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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The State of the Arts with Missy Mazzoli\, Royce Vavrek\, and Nia Franklin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join Cultural Fellows Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek in conversation with Composer-in-Residence Nia Franklin as they consider art in\, about\, and for the twenty-first century. In this exclusive roundtable bringing together three major figures of the new artistic generation\, we will consider the ongoing vitality of art\, and the challenges artists\, and art institutions\, face. They will examine the performing arts in dialogue with contemporary writing\, the socio-political stakes of artistic practice\, the role of the artist in relation to modernity\, and the capacity of art to give shape to the future.  \nAbout the speakers: \nNia Imani Franklin is a composer and singer whose music has been performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra\, Friction Quartet\, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra\, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra\, and many others. Previous Composer-in-Residence tenures include Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara\, California and Festival Napa Valley where she was awarded the Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Classical Music. Her 2021 project\, “Extended”\, featured an assortment of all-original RnB songs\, and her orchestra piece\, “Chrysalis Extended”\,  which has 3.7 million views on her TikTok profile. \nGrammy-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli was deemed “one of the more consistently intentive\, surprising composers now working in New York” (The New York Times) and “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out New York). Mazzoli was the Mead Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2018-2021\, and from 2015-2018 she was the Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia. Mazzoli’s music has been performed internationally by Kronos Quartet\, Norwegian National Opera\, eighth blackbird\, pianist Emanual Ax\, Opera Philadelphia\, LA Opera\, New York City Opera\, the Detroit Symphony\, the LA Philharmonic\, the American Composers Orchestra\, the Boston Symphony\, JACK Quartet\, cellist Maya Beiser\, violinist Jennifer Koh\, Dublin’s Crash Ensemble\, the Sydney Symphony\, and many others. In 2018 she made history as one of the first two women to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.  \nRoyce Vavrek is an Alberta-born librettist and lyricist who has been called “the indie Hofmannsthal” (The New Yorker) and “one of the most celebrated and sought after librettists in the world” (CBC Radio). His opera “Angel’s Bone” with composer Du Yun was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. Upcoming commissions include “Agnes” for Icelandic Opera (with Daníel Bjarnason)\,“Lincoln in the Bardo” for The Metropolitan Opera (with Missy Mazzoli)\, “Fanny andAlexander” for La Monnaie (with Mikael Karlsson)\, “Indians on Vacation” for EdmontonOpera/Against the Grain (with Ian Cusson) and “My Family // Cambodia\, 1975” (with Vivian Fung) supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. \nReverberations:  \nIn March\, the Library is delighted to be hosting Reverberations: Literature Out Loud\, a festival spotlighting innovations in the arts. In a series of concerts\, conversations\, and workshops\, artists and authors are coming together to celebrate the history of storytelling and sound. Learn more about the festival and discover other events. \nReverberations is organized in partnership with the Opéra Comique and with the generous support of Festival Napa Valley\, the American Center for Arts and Culture\, and the Florence Gould Foundation. [/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. \nPlease note\, clocks moved forward in the US on 10 March\, but do not move forward in France until 31 March: If you are attending a virtual or hybrid program from a US time zone\, the time difference will be one hour less between 10 March and 31 March\, and will return to normal on 31 March. \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/reverberationsroundtable24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Selby Wynn Schwartz on The Female Khoros
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What if women’s lives and relationships were at the center of history? What kinds of stories would we have access to – stories of love between women and of female subjectivity – if our historical record were not dominated by male voices?  \nIn her debut novel\, After Sappho\, Selby Wynn Schwartz recovers biographical fragments about queer feminist women from history and weaves them together with imagined details. Schwartz breathes life into the stories of these writers\, philosophers\, and artists\, melding their voices together to create a kaleidoscope of women’s experience. Much of the book is written in the voice of a collective\, female “we” – what one NPR reviewer calls “the first person choral.” Join us at the Library for a conversation with Schwartz about women’s history\, Sapphic lineage\, and After Sappho’s genre-bending fusion of fiction and biography. \nAbout the speaker: \nSelby Wynn Schwartz is the author of After Sappho (Galley Beggar Press)\, which was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and shortlisted for both the 2023 Orwell Prize in Political Fiction and the 2023 James Tait Black Prize in Fiction. Her novella A Life in Chameleons received the 2021 Reflex Press Novella Award; in summer 2024\, she will be a Fellow at the Maison Dora Maar in Ménerbes. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. \nReverberations:  \nIn March\, the Library is delighted to be hosting Reverberations: Literature Out Loud\, a festival spotlighting innovations in the arts. In a series of concerts\, conversations\, and workshops\, artists and authors are coming together to celebrate the history of storytelling and sound. Learn more about the festival and discover other events. \nReverberations is organized in partnership with the Opéra Comique and with the generous support of Festival Napa Valley\, the American Center for Arts and Culture\, and the Florence Gould Foundation. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nA New York Times review of After Sappho describes Schwartz’s project as “erudite and chatty\, grounded in scholarship yet freed from any masculinist impulse for certainty or linear cohesion.” Read the review here. \nBe sure to check out an excerpt from After Sappho before the event![/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 speaker 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. \nPlease note\, clocks moved forward in the US on 10 March\, but do not move forward in France until 31 March: If you are attending a virtual or hybrid program from a US time zone\, the time difference will be one hour less between 10 March and 31 March\, and will return to normal on 31 March. \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]Read along with the Library! If you want to prepare ahead of this event\, copies of After Sappho will be on sale one week in advance\, as well as after the event. Stop by Member Services to purchase your copy. Books are generously provided by Smith&Son. \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/wynnschwartz24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240314T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240314T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
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SUMMARY:(In Person Only) Strange Dreams: An Evening of Music with Cultural Fellows Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Following the success of their hit opera Breaking the Waves\, which made its French debut at Opéra Comique last season\, American composer Missy Mazzoli and Canadian/American librettist Royce Vavrek return to Paris as American Library in Paris Cultural Fellows. In this exclusive preview concert\, Mazzoli and Vavrek will present their compositions and speak about current projects. Soprano Amelia Watkins will perform arias from Mazzoli and Vavrek’s last four operas\, and the creators will discuss their approach to musical storytelling in the 21st century\, an approach that expands the operatic tradition to include stories of cult leaders\, female explorers\, suburban loneliness and much more. \nThe Cultural Fellows will be accompanied by Benjamin Alunni\, Amelia Watkins\, and Fernando Palomeque. \nAbout the artists:  \nGrammy-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli was deemed “one of the more consistently intentive\, surprising composers now working in New York” (The New York Times) and “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out New York). Mazzoli was the Mead Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2018-2021\, and from 2015-2018 she was the Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia. Mazzoli’s music has been performed internationally by Kronos Quartet\, Norwegian National Opera\, eighth blackbird\, pianist Emanual Ax\, Opera Philadelphia\, LA Opera\, New York City Opera\, the Detroit Symphony\, the LA Philharmonic\, the American Composers Orchestra\, the Boston Symphony\, JACK Quartet\, cellist Maya Beiser\, violinist Jennifer Koh\, Dublin’s Crash Ensemble\, the Sydney Symphony\, and many others. In 2018 she made history as one of the first two women to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.  \nRoyce Vavrek is an Alberta-born librettist and lyricist who has been called “the indie Hofmannsthal” (The New Yorker) and “one of the most celebrated and sought after librettists in the world” (CBC Radio). His opera “Angel’s Bone” with composer Du Yun was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. Upcoming commissions include “Agnes” for Icelandic Opera (with Daníel Bjarnason)\,“Lincoln in the Bardo” for The Metropolitan Opera (with Missy Mazzoli)\, “Fanny andAlexander” for La Monnaie (with Mikael Karlsson)\, “Indians on Vacation” for EdmontonOpera/Against the Grain (with Ian Cusson) and “My Family // Cambodia\, 1975” (with Vivian Fung) supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. \nWhile maintaining a major presence in the contemporary music repertoire Benjamin Alunni loves devoting himself to creation. He regularly performs on the stage of several leading stages such as IRCAM-Centre Pompidou\, le Théâtre de la Monnaie I De Munt\, Théâtres du Luxembourg\, l’Opéra Comique\, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence\, Lincoln Center\, Gulbenkian Foundation… He began his professional career in Baroque music – Christophe Rousset\, Skip Sempé\, Raphaël Pichon… He has been performing regularly with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie since the revival of the mythical production of Lully‘s Atys. His love for crossing genres have led him to work with choreographers such as Thomas Lebrun – Centre Choreography National de Tours in which he performed at Festival d’Avignon\, Palais de Chaillot and while touring France and Asia. Confluence(s) Benjamin’s first solo album – Klarthe records – is dedicated to French melody inspired by Jewish cultures. He is the vocal coach for the Classe Libre at Le Cours Florent in Paris. To find out more\, please visit benjaminalunni.com \nDubbed “The divine Ms. Watkins” by the New York Times\, soprano Amelia Watkins has performed with leading orchestras and opera companies in the United States\, Canada\, Asia and Europe. Since her European debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus\, she has appeared with such organizations as the Los Angeles Opera\, New York City Opera\, the Estates Theatre/National Theatre Prague\, the Brooklyn Academy of Music\, Carnegie Hall\, Weill Hall\, Lincoln Centre\, the Tanglewood Music Festival\, the Verbier Festival\, The National Arts Centre\, the Prototype Festival and with Musica Viva in Hong Kong. Embracing musical styles from Bach to Berio and beyond\, Amelia specializes in the works of living and experimental composers. Amelia has been featured in recording on the multi Grammy-nominated album Vocabularies with Bobby McFerrin\, Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Song From The Uproar\, Albany Record’s New Growth\, and Cantaloupe Record’s Acquanetta\, and various commercial and indie film scores. ameliawatkins.com \nConductor and pianist (Buenos Aires\, 1990)\, Fernando Palomeque is one of the most recognized Argentine musicians of his generation. He has graduated from the National Conservatory of Music of Paris in the DAI (Post-Master) and obtained his master degree in conducting at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Dusseldorf (Class : Rüdiger Bohn) In addition\, he did a specialization in conducting contemporary repertoire with Jean-Philippe Wurtz at the Conservatory of Strasbourg. His engagement with new music\, led him to work with some of the most important ensembles in the world such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain\, Ensemble Musikfabrik\, Klangforum Wien and Ensemble Modern. Until 2024\, he will be part of the Young Promising Conductors project of Ulysses Network. Recently\, he received the 3rd Prize at the III International Conducting Competition “Città di Brescia.” \n  \nReverberations:  \nIn March\, the Library is delighted to be hosting Reverberations: Literature Out Loud\, a festival spotlighting innovations in the arts. In a series of concerts\, conversations\, and workshops\, artists and authors are coming together to celebrate the history of storytelling and sound. Learn more about the festival and discover other events. \nReverberations is organized in partnership with the Opéra Comique and with the generous support of Festival Napa Valley\, the American Center for Arts and Culture\, and the Florence Gould Foundation. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nMissy and Royce’s opera Breaking the Waves was described as “among the best 21st-century operas yet.” (Opera News) Rewatch their appearance at the American Library in Paris last year to speak about staging the show at Opéra Comique and offer a preview performance.  \nMissy has been nominated for three Grammy awards\, most recently for her 2023 album Dark with Excessive Bright. Listen to an excerpt. \nMissy and Royce are currently working on an operatic adaptation of Lincoln in the Bardo\, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera\, and slated to premiere at the Met in 2026. Read about this historic commission.  \nIn 2016\, alongside composer Ellen Reid\, Missy founded Luna Composition Lab\, a mentorship program for young female\, nonbinary and gender nonconforming composers. Discover their work. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The performance will be in person at the Library only. \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/mazzoli_vavrek24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Journeys in Sound and Sight with Dimitris Lyacos and Vanessa Onwuemezi
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join us for an evening of exchange between two contemporary writers: Dimitris Lyacos\, author of the highly-esteemed Poena Damni trilogy and Vanessa Onwuemezi\, Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris.   \nConsidered a front-runner for a Nobel Prize in literature\, Lyacos is known for the drifting\, dreamlike quality of his work. Across his considerable oeuvre\, he turns a post-modern eye upon time-honored themes and motifs\, including the demarcation between body and spirit\, and the tensions between life and death. With blistering language and hallucinatory settings\, Lyacos creates worlds that sometimes verge upon the dystopian. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages\, making Lyacos among the most-translated contemporary Greek writers. \nOnwuemezi is both a poet and a prose fiction writer. In her work\, she\, too\, deals with sweeping themes: themes like language\, loss\, and family. During her time as a Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris\, Onwuemezi will conduct research into Antillean poetry and philosophy\, which will form the foundation for her next project. \nAt the Library\, in a conversation moderated by Nafkote Tamirat\, Lyacos and Onwuemezi will come together to explore the overlaps and divergences between their poetic approaches. Their conversation will center upon topics like style\, rhythm\, setting\, and musicality. \nAbout the speakers: \nDimitris Lyacos’s Poena Damni trilogy is one of the best-selling and most highly regarded works of contemporary European literature. Renowned for combining\, in a genre-defying form\, themes from literary tradition with elements from ritual\, religion\, philosophy and anthropology\, Poena Damni reexamines grand narratives in the context of some of the enduring motifs of the Western Canon\, most notably violence\, mental illness\, the scapegoat and the return of the dead. Developed as a work in progress over the course of three decades\, the trilogy has been translated in more than 20 languages and has given rise to musical\, visual and theatre projects. Lyacos in an entrant in Who’s Who\, the database of the most prominent individuals across all fields of human activity and he is also considered as Greece’s most likely candidate for a Nobel Prize in Literature. Chapter G from the trilogy’s prequel Until the Victim Becomes our Own was published in MAYDAY while chapters D\, L and V are forthcoming in Image Journal\, River Styx and Chicago Review later on this year. \nVanessa Onwuemezi is a London-based writer and poet. Her short story “At the Heart of Things” won The White Review’s Short Story Prize in 2019. Another of her stories\, titled “Green Afternoon\,” was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2022. Onwuemezi published her debut short story collection\, Dark Neighbourhood\, with Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2021. The collection was named one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2021; it was also shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and for the Edge Hill Prize in 2022. \nNafkote Tamirat (she/her) is a novelist\, short story writer\, teacher\, and translator. A graduate of Yale University and Columbia University\, Nafkote studied translation at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales\, where she translated the Amharic-language play\, Yekermo Sew by Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin\, which was later performed by the Masrah Ensemble at the Triangles Festival-in-Progress in Beirut. Her first novel\, The Parking Lot Attendant\, was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She’s currently working on her second novel\, which is about the Ethiopian diaspora in the US\, but also exiled giants living in time-loop prisons. \nReverberations:  \nIn March\, the Library is delighted to be hosting Reverberations: Literature Out Loud\, a festival spotlighting innovations in the arts. In a series of concerts\, conversations\, and workshops\, artists and authors are coming together to celebrate the history of storytelling and sound. Learn more about the festival and discover other events. \nReverberations is organized in partnership with the Opéra Comique and with the generous support of Festival Napa Valley\, the American Center for Arts and Culture\, and the Florence Gould Foundation. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nTo get a sense of Dimitris Lyacos’s vertiginous poetic style\, check out this excerpt from his book Z213: Exit. \nVanessa Onwuemezi came to the Library in 2022 to discuss her widely-acclaimed short-story collection\, Dark Neighbourhood. In case you missed it: you can watch a recording of the 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 (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_separator][/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/lyacos-onwuemezi24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(In Person Only) Save Haven: A Performance by Composer-in-Residence Nia Franklin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nMiss America 2019 sings jazz standards\, spirituals\, and music of her own from her 2021 EP\, Extended. Nia will be accompanied by Julie Sévilla-Fraysse on the cello and Anastasia Calmus on the piano. \n\nAbout the performer:  \nNia Imani Franklin is a composer and singer whose music has been performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra\, Friction Quartet\, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra\, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra\, and many others. In 2024 Nia was named the inaugural Composer-in-Residence for the American Library in Paris where she will perform this spring. Previous Composer-in-Residence tenures include Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara\, California and Festival Napa Valley where she was awarded the Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Classical Music.  \nUpon finishing her Lincoln Center fellowship in New York City\, she earned the jobs of Miss New York 2018 and Miss America 2019 where she devoted her service to arts education advocacy. \nReverberations:  \nIn March\, the Library is delighted to be hosting Reverberations: Literature Out Loud\, a festival spotlighting innovations in the arts. In a series of concerts\, conversations\, and workshops\, artists and authors are coming together to celebrate the history of storytelling and sound. Learn more about the festival and discover other events. \nReverberations is organized in partnership with the Opéra Comique and with the generous support of Festival Napa Valley\, the American Center for Arts and Culture\, and the Florence Gould Foundation. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nIn September of 2021 Nia released her EP\, “Extended”\, which featured an assortment of all-original RnB songs\, and her orchestra piece\, “Chrysalis Extended”\,  which has 3.7 million views on her TikTok profile. Listen to a preview. \nIn July 2022\, Nia premiered her choral piece\, “Polaris”\, which celebrates Juneteenth having recently become a national holiday in the United States. Festival Napa Valley commissioned this piece and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City performed it live. See a recording.   \nIn 2019\, she founded Compose Her – an initiative whose ongoing objective is to empower women in music. Discover this organization.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The performance will be in person at the Library only. \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/franklin24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Offsite at KAWAI France) John Ashbery’s Poetic World in Music: A Talk and Live Performance
