BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The American Library in Paris - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The American Library in Paris X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The American Library in Paris REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241001T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241001T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/griefcure24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240925T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240925T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/kuper24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240924T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240924T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/webster24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240918T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240918T204500 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/93068004_gettyimages-102291152-e1722516838256.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240917T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240917T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/missingbrooks24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240911T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240911T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pochoda24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240910T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240910T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/savasknapp24-e1722435341709.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240627T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240627T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/campbell24n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240626T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240626T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/shatzlamar24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240625T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240625T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/denis24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240619T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240619T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/campbellcorn24-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240618T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240618T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/biggs24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240612T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240612T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/winkler24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240611T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240611T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/blum24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240604T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240604T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/silverman24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240529T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240529T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240509T132417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T095104Z UID:65902-1717011000-1717014600@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/29mai.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240528T185000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240528T214500 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240507T140840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T133626Z UID:65897-1716922200-1716932700@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cannes-scaled-e1702571341991.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240521T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240521T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240423T130854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T130854Z UID:65152-1716319800-1716323400@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hervieux24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240515T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240515T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240423T124020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T112040Z UID:65143-1715801400-1715805000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Warming Up with Madeleine Orr DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We have all seen the headlines. At the Australian Tennis Open in early 2020\, heat and smoke from bushfires caused players to collapse. Skiers across Europe have canceled trips to mountain resorts due to an unsettling dearth of snow. And extreme heat killed hundreds\, if not thousands  of migrant workers who were building infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Temperatures have reached new heights around the world\, dramatically altering the experience of sporting events for players\, fans\, and support staff alike. \nIn her book Warming Up: How Climate Change Is Changing Sport\, Madeleine Orr marshals her unique academic background in sports management and ecological research to consider the implications of a warming climate for one of the largest entertainment industries in the world. \nThe conversation will be moderated by UNESCO’s Director of Social Polices\, Gustavo Merino. \nAbout the speakers: \nMadeleine Orr is a leading sport ecologist and professor at the University of Toronto. A Forbes 30 under 30 inductee\, she is the founder and co-director of The Sport Ecology Group\, who consult on international climate issues for sports organizations such as the Commonwealth Secretariat\, the UNEP\, World Athletics\, Adidas\, F1 teams\, and the NCAA. Madeleine has worked closely with the BBC and ESPN to further public understanding of climate issues in sport. She is a 2023–24 Future of Canada Fellow. www.madeleineorr.com \nGustavo Merino has been the Director of Social Polices at UNESCO