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SUMMARY:French Cooking with an American Touch with Rosa Jackson\, Jane Bertch\, and Alec Lobrano
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D84a328fa-e341-4ab2-95fc-95ff16143736%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F85299706996|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]After working as a food journalist\, Rosa Jackson moved to Paris in 1995 and began the city’s first company to offer tours of Parisian food markets. She has lived in Nice since 2004\, choosing the city for its unique culinary culture. Her new cookbook\, Niçoise\, explores the beauty and bounty of food between the Alps and the Mediterranean.   \nHaving spent more than a decade working in the financial services industry\, including several years in the Paris office\, Jane Bertch decided to pursue Entrepreneurial endeavors. In 2009 she founded one of the largest nonprofessional culinary schools in France\, La Cuisine Paris. Her new memoir\, The French Ingredient\, documents her audacity\, as an American\, to begin a cooking school in Paris. \nThis conversation will be moderated by food and travel writer\, Alec Lobrano.  \nAbout the speakers: \nRosa Jackson has run her cooking school Les Petits Farcis in Nice\, France\, for over twenty years. A former Paris restaurant critic\, she has written about French food for international publications\, including the Financial Times and Food & Wine\, and also runs the Paris food tour company Edible Paris. \nJane Bertch has spent more than two decades living and working in Europe. In 2009\, she started La Cuisine Paris\, which has become the largest nonprofessional culinary school in France. She holds a BA in English\, an MA in labor and industrial relations from the University of Illinois\, and an executive MA from the French business school INSEAD. The French Ingredient is her first book. \nAlexander Lobrano lived in Boston\, New York and London before moving to Paris in 1986. As a food and travel writer\, he has worked as Paris correspondent for Travel & Leisure\, Departures Magazine and Gourmet Magazine\, and he is the author of Hungry for Paris\, Hungry for France and My Place at the Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris. He is currently working on second volume of memoir tentatively entitled My Second French Life\, and he contributes regularly to the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, France Today and other publications and is a Contributing Writer at Airmail News.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: Attendance 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/jacksonbertch24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241114T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20241010T173931Z
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SUMMARY:(Online) The International Library: Queer Migrations
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-child” css=”” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.londonlibrary.co.uk%2Fwhats-on%2F258-the-international-library-queer-migrations%3Fdate%3D2024-11-14-19-30|target:_blank”][vc_column_text css=””]The London Library is delighted to welcome Gaar Adams and Sulaiman Addonia\, two writers whose new works consider the complex intersections of queerness and migration. \nGaar Adams’s debut work of non-fiction\, Guest Privileges\, is a mix of memoir and reportage which explores what it means to be queer in the Gulf States and his own decade-long journey of dislocation. Asking why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live in a region where penalties for queer acts include torture and death\, he riskily gathered interviews and stories from across the region. But as he began his own clandestine queer relationship\, faultlines and deeper questions began to emerge\, revealing his own disquieting assumptions about the motivations and identities of others. \nSulaiman Addonia’s third novel\, The Seers\, follows the first weeks of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn\, in the squares of Bloomsbury where its protagonist sleeps\, and against the backdrop of the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the UK asylum system\, the novel considers intergenerational histories and colonial trauma alongside the psychological and sexual lives of refugees\, insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as land and nations are. \nIn conversation with novelist Isabelle Dupuy\, these extraordinary writers discuss migration\, dislocation and queerness\, what it takes to balance opportunity and risk\, subversion and assimilation\, how to build a life and a community and what constitutes home. \nSulaiman Addonia appears as part of Flip Through Flanders\, presented by Flanders Literature. \nAbout the Speakers \nGaar Adams is the author of Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East (Harvill Secker\, 2024.) His reporting from the Middle East and South Asia has been featured in publications including The Atlantic\, Foreign Policy\, Rolling Stone\, Bloomberg\, Al Jazeera\, Slate and VICE. He was on the 2020-21 London Library Emerging Writers Programme and received his Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Glasgow. He currently teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Hull and lives in London. \nSulaiman Addonia FRSL is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist who came to London as an underage unaccompanied refugee. His other novels include The Consequences of Love and Silence is My Mother Tongue\, which have been shortlisted for awards including the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the African Literary Award from MoAD in San Francisco. His essays appear in Lit Hub\, Granta\, Freeman’s\, The New York Times\, De Standaard and Passa Porta. He lives in Brussels where he founded the Creative Writing Academy for Refugees & Asylum Seekers and the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival In Exile (AALFIE). \nIsabelle Dupuy grew up in Haiti\, has lived in America and came to the UK to work on a City trading floor before becoming an author. Her first novel Living the Dream was shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2021. Her writing has been published in the New York Times\, Bad Form Review\, Black Ballad\, the Bookseller\, the RLF’s Writer’s Mosaic and more. She is a trustee of The London Library. \nAbout The International Library: \nThe International Library is a series launched in collaboration with the American Library in Paris\, the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco\, The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn and The London Library\, which offers conversations across time\, place\, and language. The International Library celebrates the live diffusion of in-person conversations in the hope of connecting new audiences across land and sea for a collective\, intercultural experience.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54509″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/queermigrations24/
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:20241113T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241113T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
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SUMMARY:Giraffe Mania: Paris as City of Natural History with Scholar of Note A. Kendra Greene
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D09cef824-a425-4f56-807e-56ff51a1b7c3%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F87596655210|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]As we near the 200th anniversary of the journey to Paris from Africa of Zarafa\, the first giraffe in Europe since the Medicis\, join writer and illustrator A. Kendra Greene for an essayist’s illumination of curiosity and encounter\, from medieval reports of the camelopard to the first photographic evidence of ghost giraffes. \nAbout the speaker: \nA. Kendra Greene is a writer and book artist based in Dallas. She is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See\, first published by Penguin and Granta\, and now translated into German and French. With publications from Atlas Obscura to Zyzzyva\, her work has been presented at the Smithsonian\, exhibited at The Reading Room\, collected as far away as Qatar\, and supported by fellowships from Fulbright\, MacDowell\, and the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard. Tin House will unleash a collection of her essays in curiosity\, No Less Strange or Wonderful\, in Winter 2025. \nAt the Library as a Scholar of Note\, Greene is working on a nonfiction book-length project on Hell\, or l’enfer.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/greene24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241105T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241105T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
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SUMMARY:How Ike Eisenhower Led America with Susan Eisenhower and Elaine Sciolino