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This event is in-person at KAWAI France (11 Pl. de la Bataille de Stalingrad\, 75010 Paris). \nIn this combination talk and performance\, Karin Roffman (John Ashbery’s biographer) and Sharon Roffman (violin) will weave poetry\, biography\, and musical excerpts together to offer a tour of the life and soundscape of iconic American poet John Ashbery (1927-2017). \nWell known in Paris\, where he lived between 1955 and 1965\, and where he worked an art critic for the International Herald Tribune while publishing his first books of poetry\, Ashbery’s connection to the world of art and poetry have been long discussed. It may come as something of a surprise that he thought about his writing as having a closer relationship to music than art.  \nAs Ashbery put it: “I have always felt that my ideas came out of music…I listen to music all the time and especially when I am writing. I always have a record on or listen to the classical radio station…It is a trigger\, but I would be at a loss to say how.” \nOver the course of his long life\, he amassed a huge and eclectic collection of records\, cassettes\, and CDs; many poems referenced pieces and composers; hundreds of pages of unpublished letters to friends detailed enthusiastic musical discoveries and illuminated his listening habits. Composers\, including Elliot Carter\, Ned Rorem and Alvin Lucier\, enjoyed setting his poems to music. In Spring 2021\, Karin Roffman published the first study of Ashbery as poet\, musician\, and record collector: “A Playlist” in Evergreen Review\, an essay on the relationship between his poetry and his listening\, highlighting ten works from his music library: https://evergreenreview.com/read/from-john-ashberys-music-library-a-playlist/ \nAbout the speakers:  \nKarin Roffman\, author of The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2017) which was named one of the 100 notable books for 2017 by the New York Times\, is currently completing a full biography. In 2019\, in collaboration with the Yale University Digital Humanities Lab\, she released John Ashbery’s Nest\, a virtual tour and website on John Ashbery’s Hudson house. Her recent essay\, “John Ashbery’s Music Library: A Playlist”; appeared in Evergreen Review (March 2021). Her essays on 20 th and 21 st century writers and painters have appeared in Raritan\, Modern Fiction Studies\, Artforum\, Rain Taxi\, Yale Review\, Chicago Review\, Wallace Stevens Journal and others. Her first book\, From the Modernist Annex\, won the Elizabeth Agee American Literature prize. She is currently senior lecturer of Humanities and Associate Director of Public Humanities at Yale University. \nAmerican violinist Sharon Roffman\, made her solo concerto debut at age sixteen with the New Jersey Symphony and is now equally sought after as a soloist\, chamber musician\, orchestral leader and music educator around the world. Ms. Roffman was concertmaster of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra from 2017-2023 and has performed as a guest concertmaster with the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden\, the London Symphony Orchestra\, Swedish Radio Symphony\, BBC Philharmonic\, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France\, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra\, Scottish Chamber Orchestra\, Estonian Festival Orchestra\, principal 2nd of Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen\, and has been a frequent guest member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra\, among others. Passionate about combining performance and education\, Ms. Roffman is the founder and artistic director of ClassNotes\, a chamber music ensemble and non-profit organization dedicated to introducing public school students to classical music through interdisciplinary school residencies\, and regularly creates online curricula for students and audiences alike to learn about music. \nFrench-American pianist David Lively has a passionate attachment to the artistic legacies of France and the United States that makes him a performer of choice for the music of both countries. In 1969\, at the age of 16\, he left his native United States for France to study at the École normale de musique with Jules Gentil (formerly Alfred Cortot’s assistant). He went on to study with Wilhelm Kempff\, Eugene Istomin\, Nadia Boulanger\, Erich Leinsdorf and\, above all\, Claudio Arrau. With his dazzling technique and musical intensity\, he quickly won a number of international prizes\, including the Concours International Marguerite Long\, the Queen Elisabeth Competition\, the Geneva International Music Competition\, the International Tchaikovsky Competition\, where he was also awarded the Special Prize for contemporary music\, and the Dino Ciani Prize of La Scala of Milan\, winning a growing public following on each occasion. As artistic director of the Saint-Lizier Festival in Ariège in southwestern France\, Mr. Lively made the event a forum for young talent and seasoned musicians. Much in demand as a teacher\, he has given numerous master classes at the Shanghai Piano Festival\, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki\, at the Athens Conservatory\, at the Enescu Lyceum in Bucharest\, at the Ecole normale de musique’s own Académie de musique française in Paris\, at the Royal Conservatory of Scotland\, and for the Yuri Bashmet Academy throughout Russia. He is a founding member of ADAP International Association of Artists for Peace\, alongside Hüseyin Sermet\, Cyprien Katsaris\, Ramzi Yassa and Nima Sarkechik. \nFranco- German violist Béatrice Muthelet joined in 2001\, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra as Principal Violist and also became a founding member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra\, at Claudio Abbado’s personal invitation. Since then\, she has often been invited all over the world as guest leader in orchestras such as the Gewandhaus in Leipzig\, the Munich Philharmonic\, the Bamberg symphony\, the Swedish Radio\, and the orchestra of La Scala in Milan\, to name but a few. Béatrice Muthelet grew up in Versailles\, before moving to Israel at the age of fifteen and joining the prestigious Telma Yelin High School of Arts. She was awarded a bursary by the American Israel Foundation and trained as a violinist in the class of Chaim Taub\, also benefitting from masterclasses given by Isaac Stern and Shlomo Mintz. Aged nineteen\, she undertook to further her studies in the USA and became Pinkas Zukerman’s first viola student\, in the Manhattan school of Music\, on a full scholarship. \nReverberations:  \nIn March\, the Library is delighted to be hosting Reverberations: Literature Out Loud\, a festival spotlighting innovations in the arts. In a series of concerts\, conversations\, and workshops\, artists and authors are coming together to celebrate the history of storytelling and sound. Learn more about the festival and discover other events. \nReverberations is organized in partnership with the Opéra Comique and with the generous support of Festival Napa Valley\, the American Center for Arts and Culture\, and the Florence Gould Foundation. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: This event is in-person at KAWAI France (11 Pl. de la Bataille de Stalingrad\, 75010 Paris). \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/roffmans24/
LOCATION:Kawai\, 11 Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad\, Paris\, 75010\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240229T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240229T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Lessons from Language with Brian Dillon
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Have you ever read a single sentence that sticks with you\, or seen a piece of art that lingers in the back of your mind years later? How do our encounters with literature and art become parts of us–features of our personal and collective cultural consciousness?  \nWriter\, critic\, and art-lover Brian Dillon revels in the pleasures of the word. In his quest to understand and experiment with these pleasures\, Dillon has published four books with Fitzcarraldo Editions. Essayism\, a consideration of the craft of the essay\, demands that we consider “a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial.” Suppose a Sentence collects essays inspired by single\, striking sentences in literary history. Affinities asks why things are drawn together\, and we drawn to things. Refusing the position of the critic as distanced from the creative process\, Dillon insists upon the simple joy of reading\, looking\, learning\, and making. Personal\, poetic\, and reflective\, each book is a new try at writing. Join Dillon in celebrating major and minor moments in art and literature\, marveling at the mechanics of prose and the lessons we can glean from it. \nAbout the speaker: \nBrian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Suppose a Sentence\, Essayism\, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize)\, Objects in This Mirror: Essays\, I Am Sitting in a Room\, Sanctuary\, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and In the Dark Room\, which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. His writing has appeared in the Guardian\, New York Times\, London Review of Books\, the New Yorker\, New York Review of Books\, frieze and Artforum. He has curated exhibitions for Tate and Hayward galleries. He lives in London.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nA review in The Guardian describes Dillon’s latest book\, Affinities\, as “an invitation to look together\,” or “to attend closely in the company of someone else.”  Read the review here.  \nDillon’s book Suppose a Sentence is a series of essays\, each of which examines a single sentence in a work of literature. Read an excerpt from the book (a contemplation of a sentence by Charlotte Brontë) here.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]About Fitzcarraldo February at the Library: \nThis program is part of Fitzcarraldo February\, a series of events at The American Library in Paris featuring authors who have recently published books with the London-based independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions.  \nKnown for their distinctive blue and white covers\, and esteemed for their highly selective catalogue\, Fitzcarraldo is the leading publisher of innovative\, boundary-pushing literature. Founded in 2014 with the mission to publish only twenty-two works per year\, the publishing house has already established itself as champion of the most exciting and ambitious literary voices of our time\, including four Nobel Prize-winning writers: Svetlana Alexievich (2015)\, Olga Tokarczuk (2018)\, Annie Ernaux (2022)\, and Jon Fosse (2023). The Library is delighted to welcome Marie Darrieussecq\, Thea Lenarduzzi\, Claudia Durastanti\, Vanessa Onwuemezi\, Kirsty Bell\, and Brian Dillon\, all of whose work explores the frontiers of genre\, form\, and craft\, challenging us to rethink what writing can do. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speaker 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][/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/dillon24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240228T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240228T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
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SUMMARY:(In Person Full) (Hybrid) Magazine Launch: Journal
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Why does poetry matter? Although some may speak of the demise of poetry\, what we’re seeing instead is a revitalization\, which testifies to its ongoing urgency as an art. More than ever\, we are in need of dialogue\, of initiating new discussion\, and of activating the language that poetry creates. The magazine Journal participates in this situation by placing poets of different languages in conversation through the space of the page.  \nEdited by the poet and artist Jim Dine and poet and translator Vincent Broqua\, Journal is a new poetry magazine that seeks to publish poets internationally. The Library is delighted to host the launch of the first issue\, with contributions from sixteen authors who write (and translate) in different languages: from Brazilian Portuguese to Persan as well as French\, English and Dutch. Celebrating a wide spectrum of voices who are political\, lyrical\, conceptual\, visual\, comic\, and more\, it represents the liveliness of poetry today with a renewed sense of its vitality. \nJoin contributors Jim Dine\, Hugo Pernet\, Ghazal Mosadeq\, Elke de Rijcke\, Vincent Broqua\, and Dan Clarke for a reading and discussion of the need for poetry of the present.  \nJournal publishes international poetry in translation or not. It seeks to further and invent conversations. The cover is by Daniel Clarke.  \nThis launch is organized in partnership with Double Change\, the Franco-American poetry association. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nFounded in 2000 in order to juxtapose\, unite and reunite the poetries of France and the United States in a bi-national forum\, Double Change looks to represent a diverse\, eclectic spectrum of poetic activity in both countries. Discover their poets. \nFamed artist and poet Jim Dine\, editor and contributor to Journal\, has had more than 300 solo exhibitions over his career\, including retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New York MOMA. His work is in permanent collections including Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the the Centre Pompidou\, the National Gallery of Art\, the Guggenheim\, and the London Tate Gallery. Listen to Dine in conversation at the Morgan Library & Museum and read an interview in Forbes. [/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_1706107974102{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/launchjournal24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240227T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240227T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
