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SUMMARY:Finding the Raga with Amit Chaudhuri
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The raga\, or melody form of classical Indian music\, evokes profound emotion and evades tidy resolution. Singers of khayal follow a scale entirely different to Western musical styles\, innovating and inventing as they perform. In Finding the Raga\, Novelist\, critic\, and essayist Amit Chaudhuri reflects upon a life devoted to this slippery\, surprising art form\, as well as its interactions with his other artistic practices\, from writing to American folk music. A celebration of the poetry of sound and the power of listening\, Finding the Raga is both artistic manifesto and cosmology\, a meditation upon music’s capacity to sing to the world\, about the world\, and from the world. At the Library\, he will meditate upon the fusions of these different worlds\, as well as the rich and unique history of Indian music\, largely unknown to Western audiences. \nAbout the speaker: \nAmit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels\, the latest of which is Sojourn. He is also a poet\, essayist\, short story writer\, and musician. His New and Selected Poems is scheduled to published later this year in the NYRB Poets series. His works of non-fiction include\, most recently\, Finding the Raga\, which received the James Tait Black Prize in 2022. Other awards his work has received include the Commonwealth Writers Prize\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction\, the Sahitya Akademi Award\, the Rabindra Puraskar\, and the inaugural Infosys Prize in Literary Studies in the Humanities. He is Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for the Creative and Critical at Ashoka University. He was Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia from 2006-2021. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Chaudhuri 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/chaudhuri23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230705T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230705T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230615T154457Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Problem of Parking with Henry Grabar
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]An invisible evil holds American cities and suburbs in a deathgrip. Tying bureaucrats in administrative knots\, grinding development projects\, green initiatives\, and housing plans to a halt\, regularly ruining the average commuter’s morning\, no problem is more American than the problem of parking. In Paved Paradise\, journalist Henry Grabar provides an astonishing\, fascinating ride through the history of parking across the American landscape\, from New York to Disney World. As the U.S. faces a worsening housing crisis\, and as green space disappears from urban centers\, he asks: how has storing cars taken priority over human life? Join him in conversation with journalist Simon Kuper to learn how the vast American expanse has been taken captive by concrete.  \nAbout the speaker: \nHenry Grabar is a staff writer at Slate who writes about housing\, transportation\, and urban policy. He has contributed to The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Guardian\, and other publications\, and was the editor of the book The Future of Transportation. He received the Richard Rogers Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for excellence in national reporting by journalists under thirty-five. \nSimon Kuper was educated at Oxford University and Harvard. He has been working for the Financial Times since 1994\, and now writes a general column for the newspaper. His recent books include The Happy Traitor\, his biography of the double agent George Blake (2021) and Barça: The Rise and Fall of the Club that Invented Modern Football (2021)\, which won the Sunday Times award for Football Book of the Year. His Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK\, appeared in 2022 and became a Sunday Times bestseller. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Grabar 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/grabar23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230629T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230629T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20221128T155111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230619T111350Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Tim Crosland\, Irmak Kanyılmaz\, and Linda Sheehan on Legislating for the Future
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nHow can we expand our sense of time to confront the long-term (and increasingly short-term) devastation of the climate crisis? How to\, moreover\, legislate against this devastation? And to legislate on behalf of who exactly? The rivers and the trees? The children of the future? \nThis event is organized n partnership with News Decoder and the Climate Academy at the European School of Brussels. \nThe Library’s contribution to this joint program is supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Arts and Culture. \nPlease note the special start time of this event. \nAbout the speakers: \nTim Crosland\, a former barrister\, is the Director of Plan B\, a foundation supporting strategic legal action to prevent catastrophic climate change. \nIrmak Kanyılmaz is a student at the European School of Belgium II. She enjoys doing research and learning about new concepts\, especially in the sciences and mathematics. \nExecutive Director to Environment Now\, Linda Sheehan guides Environment Now’s work to protect and restore California’s coastal\, freshwater and forest ecosystems\, for the benefit of all Californians. \nImportant information: This conversation will be hybrid\, taking place both in person at the American Library in Paris and online. \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. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ecologues6/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230628T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230628T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230511T184053Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Crafting a Project with Adrienne Raphel
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Adrienne Raphel is an expert in locating the invisible yet ubiquitous and rendering it worthy of investigation–even uncanny. From uncovering hidden histories of crossword puzzle mania to deforming Internet jargon past any point of possible meaning\, Raphel’s work reveals the extraordinary lurking beneath the surface of the ordinary. Over the month of June\, Raphel will continue to nurture this critical approach toward the everyday as a Visiting Fellow while researching Parisian urban imagination. What are the different stages of crafting a project? What phases does it go through? When\, if ever\, is it complete? Join Raphel in discussing the evolutions this project has undergone and the research process itself\, from initial ideas to drafting to the always nebulous notion of a finished product.  \nAbout the speaker: \nAdrienne Raphel is a 2022-23 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow. She is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them\, named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review; What Was It For\, winner of the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize; and Our Dark Academia\, forthcoming this fall. Her writing appears in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, and many other publications. She has been a featured speaker at events such as the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress\, and she serves as a mentor with the Periplus collective. Raphel holds a PhD from Harvard\, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and a BA from Princeton.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Raphel 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/raphel23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230627T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230627T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Women who Refused with Jennifer Tamas
