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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Middle East Crisis: Journalists Look at What's Ahead
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Oct 7th has marked a paradigm shift in the long-standing conflict between Israel and Palestine. After the start of these unprecedented events\, journalists have been on the ground reporting\, attempting to capture the realities\, complexities\, and human toll of this ongoing crisis. What has been the role of news organizations\, social media\, and the spread of information during the conflict? And what lies ahead for the Middle East?  \nFour long-time watchers of the region discuss how we reached this point of crisis\, and how peace can ever be achieved. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the Overseas Press Club.  \nAbout the speakers: \nVivienne Walt is a Paris correspondent for TIME Magazine and Fortune Magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, National Geographic\, BusinessWeek\, and more. She is governor of the Overseas Press Club of America. \nDalia Hatuqa is a multimedia journalist specializing in Israeli/Palestinian affairs\, and regional Middle East issues as they pertain to business and economics\, culture\, art and U.S. foreign policy. She also writes about religion\, minorities and immigration in the U.S. She is based in Ramallah\, West Bank. Learn more about her work at www.daliahatuqa.com. \nPierre Haski is a France Inter correspondent and commentator\, former deputy editor of Libération\, and a long-time journalist covering Israel and the region. He appears daily on Radio France on the emission Géopolitique where he speaks on international geopolitics.  \nPeter van Agtmael is a photographer and member of Magnum Photos. He has published three books including\, most recently\, Sorry for the War\, which covers the vast dissonance between the United States at war. He is recently back from the Middle East\, having been on assignment for The New Yorker.  \nMyriam Benraad is a political scientist\, specialized in the Middle East\, and Professor of International Relations at Schiller International University in Paris\, where she also heads the Department for International Relations and Diplomacy. Interested in the role of revenge in contemporary conflicts\, she is the author\, among recent publications on this subject\, of L’État islamique est-il défait ? (CNRS Éditions\, 2023) ; « Terrorisme et vengeance »\, Esprit (September 2023) ; and Terrorisme : les affres de la vengeance. Aux sources liminaires de la violence (Le Cavalier Bleu\, 2021).[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nThe last time a team of journalists convened at the American Library with the Overseas Press Club\, it was to discuss the mass protests across France following the fatal police shooting of Nahel M.\, a 17-year-old boy from Nanterre. Rewatch the conversation.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers 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. \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/coveringcrisis23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231206T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231206T203000
DTSTAMP:20260611T134012
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Slaves for Peanuts: An Evening with Jori Lewis and Robin Allison Davis
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the preface of her book Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest\, Liberation\, and a Crop That Changed History (2022)\, Jori Lewis poses a question: “How do we tell the stories of people that history forgets and the present avoids?” Over the course of her book\, Lewis works to tell precisely such a story\, deftly sifting through archives to uncover the lives and experiences of people who have been systematically written out of the historical record. \nSlaves for Peanuts exposes the pernicious connections between the demand for peanut oil in Europe and the persistence of slavery in Africa. Lewis shows how France continued to rely on slave labor in West Africa for the production of peanuts\, even long after slavery had been officially abolished in French territories. Her work animates the complex lives of historical people\, weaving them together through studies of agriculture and trade. The result is\, in the words of renowned scholar Imani Perry\, “a revelation” that “promises to transform our understanding of slavery and colonialism.” \nThis event will be moderated by Robin Allison Davis. \n  \nAbout the speakers:  \nJori Lewis writes narrative nonfiction that explores how people interact with their environments. Her reports and essays have been published in The Atlantic Magazine\, Orion Magazine and Emergence Magazine\, among others\, and she is a senior editor of Adi Magazine\, a literary magazine of global politics. In 2022\, she published her first book\, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest\, Liberation\, and a Crop That Changed History\, which was supported by the prestigious Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant\, a Silvers Grant for Work in Progress\, and it won a James Beard media award. \nRobin Allison Davis is an Emmy Award-winning television journalist with a passion for storytelling and the global perspective. Currently based in Paris\, she brings her passion to life within the realms of international development and freelance journalism. Beyond her work in journalism\, Robin is poised to release her memoir\, Surviving Paris\, in 2025 (Amistad/HarperCollins). This deeply personal account promises to take readers on a transformative journey through her experience with breast cancer and life lessons learned in the City of Light.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nLast year\, the Metcalf Institute hosted a webinar with Jori Lewis. Watch it here.  \nFor a sample of Lewis’s writing on people and plants\, check out her essay on the splendor of Senegal’s baobab trees in Emergence Magazine.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Lewis and Davis 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. \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_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Slaves for Peanuts:A Story of Conquest\, Liberation\, and a Crop That Changed History will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place\, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/lewis23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Future of Consent with Manon Garcia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Manon Garcia is a leading voice in conversations about consent\, autonomy\, and feminist philosophy. In her latest book\, La Conversation des Sexes (translated to The Joy of Consent in its English edition)\, Garcia delves into the philosophical traditions that gave rise to “consent” as a legal framework. What does it mean to “consent” to sex? How can consent serve as a guiding principle for personal and intimate relations? Garcia offers a nuanced revision of consent-based ethics\, imagining new paths forward for feminism. As scholar Nancy Bauer writes: “This book is no less than a blueprint for a new feminist revolution.” \nAbout the speaker: \nManon Garcia is a feminist philosopher and a teacher at the Free University in Berlin. After completing her studies at the École Normale Supérieure and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne\, she took on roles as a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago\, a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows\, and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. She has written two books: We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives (Princeton University Press\, 2021) and The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex (Harvard University Press\, 2023).  \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nGarcia’s first book\, We Are Not Born Submissive (2021)\, explores the complex history of female submission. Watch her discuss this book in an interview. \nLast April\, Garcia joined the philosopher Kate Kirkpatrick in another illuminating Evening with an Author program at the American Library in Paris. In case you missed it: you can watch a recording of that program here. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Garcia 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. \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_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of The Joy of Consent will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place\, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/garcia23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231212T203000
DTSTAMP:20260611T134012
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Serving Stories with Edward Chisholm
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After graduating from university in London in 2010\, Edward Chisholm moved to Paris\, where he hoped to kick off his career as a writer. To make ends meet\, he took up a stream of low-paying jobs\, including one as a waiter at a high-end restaurant. \nIn his memoir A Waiter in Paris (2022)\, Chisholm vividly captures the precarity of life as a service worker in the City of Light. The book has been characterized as “a Dickensian tale” (Publisher’s Weekly) and as a contemporary retelling of George Orwell’s 1933 travelogue Down and Out in Paris and London (The Wall Street Journal and The Daily Mail). Chisholm’s thoughtful critiques of contemporary Parisian society simmer beneath the surface of his whirlwind story\, which overflows with colorful characters and memorable scenes. This conversation will be moderated by writer\, editor\, and academic Russell Williams. \nJoin us at the Library to hear Chisholm’s reflections on the Parisian restaurant scene and his experience of writing a memoir. \n  \nAbout the speakers: \nEdward Chisholm was born in Dorset\, England. After graduating from university\, he moved to Paris\, where he lived and worked for seven years. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Wall Street Journal\, and the Financial Times Magazine. His memoir\, A Waiter in Paris\, was published in 2022. Chisholm is also a screenwriter; he is currently working to develop a TV series. \nRussell Williams teaches in the Comparative Literature and English department at the American University of Paris. He is also French editor at the Times Literary Supplement and is currently writing a book called French Weird.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nYou can read an excerpt from A Waiter in Paris here\, on Salon.com. \nIn 2013 – early in his time as a waiter in Paris – Chisholm wrote an op-ed called “Notes from a Parisian Kitchen” for The New York Times. Read it here.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Chisholm 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. \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_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of A Waiter in Paris will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place\, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/chisholm23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231213T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260611T134012
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Shakespeare in Palestine with Isabella Hammad