CREATED:20240124T142053Z
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT Everyday Antiblackness in France: An Evening with Trica Keaton (In Person Only)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How do Black people experience race and racism differently in the United States and in France?  How do the distinct histories\, cultures\, and political systems of each country produce different versions of antiblackness? What (and who) gets sidelined or pushed out of the picture in French notions of universalism and republicanism? And how do Black people in France\, in their everyday lives and relationships\, expose the cracks in the logic of French universalism? \nTrica Keaton delves into these questions in her book #You Know You’re Black in France When . . . : The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness. Her work draws from current events\, French political and social history\, critical scholarship about race and Blackness\, and her own experiences\, offering an insightful commentary on the contradictions that haunt conversations about race in France. #You Know You’re Black in France When . . . : The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness was shortlisted for The American Library in Paris’s 2023 Book Award.  \nTrica will be in conversation with Patrick Banks. \nAbout the speakers: \nTrica Keaton is a professor and an interdisciplinary social scientist in the department of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College with affiliations in the departments of Sociology and Film and Media Studies. Her publications include #You Know You’re Black in France When…: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness. \nPatrick Banks is the founder of The Californien\, a consultancy specializing in advising and collaborating with artists\, creatives\, and entrepreneurs in the areas of strategy\, cultural production\, and business development. Before relocating to Paris\, Patrick had a successful career in the legal field and real estate development in the cities of New Orleans and San Francisco.  Patrick’s diverse professional background and passion for the arts drive his commitment to empowering and elevating the global creative community through The Californien.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nTrica Keaton wrote a historical overview of the word “race” in a book called Keywords for African American Studies.  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 In-person only and will not be recorded. \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/keaton24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240221T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240221T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) How to Make Space with Kirsty Bell
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In The Undercurrents\, the breakdown of a marriage catalyzes an investigation into the places that structure the seasons of our lives. From the perspective of the Berlin apartment which housed her marital life\, author Kirsty Bell dives into the archives of the city: from marshy origins\, to urban experiments\, to wartime devastation and disjointed efforts at rebuilding. Alongside the monumental history of the city\, she uncovers the lives of her building’s former inhabitants\, vividly conjuring the experiences of people who shared the same urban topography across generations of historical change. In so doing\, she draws into light the overlaps in major and minor histories\, questions the division of domestic and public spaces\, and locates the resonance of body and environment. Join Bell at the Library to discuss the tides within and the psychological\, and architectural\, structures we build to keep the floods at bay.  \nAbout the speaker: \nKirsty Bell is a British/American writer and art critic living in Berlin. She is the author of The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin\, published in 2022 by Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and Other Press (US) and The Artist’s House: From Workplace to Artwork (Sternberg Press\, 2013)\, for which she was awarded a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. A contributing editor of frieze from 2011-2021\, she has also published widely in art magazines and exhibition catalogues\, lectured in Art Academies throughout Europe\, and has been an Advisor at the Rijksakademie\, Amsterdam since 2015. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nIn 2022\, Kirsty Bell published an essay in Lit Hub that introduces one of The Undercurrents’s key themes: the relationship between domestic life\, urban design\, and political history in Berlin. Read the essay here.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]About Fitzcarraldo February at the Library: \nThis program is part of Fitzcarraldo February\, a series of events at The American Library in Paris featuring authors who have recently published books with the London-based independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions.  \nKnown for their distinctive blue and white covers\, and esteemed for their highly selective catalogue\, Fitzcarraldo is the leading publisher of innovative\, boundary-pushing literature. Founded in 2014 with the mission to publish only twenty-two works per year\, the publishing house has already established itself as champion of the most exciting and ambitious literary voices of our time\, including four Nobel Prize-winning writers: Svetlana Alexievich (2015)\, Olga Tokarczuk (2018)\, Annie Ernaux (2022)\, and Jon Fosse (2023). The Library is delighted to welcome Marie Darrieussecq\, Thea Lenarduzzi\, Claudia Durastanti\, Vanessa Onwuemezi\, Kirsty Bell\, and Brian Dillon\, all of whose work explores the frontiers of genre\, form\, and craft\, challenging us to rethink what writing can do. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speaker 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][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Read along with the Library! If you want to prepare ahead of this event\, copies of The Undercurrents will be on sale one week in advance\, as well as after the event. Stop by Member Services to purchase your copy. Books are generously provided by Smith&Son. \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/bell24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240220T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240220T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Vanessa Onwuemezi and Thea Lenarduzzi: Writing Home
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The question motivating the writing of celebrated emerging authors Vanessa Onwuemezi and Thea Lenarduzzi is the possibility\, or impossibility\, of home. Considering the places called home\, the meaning attached to the term\, and the homes we make in language\, the writers also grapple with exclusion\, loss\, and ephemerality.  \nIn Dandelions\, winner of the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize\, Thea Lenarduzzi meditates upon family history\, migration\, nationalism\, and the meaning of “home” across generations and continents. Through a multi-generational exploration of her family’s journey from northern Italy to the UK\, Lenarduzzi delves into questions of national consciousness\, memory\, and identity construction. While Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris\, Vanessa Onwuemezi is drawing from Antillean poetry and philosophy to place translation and migration in conversation\, and to reflect upon transit: between languages\, places\, and cultures; across mediums\, identities\, and time. Together\, Onwuemezi and Lenarduzzi engage in a rich dialogue on the poetics of memory\, constructions of identity\, and the universal search for belonging in a rapidly changing world. \nAbout the speaker: \nVanessa Onwuemezi is a London-based writer and poet. Her short story “At the Heart of Things” won The White Review’s Short Story Prize in 2019. Another of her stories\, titled “Green Afternoon\,” was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2022. Onwuemezi published her debut short story collection\, Dark Neighbourhood\, with Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2021. The collection was named one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2021; it was also shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and for the Edge Hill Prize in 2022. \nThea Lenarduzzi is a writer\, broadcaster\, and former editor at the Times Literary Supplement. She was born and raised in northern Italy and moved to the UK as a young adult. In 2020\, Lenarduzzi won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize with her proposal for Dandelions. The full memoir was published with Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2022. Dandelions was shortlisted for the Ackerly Prize\, an annual award for the best autobiographical volume by a British author. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nVanessa Onwuemezi came to the Library in 2022 to discuss her widely-acclaimed short-story collection\, Dark Neighbourhood. In case you missed it: you can watch a recording of the program here. \nThe Financial Times reviewed Dandelions\, deeming it a “timely investigation of Italian identity and fascist legacy” that “illuminates the roots of nationalism the world over.” Read the review here. \nOnwuemezi’s “At the Heart of Things” won The White Review’s Short Story Prize in 2019. Read it here.   \nYou can read an excerpt of Dandelions here\, on Literary Hub.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]About Fitzcarraldo February at the Library: \nThis program is part of Fitzcarraldo February\, a series of events at The American Library in Paris featuring authors who have recently published books with the London-based independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions.  \nKnown for their distinctive blue and white covers\, and esteemed for their highly selective catalogue\, Fitzcarraldo is the leading publisher of innovative\, boundary-pushing literature. Founded in 2014 with the mission to publish only twenty-two works per year\, the publishing house has already established itself as champion of the most exciting and ambitious literary voices of our time\, including four Nobel Prize-winning writers: Svetlana Alexievich (2015)\, Olga Tokarczuk (2018)\, Annie Ernaux (2022)\, and Jon Fosse (2023). The Library is delighted to welcome Marie Darrieussecq\, Thea Lenarduzzi\, Claudia Durastanti\, Vanessa Onwuemezi\, Kirsty Bell\, and Brian Dillon\, all of whose work explores the frontiers of genre\, form\, and craft\, challenging us to rethink what writing can do. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][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][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Read along with the Library! If you want to prepare ahead of this event\, copies of Dark Neighbourhood will be on sale one week in advance\, as well as after the event. Stop by Member Services to purchase your copy. Books are generously provided by Smith&Son. \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/onwuemezi_lenarduzzi24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240214T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240214T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Translation Slam! Featuring Tess Lewis and Daniel Levin Becker
