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  • November 2024

  • Sun 3
    Sun 3 November 2024 @ 13 h 00 min - 17 h 00 min

    Screening: State Legislature at the Cinémathèque du documentaire

    Cinémathèque du documentaire 25 Rue du Renard, Paris, France

    Screen Fred Wiseman's film State Legislature at the Cinémathèque du documentaire in the presence of Lauren Collins and Jordan Mintzer.

  • Tue 5
    Tue 5 November 2024 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min

    How Ike Eisenhower Led America with Susan Eisenhower and Elaine Sciolino

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    How President Dwight D. Eisenhower led America through a transformational time, by Susan Eisenhower, a DC policy strategist and security expert who is also his granddaughter.

  • Wed 13
    Wed 13 November 2024 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min

    Giraffe Mania: Paris as City of Natural History with Scholar of Note A. Kendra Greene

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    Join Scholar of Note A. Kendra Greene to trace the wondrous journey of Zarafa the Giraffe to Paris and learn about natural history collections at the intersection of science and art.

  • Thu 14
    Thu 14 November 2024 @ 20 h 30 min - 21 h 30 min

    (Online) The International Library: Queer Migrations

    The Center for Fiction 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    The London Library welcomes Gaar Adams and Sulaiman Addonia, two writers whose new works consider the complex intersections of queerness and migration.

  • Tue 19
    Tue 19 November 2024 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min

    French Cooking with an American Touch with Rosa Jackson, Jane Bertch, and Alec Lobrano

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    Two long-time French residents and culinary experts, Rosa Jackson and Jane Bertch discuss their respective memoirs, Niçoise and The French Ingredient.

  • Wed 20
    Wed 20 November 2024 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min

    The Body is a Battleground with Fernanda Eberstadt and Benjamin Moser

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    Unpacking the body’s role in resistance, beauty, and the quest for freedom.

  • Tue 26
    Tue 26 November 2024 @ 18 h 00 min - 21 h 30 min

    Screening: Fred Wiseman’s Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

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    In partnership with la Bibliothèque publique d'information du Centre Pompidou, join us for a screening of Wiseman's renowned film on the New York Public Library.

  • Wed 27
    Wed 27 November 2024 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min

    The Real Fictional Housewives of Silicon Valley with novelists Kirstin Chen and Colombe Schneck

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    Scholar of Note and novelist Kirstin Chen in conversation with novelist Colombe Schneck.

  • December 2024

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    Tue 3 December 2024 @ 19 h 00 min - 20 h 30 min

    How Did Trump Win?

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    A post-election roundtable conversation with journalists.

  • Wed 11
    Wed 11 December 2024 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min

    Baya, an Algerian Outsider Artist in Post-War Paris with Alice Kaplan and James McAuley

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    Join Alice Kaplan to discuss her biography of Baya Mahieddine, Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris.

  • January 2025

  • Wed 8
    Wed January 8 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min

    Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake

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    Novelist Rachel Kushner discusses her electrifying new book about an American woman infiltrating a French anarchist collective.

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    Tue January 14 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min

    Meghan O’Rourke on The Invisible Kingdom

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    Writer and poet Meghan O'Rourke discusses her recent book on chronic illness and autoimmune diseases, in conversation with French journalist and author Clémentine Goldszal.

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