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nothing seems more counterintuitive than to turn to the society of the Ancien Régime in order to to understand female resistance. Called upon by civility treatises to demonstrate reserve\, or to feign resistance by codes of seduction\, one might conclude that the heroines of classical literature have nothing to teach us\, and certainly not the capacity to say ‘no’. Jennifer Tamas proposes otherwise. In Au NON des femmes\, she demonstrates how the women of the Grand Siècle resisted\, disobeyed\, and left traces of combat against a patriarchal society. From the Princesse de Clèves to Bérénice\, Tamas uncovers a lineage of powerful\, subversive refusals on the part of heroines\, obfuscated by centuries of patriarchal interpretations. Offering a new way of reading classical texts\, Tamas liberates the women of literature from the masculine gaze which has falsely rendered them submissive.  \nAbout the speaker: \nJennifer Tamas is Associate Professor of French at Rutgers University (New Jersey\, USA). Her teaching interests range from the Old Regime to the French Revolution and explore the boundaries between passions and politics. She received her Agrégation de Lettres in 2006 and her PhD from Stanford University in 2013. She holds a further PhD in Literature and Stylistics from Paris IV Sorbonne\, which she received in 2012.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Tamas 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/tamas23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230621T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230621T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Natasha Lance Rogoff on Post-Soviet Sesame Street
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Early 1990s Russia: the wall has fallen\, the Soviet Empire has collapsed\, and a new social order is being built from the ground up. Faced with corrupt government officials\, bumbling diplomats\, traumatized citizens\, and rapidly globalizing capitalism\, a fractured nation holds onto a last hope for the salvation of their children: puppets. Join Natasha Lance Rogoff to discuss Muppets in Moscow\, the “unexpected crazy true story” of her time as lead producer on Russia’s Sesame Street. As the West dismantled the iron curtain\, Rogoff was responsible for teaching the first post-soviet generation how to communicate their feelings\, contribute to society\, and show kindness to one another. From government raids to assassinations to clashes over puppet design\, step into the world of Ulitsa Sezam.  \nAbout the speakers: \nNatasha Lance Rogoff is an award-winning television director\, producer and writer of more than 25 years. Her previous credits include executive producer of Ulitsa Sezam (Sesame Street in Russia) and producer of Plaza Sesamo (Sesame Street in Mexico.) After studying at the Leningrad State University\, she wrote about Soviet underground culture\, as well as one of the earliest exposé of Soviet government persecution of the Russian LGBTQ community in the San Francisco Chronicle. She is now an Associate in the Art\, Film and Visual Studies Department at Harvard University and lives between Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and New York City. \nEdward Charlton-Jones studied History and Russian at Oxford and Harvard. He has written and lectured on the Russian emigration to Constantinople in 1918-1923\, as well as on aspects of Russian literature and art. He has practiced law in Paris and Istanbul\, with a focus on international energy projects. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Rogoff 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/rogoff23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230620T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230620T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
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SUMMARY:(Online) The Case for Forgetting with Lewis Hyde
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From smartphones with unlimited storage to memorials scattered across cities to pseudo-scientific techniques for maintaining brain plasticity\, memory is of central importance to our society. Author Lewis Hyde asks: has memory been over-valued? Under what conditions might it be preferable to forget? Considering philosophy\, art\, and mythology; working through autobiography and cultural criticism\, citing writers from from Hesiod to Nietzsche to Borges\, Hyde develops a spiritual\, therapeutic\, and political case for forgetting. Ultimately\, he offers a manifesto for creativity: out of oblivion\, Hyde proposes\, comes the artistic capacity for the radically new. Join Hyde as he walks us through his own forgotten life and instructs us in forgetting our own.  \nAbout the speaker: \nLewis Hyde is a poet\, essayist and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. Best known for The Gift\, a defense of the non-commercial portion of artistic practice\, Hyde recently published A Primer for Forgetting\, an exploration of the many situations in which forgetfulness is more useful than memory. A MacArthur Fellow\, Hyde taught creative writing and American literature for many years at Kenyon College. Now retired\, he lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts with his wife\, the writer Patricia Vigderman. \nImportant information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hyde23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230615T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230615T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The International Library Part II: Translating Traditions
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A striking example of translation and its many layers—of language\, of myth\, of tradition—Samantha Schnee’s new English translation of Mexican author Carmen Boullosa’s The Book of Eve (El libro de Eva) twists\, challenges\, and ultimately revises a classic tale for a contemporary moment. As Eve\, fueled by “fiery disobedience\,” tells her own version of the Book of Genesis\, she brazenly rejects the stories that have oppressed women across millennia. No\, she was not created from Adam’s rib; no\, she was not expelled from the Garden of Eden for nibbling a forbidden apple; and no\, humanity was not deluged by a great flood. In person at the Center for Fiction (Brooklyn\, NY) and over Zoom\, join Schnee and Boullosa for a conversation about translation twice (and sometimes thrice) over. \nAbout the speakers: \nCarmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists\, poets\, and playwrights. She has published over a dozen novels\, two of which were designated the Best Novel Published in Mexico by the prestigious magazine Reforma—her second novel\, Before\, also won the renowned Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for Best Mexican Novel; and her novel La otra mano de Lepanto was also selected as one of the Top 100 Novels Published in Spanish in the past 25 years. Her most recent novel\, Texas: The Great Theft won the 2014 Typographical Era Translation Award\, was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Translation Award\, and has been nominated for the 2015 International Dublin Literary Award. Boullosa has received numerous prizes and honors\, including a Guggenheim fellowship. Also a poet\, playwright\, essayist\, and cultural critic\, Boullosa is a Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York\, and her books have been translated into Italian\, Dutch\, German\, French\, Portuguese\, Chinese\, and Russian. \nSamantha Schnee is a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellow in Translation\, supporting her work to render Boullosa’s Gijon Prize winning novel\, El complot de los románticos\, into English as Dante Hits the Road. Her translation of Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft was shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize. She is the founding editor of Words Without Borders. \nImportant information: The discussion will take place at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn\, New York. The conversation will be streamed at the Library and on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nIf you’d like to attend on Zoom OR in person in Brooklyn\, please click the BLUE “ZOOM REGISTRATION BUTTON.” If you would like to attend the livestream of the event at the Library\,  please click the RED “GOING” BUTTON above.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Zoom Registration” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcenterforfiction.org%2Fevent%2Fthe-international-library-part-ii-translating-traditions-translating-the-book-of-genesis%2F|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. \nAll meetings will be hybrid\, taking place in person at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn (1:30pm ET) with audiences at the American Library in Paris (in Paris; 19h30 CEST) and the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco (10:30am PT) for a live streaming experience. Events will run for about an hour. \nPlease write to Alice McCrum (mccrum@americanlibraryinparis.org)\, Melanie McNair (melanie@centerforfiction.org)\, or Leslie-Ann Woofter (leslie-ann@catranslation.org) with any questions or thoughts.[/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/translation23/
