(Hybrid) Joanna Walsh on My Life as a Godard Movie
The American Library in ParisExperience Jean-Luc Godard through the eyes of author Joanna Walsh as she discusses Paris, art, youth, beauty, and cinema with Summer Brennan.
Experience Jean-Luc Godard through the eyes of author Joanna Walsh as she discusses Paris, art, youth, beauty, and cinema with Summer Brennan.
The American Library in Paris, the Centre Culturel Irlandais, and the T.S. Eliot Foundation celebrate the centenary of The Waste Land with a live performance of the poem and other works.
Meeting two of Critical Conversations, an expert-led discussion series that allows Library members to ponder the most important issues of our time. This season: a reflection on how to lead a contemplative, vital, and unmediated life in an ever-faster digital world.
Are sports political? How should we approach the 2022 World Cup? A panel of journalists convenes to discuss.
What has gone wrong in Macron's second term, and what has gone right? Where do we go from here? Two celebrated journalists convene to discuss.
Author Natasha Brown speaks on debut novel Assembly. Sharp and unsettling, the work investigates structures of inequality in today’s society, and what it would take to undo them. This conversation will be followed by a catered reception.
Akil Kumarasamy appears in conversation with writer Dinaw Mengestu to discuss her debut novel, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea: a story of memory, loss, language, shared love, and shared suffering between bodies.
Meeting three of Critical Conversations, an expert-led discussion series that allows Library members to ponder the most important issues of our time. This season: a reflection on how to lead a contemplative, vital, and unmediated life in an ever-faster digital world.
Celebrated author Jean D’Amérique, lauded one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Haitian literature, speaks on his debut novel, A Sun to be Sewn.
As humanity encounters an increasing number of threats, an increased public understanding of science will be crucial to our continued existence.
Robert G. O’Meally and Courtney Bryan speak about Such Sweet Thunder and Shakespearean jazz. A conversation at Reid Hall organized in collaboration with Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
Fifteen years after the publication of seminal work Chinongwa, author Lucy Mushita reflects with journalist Kidi Bebey upon the state of Zimbabwe at the time of writing and today.
Friends of the Library (50€ – 249€) will receive invitations to unique, donor-only programs.
Folio Society (250€ – 1 999€) supporters will be invited to the annual Book Award ceremony, as well as donor-only programs.
Gutenberg Society (2 000€ – 9 999€) patrons will have the opportunity to host a dinner with an Evenings with an Author sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg speaker, as well as all the benefits listed above.
Ex Libris Lux Society (10 000€ and above) sponsors will be invited to an annual dinner with Ex Libris Lux donors and Library leadership, as well as all the benefits listed above. They will also be invited to an exclusive cocktail dînatoire with our Gala speaker.
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