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The Library is closed from Tuesday 22 December 2019 until Wednesday 1 January 2020. The Library will reopen at 10h00 on Thursday 2 January 2020.
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Evenings with an Author: Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry – and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it by New York Times […]
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Evenings with an Author: Elaine Sciolino, The Seine: The River That Made Paris
Elaine Sciolino is again captivating readers, this time with The Seine: The River That Made Paris, the follow-up to her New York Times best-selling book The […]
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Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff on the NBA’s French connections
You may think that you know the National Basketball Association (NBA), but did you know that the world’s elite championship sports a surprisingly zesty French accent? […]
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A Public Panel on the “Bookstagram” Phenomenon with Four Local Bookstagrammers
Please join us for a public panel on the "bookstagram" phenomenon. We will be hosting four Paris-based bookstagrammers for the occasion: moderator Anne-Pauline (@apireading) and panelists […]
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Evenings with an Author: Angie Thomas
Please join us for an evening with young adult author Angie Thomas. Angie Thomas was born, raised, and still lives in Jackson, Mississippi. A former […]
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Dina Nayeri in conversation with Stuart Reid on her book, “The Ungrateful Refugee”
Please join us for an evening with Dina Nayeri, who will be in conversation with Stuart Reid about her most recent work, The Ungrateful Refugee. […]
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An Evening with Physicist Emlyn Hughes, “More Radioactive than Chernobyl”
More Radioactive than Chernobyl In the 1940s and 1950s, the United States tested sixty-seven nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, including the detonation of the […]
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Evenings with an Author: Katherine Ewing
Sufis embody the mystical side of Islam but are also part of well-established institutional networks—the Sufi orders that extend across the Muslim world. Through the words, […]
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Black ou Noir(e): A Public Panel on Black Expats and Belonging in Paris
Picking up the thread from the Library's February 2019 panel on mixed race and identity, this public panel, moderated by Tarani Merriweather and featuring discussants Jacqueline […]
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Evenings with an Author: Michael Webber
A global tour of energy–the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat. Energy is humanity’s single most important resource. In fact, as energy expert […]
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Emerging disease- the Coronavirus and beyond: A public conversation with Dr. Mariana Marrana and Taylor Gabourie (World Organisation for Animal Health)
Join us for an public conversation with Dr. Mariana Marrana and Taylor Gabourie, who will be discussing the science behind emerging disease, the role of human […]