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:20230614T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230614T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Cathedrals of France with R. Howard Bloch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Saint-Denis\, Chartres\, Sainte-Chapelle\, Reims\, Amiens and Notre-Dame: in Paris and her Cathedrals\, art historian R. Howard Bloch approaches each of these celebrated sites with renewed curiosity\, historical rigor\, and aesthetic enthusiasm. From thrilling historical intrigues to luxurious architecture and sacred relics\, Bloch reanimates  the past of the cathedrals\, revealing their centrality to French life and identity across epochs. Join Bloch in conversation with architecture expert Barry Bergdoll at the Library as they walk us through the vaulted arches and stone passages of France’s most iconic structures\, showing glimpses along the way into ways of life lost to time.  \nAbout the speaker: \nR. Howard Bloch is the Sterling Professor of French and Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of numerous award-winning books on French literature and art. \nCurrently a fellow at the Institute for Ideas & Imagination\, Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University. A specialist in the history of modern architecture\, he served from 2007 to 2014 as Chief Curator of Architecture & Design at the New York Museum of Modern Art. He has also organized exhibitions at the Musée d’Orsay\, the Caisse des Monuments Historiques and the Centre Canadien d’Architecture. He is the author of European Architecture: 1750-1890 in the Oxford History of Art series and monographs on Karl Friedrich Schinkel\, Mies van der Rohe\, Léon Vaudoyer\, and (as editor) Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Bloch and Bergdoll 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/bloch23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230613T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230613T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230509T111624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230509T111624Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Adrienne Raphel and Megan Fernandes
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join 2022-23 Visiting Fellow Adrienne Raphel and poet Megan Fernandes for a special evening dedicated to poetry. Celebrated as two of the most exciting poets of their generation\, both Raphel and Fernandes experiment across form\, language\, and sound to generate fragmented\, fleeting images of the current moment. From Fernandes’ transposition of poetry’s most traditional subject–love–to contemporary urban wastelands to Raphel’s adoption of the paranoid\, compulsive registers of the Internet\, the two diagnose cultural maladies of contemporary society and play with poetry as a means of reconciliation. They will discuss the uses\, abuses\, and varied appearances of poetry in a frantic world.  \nAbout the speakers: \nAdrienne Raphel is a 2022-23 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow. She is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them\, named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review; What Was It For\, winner of the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize; and Our Dark Academia\, forthcoming this fall. Her writing appears in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, and many other publications. She has been a featured speaker at events such as the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress\, and she serves as a mentor with the Periplus collective. Raphel holds a PhD from Harvard\, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and a BA from Princeton.  \nMegan Fernandes is a writer living in New York City. Fernandes has published in the New Yorker\, POETRY\, the Kenyon Review\, the American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, among others. Her book\, Good Boys\, was published with Tin House Books in 2020. Her forthcoming collection\, I Do Everything I’m Told\, will also be published by Tin House in summer 2023. Fernandes is an Associate Professor of English and the Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College where she teaches courses on poetry\, environmental writing\, and critical theory. She is a former Yaddo fellow\, holds a PhD in English from the University of California\, and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Raphel and Fernandes 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/raphel-fernandes23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230607T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230607T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230508T082809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230607T084654Z
UID:52175-1686166200-1686169800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Entre Nous: The Times of our Lives with Kate Briggs and Yasmine Seale
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Kate Briggs’ The Long Form\, a day takes place. A mother wakes up with her daughter\, and proceeds to undertake her quotidian tasks. At the same time\, she embarks upon a reflection upon the ways the everyday is made. As the rhythms of motherhood prove fertile ground for rumination upon care\, love\, and creation\, the making of the day becomes analogous to the making of a novel\, which becomes the material of the novel itself. Briggs seizes upon a lack of action in order to build a space for the slow and spontaneous wanderings of the mind. Navigating multiple levels of storytelling\, time\, modes of writing\, and modes of thought\, she elegantly sweeps through the space of the text and the history of the written word as her character sweeps through the house.  \nAbout the speakers: \nKate Briggs is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes’s lecture and seminar notes at the Collège de France: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together\, both published by Columbia University Press. She teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute\, Rotterdam. The Long Form\, her debut novel\, follows This Little Art\, a genre-bending essay on translation. In 2021\, Kate Briggs was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize. \nYasmine Seale is a writer and translator based in Paris. Her essays on literature\, art and film have been published in Harper’s\, The Nation\, Paris Review\, and elsewhere. She is the author\, with Robin Moger\, of Agitated Air: Poems after Ibn Arabi (Tenement Press). Her translations from the Arabic include The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton) and Something Evergreen Called Life\, a collection of poems by Rania Mamoun (Action Books). She is currently a fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, where she is completing a translation of The Dove’s Necklace by Ibn Hazm\, an essay on the nature of love written in 11th-century Cordoba. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Briggs and Seale 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][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris\, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, and the American Library in Paris.[/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/briggs23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230606T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230606T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230508T082305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230508T082305Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Ben Miller on the Bad Gays of History