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Have you ever wondered what it’s like to translate a beloved work of literature from one language to another? How do translators preserve the integrity of the source? From grammar\, to style\, to sound\, what challenges does a new language bring to a text? Are you eager to try your hand at the task? Join us for an evening of  Valentine’s-themed live translation\, featuring American Library in Paris Scholar of Note Tess Lewis\, award-winning translator of Anne Weber’s Epic Annette and Maja Haderlap’s Angel of Oblivion\, and Daniel Levin Becker\, acclaimed translator of Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party. Supplied with an original French text written by Bill François\, deemed ‘Cyrano de Bergerac Junior’\, and competing against ChatGPT\, Lewis and Levin Becker will offer their own translations of an original French text and be called to defend their choices. Audience members will be able to ask questions\, propose their own translations\, and vote for the most successful approach. The winner takes away a box of chocolates; the loser\, a broken heart.  \nDon’t miss the rare opportunity to see translation in action\, learn about AI’s impact on the practice\, develop your own perspective\, and share a conversation heart or two.  \nAbout the speakers: \n\n\nTess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Montaigne\, Philippe Jaccottet\, Christine Angot\, Peter Handke\, Walter Benjamin and Cécile Wajsbrot. She is the recipient of the 2017 PEN Translation Award for her translation of Maja Haderlap’s novel Angel of Oblivion\, two NEA Translation Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her essays and reviews have appeared in a number of journals and newspapers including the New Criterion\, the Hudson Review\, World Literature Today\, the Wall Street Journal\, the American Scholar\, and Bookforum. She is an Advisory Editor for the Hudson Review. In 2022\, she was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She is a 2023-24 American Library in Paris Scholar of Note. \n\n\nDaniel Levin Becker is a writer\, translator\, and music critic. He is the author of Many Subtle Channels and What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language and the translator of several works\, including Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party. His forthcoming translations include Éric Chevillard’s Museum Visits and Jakuta Alikavazovic’s Like a Sky Inside. He has been a member of the Oulipo since 2009. \nAbout the Writer: \nBill François is a biophysicist\, naturalist and writer. He devotes his time to the study of marine animals\, and to writing stories that combine science\, humor and poetry. To date\, his books have been translated into 19 languages. But in a parallel universe\, Bill is also a humorist and eloquence champion. He has appeared on France 2’s Grand Oral\, which he won in 2019\, and in various shows\, gesticulated conferences and improvisation events.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nCheck out this 2019 interview with Tess Lewis for a preview of her perspective on translation. \nDaniel Levin Becker’s translation of Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party has garnered widespread praise. Read an excerpt here. \nWriter Bill François won France 2’s elocution competition Grand Oral in 2019\, earning him the title of “a Cyrano de Bergerac with a sharp tongue and a way with words” in one recap. Read the full article in French. [/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/translationslam24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240208T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240208T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
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SUMMARY:(In Person Full) (Hybrid) Marquee Event: Dickens in Appalachia with Barbara Kingsolver
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Evenings with an Author at the American Library in Paris is thrilled to continue our marquee series spotlighting exceptional thinkers of our age. Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver to discuss narrating Appalachia. \nBarbara Kingsolver first rocketed to literary fame with her 1998 novel The Poisonwood Bible. Over the past year\, she has swept the global literary marketplace yet again with the release of her new novel\, Demon Copperhead\, a spirited retelling of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield.  Kingsolver draws energy from Dickens’s beloved plot and characters\, but with a crucial difference: her setting is not Dickens’s London\, but contemporary Appalachia–specifically\, the mountains of southwest Virginia.  Like Dickens’s novel before it\, Demon Copperhead confronts and condemns a range of social problems.  Kingsolver’s targets include the opioid crisis\, the foster care system\, and the economic abandonment of Appalachia.  Demon Copperhead offers a vivid portrayal of rural American life\, reclaiming hero status for a region that is often ignored or disparaged in American film\, television\, and literature. \nPlease note that in-person registration is now full. Online registration is still available and free of charge. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more:  \nKingsolver has won widespread praise for the strong voice of her protagonist and first-person narrator\, Damon Fields (nicknamed “Demon Copperhead).  Read the opening paragraphs of the novel here.    \nThe New York Times published a profile on Kingsolver and her work in 2022.  Read it here. \nAbout the speaker:  \nBarbara Kingsolver was born in 1955\, and grew up in rural Kentucky. She earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona\, and has worked as a freelance writer and author since 1985. At various times in her adult life she has lived in England\, France\, and the Canary Islands\, and has worked in Europe\, Africa\, Asia\, Mexico\, and South America. She spent two decades in Tucson\, Arizona\, before moving to southwestern Virginia where she currently resides.  \nDemon Copperhead was named an Oprah Book Club selection immediately upon publication\, and in 2023 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Demon Copperhead also received Britain’s prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize)\, making Kingsolver the first author in the history of the prize to receive the award twice. \nKingsolver established the Bellwether Prize for Fiction\, the nation’s largest prize for an unpublished first novel\, which since 1998 has helped to establish the careers of more than a half dozen new literary voices. Through a recent agreement\, the prize has now become the PEN / Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.   \nSince June 2004\, Barbara and her family have lived on a farm in southern Appalachia\, where they raise an extensive vegetable garden and Icelandic sheep.[/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 (Kingsolver 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_custom_heading text=”Register for this event” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Demon Copperhead 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.[/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_1694620167317{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kingsolver24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240207T220000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240207T230000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
CREATED:20240124T170800Z
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SUMMARY:(In Person at the Center for the Art of Translation) The International Library: Global Indigenous Stories
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In person at the Center for the Art of Translation (San Francisco) and over Zoom\, Linnea Axelsson and Alexis Wright explore the legacy of colonialism across the globe. Axelsson’s Ædnan\, translated by Saskia Vogel\, is a multigenerational novel-in-verse about two Sámi families and their quest to stay together across a century of migration\, violence\, and colonial trauma. Weaving together the voices of half a dozen characters\, Ædnan is a powerful reminder of how durable language can be\, even when it is borrowed\, especially when it has to hold what no longer remains. Wright’s Praiseworthy is a phantasmagorical epic following one family contending with interconnected crises amidst a mysterious cloud encroaching on their Northern Australian town\, heralding both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. \nA cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage and a fable for the end of days\, Praiseworthy pushes allegory and language to its limit. Pulitzer finalist Tommy Orange (There There) will moderate a conversation between Axelsson\, Wright\, and Vogel about their novels; the past\, present\, and future of indigeneity and colonialism; and writing across time\, place\, and form. \nAbout the speakers: \nLinnea Axelsson is a Sámi-Swedish writer\, born in the province of North Bothnia in Sweden. In 2018\, she was awarded the August Prize for this book. She lives in Stockholm\, Sweden. Linnea’s US tour is being implemented with the assistance of a grant from the Swedish Arts Council. \nSaskia Vogel is an author and translator from Los Angeles\, now living in Berlin. She was awarded the Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature and two English PEN Translates Awards and was a PEN America Translation Prize finalist. She is Princeton University’s Fall 2022 Translator in Residence. \nAlexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria\, The Swan Book\, and Praiseworthy. Wright has published three works of nonfiction: Take Power\, an oral history of the Central Land Council; Grog War\, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory; and Tracker\, an award-winning collective memoir of Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth. Her work has been translated into Chinese\, Polish\, French\, and Italian. She held the position of Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne between 2017–2022. Wright is the only author to win both the Miles Franklin Award (in 2007 for Carpentaria) and the Stella Prize (in 2018 for Tracker). \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. His first book\, There There\, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award. He lives in Oakland\, CA. \nImportant information: This is a livestreamed event with an in-person audience at The Center for the Art of Translation (San Francisco). Axelsson\, Vogel\, and Orange will be hosted by the Center for the Art of Translation at The Center for Architecture + Design\, 140 Sutter St.\, San Francisco (1pm PT) with Wright joining remotely. \nAccess to this event requires registration through the Center for the Art of Translation. Click on the button below to RSVP.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fthe-international-library-global-indigenous-stories-tickets-795729858427|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nAbout The International Library\nConversations across time\, place\, and language \nJoin the American Library in Paris\, the Center for the Art of Translation\, and The Center for Fiction for conversations across time\, place\, culture\, and literary tradition\, with live audiences in San Francisco\, Brooklyn\, and Paris. \nAt the intersection of theory and practice\, past and present\, as well as story and history\, The International Library celebrates the live diffusion of in-person conversations in the hope of conjuring new possibilities and connecting new audiences across land and sea for a collective\, intercultural experience. \nOver the course of these conversations\, we hope to broach the following questions about writing and translation: Who gets to translate? To be translated? How to translate? And for whom to translate? More broadly\, the series will guide readers to think critically about how stories are told\, investigating the points of view\, the timing of the translations\, and the intended or assumed audiences as well as inspiration\, philosophy\, and craft.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/globalindigenousstories24/
LOCATION:The Center for Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240207T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240207T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
CREATED:20240119T134707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240206T143143Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Dispatches from Insomnia with Marie Darrieussecq