since January 2024. Previously he was Leader of the Public Policy Unit at the Institute for Obesity Research and as Research Professor and Leader of the Public Policy Health Initiative at the School of Government and Public Transformation of Tecnológico de Monterrey\, where he was also Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Government for Mexico City Region. Prior to that\, he was Director of the Investment Center Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He has held senior positions in the Government of Mexico including Deputy Minister of Social and Human Development\, Deputy Minister for Prospective\, Planning and Evaluation and Head of the Planning and International Affairs Unit at the Ministry of Social Development. He was also CEO of Mexico’s national development bank for agriculture and rural areas\, Financiera Rural. Dr. Merino has also been a Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Public Policy Research at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM) in Mexico City and a consultant in the field of social development\, public finance and competition policy. He has a master’s and PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from ITAM.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nA BBC article titled “What Would a Greener World Cup Look Like?” draws heavily upon Orr’s work. Read the article here. \nOrr appeared as a guest in a 2022 episode of the podcast The Bunker to discuss the ecological future of the Olympics. You can listen to the podcast here.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Read along with the Library! If you want to prepare ahead of this event\, copies of Warming Up 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/orr24/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/orr24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240514T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240514T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240423T123433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T115112Z UID:65141-1715715000-1715718600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Art of Biography with Stacy Schiff DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and one of the leading non-fiction life writers of our time. Schiff’s biographies animate the lives and legacies of time-hallowed historical figures such as Samuel Adams\, Benjamin Franklin\, and Cleopatra\, countering popular narratives and misunderstandings with meticulous historical detail.  \nThe Library is delighted to host Schiff as our Writer-in-Residence this May. In this program\, the author will appear in conversation with Elaine Sciolino\, a contributing writer for the New York Times. The event will be followed by a reception\, to which all attendees are invited.  \nAbout the speakers: \nStacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry\, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin\, France\, and the Birth of America\, winner of the George Washington Book Prize. Published to ecstatic reviews\, her Cleopatra: A Life was a #1 bestseller. Named one of the New York Times’s Top Ten Books of 2010\, it has been translated into thirty-five languages and won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. David McCullough greeted Schiff’s 2015 The Witches\, also a #1 bestseller\, as “brilliant from start to finish.” Schiff’s most recent book\, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams\, was a Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of 2022 and figured as well on President Obama’s list of Favorite Books of 2022. The Wall Street Journal has called Schiff “perhaps the most seductive writer of nonfiction prose in America in our time.” Among other honors\, Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library\, where she has been named a Library Lion.   \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 color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nShiff’s most recent book is a portrait of the American revolutionary activist and politician Samuel Adams. You can read NPR’s enthusiastic review of the book here. \nSchiff’s biography of Benjamin Franklin has recently been adapted into a miniseries\, with Michael Douglas starring as the beloved Founding Father. Watch the trailer for the miniseries here. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]The Writer-in-Residence program is generously supported by The de Groot Foundation. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \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/schiff24/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/schiff24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240509T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240509T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240404T104307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240416T171059Z UID:65132-1715283000-1715286600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Examined Life with Scott Hershovitz and Sarah Bakewell DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message]The Library will be closed on this day for the Ascension holiday.\nLibrary services will not be available.\nDoors will open at 19h00. \nEvent will be followed by a reception.