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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Stephen Clarke [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! \nJoin us for an evening with Stephen Clarke as he presents his new book\, The Spy Who Inspired Me\n\nIt is April 1944\, just before D-Day. A young woman spy\, Margaux Lynd\, has to go undercover into Occupied France to find missing agents in the Resistance. Unfortunately she is lumbered with a male sidekick\, a suave naval officer called Ian Lemming (not\, not Fleming). He thinks Occupied France is dirty and dangerous and wants to go back to his office in the Admiralty\, but she has to drag him along\, and meanwhile teaches him all the tricks of real wartime spy craft. To compensate for the humiliation\, he starts to fantasise about a male spy who would operate in champagne luxury while lording it over women. A world-famous secret agent is born…\n\nStephen Clarke is a British writer living in Paris (unless he’s since been deported because of Brexit). He is the author of the worldwide bestselling Merde series of novels about an Englishman failing to adapt to life in France. He has also written history books such as 1000 Years of Annoying the French and The French Revolution & What Went Wrong.\n\nPraise for Stephen Clarke \n‘An entertaining and thrilling read.’ -The Historical Novel Society. \n‘Tremendously entertaining’ -Sunday Times \n‘Outrageously readable’ -Daily Mail \n‘Edgier than Bryson\, hits harder than Mayle’ -The Times \n‘Wicked and witty’ -Daily Express \n‘Breezy\, entertaining’ -Sunday Express \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-stephen-clarke/
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Suzanne Nossel in conversation with Michelle Kuo [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. \nPlease follow this link to register! \nJoin us for an interview with Suzanne Nossel (moderated by author and lawyer Michelle Kuo) as she introduces her new book\, Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All\nOnline trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus lectures. Cancel culture versus censorship. The daily hazards and debates surrounding free speech dominate headlines and fuel social media storms. In an era where one tweet can launch—or end—your career\, and where free speech is often invoked as a principle but rarely understood\, learning to maneuver the fast-changing\, treacherous landscape of public discourse has never been more urgent. \nIn Dare To Speak\, Suzanne Nossel\, a leading voice in support of free expression\, delivers a vital\, necessary guide to maintaining democratic debate that is open\, free-wheeling but at the same time respectful of the rich diversity of backgrounds and opinions in a changing country. Centered on practical principles\, Nossel’s primer equips readers with the tools needed to speak one’s mind in today’s diverse\, digitized\, and highly-divided society without resorting to curbs on free expression. \nSuzanne Nossel is Chief Executive Officer at PEN America and author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All. Prior to joining PEN America\, she served as the Chief Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch and as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. She has served in the Obama Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations\, leading US engagement in the UN and multilateral institutions on human right issues\, and in the Clinton Administration as Deputy to the US Ambassador for UN Management and Reform. Nossel coined the term “Smart Power\,” which was the title of a 2004 article she published in Foreign Affairs Magazine and later became the theme of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s tenure in office. She is a featured columnist for Foreign Policy magazine and has published op-eds in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, and LA Times\, as well as scholarly articles in Foreign Affairs\, Dissent\, and Democracy\, among others. Nossel serves on the Board of Directors of the Tides Foundation. She is a former senior fellow at the Century Foundation\, the Center for American Progress\, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Nossel is a magna cum laude graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School. \n  \n \nMichelle Kuo is the author of Reading with Patrick\, runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Goddard Riverside Book for Social Justice. She has worked as a lawyer for undocumented immigrants and incarcerated people. Michelle has written for the New York Times\, the New York Review of Books\, Public Books\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Point\, and other publications. Currently\, she is an associate professor of History\, Law\, and Society at the American University of Paris\, where she works closely with students on issues of social justice. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-suzanne-nossel/
