English\, French\, Chinese\, and occasionally Spanish.  Her latest poetry title out from Princeton is Rain in Plural (2020).  Also the author of The Ruined Elegance (2016)\, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and two earlier collections\, My Funeral Gondola (2014) and Water the Moon (2010)\, she has translated more than a dozen books of contemporary Chinese\, French\, and American poetry.  A 2019-20 Abigail R. Cohen Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, she lives in Paris and co-runs a small independent press\, Vif Éditions. \n\n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-fiona-sze-lorrain/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210127T193000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: V. E. Schwab [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nClick here to register for this event! \nVICTORIA “V.E.” SCHWAB is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books\, including the internationally acclaimed Shades of Magic series\, the Villains series\, the Cassidy Blake series and more. Her latest novel\, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue\, is set to be adapted into a feature film by eOne and First Kill – a YA vampire series based on Schwab’s short story – is set to hit Netflix\, produced by Emma Roberts’ Belletrist Productions. When she’s not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides\, she lives in Edinburgh\, Scotland\, and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop\, dreaming up monsters. Her newest book\, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue\, follows the title character across centuries and continents\, across history and art\, as she learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. \nFor her evening at the American Library\, Victoria will be in conversation with Kirsty McCulloch Reid. Kirsty works here at the Library\, assisting in the Children’s and Teens’ Services department with programs\, the collection\, and social media. She holds a Masters in Information and Library studies from Robert Gordon University. \n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/v-e-schwab/
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