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sleep is a basic and essential bodily function\, but it is not always easily achieved. We have all experienced it at one time or another: a night of sleepless torment\, in which our minds refuse to slip into unconsciousness\, even despite our exhaustion. \nFor decades\, Marie Darrieussecq has struggled with insomnia. She is in good company\, especially among writers: famous literary insomniacs include Marcel Proust\, Franz Kafka\, Virginia Woolf\, Marguerite Duras\, and Georges Perec.  In her new book Sleepless (translated into English by Penny Hueston)\, Darrieussecq explores the contours of her own sleepless nights and finds camaraderie with the sleep-deprived writers of days gone by. Combining memoir\, literary history\, cultural criticism\, and photography\, Darrieussecq flits between various cultural histories of sleeplessness\, including considerations of motherhood\, homelessness\, travel\, and meditation. Described in the Los Angeles Review of Books as being “like an encyclopedia composed according to the logic of dream sequences”\, the book is a witty and poetic kaleidoscope of restlessness. \nAbout the speaker: \nMarie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969 and is recognized as one of the leading voices of contemporary French literature. Her first novel\, Pig Tales\, was translated into thirty-five languages. She has written more than twenty books. Text has published Tom Is Dead\, All the Way\, Men\, Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker\, Our Life in the Forest\, The Baby and Crossed Lines. In 2013 Marie Darrieussecq was awarded the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix for her novel Men. She has written art criticism and journalism for a number of publications\, including Libération and Charlie Hebdo\, and is also a translator from English and has practised as a psychoanalyst. She lives in Paris.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nDarrieussecq recently appeared in conversation with novelist and poet Deborah Levy and cultural critic Lauren Elkin–both of whom were also recent guests at the American Library! Watch their conversation here.  \nA review in The Guardian calls Sleepless “electric” and “musical.” Read the review here. \nYou can find an excerpt from Sleepless here\, through the MIT Press Reader.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]About Fitzcarraldo February at the Library: \nThis program is part of Fitzcarraldo February\, a series of events at The American Library in Paris featuring authors who have recently published books with the London-based independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions.  \nKnown for their distinctive blue and white covers\, and esteemed for their highly selective catalogue\, Fitzcarraldo is the leading publisher of innovative\, boundary-pushing literature. Founded in 2014 with the mission to publish only twenty-two works per year\, the publishing house has already established itself as champion of the most exciting and ambitious literary voices of our time\, including four Nobel Prize-winning writers: Svetlana Alexievich (2015)\, Olga Tokarczuk (2018)\, Annie Ernaux (2022)\, and Jon Fosse (2023). The Library is delighted to welcome Marie Darrieussecq\, Thea Lenarduzzi\, Claudia Durastanti\, Vanessa Onwuemezi\, Kirsty Bell\, and Brian Dillon\, all of whose work explores the frontiers of genre\, form\, and craft\, challenging us to rethink what writing can do. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speaker 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][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Read along with the Library! If you want to prepare ahead of this event\, copies of Sleepless and Pas Dormir will be on sale one week in advance\, as well as after the event. Stop by Member Services to purchase your copy. Books are generously provided by Smith&Son and Tome7. \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/darrieussecq24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240206T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240206T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240206T131148Z
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SUMMARY:(In-Person Full) (Hybrid) Changing the World for Women with Catharine A. MacKinnon and Kate Kirkpatrick
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join us at the Library for a conversation about activism and the law with one the most distinguished thought leaders and public intellectual voices of our time. \nCatharine A. MacKinnon has been at the forefront of legal and social fights for gender equality for nearly fifty years. In 1979\, she was the first to make the groundbreaking argument that sexual harassment in the workplace violates laws against sex discrimination\, setting the legal groundwork for the #MeToo revolution forty years later. Over the course of her career\, MacKinnon has contributed to countless issues\, including pornography and prostitution\, and court cases that have resulted in unparalleled gains for women’s rights. She has developed a robust philosophy devoted to equality. \nPrior to the present book\, MacKinnon’s Butterfly Politics collected essays and speeches from her fifty years of fighting for legal and social change. The title refers to the “butterfly effect:” the idea that a butterfly opening and closing its wings can–under the right conditions–cause a tornado on the other side of the world. Considering a legal system built to keep inequality in place which can be transformed into a tool to provide equality rights\, MacKinnon develops the metaphor of the “butterfly effect” to propose simple steps that everyone can take to generate large-scale social change. \nMacKinnon will be joined in conversation with former American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow and renowned feminist philosopher Kate Kirkpatrick. \nAbout the speakers: \nCatharine A. MacKinnon is an internationally renowned scholar\, lawyer and jurist. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and with clients conceived and established the legal recognition of rape as an act of genocide in international law. Her theory of equality is increasingly being embraced around the world. \nKate Kirkpatrick is a philosopher based at Regent’s Park College\, University of Oxford. Her research focuses primarily on French phenomenology and existentialism; feminism; and ethics. She is author of several books and articles on these topics and an internationally acclaimed biography of Simone de Beauvoir\, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life (Bloomsbury\, 2019)\, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. She is currently writing a philosophical commentary on Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. \nPortrait of Catharine A. MacKinnon by ©Camille McOuat[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nIn 2017\, MacKinnon wrote a piece for The Guardian about the legal history that gave rise to the #MeToo movement. Read it here. \nFor an introduction to MacKinnon’s approach to law and social change in her most recent book\, Butterfly Politics\, check out this video.[/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_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Le Viol Redéfini and Butterfly Politics 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 Tome7 and 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/mackinnon24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240131T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240131T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
CREATED:20231208T130052Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Writing Disaster with Adam Levin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A one-in-ten-billion natural disaster devastates Chicago. A Jewish comedian\, his most devoted fan\, and the city’s mayor must struggle to move forward while the world—quite literally—caves beneath their feet.   \nA sprawling work of meta-fiction\, Mount Chicago follows the mapless mayor who wants to build Mount Chicago\, a memorial to the disaster victims that is “as moving as Auschwitz” but “less depressing.” Mount Chicago is a story of Chicago-style politics and political correctness\, stand-up comedy and Jewish identity\, and the absurdist semantics of disaster. With his third novel\, Adam Levin has created a monument to laughter\, love\, art\, and resilience in an age of spectacular loss. Join him in conversation with author Amanda Dennis as they consider the contours of the sublime and the surreal\, and the writing that surmounts fiction itself. \nAbout the speakers: \nAdam Levin is the author of the novels The Instructions\, Bubblegum\, and Mount Chicago\, as well as the story collection\, Hot Pink. His writing has appeared in numerous publications\, including The New Yorker\, McSweeney’s\, and Playboy. He has been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award winner\, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, and a National Jewish Book Award finalist. He lives in Chicago. \nAmanda Dennis is the author of the novel\, Her Here\, and a non-fiction book about Samuel Beckett\, Beckett and Embodiment. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, the Times Literary Supplement\, and Guernica\, among other places. She has held fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, Columbia and Cambridge Universities\, and UC Berkeley’s center for the humanities in Madrid. She lives in Paris\, where she is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nIn a glowing New York Times review\, author Dan Chaon praised Levin’s “sustained\, operatic balance of comedy\, grief and despair\,” calling the book a “a genuinely breathtaking achievement.”. Read more. \nLevin was interviewed by the Chicago Review of Books about his influences\, meta-fiction\, and the city of Chicago. Read the interview. \nAmanda Dennis appeared virtually at Evenings with an Author to discuss her novel Her Here\, an existential detective story. 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/levin24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240130T185000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240130T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
CREATED:20231214T163035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240117T144929Z
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SUMMARY:(In-Person Only) Screening: American Pavilion at Cannes Emerging Filmmakers
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join us for a night at the Library celebrating cinema and up and coming filmmakers with a special screening event in partnership with The American Pavilion at Cannes and Deadline.  \nThe American Pavilion’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase has provided an opportunity for filmmakers to share their work with Cannes Festival and Film Market attendees. The Library will be transformed into a cinema\, as we will be screening the past Emerging Filmmaker Showcase winners from the past six years.  \nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Deadline’s Diana Lodderhose and the filmmakers to learn more about their work. \nThe evening will conclude with a networking reception where aspiring and professional filmmakers–along with casual film lovers–can connect over a love of cinema.  \nIn May\, we will screen the winner of the American Pavilion’s 2024 Showcase following the conclusion of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. \nPlease note\, this event will be In Person only. Guests are invited to arrive from 18h30 onwards for opening remarks at 18h50 before the screening’s start time at 19h00. \nAbout the films: \nMAN OF THE HOUR\nJury Award Winner 2018\nDirectors: Linda Ludwig & James Curle\nGemma receives a mysterious invitation to the birthday party of an enigmatic millionaire\, Jeremy. She must pass herself off as Jeremy’s old friend and mingle with his glittering guests. But Gemma cannot help but wonder who Jeremy is and why he has tasked her with such a peculiar job – there’s something more to him than meets the eye. \nSYLVIA\nJury Award Winner 2019\nWriter/Director: Richard Prendergast Producer: Rachel Prendergast\n A car. A family. An unwanted destination. \nNOISY\nJury Award Winner 2022\nWriter/Director: Cedric Hill\nSam gets on the subway to get home. He catches the eye of April. The two of them discover they have way more in common than where they’re heading. Sometimes you need a noisy place to have a quiet conversation. \nEMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH\nJury Award Winner 2023\nProducer/Writer/Director: Goga Clay\nIbinabo\, a young husband and father-to-be\, lives an unremarkable but exemplary life. He strives to prove himself to his boss\, but gets caught up in the horrors of the October 2020 protests against police brutality. \nGIRL WITH A THERMAL GUN\nJury Award Winner 2021\nWriter/Director: Rongfei Guo\nDuring the pandemic\, a grocery delivery man is busier than ever. He receives orders\, fills shopping carts\, and delivers packages. Receive\, fill\, deliver; from dawn to dusk\, day in and day out. He navigates strange streets and knocks on unfamiliar doors. As he grows tired\, a feeling of loneliness washes over him and he begins to feel defeated—until he suddenly finds a thermal gun pressed to his forehead. \nMASTER MAGGIE\nJury Award Winner 2020\nDirector: Matthew Bonifacio\nWriter: Julianna Gelinas Bonifacio\, Matthew Bonifacio\nA celebrity acting coach is interrupted by an unknown actor begging for her help for a TV audition. What follows is an unexpected journey for the both of them.  \nAbout the speakers: \nDiana Lodderhose has been working in global film journalism since 2005. Before returning to Deadline in 2021 to focus on features for international film and television\, she was previously International Reporter for the site. She is based in London and has frequently covered all the major film festivals and markets including Cannes\, Berlin\, AFM\, Toronto and Sundance. Prior to joining Deadline\, Diana was the UK correspondent for Variety and also covered film news and box office at Screen International. \nAbout the American Pavilion’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase: \nSince 1989\, The American Pavilion has offered unparalleled experiences in Cannes to film students and emerging filmmakers from around the world. AmPav’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase provides an opportunity for filmmakers to have their works seen by Cannes Festival and Film Market attendees. If you are an aspiring filmmaker\, submit your short film to the 2024 American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase! \nImportant information: This event requires advance registration. The discussion will be in person only. Our partners and filmmakers 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_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1704982270919{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”]    [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ampav24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240125T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240125T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
CREATED:20231213T161538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T143909Z
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SUMMARY:(In-Person Registration Full) (Hybrid) Entre Nous: Art as Social Action with Peter Sellars and Yasmine Seale
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How can a director’s choices bring fresh perspectives to centuries-old operas and plays? What kinds of creative processes do theater directors engage with as they plan their productions? And\, more generally\, how can the arts act as catalysts for social change? The Library is delighted to welcome Peter Sellars\, one of the leading living figures of theatrical history. From setting Così fan tutte in a diner in Cape Cod and The Marriage of Figaro in a luxury apartment in Trump Tower)\, to having worked with artists such as Warhol and received praise from critics such as Edward Said\, Sellars’ groundbreaking stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays have made him one of the most compelling director of our times. Discover his method of breaking into art\, forging a theater of the present.  \nSellars will speak in conversation with writer and translator Yasmine Seale. \nPlease note that in-person registration to this event is now full. Online registration is still available. \nLearn more:  \nAmong Sellars’s most famous productions was his late-1980s staging of Mozart’s Don Giovanni\, which Sellars set in New York City’s East Harlem. Watch a recording of the production.  \nLast year\, Sellars directed a production of Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde at the Opéra Bastille. See him describe his vision for that production. \nYasmine Seale appeared at the Library last year to speak with author Kate Briggs. Rewatch their discussion.  \nAbout the speakers: \nPeter Sellars is an internationally acclaimed director. He is best known for his innovative interpretations of operatic masterpieces. Since 1988\, Sellars has been a professor at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures / Dance. His production of Vincenzo Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda will be performed Opéra Bastille in February and March of 2024. Book your tickets here! \nYasmine Seale is a writer whose work includes poetry\, criticism\, translation and visual art. Her essays on literature\, art and film have appeared in many places\, including Harper’s\, The Nation\, Paris Review\, and the Times Literary Supplement. Among her books are Agitated Air: Poems After Ibn Arabi (Tenement Press)\, a collaboration with Robin Moger\, and The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton)\, described by the New Yorker as “an electric new translation”. She is currently a fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. \nThe Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris\, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, and the American Library in Paris. \nImportant 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. \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_1666352729001{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”]   [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/sellars24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240124T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240124T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
CREATED:20231212T165117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231219T190239Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Europe’s Past and Future with Timothy Garton Ash
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In recent years\, populist and authoritarian regimes have gained momentum across Europe\, and democratic norms have shown signs of erosion. How can we understand the tectonic shifts that have shaped contemporary Europe? What lessons can Europe learn from its own recent past? \nWith his new book\, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe\, Timothy Garton Ash braids personal memoir together with political analysis to produce a sweeping account of Europe in the last half-century. Drawing from his extensive experience as a journalist and a historian\, Garton Ash expertly guides his readers through the various political transformations that have unfolded in Europe over the course of his own lifetime. \nThis event will be moderated by writer and academic\, Thomas Dodman. \nAbout the speakers: \nTimothy Garton Ash is a political writer and Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford. He is a longtime proponent of free speech\, an advocate for liberal democracy\, and an expert in international relations. He has written eleven books\, most of which examine the contemporary history of Europe and European politics. His latest book\, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe (2023) is set to be translated into nineteen languages. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian\, The New York Review of Books\, Prospect Magazine\, and more. \nThomas Dodman is Associate Professor in the Department of French at Columbia University and director of the History & Literature program at Columbia’s Global Center in Paris. He is the author of What Nostalgia Was: War\, Empire and the Time of a Deadly Emotion (Chicago) and he coedits the journal Sensibilités (Anamosa)\, whose latest issue is Race\, l’ombre portée. He is currently a fellow at the Institute for Ideas & Imagination at Reid Hall.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nGarton Ash has written a column on international affairs for The Guardian since 2004. You can peruse his work here. \nIn 2011\, Garton Ash launched the Free Speech Debate\, an online project that brings together journalists\, scholars\, and businesspeople from around the world to discuss speech-related issues.[/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 (Garton Ash 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 Homelands 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/gartonash24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240123T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240123T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125947
CREATED:20231212T161716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231212T161716Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Paris of the Present with Will Mountain Cox
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Tired of romanticized visions of the Paris of the past\, author Will Mountain Cox sets out in Roundabout to write Paris present: from the Notre Dame fire\, to the November 2015 attacks\, to concerns of gentrification\, climate\, and hyper-tourism. Cox\, founder of the Belleville Park Pages\, first proposed this present-tense vision in With Paris in Mind\, a collection of interviews which dismisses the mythology of Paris as a city of artists and features the voices of the new creative generation. This generation is depicted yet again with attentiveness and insight in Roundabout— this time\, through the prism of fiction. Ever sensitive to the spirit of the age\, Cox will speak at the Library about the living Parisian cultural landscape. \nAbout the speaker: \nWill Mountain Cox is a writer from Portland\, Oregon\, living in Paris\, France. His work has appeared in Forever Magazine\, Hobart\, Vol. 1 Brooklyn\, Shabby Doll House\, and The Drunken Canal. He is the author of With Paris in Mind and was a cofounder of the literary magazine Belleville Park Pages. He is a graduate of Boston University and Sciences Po. Roundabout is his debut novel.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nCox appeared on France 24 for an interview on With Paris in Mind\, his book of collected interviews with artists in Paris. Watch on France 24. \nRead one of Cox’s short stories published in the online magazine Vol. 1 Brooklyn.  \nDiscover an excerpt of Roundabout in English and in French in an online journal dedicated to the 20th arrondissement.[/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 (Cox 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 Roundabout 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/cox24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240122T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240122T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125948
CREATED:20240109T104529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T135953Z
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SUMMARY:Fashion Week: An Exclusive Review with Idris Balogun