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Pride month is populated by LGBTQ iconography\, celebrating the figures across history who demanded the right to live and love freely. Yet how is gay history oversimplified when we only spotlight the heroes of the movement? In Bad Gays\, authors Ben Miller and Huew Lemmey have the courage to complicate things. Recounting the lives of people who made mistakes\, harmed others\, acted in contradictory ways\, and happened to be queer\, they reveal hidden\, human nuances across queer history. At the Library\, Miller will offer a more critical perspective on the current status of LGBTQ politics\, asking who has been excluded from the political terrain\, how previous political failures have been glossed over\, and how introducing nuance into our understanding of queer identity can lead to a more just queer future.  \nAbout the speaker: \nBen Miller is a writer and historian living in Berlin. With Huw Lemmey\, he hosts Bad Gays\, a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history\, which has been downloaded nearly a million times; a book based on the show and passionately arguing for a more complex and political queer public history\, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History\, was published by Verso in 2022. Since 2018\, he has been a member of the board of the Schwules Museum\, the world’s largest independent institution devoted to archiving and preserving LGBTQI* histories and visual cultures. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Miller 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/miller23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230530T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230530T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230406T102510Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Felwine Sarr on Africa’s Struggle for its Art
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In recent years\, following social justice movements\, the question of the place of stolen African art in European museums has become increasingly urgent. In France\, a reassessment of French universalism has brought the question of restitution to a possible turning point: Macron’s headline-making 2017 declaration that France must recognize its colonial past was followed by an equally landmark report on the restitution of stolen African art\, written by art historians Bénédicte Savoy and Felewine Sarr. In conversation with journalist Rachel Donadio\, Sarr will discuss the monumental report and its consequences. What were the consequences of its publication? Were Macron’s words just empty speech? What happens now? From the Smithsonian to the Louvre\, Sarr will explain how substantial change\, from the contents of permanent collections to the ways we define art\, is coming for major cultural institutions.  \nAbout the speakers: \nFelwine Sarr is a Senegalese writer and academic. He is Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University in North Carolina\, after having taught at University Gaston Berger at Saint-Louis in Senegal\, where he is adjunct professor of Economics. In 2018\, the French president commissioned him to write a report\, with the art historian Benedicte Savoy\, on the restitution of African heritage present in French museums. He has authored thirteen works and is the co-publisher with his publishing house Jimsaan of the Prix Goncourt 2021\, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. \nRachel Donadio is a Paris-based writer and journalist\, a contributing writer for the Atlantic\, and a former Rome Bureau Chief and European Culture correspondent for the New York Times. She regularly publishes textured profiles and features at the intersection of culture and politics\, as well as literary criticism. Since 2022 she has been the administrator of the American Library in Paris annual Book Award. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Sarr and Donadio 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/restitution23/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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LOCATION:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83752125235
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230525T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230525T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20221128T154725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T134702Z
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SUMMARY:Environmental Economics with Bianca Getzel\, Marlowe Hood\, and Juan Pablo Arellano
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nWhether degrowth or green growth\, the circular economy or the end of the capitalist economy as we know it\, environmental economics\, the study of how we use and manage finite resources\, help us understand negative externalities\, public goods\, and market failures. \nThis event is organized in partnership with News Decoder and the Climate Academy at the European School of Brussels. \nThe Library’s contribution to this joint program is supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Arts and Culture. \nPlease note the special start time of this event. \nAbout the speakers: \nBianca Getzel is a Research Officer in the Development and Public Finance Programme at global affairs think tank ODI. \nMarlowe Hood is Senior Editor at Agence France-Presse\, covering science\, environment\, and the climate crisis. \nJuan Pablo Arellano is a former content director at ClimateScience\, specializing in creating accessible and trustworthy content on climate change solutions. He studied economics and environmental science at university and is currently pursuing a master’s degree on degrowth. \nImportant information: This conversation will be hybrid\, taking place both in person at the American Library in Paris and online. \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. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ecologues5/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230524T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230524T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230403T170749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230503T102951Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Breaking the Silence on Menopause with Dr. Mary Claire Haver and Kate Muir
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Menopause occurs in every menstruating body. Yet few know what to expect when they begin experiencing it\, and even fewer understand the science behind the process. Lack of research and cultural taboos around discussions of menstruation have contributed to a general cultural ignorance surrounding the subject\, which translates into ill-preparedness and inadequate treatment when it happens. Dr. Mary Claire Haver\, MD\, has devoted her life to developing nutrition strategies aimed at combating the adverse effects of menopause-induced hormonal changes. Kate Muir has written books and produced documentaries on the subject\, aiming to promote awareness and challenge the Together\, the two women will discuss the reality of menopause\, the stigmas associated with talking about it\, and the importance of breaking the silence.  \nAbout the speakers: \nDr. Mary Claire Haver is a wife\, mom\, Board Certified OBGYN\, entrepreneur and best- selling author of The Galveston Diet\, who has devoted her adult life to women’s health and the treatment of perimenopause and menopause. Dr. Haver believes in the power of nutrition and anti- inflammatory foods to combat midlife inflammation and highly recommends the unique  benefits of intermittent fasting. She is a leading voice on social media in the realm of menopause education.  \nKate Muir is a menopause expert\, writer and filmmaker. She is the author of Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (but were too afraid to ask) and the producer of three groundbreaking Davina McCall women’s health documentaries\, including Sex\, Myths and the Menopause for Channel 4 in the UK. Her next book is on the contraceptive pill. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Haver will appear in the Reading Room and Muir will appear over Zoom)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \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/menopause23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230523T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230523T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230406T101115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230519T153013Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Task of Translation with Cécile Wajsbrot\, Tess Lewis\, and Anne Weber