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Da55a159a-8d62-4e66-834d-ba59b9bc5635%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F89019713608|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Few people have made such momentous decisions as Eisenhower\, and rarely has one person had to make such a varied range of decisions. From D-Day to school integration in Little Rock\, from the Korean War to Cold War crises\, from the Red Scare to the Missile Gap controversies\, Ike was able to give the United States eight years of peace and prosperity by relying on a core set of principles. Susan Eisenhower‘s latest book\, How Ike Led\, illustrates not only what Eisenhower did\, but why―and what we can learn from him today. \nSusan Eisenhower will appear in conversation with Elaine Sciolino\, contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times.  \nAbout the speakers: \nSusan Eisenhower is one of Ike Eisenhower’s four grandchildren\, is a consultant\, author\, and a Washington\, DC-based policy strategist with many decades of work on national security issues. She lectures widely on such topics\, including strategic leadership.  \nElaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times. Her forthcoming book\, Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum\, will be published in 2025. Decorated Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French state\, she is the author of the national best-sellers The Seine and The Only Street in Paris. She has lived in Paris since 2002.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/eisenhower24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241103T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241103T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20241021T102350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T093446Z
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SUMMARY:Screening: State Legislature at the Cinémathèque du documentaire
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Purchase Tickets” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fagenda.bpi.fr%2Fevenement%2Fstate-legislature-2%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]As part of Frederick Wiseman\, nos humanités • Chapitre 1\, a retrospective with la Bibliothèque publique d’information du Centre Pompidou\, screen the film State Legislature directed by Frederick Wiseman in the presence of the New Yorker journalist Lauren Collins and critic Jordan Mintzer. \nAbout the Film:  \nThe annual legislative session convenes in the capitol of Boise\, Idaho\, a small conservative state in the West. Representatives\, citizens and lobbyists are hard at work; the making of politics has probably never before been portrayed in cinema with such generous acuity. \nRuntime: 03h37min \nAbout Frederick Wiseman\, nos humanités\, the retrospective:  \nLa cinémathèque du documentaire à la Bpi presents a complete retrospective of Frederick Wiseman’s work\, to coincide with the restoration of 33 of his films. This retrospective will take place in two phases: chapter 1 in autumn 2024\, chapter 2 in winter 2025. Discover the full program.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]  [/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/bpiwiseman24/
LOCATION:Cinémathèque du documentaire\, 25 Rue du Renard\, Paris\, 75004\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241029T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241029T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240916T092720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T102552Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Entre Nous: Can Libraries Control the World? With Seth Kimmel and Lauren Robertson
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D36e56e8f-d166-4d0c-8bc3-15fe8b9a6a6b%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F85719043327|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]In The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain\, Seth Kimmel investigates how the model of the library became the basis for Spain’s organization of its growing empire. As Spain sought to expand its dominance in the Americas\, the world became a reflection of Spanish and Moroccan library science. Seth Kimmel is a professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University who studies the medieval and early modern period of the Iberian peninsula. \nThis event will be moderated by Lauren Robertson\, scholar and current fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris. \nThe Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Paris Center\, the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, and the American Library in Paris. \nAbout the speakers: \nSeth Kimmel is Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University\, where he teaches the literature and culture of early modern Spain. He is the author of two books\, both published by the University of Chicago Press: The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain and Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain.  \nLauren Robertson is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, where she works on early modern literature and culture. She is the author of Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audience Response\, and her recent essays appear in Shakespeare Quarterly\, English Literary Renaissance\, and Theatre Journal. She is currently a fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris\, where she is at work on her next book project\, an account of the shared aesthetics of race-making and classical revival in the English Renaissance.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1726482347082{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-color: #9e0143 !important;}”]   [/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kimmel24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241022T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241022T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240904T134342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240904T134358Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Abraham Lincoln’s Great Chain-Reaction with Don Doyle and Denis Lacorne
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D9023968e-396f-4669-9965-49abf9581eb6%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F81775663548|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World highlights the overlooked connection between the Reconstruction era in the United States and the radical transformations in Europe during the late nineteenth century. From the end of slavery in Spain’s Caribbean colonies to the end of Napoleon III’s reign in France\, Don Doyle illuminates how American political changes have never occurred in a vacuum. \nThis event will be moderated by political scientist Denis Lacorne.  \nAbout the speakers: \nDon H. Doyle is a retired professor of history who has taught at the University of South Carolina\, Vanderbilt\, and as a Fulbright professor in Rome\, Genoa\, and Rio de Janeiro. He has authored many books\, among them The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War and The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World. He lives in Folly Beach\, South Carolina. \nDenis Lacorne is a French political scientist. He is Director of Research Emeritus at the Centre de recherches internationales (CERI\, Sciences Po). A specialist in the United States\, his research focuses on American elections\, the construction of national identities\, multiculturalism\, and the politics of tolerance and secularism from a comparative perspective.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/doyle24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241016T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241016T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240904T133258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T142647Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Ghosts of Paris with Lauren Elkin and Daniel Medin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D3abd8bda-94bd-4da0-9caa-60311497c1e2%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F84116175758|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Lauren Elkin’s first novel\, Scaffolding\, is the story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart. In 2019\, Anna\, a psychoanalyst\, is processing a recent miscarriage. In 1972\, Florence and Henry are renovating their kitchen. Both couples face the challenges of marriage\, fidelity\, and pregnancy\, as their ghosts intersect\, unaware they once all inhabited the same space. \nThis event will be moderated by Daniel Medin.  \nAbout the speakers: \nLauren Elkin is the author of several books\, including Flâneuse: Women Walk the City\, a Radio 4 Book of the Week\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017\, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay. Her essays on art\, literature\, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books\, the New York Times\, Granta\, Harper’s\, Le Monde\, Les Inrockuptibles\, and Frieze\, among others. She is also an award-winning translator\, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. After twenty years in Paris\, she now lives in London. \nDaniel Medin is an editor and professor of comparative literature at the American University of Paris. \nThis event is produced in collaboration with the American University in Paris‘s Center for Writers and Translators. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/elkin24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241015T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241015T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240904T132117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T114225Z
UID:69559-1729020600-1729024200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Zoom Tickets Available) A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop with Odile Hellier and Alan Riding