[/vc_message][vc_column_text]In Nasty\, Brutish\, and Short\, Scott Hershovitz\, co-writing with his two young children\, uses the child’s sense of curiosity and simplicity as a starting point from which to investigate ethics\, existence\, religion\, identity\, and justice from fresh perspectives. In his latest book\, Law is a Moral Practice\, Scott Hershovitz approaches the relationship between moral action and the law with refreshing frankness and levity\, uncovering a very human history of setting\, breaking\, and remaking rules for good living. \nSarah Bakewell’s work is similarly engaged with the idea of ethical living. Her latest book\, Humanly Possible\, masterfully recounts the long history of humanism and freethinking. Join these two professional philosophers to discuss the big questions of life: the nature of goodness\, the possibility of ethical living\, and the meaning of being human. \nJoin the two authors as they consider philosophy’s most fundamental questions\, the eternal urgency of philosophy\, and the necessity of making philosophical thought accessible to all. \nAbout the speakers: \nScott Hershovitz is director of the Law and Ethics Program and professor of law and philosophy at the University of Michigan. He holds a BA in philosophy and politics from the University of Georgia\, a JD from Yale Law School\, and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford\, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Professor Hershovitz served as a law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author of Nasty\, Brutish\, and Short\, co-written with his two young children. He is married to Julie Kaplan\, a social worker\, whom he met at summer camp. They live in Ann Arbor with their two children\, Rex and Hank.  \nSarah Bakewell is the author of several works of biography and philosophy\, including At the Existentialist Café and How to Live: a life of Montaigne. Her latest\, Humanly Possible: 700 years of humanist freethinking\, enquiry\, and hope\, was a New York Times bestseller in 2023 and was named by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nHershovitz’s first book\, Nasty\, Brutish\, and Short\, takes the hilarious and profound questions of young children as the starting point for serious philosophical inquiry. You can read an excerpt from the book here. \nA New York Times review of Humanly Possible explains that Bakewell “delights in the paradoxical and the particular\, reminding us that every human being contains multitudes.” Read the review here.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Read along with the Library! If you want to prepare ahead of this event\, copies of Nasty\, Brutish\, and Short and Humanly Possible 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/hershovitzbakewell24/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HershovitzBakewell24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240502T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240502T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240404T102700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240415T155901Z UID:65124-1714678200-1714681800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Anatomy of Privilege: Nick McDonell on Quiet Street DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nick McDonell has written eleven books\, ranging from novels (the first of which he wrote at the age of seventeen) to nonfiction accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. With his latest book\, a memoir called Quiet Street\, McDonell turns his gaze inward\, taking his own upbringing in a wealthy New York family as his subject. Among other institutional contexts\, he considers the private all-boys school that he attended in Manhattan\, his time as a student at Harvard\, and his summers spent at the Devon Yacht Club. Across these accounts\, McDonell reflects upon the machinations of privilege\, using his own life as a prism through which to understand larger dynamics of class\, race\, and inequality. He will appear in conversation at the Library with photographer and filmmaker Roopa Gogineni. \nAbout the speakers: \nNick McDonell has published eleven books. His work has been translated into 23 languages and appeared on bestseller lists around the world. He is the author of the novels Twelve\, The Third Brother\, An Expensive Education\, and The Council of Animals\, as well as a work of political theory\, The Civilization of Perpetual Movement\, and five books of reportage on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\, including The Bodies in Person. He has contributed reporting and essays to Harper’s Magazine\, The London Review of Books\, Libération\, The Paris Review\, newyorker.com\, and TIME\, among other publications. He has also written for film and television. \nAs a reporter\, McDonell has covered the wars in Sudan\, Iraq\, Afghanistan and Ukraine. He helped found The Zomia Center\, which is dedicated to the study of ungoverned and semi-governed regions known as non-state spaces. He grew up in New York City and studied literature at Harvard and international relations at St. Anthony’s College\, Oxford. \nRoopa Gogineni is a filmmaker\, photographer and curator from West Virginia whose work considers historical memory and modes of resistance. After a decade in Nairobi she is now based in Paris. Suddenly TV\, her latest film about magical thinking and revolution\, was nominated for the IDA Awards and earned jury prizes at SXSW\, IndieLisboa\, and Kasseler Dokfest. She holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Oxford and teaches at Parsons Paris.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nYou can read an extract from Quiet Street here. \nA review of Quiet Street in the Chicago Review of Books describes the book’s success in tracing the “violence” of the “one percent.” Read the review here.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Read along with the Library! If you want to prepare ahead of this event\, copies of Quiet Street 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/mcdonell24/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mcdonnel24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240430T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240430T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240313T145406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T123833Z UID:63734-1714505400-1714509000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(In Person Full) (Hybrid) Annie Ernaux & Photography with Lou Stoppard and Lauren Collins DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]French author Annie Ernaux\, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature\, writes of her desire to “describe reality as through the eyes of a photographer and to preserve the mystery and opacity