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Cecile Wajsbrot’s Nevermore\, a translator haunted by her past moves to a town with its own dark history in order to begin a translation of Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. Working on Woolf’s chapter “Time Passes\,” she undertakes her own meditation upon the passage of time and the movement of history. Confronting the violent scars of World War II in Woolf’s writing and in Dresden\, her new home\, our narrator experiences a fusion of the space of the novel with the space around her. As a translator\, she is trained to navigate different worlds. Yet with this project\, she risks losing herself entirely in this new realm where time\, space\, and language–much like waves at sea–overlap. Wajsbrot will speak with translators Anne Weber and Tess Miller about the task of the translator\, finding the language to recreate destroyed epochs\, and the fragile boundaries between literature and life.  \nAbout the speakers: \nCécile Wajsbrot was born in Paris in 1954. She writes mostly novels\, sometimes essays and radio fictions. She is also a translator\, from the English (for instance Virginia Woolf) and from the German. Her latest novel\, Nevermore\, published in 2021\, deals with the process of translation. For more than twenty years she has been living in Paris and Berlin. \nTess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Lewis is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship\, and was awarded the ACFNY Translation Prize and the 2017 PEN Translation Prize for her translation of the novel Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap. \nAnne Weber is a German-French author and translator based in Paris. She has received the 3Sat award at the Festival of German-Language Literature as well as a European translation award for her translation of Pierre Michon. Her most recent novel\, Epic Annette\, won the 2020 German Book Prize. She was awarded the 2022 Leipzig Book Fair Prize in Translation for her German version of NEVERMORE. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Wajsbrot\, Lewis\, and Weber 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/wajsbrot23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230518T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230518T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230504T120054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230504T170523Z
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SUMMARY:(In Person at the Center for Fiction) The International Library Part I: Notes on Sugar
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In person at the Center for Fiction (Brooklyn\, NY) and over Zoom\, join celebrated Swiss author Dorothee Elmiger and American writer Kate Zambreno for a conversation about Megan Ewing’s new English translation of Elmiger’s Out of the Sugar Factory (Aus der Zuckerfabrik). \nIn an era of greed and lust\, power and excess\, Out of the Sugar Factory plumbs the impact of the sugar manufacturing industry through a kaleidoscope of memories\, dreams\, literary references\, narrative threads\, and historical fragments. From the Haitian Revolution and Chantal Akerman\, to Karl Marx\, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence\, Elmiger compiles a journal of reflections on global systems of capital through the medium of her personal patterns of experience. At a time when this critical historical lens is under attack across the U.S.\, we can look to Elmiger’s work as inspiration to keep revising old stories we have told until now. \nAbout the speakers: \nDorothee Elmiger was born in 1985 in Switzerland. She is the author of Out of the Sugar Factory\, Shift Sleepers\, and Invitation to the Bold of Heart. She lives in New York City. \nKate Zambreno is the author most recently To Write As If Already Dead\, a study of Hervé Guibert (Columbia University Press)\, and the novel Drifts (Riverhead). The Light Room\, a meditation on art and care\, is forthcoming from Riverhead in July 2023. A collaborative meditation on tone in literature with Sofia Samatar is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in fall 2023. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction\, she teaches in the MFA nonfiction program at Columbia University and is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College. \nImportant information: The discussion will take place at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn\, New York. The conversation will be streamed on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAccess to this event requires registration through the Center for Fiction. 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%2Fcenterforfiction.org%2Fevent%2Fthe-international-library-part-i-notes-on-sugar%2F|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. \nAll meetings will be hybrid\, taking place in person at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn (1:30pm ET) with audiences at the American Library in Paris (in Paris; 19h30 CEST) and the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco (10:30am PT) for a live streaming experience. Events will run for about an hour. \nPlease write to Alice McCrum (mccrum@americanlibraryinparis.org)\, Melanie McNair (melanie@centerforfiction.org)\, or Leslie-Ann Woofter (leslie-ann@catranslation.org) with any questions or thoughts.[/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/sugar23/
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:20230517T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230517T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230404T142044Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Humanities in Crisis? with Merve Emre
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In anticipation of Merve Emre’s forthcoming monograph\, Post-Discipline: Literature\, Professionalism\, and the Crisis of the Humanities\, join Emre for a discussion about two curious and much-discussed phenomena. On the one hand\, veritable crisis within the academy: against a backdrop of program closures\, decreasing student enrollments\, and budget cuts\, the study of English and history at the collegiate level in America has fallen by a third over the last decade. On the other hand\, flourishing outside the classroom walls: professional schools in medicine\, law\, and business have emerged as new sites for literary study and teaching\, drawing productive links between reading literature and in-the-world practice. How did this happen? And what will happen next? \nMerve Emre is Professor of Criticism at Wesleyan University and Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. She is the author and editor of several books\, including Paraliterary\, The Ferrante Letters\, The Personality Brokers\, and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway\, and a contributing writer at the New Yorker. She is working on two books: one on love; the other on the discipline of literary studies. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Emre 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/emre23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230516T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230516T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230404T171656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T171656Z
UID:50704-1684265400-1684269000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Jami Attenberg and Lauren Collins on Writing Through Life
