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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Entre Nous: Shakespeare Speaks to the Present with Stephen Greenblatt and James Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Entre Nous series in partnership with Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, join professors Stephen Greenblatt and James Shapiro (in person and online*) for a discussion about Shakespeare and the present age. \nClick here to RSVP\nFrom the collected works on Abraham Lincoln’s White House desk\, to the Public Theater’s incendiary 2018 production of Julius Caesar\, Shakespeare has long been adopted as the voice of the cultural moment. Two figures qualified to speak on this phenomenon are Stephen Greenblatt and James Shapiro\, celebrated Shakespeare scholars and authors of multiple books on the Bard.  \nIn his 2020 book Shakespeare in a Divided America\, Shapiro considers the many uses and abuses of Shakespeare in American history; from issues of race and democracy\, to liberty and marriage\, Shapiro highlights Shakespeare’s presence at the heart of the American cultural imagination. In his 2019 book Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics\, Greenblatt demonstrates the similarities between Shakespearean tyranny and power in the current age: unstable leaders\, crumbling faith in institutions\, and a public more interested in the spectacle of politics than participation. This April at the Library\, the two authors will discuss Shakespeare in relation to the pandemic\, racial justice\, the climate crisis\, arguing\, in a moderated conversation\, for Shakespeare’s role as an eternal mouthpiece of the present.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nStephen Greenblatt is an author\, literary historian\, Shakespearean\, and the John Cogan Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. He is General Editor of and a contributor to The Norton Shakespeare and The Norton Anthology of English Literature\, and is a founding editor of the literary-cultural journal Representations. The author of fourteen books\, he was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his work The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011).  \nJames Shapiro is an author and Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. A specialist in Shakespeare and the early modern period\, Shapiro has published a number of books on topics ranging from the Shakespeare authorship question to Shakespeare’s legacy in American history. Shapiro was inducted into the Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.  \nClick here to RSVP\n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Greenblatt and Shapiro 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. \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/shakespeare_present22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Private World of Édouard Vuillard with Julia Frey & Beverly Held
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nVenus Betrayed: The Private World of Édouard Vuillard\nwith art biographer Julia Frey and art historian Beverly Held  \nClick here to RSVP\nMany have researched Édouard Vuillard\, prolific and adventurous 20th-century painter\, for his contributions to the avant-garde. But what sets Venus Betrayed (Professor Emeritus and writer Julia Frey’s study of the artist) apart is its attention to the figure behind the paintings. Indeed\, Frey uses Vuillard’s body of work to access the interior state of the artist. In this way\, rather than a chronology of Vuillard’s life\, Frey subtly reveals this life through: his relationships with figures ranging from Toulouse-Lautrec to Mallarmé; the ideas that obsessed him; his often-tortured artistic process. This newfound access into Vuillard’s private life in turn draws out previously hidden depths from the artist’s work.  \nCarefully reading Vuillard’s unpublished journals and looking to his work with exacting visual analysis\, Frey has produced a deeply intimate picture of the artist in life and at work. The result is a refined perspective into both the artist’s masterpieces and unfinished projects\, as well as a striking argument for the relationship between artistic atmosphere and production. Venus Betrayed reinvigorates the genre of biography\, infusing new motivations and stakes into the project of reading art through the lens of life.  \nCopies of Venus Betrayed will be for sale at a discounted price during the event thanks to Bill & Rosa’s Book Room (Paris West – Boulogne). After the event\, additional copies may be ordered by contacting BRbookroom@gmail.com. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nJulia Frey\, PhD in French literature and culture\, is professor emeritus at the University of Colorado. A biographer and novelist\, she is the author of Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life\, which received the 1995 Pen Center West Nonfiction Literary Award\, and Balcony View: A 9/11 Diary. She currently resides in France. \nBeverly Held\, PhD in History of Art\, was the founding director of San Francisco Arts & Humanities Seminars\, a non-profit educational organization. Held now writes a weekly newsletter on art exhibitions\, collectors\, and collections in and around Paris where she spends most of her time running from one exhibition to another. \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 (Frey and Held 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/vuillard22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
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SUMMARY:(Online) Entre Nous: Alternative Narratives with Helen Lewis and Christia Mercer
DESCRIPTION:In Difficult Women\, writer and journalist Helen Lewis explores the complexities\, incoherencies\, and bad behavior across a history of feminism. Rejecting the contemporary taste for feel-good stories of perfect heroines\, Lewis lands on hard questions: When does the harm outweigh the good? How can we measure the moral sum of a person? And\, now free from the grip of the one-dimensional ‘badass babe’ trope\, where can contemporary feminism take us? \nContinuing her research on forgotten women\, Lewis’ new radio program\, Great Wives\, looks at the spouses of history’s most famous geniuses. How have men consistently attained the status of “genius\,” while women have remained (by their side) wives? Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University Christia Mercer has done similar work uncovering forgotten voices and destabilizing the mythology of genius. From Spanish mysticism to 17th-century Neoplatonism\, Mercer’s research in overlooked women complicates the legend of modern philosophy’s origins and most famous contributors. As part of the Entre Nous series in partnership with Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, join these two authors as they discuss their work on changing the historical record and seeking alternative narratives for the history of thought and action.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nHelen Lewis is an author and journalist. A staff writer at The Atlantic\, Lewis is also the former deputy editor of the New Statesman and has written for The Guardian and The Sunday Times. She was appointed 2018-19 Women in the Humanities Honorary Writing Fellow at Oxford University\, and serves on the advisory board for the Reuters Institute for Journalism at Oxford. Lewis is the creator of the longform Radio 4 interview series The Spark (2019). \nChristia Mercer is the Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. A specialist in early modern philosophy\, Platonism\, and philosophy and gender\, Mercer founded and acts as Director of the Center for New Narratives in Philosophy at Columbia. She served as the 2019-20 President of the American Philosophical Association. Mercer is the editor of Oxford Philosophical Concepts and co-edits Oxford New Histories of Philosophy.  \nClick here to RSVP
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SUMMARY:(Online) How Forests Think with Eduardo Kohn
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nHow Forests Think\nwith anthropologist and author Eduardo Kohn \nClick here to RSVP\nCan forests think? The driving force (and question) of anthropologist Eduardo Kohn’s How Forests Think is quickly answered; yes\, he writes\, and other entities are capable of thought\, too. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from the Runa people of Amazonian Ecuador\, Kohn offers a different approach to anthropology\, one that decenters the human from the field of research. Rather\, he describes a landscape of relations among different beings–a landscape that at once involves and exceeds humans. \nKohn’s central argument revolves around signs\, and the ways that trees and other non-human entities are capable of producing\, interpreting\, and responding to them. If a forest is capable of communication between trees\, how is this communication not thought? What else in the natural world could be viewed as thinking? What anthropocentric biases exist which prevent us from seeing thought in this way? And how might the Runa people’s approach to nature help push anthropology in a more non-human direction? Join Kohn as he wrestles with these questions and with the future of ethnographic research.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nEduardo Kohn is an author and Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University. He was awarded the 2014 Gregory Bateson Prize in Anthropology for How Forests Think. He has lectured at the New York Academy of Sciences\, arguing for the ecologization of ethics.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kohn22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The French Election\, Analyzed
DESCRIPTION:Evenings with an Author and The Overseas Press Club of America (in person and online*) present \nThe French Election\, Analyzed\nwith journalists Vivienne Walt\, Victor Mallet\, Sarah Paillou\, and Nadia Pantel. The conversation will be moderated by David A. Andelman. \nClick here to RSVP\nThe Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) and the American Library in Paris will convene to discuss the outcome of the 2022 French presidential election. Broadly seen as a litmus test for the rising tide of populism across Europe\, the results of this election may determine the future of the European Union and its international vision. At stake is the identity of the Fifth Republic: will the French people align themselves with Macron’s image of France as the center of European partnership\, or with the nationalist picture of a once-strong France in decline? What will happen to immigration\, secularism\, security\, and social cohesion in France in the election’s wake? \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nVivienne Walt\, OPC Governor and Paris correspondent for TIME & Fortune. \nVictor Mallet\, Paris bureau chief\, Financial Times \nSarah Paillou\, presidential campaign reporter\, Journal du Dimanche. \nNadia Pantel\,  chief Paris correspondent\, Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich). \nThe moderator will be David A. Andelman\, Past OPC President\, CNN columnist and former CBS News Paris correspondent\, author of Andelman Unleashed.\nClick here to RSVP\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 (all panelists 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. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/electionspanel22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) News as a Public Good with Julia Cagé
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nNews as a Public Good\nwith economist Julia Cagé \nClick here to RSVP\nWe face a crisis of faith in the media. From fake news to online misinformation campaigns\, the knowledge economy arrives at a pivotal moment. In her work L’Information est un bien public (2021)\, Sciences Po economist Julia Cagé addresses this broken relationship between the media and the public\, and offers a radical\, structural solution.   \nCagé’s argument is not that media content needs revision\, but that its organizational and economic structure must be reworked. Arguing for a change in tax rules on the basis of the media’s role as a public good\, Cagé offers a stabilized and decentralized solution for an industry constantly in flux. At stake is the free press\, which is to say\, democracy itself.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nJulia Cagé is Associate Professor of Economics at Sciences Po and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research. Cagé is the author of five books. Sauver les médias (2015) was awarded the 2016 Special Jury Prize for Best Books on Media by the Assises du Journalisme\, and Le prix de la démocratie (2018) was awarded the Prix Ethique by Anticor and the Prix Pétrarque de l’Essai France Culture-Le Monde. She published Pour une télé libre contre Bolloré in 2022 of this year.  \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 (Cagé 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/cage22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Online) Entre Nous: The Future of the Humanities with Roosevelt Montás and Andrew Delbanco
DESCRIPTION:Are the humanities in crisis? What to do with the hotly-contested idea of the (hard to define) canon? In the midst of an American identity crisis\, are the liberal arts struggling to articulate their method\, content\, and goals? Should students still read the canon? How might it be taught? Should we work to expand its limits\, or should we be abolishing it entirely? In his new book\, Rescuing Socrates\, Columbia University Professor Roosevelt Montás argues that the humanities must not relinquish its Great Books. \nClick here to RSVP\nAs part of the Entre Nous series in collaboration with Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, Montás will be discussing Rescuing Socrates\, with Columbia Professor Andrew Delbanco.  Drawing on his experience as a Dominican-born\, low-income undergraduate at Columbia discovering Augustine\, Plato\, and Gandhi for the first time through the university’s Core Curriculum\, Montás makes a case for the liberal arts. Similarly advocating for the humanities as a force for good is  Delbanco who\, in his position as trustee for the Teagle Foundation\, works to strengthen liberal arts education by increasing its accessibility. In conversation\, the two will consider the challenges the humanities face\, the ways they need to change\, and what they offer in the contemporary age.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nRoosevelt Montás is senior lecturer at Columbia’s Center for American Studies. From 2008 to 2018\, he served as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Columbia College. Montás is director of Columbia’s Freedom and Citizenship Program\, which instructs low-income high school students on the foundational texts of the Western political tradition.  \nAndrew Delbanco is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of nine books\, including College: What It Was\, Is\, and Should Be (2012). Delbanco is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, a member of the American Philosophical Association\, and a trustee of the Teagle Foundation and the Library of America. He was awarded a National Humanities Medal by Barack Obama in 2012.  \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/socrates22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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