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join us for an illuminating conversation on Isabella Hammad‘s second novel\, Enter Ghost\, a story of family\, remembrance\, and shared resistance. \nReeling from a failed marriage\, Sonia\, a British-Palestinian actor\, returns to Haifa\, Israel\, to visit her estranged sister. When Sonia meets a local director\, Miriam\, she is roped into the staging of Hamlet in the historic city of Ramallah\, in the West Bank. While initially resistant\, Sonia begins to feel a sense of belonging and a respect for her fellow Palestinian actors\, who want Hamlet to speak to Palestine’s history. Enter Ghost expertly dives into Sonia’s past\, tracing where her relationship with her family\, and Palestine\, diverged. As Hamlet’s opening night draws closer\, Sonia realizes how many obstacles the production and its actors face. Amidst it all\, the life Sonia once knew starts to give way to the daunting\, exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home. \nHammad’s debut novel\, The Parisian\, illuminates a pivotal period of 20th-century Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man\, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. \nPlease note\, this event will not be recorded. \n  \nAbout the speaker: \nIsabella Hammad was born in London. Her writing has appeared publications including Conjunctions\, The Paris Review\, The New York Times. She was awarded the 2018 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and a 2019 O. Henry Prize. Her first novel The Parisian (2019) won a Palestine Book Award\, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Betty Trask Award from the Society of Authors in the UK. She was a National Book Foundation ‘5 Under 35’ Honoree\, and has received literary fellowships from MacDowell\, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Lannan Foundation. She was selected as one of the Granta ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ in 2023. Her second novel\, Enter Ghost\, was published in 2023.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nHammad appeared on France24 to discuss Enter Ghost. Watch the interview. \nIn an interview with Feroz Rather\, Hammad detailed how fiction unbuttons the constraints of history. Read in BOMB Magazine.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Hammad 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. \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_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Enter Ghost will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place\, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hammad23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231220T193000
DTSTAMP:20260611T134012
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SUMMARY:(In-Person Only) Finding Form\, Family\, and Fatherhood with Kwame Alexander
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Library is delighted to welcome poet\, children’s author\, and memoirist Kwame Alexander.  \nAlexander’s 2021 book\, The Door of No Return\, an instant #1 New York Times Bestseller\, was first of a three-part series following a 19th-century Ghanaian boy as he encounters the transatlantic slave trade.  \nIn 2023\, Alexander released his first book for adults\, a memoir called Why Fathers Cry at Night. The memoir unfolds through a medley of poems\, recipes\, letters\, and other personal fragments\, kaleidoscopically detailing Alexander’s relationships with his daughters and with his own parents. \nOther works by Alexander include The Crossover\, a novel told entirely through verse\, which won the prestigious Newbery Medal\, and The Undefeated\, a picture book that commemorates the resilience of Black Americans throughout history. \nModerated by journalist Pamela Druckerman\, join us for a conversation on boundary-pushing poetry and literature. \nPlease note this event’s early start time. \n  \nAbout the speakers: \nKwame Alexander is a New York Times-bestselling author of 39 books. His work includes The Crossover (2014)\, for which he won the Newbery Medal; Becoming Muhammad Ali (2019\, co-authored with James Patterson); The Undefeated (2019\, nominated for the National Book Award); and Why Fathers Cry at Night (2023). He is also the Executive Producer\, Showrunner\, and Writer of a television adaptation of The Crossover\, which recently premiered on Disney+.  \nPamela Druckerman is a French-American journalist and documentary producer who focuses on France and family life. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times International Edition\, The Atlantic\, Le Monde\, Harper’s\, and more. She is also the author of five books\, including Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (2012) and There Are No Grown-Ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story (2018).[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nKwame Alexander recently appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross to discuss his memoir\, Why Fathers Cry at Night. Listen to the interview here. \nAlexander’s award-winning novel for young adults\, The Crossover\, is told through a series of about two hundred poems. Watch Alexander reflect upon his poetic process and read an excerpt from the novel here. \nA television adaptation of The Crossover premiered this year. You can watch the trailer here; the first season is available on Disney+.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be in person only. Alexander and Druckerman will appear in the Reading Room\, and the discussion will not be recorded. Please note this event’s early start time. \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_separator][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Why Fathers Cry at Night will be available for purchase at the Library in the week leading up to this event and while the event takes place\, generously provided by Smith&Son. All sales support this local independent bookstore. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][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][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/alexander23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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