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Celebrated novelist Jami Attenberg’s new memoir I Came All This Way to Meet You details a life on the road and the many ways one can create a home. An invigorating race through the varied places and spaces temporarily inhabited by Attenberg before moving on\, the book celebrates the rejection of a conventional life in favor of spontaneity and creativity. Throughout it all\, we learn\, Attenberg found solace in writing: in lieu of a static life\, she sought stability in the practice of her craft. Though her subjects and techniques have changed across time\, the very activity of putting the pen to paper has remained constant. Attenberg\, in conversation with author Lauren Collins\, will discuss the meandering trajectory of life and the many roads taken to arrive back at herself.   \nAbout the speakers:  \nJami Attenberg is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books of fiction\, including The Middlesteins and All Grown Up\, and\, most recently\, a memoir\, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home. She has written for the New York Times Magazine\, the New Yorker\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Sunday Times\, and the Guardian. Her work has been published in sixteen languages. She is also the creator of the annual online group writing accountability project #1000wordsofsummer. She lives in New Orleans. \nLauren Collins began contributing to the New Yorker in 2003 and became a staff writer in 2008. She is the author of When in French: Love in a Second Language\, which the Times named as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2016. She is working on a second book\, about a coup d’état perpetrated by white supremacists in Wilmington\, North Carolina in 1898\, and its effects on the city during the past 120 years. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Attenberg and Collins 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/attenberg23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230510T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230510T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230403T184209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T080017Z
UID:50594-1683747000-1683750600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) A Hidden Figure of Wartime Paris with Livia Manera Sambuy and Tash Aw
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When journalist Livia Manera Sambuy discovered a striking portrait of princess Amrit Kaur in a Mumbai museum\, she had no idea who the luminous figure was\, much less the journey that lay ahead of her in excavating Kaur’s history. Fascination with Kaur led to a search across the globe for information on her past\, which in turn uncovered Kaur’s participation in the resistance effort against the Nazis\, her commitment to the fight for women’s rights\, a complicated family life\, and a tragic death following imprisonment in a concentration camp. Equal parts moving and riveting\, Sambuy’s tale of Kaur’s inspiring life and living legacy is infused with remarkable\, improbable stories of figures across history and the reminder that every individual is part of a cause bigger than themselves. Sambuy will appear in conversation with author Tash Aw.  \nAbout the speaker: \nLivia Manera Sambuy is an Italian writer whose book of profiles of American writers\, Don’t Write About Me\, was published in 2015. She has been a staff writer at the literary pages of the Italian national daily Corriere della Sera for more than twenty years and is the author and co-director of two documentary films on Philip Roth. She divides her time between Paris and Tuscany. \nTash Aw is an award-winning author. His first novel\, The Harmony Silk Factory (2005) was longlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and won the 2005 Whitbread Book Awards First Novel Award. His 2013 novel Five Star Billionaire was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. In 2016\, he published The Face: Strangers on a Pier\, \, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His 2019 novel\, We\, The Survivors\, was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His novels have been translated into 23 languages. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Sambuy and Aw 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/sambuy23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230509T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230509T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230404T193304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T101429Z
UID:50719-1683660600-1683664200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Behind the Scenes of the Opéra Comique
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are delighted to welcome Missy Mazzoli\, composer\, and Royce Vavrek\, librettist\, alongside performer Sydney Mancasola\, to discuss their highly-anticipated staging of Breaking the Waves at the Opéra Comique. Based on Lars Von Trier’s award-winning 1996 film\, Mazzoli and Vavrek’s fresh take on the trials of a devout young woman from a strict Calvinist enclave in Northern Scotland was awarded the International Opera Award for Best World Premiere in 2017. Join them at the Library as they discuss the immense task of adapting age-old problems\, from faith and morality to love and community\, to the contemporary operatic stage.[/vc_column_text][vc_message css=”.vc_custom_1681464167931{background-color: #9bc0db !important;}”] \nThe Opéra Comique is offering the Library community a generous 40% discount for tickets to Breaking the Waves.\nTo purchase your discounted tickets\, click here. \n[/vc_message][vc_column_text]About the speakers: \nMissy Mazzoli’s music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic\, Atlanta Symphony\, the Philadelphia Orchestra\, the BBC Symphony\, the Cincinnati Orchestra\, the National Symphony\, LA Opera\, Scottish Opera\, eighth blackbird\, Kronos Quartet and many others. She is one of the first two women to receive a main stage commission from the Metropolitan Opera\, and was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Classical Composition. From 2018-2021 she was Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra\, and from 2012-2015 was Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia. \nRoyce Vavrek is a Canada-born\, Brooklyn-based librettist and lyricist who has been called “the indie Hofmannsthal” (The New Yorker) a “Metastasio of the downtown opera scene” (The Washington Post)\, “an exemplary creator of operatic prose” (The New York Times)\, 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 for Music. \nSydney Mancasola studied voice at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music\, and later went on join Oper Frankfurt as a member of the ensemble. Sydney’s notable debuts have included her house debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Pamina in the Julie Taymor production of The Magic Flute\, her company and role debut as Adina L’elisir d’amore at the Opéra de Paris\, and Melisande Pelléas et Mélisande with LA Opera\, and her debut as Bess in a new production of Breaking the Waves at the Adelaide Festival Centre in Australia and Edinburgh International Festival\, where she was awarded a Herald Angel for her performance. \nNicolas Chesneau is a French pianist\, vocal coach and conductor. He studied in Paris with Anne le Bozec. He worked in many opera houses in France (Bastille\, Lille\, Dijon\, Strasbourg\, Marseille) and as assistant in international festivals (Aix-en-Provence\, Ruthrtriennale\, Wienerfestwochen). \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Mazzoli\, Vavrek\, Mancasola\, and Chesneau 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 is presented in partnership with the Opéra Comique\, with the support of The Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture.  \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/breakingthewaves23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230503T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230503T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230402T180433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T180433Z
UID:50538-1683142200-1683145800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) High Hopes and Harlem’s Hidden Histories with Jake Lamar
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join author Jake Lamar\, in conversation with professor Marcus Bruce\, to discuss Lamar’s celebrated noir novel\, Viper’s Dream. The story of an aspiring jazz musician’s descent into the Harlem drug trade\, Viper’s Dream redefines the crime genre\, infusing it with tension and depth. Readers are swept into a hero’s journey\, motivated by the central question: how much can one sacrifice to achieve one’s dreams? Hailed by Deborah Levy as “moody\, poetic\, and immersing\,” the novel is a rich and atmospheric portrait of mid-century Manhattan’s dark underbelly. Lamar navigates murder\, betrayal\, romance\, and jazz with skill\, masterfully crafting a book both politically charged and poetically written.  \nAbout the speakers: \nJake Lamar is the award-winning author of a memoir\, seven novels and a play. His most recent work\, Viper’s Dream\, is a crime novel set in the jazz world of Harlem between 1936 and 1961. Born and raised in the Bronx\, New York\, Jake Lamar has lived in Paris since 1993. He is a professor of creative writing at one of France’s top universities\, Sciences Po. \nMarcus Bruce is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies in the Religious Studies Department at Bates College in Lewiston\, Maine. He is also a founding member of the American Studies and Africana Programs at the college. He has published Henry Ossawa Tanner: A Spiritual Biography\, a study of the first African American painter to achieve international recognition at the Paris Salon. He is currently writing a book entitled The Ambassadors: African Americans\, Paris and A New Birth of Freedom\, a study of African Americans at the Paris Exposition of 1900. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Lamar and Bruce 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/lamar23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230502T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230502T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230402T180028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T110111Z
UID:50533-1683055800-1683059400@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Writing to the Moon with Fatoumata Kébé
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The moon has been the subject of human fascination since the dawn of recorded history. Celebrated in epic poetry and sacred texts\, spanning ancient mythology and modern physics\, it has been the object of awe\, worship\, investigation\, and analysis across every era of civilization. In La lune est un roman\, astronomer Fatoumata Kebe tells us the story of the moon. The moon’s story\, we learn\, is also the story of the humans looking at\, studying\, rhapsodizing\, and loving it. We have always looked at the same moon. Kebe demonstrates that our ways of looking at it\, and writing about it\, have not changed all that drastically\, either. \nAbout the speaker: \nFatoumata Kébé is a doctor of astronomy at Sorbonne Université. She researches the impact of space activities on astronomical observations\, and how such activities contribute to pollution around the Earth. She is also working on “Connected Eco\,” an entrepreneurial project for water preservation in the farming sector\, and is the founder of the Éphémérides organization\, which promotes the practice and teaching of astronomy among the public. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Kébé 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/kebe23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230427T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230427T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20221128T154408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230423T124123Z
UID:45207-1682622000-1682627400@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:George Monbiot\, Sébastien Treyer\, and Emma Heiling on Feeding the World
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nWhile half of the world’s habitable land is used to produce our food\, fertilizers\, sewage\, and pesticides contaminate large swathes of the rest. How to feed the world\, we might ask\, without destroying the planet? \nThe Library’s contribution to this joint program is supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Arts and Culture. \nPlease note the special start time of this event. \nAbout the speakers: \nGeorge Monbiot\, author of Regenesis:Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet\, is a columnist\, filmmaker\, and essayist. \nSébastien Treyer is Executive Director of IDDRI\, a think tank which facilitates the transition towards sustainable development. \nEmma Heiling is the Founder & CEO of ClimaTalk\, a youth-led non-profit organisation demystifying climate policy and empowering young people in the fight for climate action. \nImportant information: The 2023 series will unfold over six sessions\, from 26 January to 29 June. Conversations will begin at 19h00 CET and run for ninety minutes. Conversations will be hybrid\, taking place both in person at the American Library in Paris and online. Though participants are encouraged to join all six sessions for a holistic overview\, the discrete and diverse nature of topics will allow audience members to attend based on interest. Alice McCrum\, head of cultural programming at the American Library in Paris\, will begin each conversation with brief opening remarks\, before guiding an in-depth group discussion. \n\n\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. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ecologues4/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230426T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230426T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230331T094839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T095326Z
UID:50438-1682537400-1682541000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Changing our Approach to Change with Adam Phillips
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Please note that in-person reservations for this event are now closed. We invite you to sign up to attend online by clicking the RSVP button. \nCan people truly change? When one is unhappy or unwell\, is it possible to get better? Adam Phillips\, the UK’s foremost literary psychoanalyst\, thinks that these may not be the right questions to ask. Rather\, we should consider what we mean by the terms ‘change’ and ‘get better’\, and how transformation and self-betterment have been mythologized. In bestselling works On Wanting to Change and On Getting Better\, Phillips encourages us to rethink the ways we talk about mental health and the lives we lead. By redefining the terms of the conversation surrounding change\, we may learn to think more clearly about ourselves. At the Library\, Phillips will discuss the human mind and the tools we have to understand it.  \nAbout the speaker:  \nAdam Phillips\, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital\, London\, is a practicing psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of various works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism\, including most recently The Cure For Psychoanalysis\, On Getting Better\, On Wanting to Change\, Attention Seeking\, and In Writing. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations\, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature\, and a contributor to the London Review of Books. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Phillips 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/phillips23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230425T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230425T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230227T195202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T195202Z
UID:48824-1682451000-1682454600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Nina Gelbart on the Forgotten Women of the Enlightenment
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The most frequently-cited version of the Enlightenment is that of a group of brilliant men whose contributions to science and the humanities defined the contours of the centuries to come. These men’s names now decorate Parisian streets and metro stops\, cementing their legacy as founders of modern France. Historian Nina Gelbart proposes we expand this vision of the eighteenth century. In Minerva’s French Sisters\, Gelbart reveals the forgotten stories of six women whose contributions to science rival their most famous male peers. Gelbart breaks with traditional ways of writing history\, offering a biography equal parts rigorous and imaginative. Join her to discuss new approaches to old narratives and the hidden women of the Enlightenment.  \nAbout the speaker:  \nNina Rattner Gelbart is Professor of History and Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women’s Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her research on female journalists\, midwives\, scientists and revolutionaries of 18th century France has been supported by the National Science Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and most recently by the Guggenheim Foundation. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Gelbart 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/gelbart23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230419T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230419T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230212T170729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230406T192347Z
UID:48153-1681932600-1681936200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Voices of Migration with Violaine Schwartz and Christine Gutman
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Papers\, author Violaine Schwartz gathers the numerous and varied experiences of those seeking asylum in France. Having survived arduous and often life-threatening journeys from their home countries\, the voices of this collection arrived in France only to learn that their odyssey had not yet ended. This is the story of the second half of their travels: through impenetrable bureaucratic systems\, senseless administrative demands\, and time itself as their wait for official government recognition draws on. A modern epic of human movement and a critique of violence in all its forms\, the work is a damning portrait of the conditions of contemporary immigration: the reduction of community to arbitrary borders\, shared humanity to anonymous policy\, and life to pieces of paper.   \nAbout the speakers: \nViolaine Schwartz is a French novelist\, playwright\, singer\, and stage actor. Her novel Le Vent dans la bouche was awarded the 2013 Prix Eugène Dabit du Roman Populiste. In addition to writing and performing\, she leads writing workshops in a variety of settings. Papers is her first book to be published in English. \nChristine Gutman is a French-to-English translator with a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Papers\, by Violaine Schwartz (Fern Books\, 2022)\, is her first book-length literary translation. Other translations of hers have appeared in The Georgia Review\, 3:AM and Samovar.\nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Schwartz and Gutman 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/schwartz-gutman23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230418T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230418T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T202029
CREATED:20230212T165913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T132028Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Memoir As Medicine with Diane Shader Smith
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]At the age of twenty-five\, Diane Shader Smith’s daughter Mallory passed away following a lifelong struggle with cystic fibrosis. A passionate advocate for the cystic fibrosis community and an eloquent writer\, Mallory recorded her intimate experiences for the final ten years of her life with the intent to have them published posthumously\, thus rendering invisible illness visible. The result is Salt in My Soul\, a celebration of an inspiring young life\, a meditation upon health\, and a document of sickness in the twenty-first century. The groundbreaking work offers a personal perspective on chronic illness\, recentering medical discourse around the voice of the patient. Shader Smith\, who has gone on to give more than 250 talks worldwide about Mallory’s story and developed the book into a documentary\, will speak at the Library about medicine\, memoir\, and the power of storytelling. \nAbout the speaker: \nDiane Shader Smith has had a vibrant career as a writer\, speaker\, publicist\, and fundraiser with an extensive roster of clients during her multi-decade career. When Diane’s daughter Mallory died at the age of 25\, she brought Mallory’s memoir to publication as Salt in My Soul (Random House 2019)\, which led to the documentary of the same name (3Arts Entertainment) and has given 250+ talks worldwide about patient insights\, the global health crisis called AMR\, and phage therapy–everything Mallory wrote about and stood for. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Shader Smith 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/shadersmith23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Feminism Today with Kate Kirkpatrick and Manon Garcia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The past decade has seen many significant moments in feminist history\, amplified by the rise of social media. The consent revolution\, from #MeToo to #Balancetonporc\, led to a reevaluation of power dynamics in the workplace and in society at large. The Women’s March demonstrated the power of mass-mobilization\, as well as its limits. Developments in queer studies have led to evolving notions of what womanhood means\, complicating the contours of feminism and the groups it represents. Racial justice movements have brought the question of intersectionality to the forefront of feminist philosophies. As social life rapidly changes around us\, Is a unified definition of feminism–as a set of principles\, a practice\, an approach to life–still possible? Was it ever? Join philosophers of feminism Kate Kirkatrick and Manon Garcia to discuss.  \nAbout the speakers: \nKate Kirkpatrick is a 2022-23 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow. She is a philosopher based in Oxford\, where she is Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy and Christian Ethics at Regent’s Park College. Kirkpatrick is author of Sartre on Sin (2017)\, Sartre and Theology (2017)\, and the internationally acclaimed biography Becoming Beauvoir: A Life (2019)\, which was selected as one of the best books of 2019 by the Times Literary Supplement\, the Guardian\, and the Telegraph\, and is currently being translated into over a dozen languages. In 2021 she was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to write a philosophical commentary on Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. \nManon Garcia teaches philosophy at the Free University in Berlin. Trained as a philosopher in France\, she taught philosophy at the University of Chicago\, Harvard\, and Yale\, before moving to Berlin. She is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and the author of We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives (2021) partly devoted to Beauvoir’s philosophy. La Conversation des sexes\, her second book\, was awarded best philosophical work published in France in 2022 and is forthcoming in English in 2023 as The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex. Photo: Astrid di Crollalanza © Flammarion. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Kirkpatrick and 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. \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/kirkpatrick-garcia23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Online) Returning to East Berlin with Jenny Erpenbeck and Claire Messud
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Greek expression for timeliness or opportunity\, kairos expresses the correspondence of an activity to its historical moment; an ephemeral alignment of situation and season. In celebrated writer Jenny Erpenbeck’s new work Kairos\, this alignment is a relationship which emerges between a young woman and older writer amidst the dissolution of the GDR. The book contends with generational and political divides\, anchored to the division of Berlin: having fortuitously found one another\, the couple experiences the collapse of East Berlin from two different historical perspectives\, unable to reach each other across the wall of time that separates them. Erpenbeck will discuss divided states\, lovers\, and ages with writer Claire Messud.  \nAbout the speakers: \nBorn in East Berlin in 1967\, Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of many works of fiction. She won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for her 2012 novel Aller Tage Abend (The End of Days). Her novel Gehen\, ging\, gegangen (Go\, Went\, Gone) was shortlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis in 2017 and has been nominated for the 2023 Prix Frontieres Leonora Miano. For her works\, translated into 30 languages\, she has won several awards such as the Thomas-Mann-Prize\, the Premio Strega\, and the Lee-Hochul-Prize.  \nClaire Messud is the author of six novels\, including The Emperor’s Children (2006)\, a New York Times Book of the Year in 2006; The Woman Upstairs (2013); and The Burning Girl (2017)\, a finalist for the LA Times Book Award in Fiction. Her most recent novel is A Dream Life (2021). She was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 2020. Messud teaches creative writing at Harvard University and writes a monthly books column for Harper’s Magazine.  \nImportant information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/erpenbeck-messud23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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