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SUMMARY:(Online) Architecture for the Future with Mollie Claypool and Jack Self
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nArchitecture for the Future\nwith architects Mollie Claypool and Jack Self  \nClick here to RSVP\nAs we look to the future\, how might architecture and design help to bring about a brighter one? Indeed\, how can architecture engage with feminism\, anti-capitalism\, and sustainability? What tools are available within the field to support society-wide change? These are the questions that two leaders in imaginative architecture and design\, Mollie Claypool and Jack Self\, will seek to ask and answer.  \n  \nA specialist in architecture and automation\, Mollie Claypool argues for a rethinking of architectural production. Considering the individual parts that make up a building\, she asks how we might employ automation to create more equitable frameworks for design production. Architect Jack Self\, for his part\, works in domestic design and housing\, the history of communitarian life\, alternative modes of finance and ownership\, and new environmental standards. In their work\, both Claypool and Self are critical of the state of the world. But\, as Self writes\, “Criticism does not mean negativity. I believe powerfully in the proposition\, the project\, and the positive act. The present and past are tools for constructing the future.” Together\, the two will discuss the positive role of criticism in architecture\, while also considering the role of the practical and the imaginative in creating alternative futures. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nMollie Claypool is an architecture theorist focused on issues of social justice highlighted by increasing automation in architecture and design production. She is Co-Founder and CEO of technology company Automated Architecture (AUAR) Ltd and Co-Director of AUAR Labs at The Bartlett School of Architecture\, UCL\, where she is an Associate Professor in Architecture. She isco-author of Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation (Detail Edition 2019) and author of the SPACE10 report “The Digital in Architecture: Then\, Now and in the Future” (2019). \nJack Self is a London-based architect\, curator\, and writer. He is the Director of REAL\, a cultural institute and architectural practice\, Editor-in-Chief of Real Review and co-founder of REAL homes. Self curated the British Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale with the show Home Economics. He is the author of Real Estates: Life Without Debt (2014)\, and Home Economics: New Models of Domestic Life (2016)\, among other works.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/architecture22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Arendt Revisited with Samantha Rose Hill and D.N. Rodowick
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss \nHannah Arendt\nwith author Samantha Rose Hill and professor D.N. Rodowick \nClick here to RSVP\nSince she first gained international attention for her writing on the Eichmann trial\, Hannah Arendt’s life and image has developed a mythological status: from her refusal of the title of ‘philosopher’ to her battles with Theodor Adorno over Walter Benjamin’s legacy\, the legend of Arendt the person is as well-known as her more famous theoretical texts. The triumph of author and researcher Samantha Rose Hill’s new book\, Hannah Arendt\, is that it avoids demystifying Arendt. Rather\, it complicates the myth\, contributing new and contradictory information to the historian (and sometimes philosopher’s) biography.  \nA volume of the University of Chicago Press’s Critical Lives book series\, Rose Hill’s concise and intelligent work draws from heavy archival research. After looking at Arendt’s original notebooks\, Rose Hill has returned to the world with news: Arendt\, famous for her austere disposition and analysis of human evil\, also wrote poetry\, loved to shop\, and enjoyed drinking Campari with soda. This does not lighten the intellectual weight of Arendt’s works\, but rather highlights the pathos informing them. Rose Hill presents us with a nuanced picture of a woman who rejected any classification of herself or her ideas\, and whose perspective on tragedy and violence was made all the more astute by a love for life and for the world.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nSamantha Rose Hill is a writer and researcher. She is associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and previously served as assistant director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. Rose Hill is the author of two books on Arendt: Hannah Arendt (2021) and Hannah Arendt’s Poems (2022). She is currently writing a book about loneliness for Yale University Press.  \nD.N. Rodowick is the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Elegy for Theory (2014)\, and Philosophy’s Artful Conversation (2015)\, among other texts. In his most recent work\, An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities (2021)\, Rodowick argues that Arendt’s philosophy of judgment could reorient the humanities toward a practice of free engagement.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While Rodowick will be speaking in person in the Reading Room\, Rose Hill will be appearing over Zoom. The Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant: on-site information regarding COVID-19 \nIn compliance with French law\, a valid Pass Vaccinal (ages 16+) or Pass Sanitaire (ages 12–15) is required to enter the Library. Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/arendt22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Joan Koenig on the Power of Music (ages 0–6)
DESCRIPTION:Joan Koenig on The Power of Music\n\nFor ages 0–6 \n\nJoin Joan Koenig\, Founder & Executive Director of the L’Ecole Koenig Preschool & Music School\, for an introduction on the importance of musical education. During this interactive program\, Koenig will discuss the benefits of a musical education\, and demonstrate examples of tools to make music with children and for integrating music into our daily lives. Adult chaperones are expected to actively participate in the program with their children. \nIn Joan Koenig’s book The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who Are Happy\, Healthy\, and Whole\, Koenig shares stories from her classrooms\, along with tips about how to use the latest research during the critical years when children are most sensitive to musical exposure—and most receptive to its benefits. The Musical Child reveals the multiple ways music can help children thrive—and how\, in the twenty-first century\, its practice is more vital than ever. \n\nAbout Joan Koenig: Koenig is an American-born musician\, educator\, author\, public speaker\, mother\, creative dervish\, and science nerd who has made her home in Paris for the past 40 years. She’s a graduate of the Juilliard School and has performed worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician. Jazz and Hindustani music (classical music of northern India) have played an integral role in her musical life and reflection on human musicality. Koenig’s pioneering research and innovative work with music have earned L’Ecole Koenig a solid reputation in the Parisian community\, among music cognition experts\, and beyond. Her dynamic and integrative approach to early music experience has shifted conventional thinking about literacy acquisition\, empathy building\, and the potential for creating collaborative communities among young children. Koenig is regularly invited to present her research in education and music cognition conferences around the world. \n\n  \n\nImportant information: This event is for Library members\, and advance registration is required. In compliance with French regulations\, please note: a valid Pass Vaccinal (ages 16+) or Pass Sanitaire (ages 12–15) is required to enter the Library. Masks are strongly encouraged for all Library visitors ages 6 and up\, staff\, and volunteers. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \nChildren in the Library Policy\n \nRegister here\n \n\n\n\nWe are an independent\, nonprofit organization celebrating our 101st year of service. With your continued support\, we are able to provide over 200 programs each year for ages 0–18. If you would like to support the Library\, you can make a donation to help sustain this vital institution\, and programs such as this one. \n  \n  \n\nDonate to the Library\n \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/joan-koenig-on-the-power-of-music-ages-0-6/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Reading for the Planet with Jennifer Wenzel