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Idris Balogun is the founder of WINNIE New York\, a menswear brand that creates high-quality\, long-wearing clothing. Balogun was born to Nigerian immigrants in New York and raised in London. His career has taken him to the heights of the sartorial world\, from London’s Savile Road to the creative suites of Burberry and Tom Ford. With WINNIE New York\, Balogun has brought his designs to runways in London\, New York\, and Paris. \nThe Library is pleased to welcome Balogun in conversation with internationally renowned stylist Julie Ragolia to discuss his Fall/Winter 2024 collection\, inspired by the work of African American jazz poet Ted Joans. Over the course of this exclusive preview\, Balogun and Ragolia will review Fall/Winter 2024-25 Fashion Week in Paris and assess the contemporary luxury landscape. In turn\, they will meditate upon the meaning of clothing\, the role of fashion in self-expression\, and innovations at the horizons of modern design.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nBalogun’s latest collection takes inspiration from African American poet Ted Joans. For an introduction to Joans’s work\, check out this video excerpt\, which features his poetry performed alongside live jazz. \nBe sure to browse the website of WINNIE New York to get a sense of Balogun’s designs.  \nAbout the speakers:  \nAt a young age\, Idris Balogun earned an apprenticeship on the prestigious Savile Row. There he was able to hone and master his skills as a cutter and tailor before moving on to Burberry\, where under the direction of Christopher Bailey\, he helped to develop a singular view of the Burberry lines. Shortly after\, he began his career with Tom Ford\, where he worked as the Director of Menswear and Made to Measure before launching his label. In 2022 Idris won the Karl Lagerfeld award for design. He founded WINNIE\, a label informed by luxury in its purest form\, in 2019.  \nJulie Ragolia is renowned internationally for her work as a fashion stylist and consultant. Her approach is strikingly modern\, rooted in observation; creating a distinct effect across editorial stories\, fashion shows and advertising campaigns. Born in Brooklyn\, New York to complex means\, art was a way forward. Her desire to understand her own life story compels her deep interest in subject\, and the manner in which clothing can define\, enhance or recreate one’s self. \nAbout WINNIE New York: \nWINNIE\, a label informed by luxury in its purest form. It is our mission to merge a modern design identity with classic artisanal practices. A focus on exceptional fabric\, tailoring and craftsmanship is at the forefront of the brand’s core values. After holding positions at Tom Ford and Burberry\, Idris Balogun founded WINNIE in 2019\, as an ode to his grandmother. From the outset\, WINNIE has endeavored to deliver the utmost quality product made in Italy\, and is stocked worldwide at retailers including SSENSE\, Mytheresa\, Tasoni\, Très Bien and MATCHESFASHION.[/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 (Balogun and Ragolia 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/balogun24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240118T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240118T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125948
CREATED:20231208T124517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231208T124517Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic with Nabila Ramdani
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Liberté\, Égalité\, Fraternité: la devise de la République française. Since the French Revolution\, this motto of liberty\, equality\, and fraternity has served as a pillar for the republic. Though\, after a period of mass dissent– from the Yellow Vests protests\, to movement against the 2023 réforme de retraites\, to the mass protests following the fatal police shooting of Nahel M.– does France live up to its founding ideals?  \nNabila Ramdani\,  journalist\, academic and broadcaster\, will appear at the Library to present her new book\, Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic.  \nIn Fixing France\, Ramdani develops a nuanced critique of some of France’s modern issues\, from racial and religious discrimination\, looming executive power\, terrorism and extremism\, and the rise of the far-right. Ramdani will dive into the historical dynamics that have led us to the present: what was the influence of Algeria on the founding and development of the current Fifth Republic? What issues do residents of France face in Paris intramuros\, the suburbs of Grand Paris\, and beyond in France’s countryside? And how can the French Republic be fixed? \nModerated by journalist and anchor Erin Ogunkeye.  \n  \nAbout the speakers: \nNabila Ramdani is a French author of Algerian descent who works as a journalist\, academic and broadcaster. Nabila began her award-winning journalistic career in the BBC Paris Bureau. She has since broadcast for outlets including Sky News\, Al Jazeera and CNN\, and has written extensively for The Guardian\, The Daily Mail\, The Washington Post and others. Educated at Paris VII University and the London School of Economics (LSE)\, Nabila has taught at the University of Oxford and the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. \nErin Ogunkeye grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia\, but has spent more time living in Paris than any other city. She studied French law before realizing she wanted to feel a closer connection to the rest of the world by following\, relaying and breaking down current events; perhaps not too differently from the way a lawyer connects with a jury. She is an anchor at France 24 and presents Live From Paris in the mornings.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nRamdani appeared on France24 to discuss social inequality in France in contrast with the country’s ideals\, as well as the shortcomings of the Fifth Republic. Watch the interview. \nRamdani published an opinion piece in inews.co.uk on Paris’s recent bedbug outbreak as a symbol of the French Republic. Read more.Read an excerpt of Fixing France about the history of modern terrorism and its intersection with French post-revolutionary history. Read on LitHub.[/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_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Copies of Fixing France 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/ramdani24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240117T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240117T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125948
CREATED:20231212T160601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231215T153638Z
UID:59707-1705519800-1705523400@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Members Only) Music and Mingle with Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Baird Dodge
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Finding one’s place in Paris can be challenging. As an expatriate institution\, we champion the forging of connections at the Library. This is why we’re delighted to announce Music and Mingle\, a Members-only event series. Those seeking to foster new friendships\, build their network\, and toast the new year in good company are invited to this special concert by Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Baird Dodge. Dodge will be performing a curated selection of songs from Bach to “Over the Rainbow\,” developed\, in the spirit of connection\, to challenge the boundaries between classical and popular music. Whether seeking to discover our community for the first time\, or to reunite with old friends\, join us in celebrating everyone who makes the American Library in Paris a cultural home. \nPlease note\, this event will be in-person only and reserved for Library members. \nThis event will be followed by a cocktail reception.  \nAbout Baird Dodge: \nA New York City native\, Baird Dodge joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as a violist in 1996 and moved to the second violin section later that same year. In 2002\, he was appointed principal second violin of the CSO by Daniel Barenboim. An avid chamber musician\, Dodge has collaborated with such artists as Isidore Cohen\, Timothy Eddy\, Hillary Hahn\, Yo-yo Ma\, Samuel Rhodes\, and Orion Weiss\, and has toured with Music from Marlboro. Baird has a special interest in contemporary music\, having performed and recorded works by his father\, Charles Dodge. During the pandemic\, when live orchestral and chamber music were shut down\, Baird explored solo repertoire and found different ways to perform outdoors in his community that felt meaningful and sustaining. \nAbout the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: \nFounded in 1891\, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra commands a vast repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary. Performing in over 150 concerts each year\, the CSO’s talented musicians are the driving force behind the ensemble’s famous sound heard on best-selling recordings as well as in performances in Chicago and on tour throughout the United States and around the globe.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: This event will be in person at the Library only and reserved for Library Members. Please bring your Library card to the event for verification. \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/dodge24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240110T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240110T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125948
CREATED:20230508T091154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231208T114357Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Learning to Laugh with Nuar Alsadir
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Why do humans laugh? What effect does laughter have on the body? What is its role in a social setting? What does it communicate\, and why does it matter? Poet and psychoanalyst Nuar Alsadir uses psychology\, philosophy\, history\, personal experience\, and more to answer these questions in new book Animal Joy. A whimsical\, wide-reaching meditation upon the power of laughter\, populated by figures ranging from Donald Trump to Alsadir’s classmates at clown school\, the book reveals hidden dimensions to humor\, while highlighting the challenges of defining what humor is. More than an expression of amusement\, it can be wielded as a political tool\, poetic instrument\, and therapeutic mechanism.  \nLearn More: \nFor a sample of Alsadir’s poetry\, check out her poem titled “Invertebrate.” \nFor a preview of Alsadir’s meditations on laughter and its various forms\, check out her essay “Corpsing: On Sex\, Death\, and Inappropriate Laughter” in The Paris Review. \nAbout the speaker: \nNuar Alsadir‘s most recent book\, Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation was a TIME Magazine must-read of 2022 and a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of 2022. She is also the author of two poetry collections: Fourth Person Singular\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Forward Prize for Best Collection\, and More Shadow Than Bird. She is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and a member of the curatorial board of The Racial Imaginary Institute. She works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Alsadir 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/alsadir23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231220T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231220T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125948
CREATED:20231102T172652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231115T140103Z
UID:57638-1703095200-1703100600@americanlibraryinparis.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231213T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125948
CREATED:20231115T142852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T163730Z
UID:57636-1702495800-1702499400@americanlibraryinparis.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231212T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125948
CREATED:20231102T191559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231114T165618Z
UID:57631-1702409400-1702413000@americanlibraryinparis.org
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:20231207T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231207T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125948
CREATED:20231102T191340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T191340Z
UID:57626-1701977400-1701981000@americanlibraryinparis.org
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:20231206T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20231206T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T125948
CREATED:20231102T191109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T191109Z
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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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