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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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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230411T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230411T203000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230405T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230404T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230404T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Reimagining Race with Mohsin Hamid
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Award-winning novelist Mohsin Hamid’s newest work\, The Last White Man\, begins with a premise borrowed from Kafka: one day\, his protagonist wakes up to find that he has undergone a transformation overnight. In this case\, he has metamorphosed from a white man into a man of color. As similar transformations begin to occur to all white members of his town\, the previously fixed social order begins to break down. Disorienting and thought-provoking\, the work forces readers to confront the instability of racial identity in contemporary society. Wielding the absurd as a tool for political engagement\, Hamid harnesses fiction’s capacity to inspire the imagination in order to propose alternative visions for the world.  \nAbout the speaker: \nMohsin Hamid was born in Lahore (Pakistan) in 1971. Known all over the world for The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)\, he has lived between Pakistan\, United-States and London all his life. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Hamid 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/hamid23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230329T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230329T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Preti Taneja on the Aftermath of Disaster
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Novelist Preti Taneja’s second work\, Aftermath\, is a fragmented\, aching\, yet ultimately hopeful account of the immediate consequences of catastrophe. Following a fatal attack at a celebration for a prison education program in London which left a colleague of Taneja’s dead\, the work details both the intimate experience of loss and a public reckoning with a fractured social structure. Touching upon violence\, power\, and poetry\, the work considers the culture of trauma narratives and the limits of language in contending with disaster. Blending first\, second\, and third person\, Taneja ultimately arrives at writing as a means of reconciling the personal with the shared.  \nAbout the speaker:  \nPreti Taneja is a British Asian writer and activist\, and Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University\, UK. Her first book\, We That Are Young (2017)\, won the 2018 Desmond Elliott Prize for the year’s best literary debut novel. Aftermath (2021) was a 2022 New Yorker best book of the year and a New Statesman book of the year. It won the Gordon Burn Prize for literature that is fearless in ambition and execution. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Taneja 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/taneja23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230328T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230328T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Simone de Beauvoir: Living Philosophy with Kate Kirkpatrick and Marine Rouch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nearly seventy-five years ago\, Simone de Beauvoir published the monumental The Second Sex. An invaluable contribution to existential philosophy\, the work laid the foundations for contemporary feminist thought. It led to the development of new disciplines\, from gender studies to queer theory\, all motivated by the central claim: that one is not born a woman\, but rather becomes one. Who was the woman behind the text? How did her life feed into her philosophy\, and in what ways were the two in contradiction? How did Simone de Beauvoir become herself? Join American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow and author of Becoming Beauvoir Kate Kirkpatrick and de Beauvoir expert Marine Rouch to discuss the biography of the woman who changed philosophy.  \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. \nDr. Marine Rouch is a researcher at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and teaches in several universities. She wrote a thesis based on the thousands of letters Simone de Beauvoir received from her ordinary readers\, mostly women. She is the editor of the research blog “Chère Simone de Beauvoir” and the Communication Coordinator of The International Simone de Beauvoir Society. She co-created the Beauvoir Webinar Series and published numerous articles. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Kirkpatrick and Rouch 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-rouch23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230322T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230322T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Macron's Second Term\, Analyzed
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Emmanuel Macron’s win in the 2022 French presidential election arrived at a moment of intense political polarization across France. The divided state of French politics has continued to limit Macron’s success\, already undermined by the lowest turnout in a French presidential election since 1969 and a smaller-than-expected margin of victory. Is Macron\, polling at 35% in October\, falling out of favor with the French? How should we evaluate the first six months of his second term? What challenges does a minority government face in modern-day France? And what sort of prognoses can we draw from this about centrism in Europe today? In partnership with the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC)\, we invite a panel of experts to analyze the state of French politics\, what led up to this\, and what this means for the future. This discussion will be moderated by Vivienne Walt.  \nAbout the speakers: \nConstant Méheut is a reporter in the Paris bureau of the New York Times\, covering France. He joined the Paris bureau in 2020\, after graduating from HEC Paris and MGIMO university in Moscow with a dual master’s degree in business and international relations. Méheut has reported the 2022 presidential campaign in France and the rise of the French far right. \nVivienne Walt is a Paris correspondent for TIME Magazine and Fortune Magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, National Geographic\, BusinessWeek\, and more. She is governor of the Overseas Press Club of America. \nMatthew Dalton is a reporter in the Wall Street Journal Paris bureau where he covers climate change\, energy security and European politics and foreign policy. Before moving to Paris\, he was a reporter in the Journal’s Brussels bureau for seven years\, where his coverage ranged from the eurozone economic crisis to Islamist militancy in Europe. \nThierry Arnaud is currently international editor for French news network BFMTV. Thierry joined BFMTV in 2006 as its US Correspondent\, and later served as the network political editor for six years. He was managing editor for sister network BFM Business from 2019 to 2022. Thierry started in career in print journalism\, and was based for several of these years in London and New York. \nVictor Mallet has covered France in three stints\, and was the Financial Time‘s Paris bureau chief until last September. He has spent three decades covering Europe\, Asia\, the Middle East and Africa\, and has written two books\, on the Ganges River and the modernisation of south-east Asia. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Abboud\, Méheut\, Arnaud and Walt will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nPlease note the Daylight Savings gap between the US and France. This event will take place at 19h30 CET / 14h30 EDT \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. \nThis event has been organized in partnership with the Overseas Press Club of American (OPC). [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1678813088206{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/macronpanel23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230321T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230321T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T230111
CREATED:20230227T121713Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) A Dispatch from the Fashion Archives with Marco Pecorari and Antoine Bucher
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Fashion captures the historical moment\, giving it shape and fixing it in fabric. We often turn to fashion as a record and reflection of its time. Yet how is fashion itself recorded? What tools do we have to document the design\, production\, and use of fashion? What constitutes a fashion object? When writing the history of fashion\, what is worthy of the archive\, and what is cast aside? When considering the legacy of the most famous luxury brands\, what is included in the narrative\, and what is deliberately left out? At the heart of this question is the idea of ephemera: from invitations\, to press releases\, to catalogs\, minor and often forgotten documents provide an alternative means of envisioning the development of modern fashion within the contemporary marketplace. Experts in fashion history\, practices of collection\, and archival sciences discuss.  \nAbout the speakers: \nAntoine Bucher graduated from the University of Lille and from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. He is the co-founder of Diktats\, a bookstore specialized in rare books and documents related to fashion from the 16th century to the 20th century. As the manager of Diktats\, Antoine Bucher has been working with international museums and libraries\, private collectors and heritage departments of luxury brands for more than a decade. \nDr. Marco Pecorari is Assistant Professor and Program Director of the MA in Fashion Studies at Parsons Paris. He is co-editor of the volume Fashion\, Performance and Performativity: The Complex Spaces of Fashion (2021) and author of Fashion Remains: Rethinking Fashion Ephemera in the Archive (2021). He is the co-founder of the festival and publication Printing Fashion and sits on the editorial boards of Fashion Theory\, ZoneModa Journal\, and Bloomsbury Fashion Central.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Bucher and Pecorari will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nPlease note the Daylight Savings gap between the US and France. This event will take place at 19h30 CET / 14h30 EDT \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. \nThis talk is supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Arts and Culture.[/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/fashion23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230315T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230315T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T230111
CREATED:20221219T143044Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Bruno Patino on the Age of Information
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Are we living through an information overload? Constantly bombarded by images\, facts\, and opinions emanating from screens of varied shapes and sizes\, one may begin to wonder what purpose staying up to date ultimately serves. In the words of ARTE President Bruno Patino\, is it only natural to ask\, “s’informer\, à quoi bon?” Yet Patino insists upon the social imperative of remaining informed\, providing a compelling case for knowledge as a public good. Patino will discuss new essay “S’informer\, à quoi bon”\, as well as his celebrated works on the attention economy and the failures of internet utopianism. Join him to learn how we can rework digital society to reclaim our relationship to our devices and re-enter the shared human world.  \nAbout the speaker: \nBruno Patino is an author and journalist. He has published five works on digital media with Grasset\, including La civilisation du poisson rouge (2019) and its sequel\, Tempête dans le bocal : la nouvelle civilisation du poisson rouge (2022). “S’informer\, à quoi bon?” was published in 2023. Patino has been CEO of the French-German TV channel ARTE since 2021\, after previously serving as Editorial Director of Arte France. He is Associate Professor at Sciences Po and an analyst of digital society.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Patino will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nPlease note the Daylight Savings gap between the US and France. This event will take place at 19h30 CET / 14h30 EDT \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/patino23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230314T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230314T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T230111
CREATED:20230206T211105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230309T144039Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Noga Arikha on the Self and the Disrupted Mind
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Philosopher Noga Arikha’s decision to study neuropsychiatric patients at a hospital in Paris was not initially motivated by personal experience. However\, when her mother began to succumb to dementia\, Arikha’s research into the threats to the self posed by mental illness took on new dimensions. Seeking to understand the confrontation of the mind with its own dissolution\, Arikha grew close to a network of patients whose variety of symptoms defied neat classification and whose loss of identity is a current of intense pain throughout Arikha’s new work\, The Ceiling Outside. Empathic and unflinching\, the book details the fragility of the mind\, the limits of medical practice\, and\, above all\, the humanity of all beings trying to grapple with who they are. Arikha will appear in conversation with writer Rachel Donadio.   \nAbout the speaker:  \nNoga Arikha is a philosopher\, historian of ideas and essayist who works as a “science humanist”. Her book The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind was published in spring 2022 by Basic Books. She is also the author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours (2007). She is a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Fiesole\, Associate Fellow of the Warburg Institute and of the Center for the Politics of Feelings (London)\, Research Associate at the Institut Jean Nicod (Paris)\, and Research Associate at the Fotopoulou Lab at UCL. \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 (Arikha 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. \nPlease note the Daylight Savings gap between the US and France. This event will take place at 19h30 CET / 14h30 EDT \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/arikha23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230308T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230308T201500
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Philippe Sands on Britain’s Living Colonial Legacy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Please note that this event will exceptionally begin at 19h00 CET.  \nIn the immediate post-World War II period\, the founding of the International Court of Justice heralded a new age of international cooperation according to a shared code of human rights. Thirty years later\, in flagrant violation of these rights\, the UK forcibly removed the population of the Chagos Islands in order to found the British Indian Ocean Territory. In new work The Last Colony\, human rights lawyer Philippe Sands exposes the heart of this scandal and his experience defending the case of Chagossian repatriation in 2018 in the court of The Hague itself. Sharing stories from Chagossians forced into exile and demystifying the legal framework\, Sands uncovers a hidden history of British colonialism unfolding in the present day. \nAbout the speaker: \nPhilippe Sands KC is Professor of Law at University College London and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard. He is a practicing barrister at 11KBW\, appears as counsel before the International Court of Justice and other international courts and tribunals\, and sits as an international arbitrator. He is a Board Member of Hay Festival and President of English PEN. His latest books are East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide (2016)\, The Ratline: Love\, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive (2020) and The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile\, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy (2022). \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Sands 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/sands23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230307T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230307T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Getting Life Back on Track with Oliver Mol
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Listed as a best Australian book of 2022 by the Guardian\, writer Oliver Mol’s new memoir\, Train Lord\, tells the story of how a chronic\, 10-month-long migraine subsumed him\, robbing him of writing\, reading\, and–ultimately–existence itself. “Two things happened\,” Mol notes\, “I became a writer who no longer wrote\, and a person who could no longer communicate with the modern world. In literature\, and life\, I began to disappear.” Steadied by a job as a train guard\, and surrounded by a new collection of characters\, Mol reflects on his new vocation with wit and honesty\, sharp images and deep emotions. Ultimately Train Lord captures the experience of pain\, but it also captures the bright ideas of possibility\, creativity\, and growth that pain so often trails in its wake.   \nAbout the speaker: \nOliver Mol is the author of Lion Attack! (Scribe Publications\, 2015) and Train Lord (Penguin Michael Joseph\, 2022)\, which was a Guardian\, Australian Book Review and Sydney Morning Herald book of the year. He is a contributing editor at Apartamento Magazine and was a 2022 Marten Bequest Scholar for Prose through the Australian Council for the Arts. He grew up in Australia\, and currently lives in Paris. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Mol 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/mol23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230301T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230301T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T230111
CREATED:20230119T185405Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Linda Kinstler on the Haunting of History
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What is the nature of proof\, and how is it obfuscated by memory and time? Faced with indescribable monstrosities\, what level of justice can a court trial achieve? In the aftermath of a totalitarian regime\, what remains of national memory? In Linda Kinstler’s rich and probing work Come to This Court and Cry\, family and international history intertwine in an investigation a Latvian Nazi killing squad. The granddaughter of a member of this group\, Kinstler uncovers decades of revisionist practices which rehabilitated its figurehead and rewrote historical reality. From legal cases to cultural narratives and evolving national identities\, Kinstler demonstrates the world’s failure to reckon with the Holocaust and its enduring\, haunting presence today. Kinstler will be in conversation with journalist Madeleine Schwartz. \nAbout the speakers: \nLinda Kinstler is the author of Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends (Le Contraire De L’Oubli\, Denoël\, January 2023). She is the deputy editor of The Dial magazine and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The Economist\, and other publications. She is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at U.C. Berkeley\, where she is writing a history of legal oblivion. Kinstler is Deputy Editor of The Dial.  \nMadeleine Schwartz is a journalist and editor based in Paris whose work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books. Schwartz is Editor-in-Chief of The Dial.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Kinstler and Schwartz 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/kinstler23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230228T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230228T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T230111
CREATED:20230123T074447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230209T120544Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Lex Paulson on Philosophy and Power
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Does “the will of the people” exist? How could any community of divided views and changing minds ever have a single will? And where did we get the idea that self-government could only happen through elections and ruling elites? \nThe answer emerges in the story of a young orator from the Italian countryside who rose to the heights of power as his republic fell apart. Cicero and the People’s Will is an adventure story of ideas\, centered on the creative genius of Rome’s greatest orator and most underappreciated thinker\, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Surviving plots\, exile\, and the rise of Julius Caesar\, Cicero fuses Roman tradition with Greek philosophy\, establishing an idea–popular sovereignty through an elected elite–that failed in his time but has shaped the modern world. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the UM6P School of Collective Intelligence (Morocco) and lectures in advocacy at Sciences Po-Paris. Trained in classics and community organizing\, he served as mobilization strategist for the campaigns of Barack Obama in 2008 and Emmanuel Macron in 2017. He served as legislative counsel in the 111th U.S. Congress (2009-2011)\, organized on six U.S. presidential campaigns\, and has worked to advance democratic innovation at the European Commission and in India\, Tunisia\, Egypt\, Uganda\, Senegal\, Czech Republic and Ukraine. He is author of Cicero and the People’s Will: Philosophy and Power at the End of the Roman Republic\, from Cambridge University Press\, and is co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Paulson will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/paulson23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230222T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230222T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T230111
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SUMMARY:(Online) Deesha Philyaw on The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Secret Lives of Church Ladies\, a debut short story collection from author Deesha Philyaw\, places Black female desire on proud display. The work\, currently being adapted for television by HBO Max with Tessa Thompson executive producing\, is populated by a rich cast of voices spanning multiple generations in the South of the United States. Exploring the varied intersections of religion and sexuality\, from trysts with pastors to suppressed queer attraction\, the stories celebrate women who learn what it means to want. Philyaw sanctifies the sinful\, demonstrating that that the most godly activity of all is that of shameless\, embodied love. She will speak virtually at the library about writing worship in all of its different\, sensual forms. \nAbout the speaker: \nDeesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection\, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (2020)\, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction\, the 2020/2021 Story Prize\, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. Philyaw is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and will be the 2022-2023 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. \nImportant information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/philyaw23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230221T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230221T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T230111
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Joshua Rubenstein on The Last Days of Stalin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In 1952\, Stalin terrorized the USSR with his seemingly limitless supply of power. Within three months of 1953\, he was dead. What plans was he setting into motion before his death\, and what were the immediate effects of his passing? Had he not suffered the ultimately fatal stroke\, what would history look like now? In new work The Last Days of Stalin\, Historian Joshua Rubenstein uncovers hidden depths to Stalin’s final months as dictator\, and highlights surprising policy shifts and missed diplomatic opportunities between the Eisenhower administration and the Soviet regime in the post-Stalin era. Join him in conversation with Edward Charlton-Jones at the Library as they discuss this conclusive period and its lasting consequences. \nAbout the speakers: \nJoshua Rubenstein has written and edited several path-breaking books on Soviet history\, with a focus on the dissident movement\, the Holocaust on German-occupied Soviet territory\, and biographies of Leon Trotsky and Ilya Ehrenburg. The Last Days of Stalin is his tenth book. He was an organizer and regional director for Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012. He is a longtime Associate of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. \nEdward Charlton-Jones studied History and Russian at Oxford and Harvard. He has written and lectured on the Russian emigration to Constantinople in 1918-1923\, as well as on aspects of Russian literature and art. He has practiced law in Paris and Istanbul\, with a focus on international energy projects. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Rubenstein and Charlton-Jones will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/rubenstein23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Caroline Fourest on the Offended Generation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Have cultural conflicts invaded our private lives and private minds? Should we be concerned by the cult of identity? Does adherence to origins endanger free democratic exchange? In polemic treatise Génération Offensée\, author Caroline Fourest outlines the biggest threat currently facing the intellectual left: itself. From canceling Dostoevsky to firing professors at will\, Fourest uncovers a self-cannibalizing instinct at the heart of leftism which is eating the movement from the inside. This fight against offense has finally arrived in France\, she argues\, and brought with it its entourage cultural police turned thought police. Without any desire to return to the way things were before\, Fourest proposes a simultaneously feminist\, antiracist\, and universalist path forward which allows for a distinction between cultural plunder and cultural homage.  \nAbout the speaker: \nCaroline Fourest is a filmmaker\, director\, and journalist. She was the co-founder of the feminist\, anti-racist and secularist journal ProChoix and taught at Sciences-Po Paris on themes of multiculturalism and universalism. Fourest has been columnist for Le Monde\, France Culture\, and Marianne\, directed feminist film Sisters in Arms (2019)\, and now directs Franc-Tireur\, a weekly newspaper against polarization and extremism. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Fourest will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nThis event requires advance registration. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/fourest23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Online) Breaking the Silence on Sex with Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In groundbreaking work The Sex Lives of African Women\, author and activist Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah does away with imposed silences and cultural taboos to investigate identity\, gender\, and expression through sex. Assembling interviews with Black and Afro-descendant women from a wide age range and over thirty countries\, Sekyiamah shows that there is no univocal way to experience desire\, intimacy\, and love. From unabashed kinks to systemic abuse\, she casts an unflinching eye upon the part of adult life least discussed publicly. Creating a space for women to put these experiences into words\, Sekyiamah charts a path toward self-discovery and sexual freedom. Written through openness and with empathy\, the work celebrates African female sexuality in all of its multiplicities. \nAbout the speaker: \nNana Darkoa Sekyiamah is the author of The Sex Lives of African Women (2021)\, listed by the Economist as a best book of the year and given a starred review in Publishers Weekly. She is also co-founder of Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women\, a website\, podcast and festival that publishes and creates content that tells stories of African women’s experiences around sex\, sexualities\, and pleasure. She was cited by the BBC in its list of 100 inspirational and influential women from around the world in 2022. \nImportant information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/sekyiamah23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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