of the lives I encountered.” \nCurator Lou Stoppard’s exhibition “Exteriors—Annie Ernaux & Photography” (at La Maison européenne de la photographie\, now through 26 May) traces this close relationship between Ernaux’s autobiographical prose and the medium of photography. She juxtaposes passages from Ernaux’s book Exteriors—a collage of observations and reflections on the streets\, shops\, and public transportation networks of Cergy-Pontoise—with an array of photographs from the museum’s collection. \nStoppard will appear in conversation with writer and journalist Lauren Collins. \nThe program is produced in collaboration with la Maison européenne de la photographie and art book publisher MACK\, which has released a book accompanying the exhibition. \nPlease note that while in-person registration to this event is now full\, registration to attend on Zoom is still available. \nAbout the speakers: \nLou Stoppard is a British writer and curator.  She has written for The Financial Times\, Aperture\, The New York Times and The New Yorker. Her books include a survey of the work of street photographer Shirley Baker\, published by Mack in 2019\, ‘Pools’\, an exploration of swimming in photography\, published by Rizzoli in 2020\, and Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography\, published by Mack in 2024\, to time with an exhibition of the same name at MEP\, Paris. \nLauren Collins began contributing to The New Yorker in 2003 and became a staff writer in 2008. Her subjects have included Michelle Obama\, Donatella Versace\, the graffiti artist Banksy\, Emmanuel Macron\, the refugee crisis\, and equal pay. Since 2015\, she has been based in Paris\, covering stories mainly from France. She is the author of “When in French: Love in a Second Language\,” which the Times named as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2016. She is working on a second book\, about a coup d’état perpetrated by white supremacists in Wilmington\, North Carolina\, in 1898\, and its effects over the past hundred and twenty years. \nThis event is in partnership with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie.  \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nYou can check out Stoppard’s exhibition on Annie Ernaux & Photography yourself by visiting the MEP before 6 May 2024. \nIn 2020\, Stoppard edited a photography collection called Pools\, bringing together a dazzling array of contemporary photographs featuring poolside parties\, submerged swimmers\, and other pool-related objects and events. You can peruse a preview of the book (or order a copy of your own) here. \nLauren Collins has appeared at the Library several times\, both as a guest and as a moderator for our programs. You can watch a recording of her presenting her memoir When in French: Love in a Second Language at the Library here.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/stoppard24/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/stopppard.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240425T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240425T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240329T141632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T102002Z UID:64699-1714073400-1714077000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Lunar Horizons: To the Moon with NASA Experts DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]NASA’s upcoming crewed mission to the Moon\, Artemis III\, is currently scheduled for 2026\, marking humanity’s first return to the lunar surface in over 50 years and the first-ever visit to the lunar South Pole. During this mission\, two crew members will descend to the Moon’s surface\, near its South Pole\, for approximately a week. The astronauts’ objectives will include conducting scientific research and performing a series of moonwalks. \nScientists Ryan Zeigler\, Lunar Sample Curator at NASA\, and Christine Shupla\, responsible for scientific engagement at the non-profit Lunar Planetary Institute\, will share the latest and greatest advancements in lunar research. They will share ideas on science education and literacy\, and how we can make learning about lunar science accessible to all. \nThis event is organized in partnership with Ephémerides\, the organization founded by French astrophysicist Fatoumata Kébé. \nAbout the speakers: \nChristine Shupla manages the Lunar Planetary Institute Science Engagement staff\, with 16 years of experience in NASA’s planetary science education community and 15 years of experience in informal science education. She also leads the Lunar Planetary Institute’s scientist engagement efforts\, providing professional development and resources to assist planetary scientists in their efforts to share their science with public audiences. \nRyan Zeigler is NASA’s Lunar Sample Curator in the Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office of the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division at the Johnson Space Center. The principal focus of Ryan Zeigler’s research is the geochemistry and petrography of lunar samples to better understand how the Moon formed\, how it differentiated and how impacts have subsequently altered its surface.