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nThe Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature\nwith scholar Jennifer Wenzel \nClick here to RSVP\nAs the climate crisis becomes one of the dominant topics of the 21st century\, scholars and activists are still seeking a vocabulary with which to describe it. The phasing out of “climate change” and “global warming\,” and the emphasis on justice\, remind us of the importance of rhetorical choices as we try to build a liveable future. There are few more qualified to speak on the relationship between narrative and climate than scholar Jennifer Wenzel\, whose recent work\, The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature\, argues for the role of cultural imagining in climate discourse.  \nTraversing political ecology\, geography\, anthropology\, history\, and law\, and punctuated by case studies in world literature\, the book is a searching and invigorating contribution to the climate debate. Demonstrating to readers how their relation to earth is informed by their consumption of media depicting it\, Wenzel argues for new ways of imagining the world and our place in it. The solution will not be to merely read the planet\, but to begin to read for it. Wenzel will be in conversation with Programs Manager Alice McCrum. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nJennifer Wenzel is a scholar of postcolonial studies and environmental and energy humanities\, and Associate Professor at Columbia University. The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature (2020)\, was shortlisted for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2020 Book Prize. She is also the author of Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (2009)\, awarded Honorable Mention for the Perkins Prize by the International Society for the Study of Narrative.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Wenzel and McCrum will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/wenzel22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Online) Meeting of the Minds with Alison Gopnik\, Peter Godfrey-Smith\, and Annie Murphy Paul
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nMeeting of the Minds\nwith psychologist Alison Gopnik\, philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith\, and journalist Annie Murphy Paul \nClick here to RSVP\nIn a truly cerebral event\, the Library will host three esteemed theorists of the mind: Alison Gopnik\, specialist of cognitive psychology\, theories of language\, and learning\, will wield her expertise in the realm of child development and the consciousness of children; Peter Godfrey-Smith\, who conducts research in theories of consciousness in relation to underwater creatures\, will bring us into the brains and neurologically-complex tentacles of octopuses; While Annie Murphy Paul will discuss her research in the “extra-neural\,” making a case for thinking beyond the limits of the human brain.  \nIn their conversation\, these three researchers and writers will ask: how can we define\, identify\, and expand our notions of intelligence? Where can we locate the mind\, if not inside the biological brain? How does biology limit cognition\, and vice versa? Can we measure consciousness? Does it have an origin? Combining philosophical thought with cutting-edge research in psychology\, biology\, and neuroscience\, the three speakers will confront questions both timeless and urgent for the modern\, digital age.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nAlison Gopnik is a psychologist and professor working in cognitive and language development. Gopnik is the author of five books and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, and Science. Gopnik was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013 and received the James McKeen Cattell Lifetime Achievement Award for Applied Research from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in 2021.  \nPeter Godfrey-Smith is a philosopher of science working in the philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind as it relates to evolution and animal intelligence. His 2016 book on consciousness and marine biology\, Other Minds: The Octopus\, the Sea\, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness\, received the Patrick Suppes Prize for Philosophy of Science from the American Philosophical Society and was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.  \nAnnie Murphy Paul is a science writer and journalist. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the Boston Globe\, Scientific American\, Slate\, Time magazine\, and The Best American Science Writing\, among other publications. She is the author of Origins (2010)\, which was selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Publication. Her most recent work\, The Extended Mind (2021) was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/minds22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Online) The Weight of Inheritance with Megan Mayhew Bergman
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nHow Strange a Season\nwith author Megan Mayhew Bergman \nClick here to RSVP\nAuthor and journalist Megan Bergman’s new collection of stories describes women who are losing control. From failed marriages and ailing parents\, to their own aging bodies\, these are women caught between a past which has escaped them and a future whose direction is unclear.  \nBergman’s voice (insightful and empathetic) guides the reader through a series of landscapes: a glass house bequeathed by a beloved grandmother\, a sustainability ranch invaded by hedge funders\, an ancient southern estate contending with the weight of its familial past\, and more. The narrative thread linking each story is that of inheritance\, both material and psychological. Is inheritance a gift or a burden? What will these women suffer because of what has been left with them? How can ancestral wrongs be rectified? Can one ever be liberated from the past? \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nMegan Mayhew Bergman is a writer\, journalist\, and former Visiting Fellow at the American Library in Paris. She is the author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise (2012) and Almost Famous Women (2015). Bergman has written columns on climate change and the nature world for The Paris Review and The Guardian\, winning the 2019 Phil Reed Environmental Writing Award in Journalism award for the latter. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/mayhewbergman22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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