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D1bfb8ed9-e669-4b0f-adcf-954b85c11266%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F84071575374|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]From 1982 to 2012\, Paris’ Village Voice Bookshop was frequented by some of the greatest English-language authors of its time\, such as David Sedaris\, Amy Tan\, and Don DeLillo. In her new memoir\, Village Voices: A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop\, Odile Hellier recounts her store’s forty years of cultivating literary excellence. This discussion will be moderated by long-time New York Times correspondent Alan Riding. \nAbout the speakers: \nOdile Hellier was born in the South of France during World War II and raised in Lorraine\, near the German border\, and Brittany\, on the Atlantic Ocean. She is the founder and owner of the Village Voice Bookshop\, a hub of Anglophone literary life and culture that operated in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris for more than thirty years.  \nAlan Riding is a former correspondent of the New York Times\, having been variously based in Mexico City\, Rio de Janeiro\, Rome and Paris\, most recently as the paper’s European arts correspondent. He is author of books on Mexico\, Shakespeare\, Opera and the cultural life of Paris during the Nazi occupation. He lives in Paris with his journalist wife\, Marlise Simons.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hellier24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241009T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241009T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240904T125345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T100707Z
UID:69345-1728502200-1728505800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) How Hitler Came To Power\, with Timothy Ryback and Jim Bittermann
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D239d71e2-02a1-44ba-b431-80171ff65065%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F81425129486|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The year 1932 would shape decades to come. Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power is a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power\, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin. Timothy W. Ryback details the remarkable story of Hitler’s dismantling of democracy through democratic process and shares insights into Hitler’s personal and professional lives\, recounting backroom deals\, unlikely alliances\, stunning betrayals\, an ill-timed tax audit\, as well as a fateful weekend that changed our world forever. \nThis conversation will be moderated by Jim Bittermann. \nAbout the speakers: \nTimothy W. Ryback has written for the Atlantic\, the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, and the Financial Times\, among others. His books have appeared in more than forty editions around the world. As a former lecturer at Harvard University\, Ryback explores the intersection of history\, politics\, and culture\, with a focus on the legacies of National Socialism and authoritarianism. His books include The Last Survivor\, a New York Times and Washington Post notable book; Hitler’s Private Library\, which served as the basis for a feature-length documentary\, The Books He Didn’t Burn; and Hitler’s First Victims\, currently being adapted for cinematic release. He divides his time between Europe and the United States. \nJim Bittermann is CNN’s Senior International Correspondent based in Paris. Since joining CNN in 1996\, he has covered the death of Princess Diana\, NATO air strikes on Kosovo in 1998\, the earthquake in Turkey in 1999 and the World Cup soccer championships\, among other stories. His many honors include a CableACE Award for CNN’s coverage of the civil war in Zaire. He has been a panel moderator at the World Economic Forum and a member of the jury for the Overseas Press Club and Emmy Award competitions. He is an emeritus professor at the American University of Paris\, where from 1998 to 2021 he was an assistant adjunct professor of communications\, teaching courses in broadcast news and documentary film. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ryback24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241008T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241008T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240910T130946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T131441Z
UID:69555-1728415800-1728419400@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Ethics of Blame with Miranda Fricker and Amanda Dennis
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D5f553c1e-f09c-45aa-adad-23378249c8bf%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F84859397518|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]What are we doing when we blame and forgive? What is ‘epistemic injustice’ and how does it affect these practices? How is it being used in processes of truth and reconciliation in South America and in supporting women survivors to come forward and tell their stories?  How can the techniques of fiction deepen our insights into philosophical questions? How does unequal access to conceptual language enable some people to tell their stories\, while others suffer without knowing how to put names to their experiences? Miranda Fricker\, a professor of philosophy at New York University\, will discuss these questions with novelist Amanda Dennis. Fricker coined the term ‘epistemic injustice’ in her 2007 book Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing.  \nThis event is produced in collaboration with the American University of Paris.   \nAbout the speakers: \nMiranda Fricker is Julius Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU\, and Co-Director of the New York Institute for Philosophy. She is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing\, and her recent research is mainly in moral philosophy. She is a Fellow of the British Academy\, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her forthcoming book\, Blaming and Forgiving: The Work of Morality\, explores the interpersonal moral psychological responses of blaming\, apologizing\, and forgiving. \nAmanda Dennis is the author of the novel Her Here\, and a book about Samuel Beckett and French philosophy: Beckett and Embodiment: Body\, Space\, Agency. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, the Times Literary Supplement\, and Guernica. She teaches creative writing and comparative literature at the American University of Paris. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/fricker24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241002T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241002T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240904T124455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240904T124522Z
UID:69340-1727897400-1727901000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Illustrating Exile with Edel Rodriguez and Maria Krasinski
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D62aeb616-19b1-478c-8f87-9dc8a8e3758b%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F84597766326|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and dubbed “America’s illustrator in chief” (Fast Company)\, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. When Rodriguez was nine\, Fidel Castro announced his surprising decision to let 125\,000 traitors of the revolution\, or “worms\,” leave Cuba. Before they could leave\, his family was imprisoned and then marched to a flotilla that miraculously deposited them\, overnight\, in Florida. Worm recounts the coming-of-age of an artist and activist\, who\, witnessing America’s turn from democracy to extremism\, struggles to differentiate his adoptive country from the dictatorship he fled. \nThis conversation will be moderated by artist\, designer\, and educator\, Maria Krasinski. \nAbout the speakers: \nEdel Rodriguez is a Cuban American artist who has exhibited internationally with shows in New York\, Los Angeles\, Havana\, Berlin\, La Paz\, Cape Town\, Prague\, and London. A regular contributor to the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, and Time magazine\, he has created more than two hundred magazine and book covers and illustrated several children’s books\, including Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx\, and is the author of Sergio Jumps and Sergio Saves the Game. Rodriguez’s artwork is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution\, among others\, and he has received numerous awards from the Art Directors Club and the Society of Illustrators. Worm is his first graphic novel. He lives in New Jersey.  \nMaria Krasinski is an artist\, designer\, and multimedia educator. She is managing director of News Decoder\, a Paris-based educational news platform that partners with schools around the world to build global citizenship through journalism. She is the illustrator of the books Art Hiding in New York and Art Hiding in Paris\, and the forthcoming title\, I’m Not Your Muse: Uncovering the Overshadowed Brilliance of Women Artists & Visionaries.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/rodriguez24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241001T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241001T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240904T123249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240904T123316Z
UID:69337-1727811000-1727814600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Does Grief Ever End? With Cody Delistraty and Lindsey Tramuta