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nEphémerides founder Fatoumata Kébé spoke at the American Library in Paris last year about her book Lettres à la Lune\, which explores how humans across history\, from astrophysicists to poets\, have about the moon. Rewatch the conversation on the Library’s YouTube channel. \nWith Artemis III\, humankind will return to the surface of the moon. Discover the mission and explore the scientific innovation behind it. [/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/ephemerides24/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/lunarhorizon24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240424T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240424T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240313T143119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T155816Z UID:63728-1713987000-1713990600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Looking to Art\, At Home and Abroad with Benjamin Moser DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In 2002\, at the age of twenty-five\, Benjamin Moser moved from New York to the Netherlands. In search of places to anchor him in his new home\, he began paying visits to Dutch art museums\, where he developed a fascination with the “Dutch Masters” (a term given to a group of 17th-century Dutch painters\, including Rembrandt and Vermeer\, who developed distinctive styles and produced works that continue to inspire viewers). In his new book\, The Upside-Down World\, Moser delves into the details of the lives of the Dutch Masters\, drawing from scant historical records to generate speculative musings and biographical accounts of these beloved painters. \nMoser has also produced several other award-winning biographies and translations. His 2009 biography of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector has been instrumental in securing Lispector’s rich literary legacy among global audiences. His 2019 biography of Susan Sontag was widely praised and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Through his biographies and his translations\, Moser bridges both linguistic and cultural gaps\, deftly introducing the complexities of foreign literature and the lives of international artistic figures to the English-speaking world. \nMoser will be joined in conversation by Pamela Druckerman\, a cultural writer and journalist. Druckerman has published five books and has written for The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and Le Monde\, among other publications. \nAbout the speakers: \nBenjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector\, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 2009. For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence\, including through publishing her complete works in English\, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. For Sontag: Her Life and Work\, he won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book\, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters\, was published in October 2023. He lives in the Netherlands and France. \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 The New York Times\, The Economist\, The Atlantic\, Le Monde and many other publications. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nMoser recently translated an interview with the renowned Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector from Portuguese to English. You can read his translation\, and listen to the original Portuguese recording\, in a piece for The New Yorker.[/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 The Upside-Down World 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/moser24/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/moser24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240423T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240423T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240313T142750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240416T065733Z UID:63725-1713898800-1713904200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(In Person Full) (Hybrid) The US Presidential Elections: Journalists Look at What’s Ahead DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The US presidential race has provoked intense anxiety\, not only among voters but also around the world. The results could have profound implications on almost every front: immigration\, the war in Ukraine\, the Middle East\, NATO\, Russia\, the Supreme Court. Join us for an extended\, 90-minute media panel moderated by Vivienne Walt\, in partnership with the Overseas Press Club of America\, to discuss how the campaign is going\, what to look for in the months ahead\, and to answer your questions. \nPlease note the early start time of this event. \nPlease note that while in-person registration to this event is now full\, registration to attend on Zoom is still available. \nAbout the speakers: \nVivienne Walt is a Paris correspondent for TIME Magazine and Fortune Magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, National Geographic\, BusinessWeek\, and more. She is governor of the Overseas Press Club of America. \nThe Washington Post’s senior national political correspondent\, Ashley Parker has covered the White House since Trump’s 2016 election\, a campaign she also covered. She has shared two Pulitzer Prizes\, one for Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections\, the other for the January 6 insurrection. Ashley will Zoom in from the campaign trial to talk about Biden’s strengths and weaknesses\, and a Trump victory might bring. She recently described the feeling in the Democratic Party: “There’s a deep concern Biden may not be the best candidate to beat Trump…There’s a desire among some for a plan B.”  \nThe New York Times chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe\, Steven Erlanger has covered about 120 countries. He’s been bureau chief in eight cities\, including London\, Moscow\, Jerusalem and Paris\, and has also served as the Times’ chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington. He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes for the New York Times\, one for covering Al Qaeda after 9/11\, the other for coverage of Russia in 2017. Steve will talk about how the U.S. elections will impact the world. Recently he wrote: “For most European governments\, the prospect that Trump could return to the White House is a prime topic of private discussion. Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 gave a major boost to European populist politics\, and another victory would almost surely do the same.” \nGuillaume Debré\, Deputy Editorial Director of TF1\, France’s biggest TV news network\, was based in Washington for 16 years\, working for CNN and French TV\, covering the Obama and Trump presidencies. He’s the author of several books on US politics\, including on Obama and Trump\, and a book titled “How Money Ruined American democracy.” Guillaume will talk about how the elections are being covered by the rest of the world\, from his Paris perch\, and how the stakes are truly global.  \nFor years\, Cuban-American illustrator Edel Rodriguez has captured the dark absurdity of US politics on the covers of TIME\, the New Yorker\, and others. His “Meltdown” and “Total Meltdown” TIME covers became iconic representations of the Trump presidency. He will join the panel on Zoom to talk about how to portray the election’s epic importance amid media overload and voter dissatisfaction.[/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. Please note the early start time of this event. \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/opc24/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/photo-presidential-inauguration-960x540-1-e1710339891844.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240418T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240418T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240328T143049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T144723Z UID:63723-1713466800-1713472200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(In Person Only) Play and Creativity with Lillian Davies and Chloe Briggs DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Writer Lillian Davies and artist Chloe Briggs’s collaboration began with a conversation while observing their children at play in the Parc de Belleville in Paris. Their resulting book\, Playgrounds\, is set up like a workbook and uses images and text to explore how public spaces can activate creativity and create a sense of community and connection. The authors also show how play—the freedom to imagine the world differently—is essential to our artistic endeavors. \nGuided by the authors\, participants will complete creative exercises inspired by Playgrounds. The workshop wraps up with participants sharing their creations to foster a sense of camaraderie and mutual inspiration. \nMaximum 40 participants. Open to all ages. \nAbout the speakers: \nChloe Briggs is an artist and educator based in Paris. In 2013 she created the Drawing is Free project\, which makes connecting through drawing available to everyone. She runs drawing workshops both online and in person and offers a free weekly online portrait drawing session that is open to all. On Briggs’s Patreon account you can read her writing about drawing and listen to conversations with fellow artists about the experience of drawing a human face\, and art as a means of connection. @drawingisfree_org \nLillian Davies is a Paris-based art historian and writer. Author of multidisciplinary artist Mounir Fatmi’s monograph\, Suspect Language\, Davies contributes to Artforum\, Flash Art\, Interview Magazine\, Numéro and Objektiv as well as writing for art books and museum catalogs. You can read her work on her website. Davies is guest lecturer at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts\, Paris; Ecole W (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas); and Parsons Paris\, and is Adjunct Professor at Paris College of Art. She is a recipient of AICA France’s Bourse Ekphrasis and holds a BA in Art History and Comparative Religions from Columbia University\, a MA in Curating Contemporary Art from Royal College of Art\, London\, and recently conducted doctoral research in a Troisième Cycle at École du Louvre. @lillian.davies[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nPlaygrounds is available for purchase at independent bookstores Librairie Yvon Lambert\, The Red Wheelbarrow\, and After8 Books. Read about the project on their website.[/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/daviesbriggs24/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/playgrounds24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240417T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240417T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240329T140908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T102042Z UID:63690-1713382200-1713385800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Opéra Comique presents Archipel(s) DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join us in welcoming the Opéra Comique back to the Library and discover their new show Archipel(s). Commissioned by their youth theater troupe La Maîtrise Populaire de L’Opéra Comique\, this production combines singing\, acting\, and dance. The story\, inspired by a series of workshops conducted with the Maîtrise’s pupils\, is an exploration of coming-of-age and how young people follow\, or choose to break\, society’s rules. \nLibrettist Adrien Borne\, choreographer Ewan Jones\, and stage director James Bonas will offer a behind-the-scenes perspective on the show’s creation and share their thoughts on opera’s place in the future. \nAbout the speakers: \nDirector James Bonas recently directed Leonard Bernstein’s Candide at the Welsh National Opera with his regulator collaborator\, animation artist Grégoire Pont. The pair also directed the French premiere of Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen for the Opéra National du Rhin and Carl Orff’s Der Mond and Maurice Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges and L’Heure Espagnole for the Opéra de Lyon. \nChoreographer Ewan Jones trained in musical theater at Arts Educational Schools London and holds an MA in choreography. His work in musical theater and opera has taken him around the world; most recently he returned from Dubai\, where he was staging the critically acclaimed new version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. Other international credits include Matilda (Norway); Something Rotten! and Sister Act (Germany); The Phantom of the Opera (Romania\, Norway\, Greece\, Bulgaria\, and Saudi Arabia); Der Mond in Lyon and L’Étoile (Portugal). In 2019 Jones became movement coordinator and choreographer for seasons 2 and 3 of the hit Netflix TV series Sex Education. Following that\, he was invited to join Disney+ as movement director for their upcoming series The Ballad of Renegade Nell. \nLibrettist Adrien Borne is the author of several award-winning novels in French\, including Mémoire de soie et La Vie qui commence\, published by JC Lattès\, as well as an adaptation of the opera Carmen for teenagers. He divides his time between writing\, journalism\, and public speaking. His work explores the liberating power of words and the stories they tell\, whether fictional or real.