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Paul Richter [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! \nJoin us for an evening with Paul Richter as he presents his new book\, The Ambassadors\nThe Ambassadors is the story of a small circle of career U.S. ambassadors who served as Washington’s top troubleshooters in the greater Middle East in the tumultuous decade and a half after the 911 attacks.  Thrust into war and upheaval\, these diplomats took on far more than most envoys — organizing new governments\, brokering political deals between warring blocs\, overseeing military operations. They served as another line of national defense\, often at the risk of their own lives. The book offers insiders’ perspectives on America’s frustrated efforts in the volatile region\, and an assessment of the American diplomatic service in a period when the Trump administration has challenged its value. The book was awarded the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon Prize for distinguished writing on American diplomacy.\n\n\n  \n\nPaul Richter has written about foreign policy and national security for three decades. As a Washington-based reporter for the Los Angeles Times\, he traveled to sixty countries and appeared in U.S. and international media. He is also principal author of California and the American Tax Revolt\, University of California Press\, 1983. He lives in the Washington\, D.C. area.\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/evenings-with-an-author-paul-richter/
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Fredrik Logevall in conversation with Charles Trueheart [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. \nRegister here! \nPlease join us for an evening of conversation with Dr. Fredrik Logevall about his latest book\, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century\, 1917–1956\, with an interview moderated by Charles Trueheart\nBy the time of his assassination in 1963\, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen\, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had become among Boston’s wealthiest\, Kennedy knew political ambition from an early age\, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest elected president cemented his status as one of the most mythologized figures in American history. And while hagiographic portrayals of his dazzling charisma\, reports of his extramarital affairs\, and disagreements over his political legacy have come and gone in the decades since his untimely death\, these accounts all fail to capture the full person. \nBeckoned by this gap in our historical knowledge\, Fredrik Logevall has spent much of the last decade searching for the “real” JFK. The result of this prodigious effort is a sweeping two-volume biography that properly contextualizes Kennedy amidst the roiling American Century. This volume spans the first thirty-nine years of JFK’s life—from birth through his decision to run for president—to reveal his early relationships\, his formative experiences during World War II\, his ideas\, his writings\, his political aspirations. In examining these pre–White House years\, Logevall shows us a more serious\, independently minded Kennedy than we’ve previously known\, whose distinct international sensibility would prepare him to enter national politics at a critical moment in modern U.S. history. \nAlong the way\, Logevall tells the parallel story of America’s midcentury rise. As Kennedy comes of age\, we see the charged debate between isolationists and interventionists in the years before Pearl Harbor; the tumult of the Second World War\, through which the United States emerged as a global colossus; the outbreak and spread of the Cold War; the domestic politics of anti-Communism and the attendant scourge of McCarthyism; the growth of television’s influence on politics; and more. \nJFK: Coming of Age in the American Century\, 1917–1956 is a sweeping history of the United States in the middle decades of the twentieth century\, as well as the clearest portrait we have of this enigmatic American icon. \n\nFredrik Logevall is Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and professor of history at Harvard University. A specialist on U.S. foreign-relations history and modern international history\, he is the author or editor of nine books\, most recently Embers of War\, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize. \n  \n  \n\nCharles Trueheart was director of the American Library in Paris from 2007 to 2017\, and he continues to oversee its annual book award. Most of his earlier career was in journalism\, including 15 years at the Washington Post\, first covering book and magazine publishing and literary issues\, then as a correspondent in Canada and France. Before joining the Post\, Trueheart was associate director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and the American Scholar\, where he is a contributing editor. Trueheart was educated at Exeter and Amherst.  \n  \n  \n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-fredrik-logevall/
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Lilianne Milgrom [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. \nPlease click here to register. \nJoin us for a book talk with Lilianne Milgrom about her new novel\, L’Origine: The secret life of the world’s most erotic masterpiece\nLilianne Milgrom brings a fresh\, feminine perspective to Gustave Courbet’s infamous and contentious portrait of a woman’s exposed torso and sex entitled L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World)\, a painting that has drawn millions of visitors to Paris’ Orsay Museum. L’Origine traces the extraordinary\, clandestine odyssey of this iconic nineteenth-century painting that shook up the author’s world and continues to scandalize all who set eyes upon it. But L’Origine offers readers more than a riveting romp through history–it also reflects upon society’s complex attitude towards female nudity. \nBorn in Paris\, Lilianne Milgrom grew up in Australia and now resides in the United States. She is an artist\, author and published writer on the arts. She is the recipient of multiple awards and residencies. Her paintings can be found in both private and institutional collections around the world and her articles have appeared in publications such as the Huffington Post\, Bonjour Paris\, Inspirelle\, Ceramics Monthly and Daily Art Magazine. In 2020 she released her first novel\, L’Origine: The secret life of the world’s most erotic masterpiece (Little French Girl Press\, 2020) receiving critical praise from readers and art historians alike. \nBook trailer available here. \nTo purchase the book\, please follow this link. \n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
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SUMMARY:You and Your Kids Online: Internet Safety Tips with Elizabeth Milovidov (for parents and caregivers) [VIRTUAL—RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:To foster discussion and provide support for our community\, we’re hosting this special event for parents with digital safety advocate Elizabeth Milovidov. Bring along your questions and concerns.\n \nInternet Safety Advocate Prof. Elizabeth Milovidov will host this event and give parents tips as to how to keep up to date and cope appropriately with new technologies and devices considering the increasingly digital world in which our children are growing up. \nThe event will feature an open discussion focused on online technologies from social media to gaming consoles. Special attention will be given to screen addictions\, Internet Safety measures and how to protect our children on the digital highway. \n  \nAbout Elizabeth:\n \nDr. Elizabeth Milovidov is a law professor and children’s rights advocate. She practiced as an international lawyer\, litigator and General Counsel in California for four years before moving to France. She is the founder of DigitalParentingCoach.com and provides information and support to caregivers and parents who are looking for best practices when it comes to social media\, internet laws and the internet at large. Elizabeth’s publications include The Parent’s Guide to Parenting in the Digital Age\, The Parent’s Guide to Youtube and Youtube Kids\, and The Parent’s Guide to Digital Detox and Disconnect (available at The American Library in Paris). As a member of the Working Group of experts on Digital Citizenship Education\, she brings awareness to the adolescent digital world\, and serves as an active advisor on European Cooperation and International Projects for e-Enfance\, a French online child protection association. You can find tips and expert advice from Elizabeth in her interviews with France24\, InternetMatters.org\, Financial Times\, and CafeMom to name a few. Elizabeth’s passion for navigating the digital world stems from her two young\, tech-savvy children. \n  \nJoin the Digital Parenting Community on Facebook\, or follow Elizabeth on Instagram for 1 Minute tutorials and tips about online safety. \n  \nThis program requires advance registration\, and is open to Library members. Click HERE to register. This program is free for Library members. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event via Zoom.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/you-and-your-kids-online-internet-safety-tips-with-elizabeth-milovidov-for-parents-virtual-rsvp-required/
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210224T203000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Janet Skeslien Charles in conversation with Naida Culshaw [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. \nJoin us for an evening of conversation with Janet Skeslien Charles\, author of The Paris Library and an interview moderated by Naida Culshaw\nSign up here! \n\nBased on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris\, this is an unforgettable story of romance\, friendship\, family\, and the power of literature to bring us together. \nParis\, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet has it all: her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. When the Nazis march into Paris\, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear\, including her beloved library. Together with her fellow librarians\, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. But when the war finally ends\, instead of freedom\, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal. \nMontana\, 1983: Lily is a lonely teenager looking for adventure in small-town Montana. Her interest is piqued by her solitary\, elderly neighbor. As Lily uncovers more about her neighbor’s mysterious past\, she finds that they share a love of language\, the same longings\, and the same intense jealousy\, never suspecting that a dark secret from the past connects them. \nA powerful novel that explores the consequences of our choices and the relationships that make us who we are—family\, friends\, and favorite authors—The Paris Library shows that extraordinary heroism can sometimes be found in the quietest of places. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanet Skeslien Charles (left) is the award-winning author of Moonlight in Odessa and The Paris Library. Her shorter work has appeared in revues such as Slice and Montana Noir. She learned about the history of the American Library in Paris while working there as the programs manager.\n\n\n\n\n\nNaida Culshaw (right) is a workshop facilitator\, developmental coach\, and lecturer at the Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM). As an alumni of the American Library in Paris she continues to create learning environments designed to encourage reflection\, self-expression\, analytical and critical thinking.\n\n\n  \n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
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