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D5d363f49-13c7-41d2-bb9b-940f2b32efe1%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F83342355680|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Cody Delistraty lost his mother to cancer when he was in his early 20s. As he explored ways to mediate his grief\, the American Psychological Association and World Health Organization announced a diagnosis: Prolonged Grief Disorder. While this diagnosis allowed for novel treatment\, Delistraty was left with a question: Should we treat grief medically?  \nDelistraty appears in conversation with Paris-based writer and travel journalist Lindsey Tramuta. \nAbout the speakers: \nCody Delistraty is a writer and speechwriter\, most recently working as the culture editor at the Wall Street Journal Magazine. He has written for the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the Atlantic\, and was the European arts columnist for the Paris Review. He has degrees in politics from New York University and in history from the University of Oxford. British Vogue named him a best young writer of the year\, and he has frequently given talks about art\, creativity\, and loss. He lives in New York City.   \nLindsey Tramuta has been based in Paris since 2006. She is a bilingual French-English culture and travel journalist\, bestselling author\, podcaster\, and editorial consultant. Since 2012\, her work has appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine\, the New York Times\, Condé Nast Traveler\, Fortune Magazine\, Afar Magazine\, Travel & Leisure\, Eater\, Bloomberg\, Elle\, and Vogue\, among other international publications.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/delistraty24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240925T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240925T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240805T091443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240902T124046Z
UID:68893-1727292600-1727296200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Zoom Tickets Available) Imperfect Life in a Perfect City: The Paris of Today with Simon Kuper and Pamela Druckerman
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D093f82d6-c83d-46fe-9e47-11bd75a82712%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F81588574685|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]In more than twenty years living in Paris\, Simon Kuper has experienced the city both as a human being and a journalist. He has enjoyed croissants\, taken his children to youth soccer in the banlieues and has watched Paris — and himself — change through terrorist attacks\, heatwaves\, protests\, the Covid pandemic and the Olympics. His memoir mixes personal observations with reportage on the evolution of one of the world’s great cities.  \nAbout the speakers: \nSimon Kuper is a Financial Times journalist who has lived in Paris since 2002. He is now a British-French dual citizen. His books include Soccernomics (co-written with Stefan Szymanski)\, Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK and\, published in 2024\, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century. \nPamela Druckerman is a journalist and the author of five books including Bringing Up Bébé\, which has been translated into 31 languages. She won an Emmy for The Forger\, a New York Times documentary about a French teenager in WWII. Her op-eds\, essays\, articles and reviews have  been published in the New York Times\, the Economist\, the Atlantic\, Le Monde and many other publications.  \nPlease note\, we are currently sold out of in-person tickets. You can register to attend on Zoom for free.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kuper24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240924T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240924T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240805T091348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240805T115154Z
UID:68898-1727206200-1727209800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) On Breathing with Jamieson Webster
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D5b685e90-c578-4016-a75b-63bce1f473d3%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F85674105825|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The one thing that unites every single moment of our lives is that we are breathing. Although inhaling and exhaling rarely attract attention\, these simple actions are increasingly under threat — whether due to climate change\, anxiety\, or a public health emergency. Jamieson Webster draws on her professional experience as a palliative care psychoanalyst during the pandemic\, as well her personal experiences\, to explore this often overlooked subject. This conversation will be moderated by writer\, journalist\, and psychoanalyst Sinziana Ravini. \nAbout the speakers:  \nJamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York City\, she teaches at The New School School for Social Research\, and is a regular contributor to New York Review of Books\, the New York Times\, and many psychoanalytic publications. She is the author most recently of Disorganisation and Sex (Divided\, 2022) and the forthcoming On Breathing (Peninsula UK and Catapult US\, 2025). \nSinziana Ravini is a writer\, journalist and psychoanalyst living in Paris. She is also the editor-in-chief of the Swedish Art Journal Paletten. She has published Les Psychonautes in 2022 (PUF) and La diagonale du désir in 2018 (Editions Stock) and holds a PHD In literature from the University of Heidelberg entitled Goethe’s Schöpfungsmythen published in 2009 (Peter Lang Verlag)[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/webster24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240918T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240918T204500
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240805T091022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T102857Z
UID:68885-1726687800-1726692300@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Zoom Tickets Available) Populism in 2024
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D769895a8-99c4-44da-86d0-2ecc8544192f%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F85631202982|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The 2024 Trump campaign and the success of the National Rally in June’s legislative elections in France show that populism is alive and well\, yet the victory of Labour in the U.K. and other election results in Eastern Europe paint another picture. What’s the state of play of populism in 2024\, a year in which voters in more than 64 countries will go to the polls? A panel of distinguished journalists and experts organized by the Overseas Press Club will discuss. \nPlease note\, we are currently sold out of in-person tickets. You can register to attend on Zoom for free. \nAbout the Speakers: \nMartin Gelin is a longtime award-winning journalist on the U.S. far-right\, and author of eight books on American politics\, including the forthcoming The White Storm: How Racism poisoned American democracy. He writes for the Guardian\, the Washington Post\, and other publications. He moved to Paris in August. linktr.ee/martingelin \nElisabeth Zerofsky is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine\, and has written extensively on the rise of right-wing populism in Europe and the U.S.\, from France\, Germany\, Poland\, Hungary\, Italy\, and the US. She is currently working on a book on this topic for Farrar\, Straus and Giroux. She lives in Berlin\, and will join the panel by Zoom. https://elisabethzerofsky.com/ \nThierry Arnaud is international editor for France’s BFM-TV. Thierry joined BFMTV in 2006 as its US Correspondent\, and served as the network political editor for six years. Thierry began his in career in print journalism\, and was based for several of these years in London and New York. \nVivienne Walt is a Paris correspondent for TIME Magazine and Fortune Magazine who has covered French right-wing politics\, including TIME profiles on Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, National Geographic\, BusinessWeek\, and more. She is a governor of the Overseas Press Club of America. \nThis event is in partnership with the Overseas Press Club.  \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/populism24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240917T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240917T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240805T090658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240805T090658Z
UID:68730-1726601400-1726605000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(In Person Only) Film Screening: Migrant’s Death Valley