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nThe Maîtrise Populaire de l’Opéra Comique brings together young performers ages eight through twenty-five for an immersive education in the theater arts. Discover their work. \nRead more about Archipel(s). [/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/operacomique24/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/archipels24-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240416T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240416T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240313T141214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T114138Z UID:63681-1713295800-1713299400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(In Person Only) Music and Mingle: The Bow and the Brush with Dan Flanagan DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Finding one’s place in Paris can be challenging. As an expatriate institution\, we champion the forging of connections at the Library. This is why we’re delighted to announce Music and Mingle\, a Members-only event series. \nMembers seeking to foster new friendships\, build their network\, and celebrate the arrival of spring in good company are invited to an evening of solo violin compositions\, accompanied by projections of visual art\, with violinist Dan Flanagan. With music directly inspired by artwork\, the program highlights historic pieces by Pissarro\, Rafaëlli\, Guillaumin\, Pinchon\, and living artists including Paul Gibson\, Nikki Vismara\, and Elaine Prat. Created and conceptualized by Flanagan\, the program includes his own compositions alongside several commissioned works written by 18 celebrated living New Music composers\, including Libby Larsen\, James Stephenson\, Trevor Weston\, and Nathaniel Stookey\, and the concert will feature compositions by contemporary American composers inspired by historical French paintings. \nWhether seeking to discover our community for the first time\, or to reunite with old friends\, join us in celebrating everyone who makes the American Library in Paris a cultural home. \nPlease note\, this event will be in-person only and reserved for Library members. \nAbout the performer: \nDan Flanagan has built a multifaceted career as a soloist and orchestral musician\, performing concertos with orchestras in California and recitals throughout the United States and Europe. Flanagan currently serves as Concertmaster of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera\, Concertmaster of West Edge Opera\, and Instructor of Violin at University of California\, Berkeley. The 2023-24 season includes solo recitals at The Center for New Music (San Francisco)\, Boston University\, Carnegie Hall\, University of Rome\, and The American Library in Paris. His program\, The Bow and the Brush\, includes 23 newly composed solo violin pieces inspired by paintings and sculptures. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Important information: This event will be in person at the Library only and reserved for Library Members. Please bring your Library card to the event for verification. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/flanagan24/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Flanagan-Headshot-warm-credit-Russ-Gold-1-scaled-e1710339027153.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240410T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240410T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T051542 CREATED:20240313T135233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T135530Z UID:63661-1712777400-1712781000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Recovery and Renewal with Octavia Bright DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In memoir This Ragged Grace\, celebrated writer and broadcaster Octavia Bright follows two events from her life that coincided in the same period: her recovery from addiction and her father’s descent into dementia. With vivid prose and a candid\, open-hearted voice\, Bright explores the complex interplays between family dynamics\, mental health\, loss\, and resilience. Her work challenges conventional narratives around grief\, putting forward a more nuanced understanding that embraces its messy\, nonlinear process. In this program\, Bright will reflect upon her approach to writing memoir\, her multifaceted perspectives on grief and sobriety\, and the roles that literature\, philosophy\, and art have played in her recovery. \nAbout the speaker: \nOctavia Bright is a writer and broadcaster. She co-hosts Literary Friction\, the literary podcast and NTS Radio show\, with Carrie Plitt. Recommended by The New York Times\, The Guardian\, BBC Culture\, Electric Literature\, The Sunday Times and others\, it has had over 1.4 million downloads. Her writing has been published in a number of magazines including The White Review\, Harper’s Bazaar\, ELLE\, Wasafiri\, Somesuch Stories\, and the Sunday Times. This Ragged Grace\, published by Canongate\, is her first book.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][vc_column_text]Learn more: \nYou can read an excerpt from This Ragged Grace here. \nBright is the co-host of a popular literary podcast called Literary Friction. You can listen to the podcast here\, on NTS Radio\, or you can also find it on a podcast app.[/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 This Ragged Grace 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/bright24/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/bright24.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR