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SUMMARY:(Online) Breaking the Silence on Sex with Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In groundbreaking work The Sex Lives of African Women\, author and activist Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah does away with imposed silences and cultural taboos to investigate identity\, gender\, and expression through sex. Assembling interviews with Black and Afro-descendant women from a wide age range and over thirty countries\, Sekyiamah shows that there is no univocal way to experience desire\, intimacy\, and love. From unabashed kinks to systemic abuse\, she casts an unflinching eye upon the part of adult life least discussed publicly. Creating a space for women to put these experiences into words\, Sekyiamah charts a path toward self-discovery and sexual freedom. Written through openness and with empathy\, the work celebrates African female sexuality in all of its multiplicities. \nAbout the speaker: \nNana Darkoa Sekyiamah is the author of The Sex Lives of African Women (2021)\, listed by the Economist as a best book of the year and given a starred review in Publishers Weekly. She is also co-founder of Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women\, a website\, podcast and festival that publishes and creates content that tells stories of African women’s experiences around sex\, sexualities\, and pleasure. She was cited by the BBC in its list of 100 inspirational and influential women from around the world in 2022. \nImportant information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/sekyiamah23/
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Caroline Fourest on the Offended Generation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Have cultural conflicts invaded our private lives and private minds? Should we be concerned by the cult of identity? Does adherence to origins endanger free democratic exchange? In polemic treatise Génération Offensée\, author Caroline Fourest outlines the biggest threat currently facing the intellectual left: itself. From canceling Dostoevsky to firing professors at will\, Fourest uncovers a self-cannibalizing instinct at the heart of leftism which is eating the movement from the inside. This fight against offense has finally arrived in France\, she argues\, and brought with it its entourage cultural police turned thought police. Without any desire to return to the way things were before\, Fourest proposes a simultaneously feminist\, antiracist\, and universalist path forward which allows for a distinction between cultural plunder and cultural homage.  \nAbout the speaker: \nCaroline Fourest is a filmmaker\, director\, and journalist. She was the co-founder of the feminist\, anti-racist and secularist journal ProChoix and taught at Sciences-Po Paris on themes of multiculturalism and universalism. Fourest has been columnist for Le Monde\, France Culture\, and Marianne\, directed feminist film Sisters in Arms (2019)\, and now directs Franc-Tireur\, a weekly newspaper against polarization and extremism. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Fourest 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/fourest23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230221T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230221T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Joshua Rubenstein on The Last Days of Stalin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In 1952\, Stalin terrorized the USSR with his seemingly limitless supply of power. Within three months of 1953\, he was dead. What plans was he setting into motion before his death\, and what were the immediate effects of his passing? Had he not suffered the ultimately fatal stroke\, what would history look like now? In new work The Last Days of Stalin\, Historian Joshua Rubenstein uncovers hidden depths to Stalin’s final months as dictator\, and highlights surprising policy shifts and missed diplomatic opportunities between the Eisenhower administration and the Soviet regime in the post-Stalin era. Join him in conversation with Edward Charlton-Jones at the Library as they discuss this conclusive period and its lasting consequences. \nAbout the speakers: \nJoshua Rubenstein has written and edited several path-breaking books on Soviet history\, with a focus on the dissident movement\, the Holocaust on German-occupied Soviet territory\, and biographies of Leon Trotsky and Ilya Ehrenburg. The Last Days of Stalin is his tenth book. He was an organizer and regional director for Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012. He is a longtime Associate of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. \nEdward Charlton-Jones studied History and Russian at Oxford and Harvard. He has written and lectured on the Russian emigration to Constantinople in 1918-1923\, as well as on aspects of Russian literature and art. He has practiced law in Paris and Istanbul\, with a focus on international energy projects. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Rubenstein and Charlton-Jones 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/rubenstein23/
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SUMMARY:(Online) Deesha Philyaw on The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Secret Lives of Church Ladies\, a debut short story collection from author Deesha Philyaw\, places Black female desire on proud display. The work\, currently being adapted for television by HBO Max with Tessa Thompson executive producing\, is populated by a rich cast of voices spanning multiple generations in the South of the United States. Exploring the varied intersections of religion and sexuality\, from trysts with pastors to suppressed queer attraction\, the stories celebrate women who learn what it means to want. Philyaw sanctifies the sinful\, demonstrating that that the most godly activity of all is that of shameless\, embodied love. She will speak virtually at the library about writing worship in all of its different\, sensual forms. \nAbout the speaker: \nDeesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection\, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (2020)\, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction\, the 2020/2021 Story Prize\, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. Philyaw is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and will be the 2022-2023 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. \nImportant information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/philyaw23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230228T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230228T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Lex Paulson on Philosophy and Power
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Does “the will of the people” exist? How could any community of divided views and changing minds ever have a single will? And where did we get the idea that self-government could only happen through elections and ruling elites? \nThe answer emerges in the story of a young orator from the Italian countryside who rose to the heights of power as his republic fell apart. Cicero and the People’s Will is an adventure story of ideas\, centered on the creative genius of Rome’s greatest orator and most underappreciated thinker\, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Surviving plots\, exile\, and the rise of Julius Caesar\, Cicero fuses Roman tradition with Greek philosophy\, establishing an idea–popular sovereignty through an elected elite–that failed in his time but has shaped the modern world. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the UM6P School of Collective Intelligence (Morocco) and lectures in advocacy at Sciences Po-Paris. Trained in classics and community organizing\, he served as mobilization strategist for the campaigns of Barack Obama in 2008 and Emmanuel Macron in 2017. He served as legislative counsel in the 111th U.S. Congress (2009-2011)\, organized on six U.S. presidential campaigns\, and has worked to advance democratic innovation at the European Commission and in India\, Tunisia\, Egypt\, Uganda\, Senegal\, Czech Republic and Ukraine. He is author of Cicero and the People’s Will: Philosophy and Power at the End of the Roman Republic\, from Cambridge University Press\, and is co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Paulson 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/paulson23/
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