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Deb4525cd-2ef1-4391-a9ab-809b7b00eb49%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][vc_column_text css=””]Known as the “migrant’s Death Valley” for its desolate landscape and unforgiving heat\, Brooks County\, Texas is believed to have the highest death toll for migrants anywhere in America\, although the vast majority of bodies are hidden in unmarked graves and never identified. The documentary follows a forensic anthropologist and a team of students as they seek to identify bodies and contact families.  \nJoin us for a conversation with documentarian Lisa Molomot\, Sara Abbas\, and Asma Zalim to see clips from the film. \nAbout the speakers: \nLisa Molomot\, Producer/Co-Director/Cinematographer\, has directed documentaries about the American Southwest including the Peabody Award-winning Missing in Brooks County\, The Cleaners and Soledad. Her film School’s Out has helped the movement to provide outdoor education for young children\, and her short film Teaching in Arizona is an inside look at the teaching crisis in that state. She was a recent Fulbright Scholar in Canada\, a Yale Poynter Fellow in Journalism and currently teaches at the James E. Rogers School of Law and the UA Human Rights Practice Graduate Program at the University of Arizona. \nSara Abbas is Head of Paris Office of the  International Organization for Migration (IOM). Born in 1975 in Sweden\, Mrs. Abbas graduated from the University of Växjö in international administration in 2001. She started to work for IOM the same year and has held several positions within IOM before being appointed Head of Office in 2012. \nAsma Zalim is a Senior Project Assistant born in 1994 in Morocco. She holds a master’s degree in Diplomacy and Strategic Negotiations from Paris Saclay University as well as a Korean Studies master’s degree from the University of Paris. She joined IOM in 2021 as a Project Assistant to work on the resettlement of refugees bound to France\, USA\, and Canada. \nAbout the International Organization for Migration: \nThe UN Migration agency established in 1951\, the IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental\, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/molomot24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240911T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240911T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240726T161513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240801T142924Z
UID:68852-1726083000-1726086600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Can Women Be Ruthless Criminals? with Ivy Pochoda and Katherine Pancol
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D20670db8-6483-4dab-b31e-b57fb0722e3f%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F88642196718|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Is Florence “Florida” Baum a naive victim of circumstance\, or a ruthless criminal? While Florida convinces herself she is the unlucky target of manipulation\, Diosmary Sandoval knows a truth that Florida refuses to believe: that women are capable of immeasurable cruelty.  \nAbout the speakers: \nIvy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley\, Visitation Street\, and These Women. She won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page America in France\, and has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Edgar Award\, among other awards. For many years\, Ivy taught creative writing at Studio 526 in Los Angeles’s Skid Row. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program. She lives in Los Angeles. \nKatherine Pancol is one of the biggest publishing phenomena of recent years\, and a worldwide success. Her novels have been translated in some thirty countries. La saga des Crocodiles\, as well as la trilogie des Muchachas et Trois Baisers\, have become classics. Her last novel La mariée portait des bottes jaunes was published in 2023.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/pochoda24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240910T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240910T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240805T090340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240805T090340Z
UID:68870-1725996600-1726000200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Couple and the City with Ayşegül Savas and Chris Knapp
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D63fcd20c-ae7a-4c56-bd69-c7e894f1cf66%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F87289489330|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]In their most recent novels\, Ayşegül Savas and Chris Knapp both explore the loves\, family dramas\, and transnational relationships of young married couples. Savas’ The Anthropologists follows the couple Asya and Manu in the midst of apartment-hunting in an unnamed city. In Knapp’s States of Emergency\, an American man and his French wife embark on a journey of fertility treatment during a catastrophic Parisian heatwave. \nAbout the speakers: \nAyşegül Savaş is the author of the acclaimed novels Walking on the Ceiling and White on White. Her work has been translated into six languages and has appeared in the New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, Granta\, and elsewhere. She lives in Paris. \nChris Knapp’s work has appeared in the Paris Review\, n+1\, Granta\, and the New England Review\, among others. He earned an MFA in fiction at the University of Virginia\, and an MA in journalism and international affairs from SciencesPo in Paris. States of Emergency is his first novel.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/savasknapp24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240627T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240627T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240528T150051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240625T122427Z
UID:67155-1719516600-1719520200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Beyond a Boundary: Christian Campbell and Claire Tancons on Black Movement
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Christian Campbell is an acclaimed poet and author of poetry collection Running the Dusk. In these poems he moves between Caribbean past\, present\, and future\, asking\, “what are the tongues for these times?”  While completing his Visiting Fellowship at the Library\, Campbell is working on several projects including work-in-progress on the late Sidney Poitier\, the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. \nCampbell will appear in conversation with Paris-based curator and scholar Claire Tancons\, who was the artistic director of Nuit Blanche 2024. Using the concept of C.L.R. James’ classic text Beyond a Boundary as a point of departure\, they will consider the poetics and politics of movement in the Black Diaspora through language\, gesture and migration. \nAbout the speakers: \nChristian Campbell is the author of the acclaimed poetry collection Running the Dusk (2010)\, which won the UK’s Aldeburgh Prize\, among other awards. Campbell studied at Balliol College\, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and his work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times\, the Guardian\, Small Axe\, the Financial Times and elsewhere. He has received awards and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation\, Arvon Foundation\, Ford Foundation\, Fine Arts Work Center\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, and elsewhere\, and delivered the annual Derek Walcott Lecture for the Nobel Laureate Festival in St. Lucia. Also a critic\, he has written extensively about Jean-Michel Basquiat for major exhibits on both sides of the Atlantic\, including the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Barbican Centre\, and recently edited a collection of Derek Walcott’s essays. He won the Art Writing Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries for his work on Jean-Michel Basquiat.  \nClaire Tancons is a curator and scholar invested in discursive and curatorial investigations of the postcolonial\, including the exhibition and book “En Mas’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean” (with Krista Thompson\, 2015). A graduate in art history and museum studies from the École du Louvre and The Courtauld Institute of Art and a former fellow of the Curatorial Studies program of the Whitney Independent Study Program\, Tancons is the recipient of many grants and awards\, including from the Warhol\, Creative Capital\, Emily Hall Tremaine\, and Ford Foundations. Born in Guadeloupe\, Tancons is currently based in Paris\, where she is at work on “Van Lévé: Sovereign Visions from the Creole and Maroon Americas and Amazonia”\, a transhistorical project centered on the relationship between artistic emergence and political sovereignty in the French Caribbean. She was the artistic director of Nuit Blanche 2024 and is the founder of EXTEMPORA\, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to the practice of diaspora.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speaker(s) will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/campbell24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240626T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240626T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240521T141300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T141353Z
UID:66781-1719430200-1719433800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Improvisations: Adam Shatz and Jake Lamar on Jazz
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Throughout the 20th century\, Paris became a favored destination for Black American musicians\, offering an alternative to the racial discrimination faced at home and a more welcoming environment to experiment artistically. Spring 2024 Visiting Fellow Adam Shatz is a New York-based author and critic currently researching the legacy of Black American jazz musicians in Paris. During his residency at the Library\, he will investigate the cultural and aesthetic exchanges that Paris made possible\, and which helped to transform the work of expatriate musical artists.  \nShatz will appear in conversation with Paris-based author Jake Lamar\, whose recent novel\, Viper’s Dream\, explores the jazz world of mid-century Harlem. Together\, Shatz and Lamar will consider the creative dialogue between New York and Paris\, their shared heritage of artistic innovation\, and the social and political force of jazz from the early twentieth century to today.  \nThe Visiting Fellowship is supported by The de Groot Foundation.  \nAbout the speakers: \nAdam Shatz is the US editor of The London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, and other publications. He is the author of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon\, and of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination. He is the host of the podcast “Myself with Others\,” and the recipient of the 2024 Guggenheim. \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 Sciences Po.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/shatzlamar24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240625T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240625T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240521T140327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T125002Z
UID:66776-1719343800-1719347400@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Sold Out In Person - Virtual Tickets Still Available) In Focus: An Evening with Claire Denis and Adam Shatz
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Claire Denis\, a visionary filmmaker\, is known for her evocative and thought-provoking films that explore complex themes of human experience\, identity\, and social dynamics. Her work has received critical acclaim for its narrative depth and visual artistry\, making her one of the most influential directors in contemporary cinema. Her Beau Travail (1999)\, named one of the greatest films of all time by the British Film Institute\, was inspired by Herman Melville‘s novella Billy Budd. Stars at Noon (2022) was awarded the Grand Prix at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Both Sides of the Blade (2022) won Denis the Best Director award at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival. Denis will appear in conversation with Visiting Fellow Adam Shatz to explore the intersections of culture\, politics\, and the arts.  \nThe American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship is supported by The de Groot Foundation.  \nAbout the speakers: \nClaire Denis is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film Beau Travail (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s and of all time. Other acclaimed works include Trouble Every Day (2001)\, 35 Shots of Rum (2008)\, White Material (2009)\, High Life (2018) and Both Sides of the Blade (2022)\, the last of which won her the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival. For her film Stars at Noon (2022)\, Denis competed for the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival\, winning the Grand Prix. \nAdam Shatz is the US editor of The London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, and other publications. He is the author of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon\, and of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination. He is the host of the podcast “Myself with Others\,” and the recipient of the 2024 Guggenheim.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: Tickets are sold out in person. Virtual tickets are still available. \nThe discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/denisshatz24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240619T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240619T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240528T150505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240618T115014Z
UID:67149-1718825400-1718829000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Art and Diaspora: Christian Campbell and Cornelius Tulloch in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join us for a multidisciplinary discussion featuring artist Cornelius Tulloch and 2023–24 Visiting Fellow and poet Christian Campbell. Tulloch will present his exhibition “Elements of Being\,” which debuted at the 2024 Venice Biennale. This innovative piece blends evocative soundscape compositions\, recordings from the Everglades\, and dance interpretation to advocate for environmental equality. Many of Tulloch’s projects have been grounded in his upbringing and communities in Miami\, as well as inspired by his Jamaican and African- American heritage. His work expresses the ways in which bodies exist between cultures and borders\, exploring the importance of cultural identity within built environments and how space shapes culture. \nCampbell will pay tribute to the artist John Beadle by taking up questions of form\, aesthetics\, ecology and elegy\, as well as the problem of nation in the Venice Biennale. Born in Nassau to a Jamaican father and Bahamian mother\, John Beadle (1964-2024) was a leading Bahamian artist working across multiple forms. Beadle received a BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and an MFA in Painting at Tyler School of Art\, Temple University\, in addition to training in Rome\, Italy. His work has been exhibited globally\, including the Caribbean\, the United States\, Europe\, Brazil\, Japan and New Zealand. \nThis event is in partnership with The Californien Agency. \nAbout the speakers: \nChristian Campbell is the author of the acclaimed poetry collection Running the Dusk (2010)\, which won the UK’s Aldeburgh Prize\, among other awards. Campbell studied at Balliol College\, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and his work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times\, the Guardian\, Small Axe\, the Financial Times and elsewhere. He has received awards and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation\, Arvon Foundation\, Ford Foundation\, Fine Arts Work Center\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, and elsewhere\, and delivered the annual Derek Walcott Lecture for the Nobel Laureate Festival in St. Lucia. He has contributed to books on visual artists for major exhibits on both sides of the Atlantic and won the Art Writing Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries for his work on Jean-Michel Basquiat.  \nCornelius Tulloch is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and architect. His work transcends the boundaries of photography\, fine art\, and architecture. Tulloch’s work has been shown in institutions such as the Kennedy Center\, Washington D.C.; NYU Center for Black Visual Culture\, New York; CUE Art Foundation\, New York; Locust Projects\, Miami; Faena Art Project Room\, Miami;  and the MAXXI\, Rome. He was a 2016 Presidential Scholar in the Arts\, and his work is presented as part of the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Tulloch has won numerous prizes and residencies; he was named an Emerging Visionary Grantee by Instagram and the Brooklyn Museum’s Black Visionaries Program in 2022\, is a two-time Oolite Ellies Award recipient\, and received the 2023 YoungArts Jorge M. Perez Award. \nThe Visiting Fellowship is supported by The de Groot Foundation. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nDiscover “Elements of Being” and watch Tulloch speak on the project here. \nIn an interview for the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics\, Campbell states that “I don’t give voice to anyone. In fact\, many give voices to me.” [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speaker(s) will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/campbelltulloch24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240618T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240618T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240521T134847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T134847Z
UID:66768-1718739000-1718742600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) On Reading with Joanna Biggs and Lauren Oyler
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In A Life of One’s Own: None Women Writers Begin Again\, author Joanna Biggs’s divorce catalyzes a fascination with women across history whose artistic innovations emerged out of conflict with gender expectations. Considering the likes of Mary Wollstonecraft\, Virginia Woolf\, and Zora Neale Huston\, Biggs discovers the strength and resolution that emerge when one is faced with the task of reconfiguring one’s life.  \nBiggs will appear in conversation with critic and novelist Lauren Oyler\, who similarly engages with literary history in her project of shaping and critiquing the literary present. They will discuss the constraints and liberties of writing as women in the contemporary world\, creative heritage\, and their sense of responsibility toward the future. \nAbout the speakers: \nJoanna Biggs is an editor at Harper’s Magazine. A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again was a New York Times spring pick and was shortlisted for the Marfield Prize / National Award for Arts Writing. The book also earned Biggs a grant from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Her writing has appeared in the London Review of Books\, the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. While she now lives in New York\, where she is at work on a novel\, she lived in the 12ème arrondissement in 2003\, when a demi-baguette cost 20 cents. \nLauren Oyler‘s essays on books and culture appear regularly in the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, Harper’s\, the London Review of Books\, and many other publications. She is the author of the novel Fake Accounts and an essay collection\, No Judgment\, which was published this year. She lives in Berlin. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nBe sure to check out the New Yorker’s review of Joanna Biggs’s recent book\, A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again. \nLauren Oyler was a Scholar of Note at the Library last fall. In case you missed it\, you can watch a recording of her program on our YouTube channel.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Read along with the Library! If you want to prepare ahead of this event\, copies of A Life of One’s Own will be on sale one week in advance\, as well as after the event. Stop by Member Services to purchase your copy. Books are generously provided by Smith&Son. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/biggs24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240612T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240612T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240521T134056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T144829Z
UID:66762-1718220600-1718224200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Shakespeare Industry with Elizabeth Winkler
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Shakespeare’s personal biography has mystified academics\, armchair fans\, and experts for centuries. So what happens when a scholar\, an actor\, or any authority\, suggests that perhaps those immortal plays weren’t all written by Shakespeare? Was the author an anonymous aristocrat? Or a spy? Perhaps a woman? \nShakespeare Was A Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler is an “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question. Winkler explores with humor\, fun\, and hell-bent detection\, all sorts of possibilities. But that’s only part of it. Winkler does much more than suggest alternatives; she delves into why doubters have been castigated\, and thrown to the literary curb. No matter what side you’re on\, Shakespeare Was A Woman And Other Heresies is more than a detective book for fans of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets—it’s a fascinating and truly entertaining analysis of literary and cultural history. \n“No\, Elizabeth Winkler doesn’t reveal the true identity of the writer Ruth Bader Ginsburg termed “the literary genius known by the name William Shakespeare.” But she does explain how we’ve wound up with\, among an army of others\, a republican Shakespeare and a monarchist Shakespeare\, a Shakespeare who hated his wife and one who loved his\, a Shakespeare who wrote all the plays and a Shakespeare who could not write at all. Along her intrepid way\, Winkler charts\, with refreshing clarity\, the much-contested ground underfoot\, studded with flinty convictions\, gnarled fictions\, and a surprising number of land mines.”\n—Stacy Schiff\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Revolutionary and American Library in Paris Writer-in-Residence \nAbout the speaker: \nElizabeth Winkler is a journalist and critic whose work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, the New Yorker\, the New Republic\, the Times Literary Supplement\, and the Economist\, among other publications. She received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her master’s in English literature from Stanford University. She lives in Washington\, DC.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nRead excerpts from Winkler’s book on Martin Droeshout’s portrait of Shakespeare published in the New Statesman and Shakespeare’s reputed birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon\, published in the New York Times.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speaker will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Read along with the Library! If you want to prepare ahead of this event\, copies of Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies will be on sale one week in advance\, as well as after the event. Stop by Member Services to purchase your copy. Books are generously provided by Smith&Son. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/winkler24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240611T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240611T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240521T131416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240610T073523Z
UID:66693-1718134200-1718137800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Roundtable: Women and Art in Interwar France
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The newly published anthology\, Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France\, studies contributions of various women artists and writers who lived in Paris from 1920 through 1940. As scholar Sylvie Blum-Reid writes in her introduction\, these women helped to define the cultural and artistic practices of their era\, and in doing so\, they “left behind traces that still reverberate today.”   \nThe book revisits the subjects’ experiences through various lenses that include art history\, gender\, fashion\, literary analysis\, psychology\, philosophy\, film\, and food. The Library welcomes six contributors to this anthology for a roundtable discussion on the enduring legacies of these women. \nAbout the speakers: \nSylvie Blum-Reid is professor of French and film at the University of Florida. Her research interests include women and fashion\, travel narratives\, photography\, cinema\, culture and expatriate female artists in the interwar period. She has written Traveling in French Cinema and East-West Encounters: Franco- Asian Cinema and Literature. \nSherry Ann Buckberrough is professor (emerita) of Art History. She was Chair of the department of Art History at University of Hartford. She also chaired the Women’s Studies Program. Her published writing includes New Britain Museum of American Art\, Robert Delaunay: The Discovery of Simultaneity\, and she has contributed to many exhibition catalogs.  \nDantzel Cenatiempo is a researcher and lecturer in French Studies at the University of Washington\, with an emphasis in Gender Studies. Her research interests center on clothing and fashion but are interdisciplinary in scope\, and include 19th- and 20th-century feminisms\, critical race theory\, and female biography. Her forthcoming article on Josephine Baker’s use of whiteface will be published in French Historical Studies. \nClara Oropeza is Professor of English Composition and Literature at Santa Barbara City College. Her research brings comparative mythology to literary studies and cultural theory. She is the author of several essays\, most recent “The (Mal)Creation of Food the Monsanto Way: Returning a Mythic Sensitivity to Food Production.” She received her PhD in Comparative Mythology and Literature from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her work has been published in Minerva Rising and SageWoman. She published her first book\, titledAnais Nin: A Myth of Her Own\, in 2018. \nCatherine Portuges is founding director of the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies\, professor emerita of Comparative Literature and Film Studies\, and founding curator of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. Her books include Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989; Gendered Subjects; and Screen Memories: the Hungarian Cinema of Márta Mészáros\, and she has written chapters in multiple anthologies.  \nSamia Spencer is a Professor Emerita of French at Auburn University in Alabama\, and the recipient of many professional honors and academic distinctions\, Spencer has focused her interdisciplinary research and extensive publications on the French Enlightenment\, women and politics in France and Canada\, la francophonie\, and contemporary women\, society and institutions in France and Quebec. In recognition of her work on behalf of the French language and culture\, she was appointed Honorary Consul of France in Alabama by the Republic of France\, and awarded the titles of Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques and Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite. She was also inducted in Quebec’s exclusive Ordre des Francophones d’Amérique. Recently\, she turned her attention to the Egyptian feminist movement of the early twentieth century. Her latest anthology\, Daughters of the Nile: Egyptian Women Changing their World (2016) enjoyed worldwide acclaim and was recently translated into Arabic.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nYou can find a preview of Impressions from Paris on Google Books.  [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/blum24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240604T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240604T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240514T111056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T144120Z
UID:65935-1717529400-1717533000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Online Only) A Personal History of Protest with Jen Silverman
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In There’s Going to Be Trouble\, a young teacher seeking new beginnings arrives in Paris as the Gilet Jaune protests are gaining momentum. Drawn into a love affair and the political turmoil simultaneously\, she struggles to distinguish between the overlapping passions of her new life. Accompanying this story is the discovery of a hidden family history of protest nearly fifty years prior\, in the late 1960s. As secrets of political alignment and engagement come to light\, our narrator discovers that the past and its consequences are nearer than she knew. \nJen Silverman presents a portrait that echoes across history\, and a searching investigation into the responsibilities we hold to past\, the present\, and future generations.  \nAbout the speaker: \nJen Silverman (they/them) is a novelist\, playwright\, and screenwriter. Their books include the debut novel We Play Ourselves (named one of the best books of the year by Buzzfeed; a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award)\, interlinked story collection The Island Dwellers (finalist for a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize)\, and novel There’s Going to be Trouble\, newly out from Random House. Their plays include Spain\, Witch\, Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties\, and The Roommate\, and have been produced off-Broadway\, across the US\, and internationally in countries including Australia\, The Czech Republic\, Brazil\, and the UK. Silverman wrote The Miranda Obsession as a narrative podcast for Audible\, starring Rachel Brosnahan; it debuted at #3 in Fiction on Audible’s weekly best-seller list and won four Signal Awards. Silverman has written on Tales of the City (Netflix) and is a writer-producer on Tokyo Vice Season 2 (Max). Silverman is a three-time MacDowell Fellow\, a member of New Dramatists\, a Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris\, and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim.  \nThe Library’s Scholar of Note program is supported by The de Groot Foundation. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nSilverman recently appeared on The New Yorker Radio Hour. Listen to the interview. \nA New York Times review of There’s Going to Be Trouble praises Silverman’s “exceptional talent for dramatic tension.”  \nRead a conversation between Silverman and their sibling\, Chris Silverman\, in Bomb. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available online only via Zoom. Please sign up in advance to be emailed a Zoom link.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/silverman24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240529T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240529T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240509T132417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T095104Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Poetics of Loneliness with Catherine Barnett and Maureen McLane
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Catherine Barnett is celebrated for her exploration of human fragility\, loneliness\, and connection. In her new collection Solutions for the Problems of Bodies in Space\, Barnett probes the complexities of love\, loss\, and deliberate living.  \nMaureen McLane’s new book\, My Poetics\, explores poems as speculative instruments and as ways of registering our very sense of being alive.  \nBarnett and McLane will read and discuss loneliness as a source of artistic creation and the urgency of poetry in an increasingly isolating world.  \nJoin us as we explore the problems of being human brought into new relief through the contours of poetry.  \nAbout the speakers: \nCatherine Barnett is the author of four poetry collections\, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (2024 Graywolf); Human Hours (New York Times “Best Poetry of 2018” selection); The Game of Boxes (James Laughlin Award); and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Beatrice Hawley Award). A Guggenheim fellow\, she received a 2022 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been published in the New Yorker\, The NY Review of Books\, The Yale Review\, The Nation\, Harper’s\, and elsewhere. She teaches in NYU’s MFA Program and works as an independent editor.  \nMaureen N. McLane is the author of eight books of poetry\, two critical monographs on British romantic poetics\, an experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism (My Poets)\, and numerous essays on romantic-era and contemporary literature and culture.  Her most recent books are What You Want: poems (2023) and My Poetics (2024)\, an adventure in poeticriticism. She is the Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nRead glowing reviews of Solutions for the Problems of Bodies in Space in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Publishers Weekly.  \nDiscover an interview with Maureen McLane in the Paris Review. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speaker(s) will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/barnettmclane24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240528T214500
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SUMMARY:(Sold Out) (In-Person Only) Film Screening: Winner of the American Pavilion’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join us at the Library for a celebration of cinema and emerging filmmakers. \nThe American Pavilion’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase gives filmmakers an opportunity to share their work with Cannes Festival and Film Market attendees. We will screen the winners of the American Pavilion’s 2024 Showcase\, announced in May following the conclusion of the Cannes festival.  \nPlease note that this event will be in-person only. \nProgram: \nEL PAISA \nBest LGBTQ+ Showcase Film\nDirector: Daniel Eduvijes Carrera \nUNDER THE BLUE \nBest Emerging Filmmaker Showcase\nDirectors: Linda Ludwig\, James Curle \nSPEAR. SPATULA. SUBMARINE.\nBest Emerging Filmmaker Documentary\nDirector: Shannon Morrall \nOJUE\nBest Emerging Filmmaker Student Film\nDirector: Fernando Alberto Broce \nSAR: SEARCH AND RESCUE\nBest Emerging Student Documentary\nDirector: Tristan Owen \nFollowed by a Q&A with the filmmakers appearing over Zoom\, moderated by Ben Croll.  \nAbout the American Pavilion’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase: \nSince 1989\, The American Pavilion has offered unparalleled experiences in Cannes to film students and emerging filmmakers from around the world. AmPav’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase provides an opportunity for filmmakers to have their works seen by Cannes Festival and Film Market attendees.  \nAbout the Moderator:  \nBen Croll is a Canadian critic and journalist based in Paris. He writes about film\, art\, and industry for the U.S. trades and covers cinema\, theatre and contemporary art as a roving critic in broadcast and print. He is an on-air contributor to France24 and author of The Art of Eric Guillon. \nLearn more: \nCheck out the website for the American Pavilion’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase\, where you will find information about finalists and winners of this award from previous years. \nImportant information: This event requires advance registration. The discussion will be in person only. Our partners and filmmakers will appear in the Reading Room\, and the discussion will not be recorded. \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_1715090892436{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/ampavwinners24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240521T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240521T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T035527
CREATED:20240423T130854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T130854Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Forgotten Soldiers of D-Day with Linda Hervieux and Raymond Kemp
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]African Americans served with bravery and distinction in every conflict since the American Revolution. Yet the stories of these heroes have been consistently omitted from our collective memory. From the now-famed Tuskegee airmen to the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion\, D-Day’s only all-Black combat unit\, modern historians have been tasked with setting the record straight.  \nAs we approach the 80th anniversary of D-Day\, join the author of Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Black Heroes\, Linda Hervieux\, and Commissioner of the American Battle Monuments Commission Raymond Kemp as they discuss the achievements of the more than one million African American men and women who served in uniform during World War II. \nAbout the speakers: \nLinda Hervieux is a Paris-based American journalist and teacher who has lectured extensively about the forgotten African Americans of D-Day and World War II at venues including Harvard\, Princeton\, and the National African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington\, D.C. The men of Forgotten will be featured in an episode of the upcoming National Geographic/Disney+ series Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color. \nRaymond D. Kemp\, Sr.\, was appointed by President Biden to the American Battle Monuments Commission. During a 33-year career in the U.S. Navy\, Kemp served as the first Black Fleet Master Chief for the U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa. He is the CEO of Kemp Solutions\, a best-selling author\, and executive coach.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nTom Brokaw calls Linda’s book “utterly compelling\,” and best-selling historian Douglas Brinkley writes\, “All Americans should read this World War II history\, which doubles as a civil rights primer\, to learn the true cost of freedom.”[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Read along with the Library! If you want to prepare ahead of this event\, copies of Forgotten will be on sale one week in advance\, as well as after the event. Stop by Member Services to purchase your copy. Books are generously provided by Smith&Son. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to have their copy signed following the conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54548″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hervieux24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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