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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Cathedrals of France with R. Howard Bloch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Saint-Denis\, Chartres\, Sainte-Chapelle\, Reims\, Amiens and Notre-Dame: in Paris and her Cathedrals\, art historian R. Howard Bloch approaches each of these celebrated sites with renewed curiosity\, historical rigor\, and aesthetic enthusiasm. From thrilling historical intrigues to luxurious architecture and sacred relics\, Bloch reanimates  the past of the cathedrals\, revealing their centrality to French life and identity across epochs. Join Bloch in conversation with architecture expert Barry Bergdoll at the Library as they walk us through the vaulted arches and stone passages of France’s most iconic structures\, showing glimpses along the way into ways of life lost to time.  \nAbout the speaker: \nR. Howard Bloch is the Sterling Professor of French and Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of numerous award-winning books on French literature and art. \nCurrently a fellow at the Institute for Ideas & Imagination\, Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University. A specialist in the history of modern architecture\, he served from 2007 to 2014 as Chief Curator of Architecture & Design at the New York Museum of Modern Art. He has also organized exhibitions at the Musée d’Orsay\, the Caisse des Monuments Historiques and the Centre Canadien d’Architecture. He is the author of European Architecture: 1750-1890 in the Oxford History of Art series and monographs on Karl Friedrich Schinkel\, Mies van der Rohe\, Léon Vaudoyer\, and (as editor) Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Bloch and Bergdoll 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/bloch23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Adrienne Raphel and Megan Fernandes
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join 2022-23 Visiting Fellow Adrienne Raphel and poet Megan Fernandes for a special evening dedicated to poetry. Celebrated as two of the most exciting poets of their generation\, both Raphel and Fernandes experiment across form\, language\, and sound to generate fragmented\, fleeting images of the current moment. From Fernandes’ transposition of poetry’s most traditional subject–love–to contemporary urban wastelands to Raphel’s adoption of the paranoid\, compulsive registers of the Internet\, the two diagnose cultural maladies of contemporary society and play with poetry as a means of reconciliation. They will discuss the uses\, abuses\, and varied appearances of poetry in a frantic world.  \nAbout the speakers: \nAdrienne Raphel is a 2022-23 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow. She is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them\, named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review; What Was It For\, winner of the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize; and Our Dark Academia\, forthcoming this fall. Her writing appears in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, and many other publications. She has been a featured speaker at events such as the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress\, and she serves as a mentor with the Periplus collective. Raphel holds a PhD from Harvard\, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and a BA from Princeton.  \nMegan Fernandes is a writer living in New York City. Fernandes has published in the New Yorker\, POETRY\, the Kenyon Review\, the American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, among others. Her book\, Good Boys\, was published with Tin House Books in 2020. Her forthcoming collection\, I Do Everything I’m Told\, will also be published by Tin House in summer 2023. Fernandes is an Associate Professor of English and the Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College where she teaches courses on poetry\, environmental writing\, and critical theory. She is a former Yaddo fellow\, holds a PhD in English from the University of California\, and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Raphel and Fernandes 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/raphel-fernandes23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troupes in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 103-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nPlease email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org with any 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_1665240973767{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][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-6-9-23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230608T190000
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SUMMARY:(In person) Summer 2023 Writing Workshop: Form & Craft Meeting One
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join 2022-23 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow and author Adrienne Raphel for a two-part writing workshop dedicated to form and craft. \nIn this conversation and generative session\, we’ll be joined by author and professor Andrew Altschul to discuss the writing process from soup to nuts. Altschul and Raphel will lead a reading\, a conversation\, and a Q&A. Then\, they’ll lead a writing exercise\, with time to draft in the session and discuss as a group. \nAbout the workshop: \nA piece of finished writing can seem like it’s always already been in its perfect form\, polished from the moment it sprung out of its author’s head. But behind the scenes\, as every writer knows\, the final product is only the tip of an extremely complicated iceberg. \nIn this two-part workshop\, we’ll be exploring form and craft\, focusing on demystifying the process from first draft through revision and publication. Once you have a draft of something\, how do you revise it? How do you keep revising? And how do you know when it’s done? \nThe workshop will unfold over two main sessions. In the first session\, we’ll have a reading and conversation with author and professor Andrew Altschul. In the second session\, we’ll continue generating new ideas\, and we’ll also focus on how to keep re-thinking prior writing. Each draft will become a touchstone for a new conversation. \nThis series will take place in person at the Library on 8 June and 22 June from 19h00 to 20h30 CEST and is open to both Library Members and non-members. \nAbout the workshop leaders: \nAdrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them\, named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review; What Was It For\, winner of the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize; and Our Dark Academia (2022). Her writing appears in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, Poetry\, and many other publications. She has been a featured speaker at events such as the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress\, and she serves as a mentor with the Periplus collective. Raphel holds a PhD from Harvard\, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and a BA from Princeton. She is currently a Lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program and teaches with the Berlin Writers’ Workshop. \nAndrew Altschul is the author of three novels\, including most recently The Gringa. His stories and essays have appeared in Esquire\, McSweeney’s\, The Wall Street Journal\, Ploughshares\, and anthologies including Best New American Voices and O. Henry Prize Stories. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford\, he now teaches at Colorado State University. \nAdvance payment and registration is required: \nMembers rate: 40€ per participant. (Members please register here.) \nNon-members rate: 60€ per participant. (Non-members register here.) \nPlease email Emilie Biggs\, Programs Assistant\, biggs@americanlibraryinparis.org with any questions.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/raphelworkshop23_1/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230607T193000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Entre Nous: The Times of our Lives with Kate Briggs and Yasmine Seale
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Kate Briggs’ The Long Form\, a day takes place. A mother wakes up with her daughter\, and proceeds to undertake her quotidian tasks. At the same time\, she embarks upon a reflection upon the ways the everyday is made. As the rhythms of motherhood prove fertile ground for rumination upon care\, love\, and creation\, the making of the day becomes analogous to the making of a novel\, which becomes the material of the novel itself. Briggs seizes upon a lack of action in order to build a space for the slow and spontaneous wanderings of the mind. Navigating multiple levels of storytelling\, time\, modes of writing\, and modes of thought\, she elegantly sweeps through the space of the text and the history of the written word as her character sweeps through the house.  \nAbout the speakers: \nKate Briggs is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes’s lecture and seminar notes at the Collège de France: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together\, both published by Columbia University Press. She teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute\, Rotterdam. The Long Form\, her debut novel\, follows This Little Art\, a genre-bending essay on translation. In 2021\, Kate Briggs was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize. \nYasmine Seale is a writer and translator based in Paris. Her essays on literature\, art and film have been published in Harper’s\, The Nation\, Paris Review\, and elsewhere. She is the author\, with Robin Moger\, of Agitated Air: Poems after Ibn Arabi (Tenement Press). Her translations from the Arabic include The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton) and Something Evergreen Called Life\, a collection of poems by Rania Mamoun (Action Books). She is currently a fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, where she is completing a translation of The Dove’s Necklace by Ibn Hazm\, an essay on the nature of love written in 11th-century Cordoba. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Briggs and Seale 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris\, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, and the American Library in Paris.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1666352729001{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/briggs23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Ben Miller on the Bad Gays of History
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Pride month is populated by LGBTQ iconography\, celebrating the figures across history who demanded the right to live and love freely. Yet how is gay history oversimplified when we only spotlight the heroes of the movement? In Bad Gays\, authors Ben Miller and Huew Lemmey have the courage to complicate things. Recounting the lives of people who made mistakes\, harmed others\, acted in contradictory ways\, and happened to be queer\, they reveal hidden\, human nuances across queer history. At the Library\, Miller will offer a more critical perspective on the current status of LGBTQ politics\, asking who has been excluded from the political terrain\, how previous political failures have been glossed over\, and how introducing nuance into our understanding of queer identity can lead to a more just queer future.  \nAbout the speaker: \nBen Miller is a writer and historian living in Berlin. With Huw Lemmey\, he hosts Bad Gays\, a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history\, which has been downloaded nearly a million times; a book based on the show and passionately arguing for a more complex and political queer public history\, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History\, was published by Verso in 2022. Since 2018\, he has been a member of the board of the Schwules Museum\, the world’s largest independent institution devoted to archiving and preserving LGBTQI* histories and visual cultures. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Miller 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/miller23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230602T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230602T120000
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SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troupes in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 103-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nPlease email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org with any 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_1665240973767{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][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-6-2-23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230530T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230530T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Felwine Sarr on Africa’s Struggle for its Art
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In recent years\, following social justice movements\, the question of the place of stolen African art in European museums has become increasingly urgent. In France\, a reassessment of French universalism has brought the question of restitution to a possible turning point: Macron’s headline-making 2017 declaration that France must recognize its colonial past was followed by an equally landmark report on the restitution of stolen African art\, written by art historians Bénédicte Savoy and Felewine Sarr. In conversation with journalist Rachel Donadio\, Sarr will discuss the monumental report and its consequences. What were the consequences of its publication? Were Macron’s words just empty speech? What happens now? From the Smithsonian to the Louvre\, Sarr will explain how substantial change\, from the contents of permanent collections to the ways we define art\, is coming for major cultural institutions.  \nAbout the speakers: \nFelwine Sarr is a Senegalese writer and academic. He is Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University in North Carolina\, after having taught at University Gaston Berger at Saint-Louis in Senegal\, where he is adjunct professor of Economics. In 2018\, the French president commissioned him to write a report\, with the art historian Benedicte Savoy\, on the restitution of African heritage present in French museums. He has authored thirteen works and is the co-publisher with his publishing house Jimsaan of the Prix Goncourt 2021\, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. \nRachel Donadio is a Paris-based writer and journalist\, a contributing writer for the Atlantic\, and a former Rome Bureau Chief and European Culture correspondent for the New York Times. She regularly publishes textured profiles and features at the intersection of culture and politics\, as well as literary criticism. Since 2022 she has been the administrator of the American Library in Paris annual Book Award. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Sarr and Donadio 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/restitution23/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230526T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230526T120000
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SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troupes in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 103-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nPlease email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org with any 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_1665240973767{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][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-5-26-23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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SUMMARY:Environmental Economics with Bianca Getzel\, Marlowe Hood\, and Juan Pablo Arellano
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nWhether degrowth or green growth\, the circular economy or the end of the capitalist economy as we know it\, environmental economics\, the study of how we use and manage finite resources\, help us understand negative externalities\, public goods\, and market failures. \nThis event is organized in partnership with News Decoder and the Climate Academy at the European School of Brussels. \nThe Library’s contribution to this joint program is supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Arts and Culture. \nPlease note the special start time of this event. \nAbout the speakers: \nBianca Getzel is a Research Officer in the Development and Public Finance Programme at global affairs think tank ODI. \nMarlowe Hood is Senior Editor at Agence France-Presse\, covering science\, environment\, and the climate crisis. \nJuan Pablo Arellano is a former content director at ClimateScience\, specializing in creating accessible and trustworthy content on climate change solutions. He studied economics and environmental science at university and is currently pursuing a master’s degree on degrowth. \nImportant information: This conversation will be hybrid\, taking place both in person at the American Library in Paris and online. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ecologues5/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230524T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230524T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230403T170749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230503T102951Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Breaking the Silence on Menopause with Dr. Mary Claire Haver and Kate Muir
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Menopause occurs in every menstruating body. Yet few know what to expect when they begin experiencing it\, and even fewer understand the science behind the process. Lack of research and cultural taboos around discussions of menstruation have contributed to a general cultural ignorance surrounding the subject\, which translates into ill-preparedness and inadequate treatment when it happens. Dr. Mary Claire Haver\, MD\, has devoted her life to developing nutrition strategies aimed at combating the adverse effects of menopause-induced hormonal changes. Kate Muir has written books and produced documentaries on the subject\, aiming to promote awareness and challenge the Together\, the two women will discuss the reality of menopause\, the stigmas associated with talking about it\, and the importance of breaking the silence.  \nAbout the speakers: \nDr. Mary Claire Haver is a wife\, mom\, Board Certified OBGYN\, entrepreneur and best- selling author of The Galveston Diet\, who has devoted her adult life to women’s health and the treatment of perimenopause and menopause. Dr. Haver believes in the power of nutrition and anti- inflammatory foods to combat midlife inflammation and highly recommends the unique  benefits of intermittent fasting. She is a leading voice on social media in the realm of menopause education.  \nKate Muir is a menopause expert\, writer and filmmaker. She is the author of Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (but were too afraid to ask) and the producer of three groundbreaking Davina McCall women’s health documentaries\, including Sex\, Myths and the Menopause for Channel 4 in the UK. Her next book is on the contraceptive pill. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Haver will appear in the Reading Room and Muir will appear over Zoom)\, 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/menopause23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230523T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230523T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230406T101115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230519T153013Z
UID:50816-1684870200-1684873800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Task of Translation with Cécile Wajsbrot\, Tess Lewis\, and Anne Weber
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Cecile Wajsbrot’s Nevermore\, a translator haunted by her past moves to a town with its own dark history in order to begin a translation of Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. Working on Woolf’s chapter “Time Passes\,” she undertakes her own meditation upon the passage of time and the movement of history. Confronting the violent scars of World War II in Woolf’s writing and in Dresden\, her new home\, our narrator experiences a fusion of the space of the novel with the space around her. As a translator\, she is trained to navigate different worlds. Yet with this project\, she risks losing herself entirely in this new realm where time\, space\, and language–much like waves at sea–overlap. Wajsbrot will speak with translators Anne Weber and Tess Miller about the task of the translator\, finding the language to recreate destroyed epochs\, and the fragile boundaries between literature and life.  \nAbout the speakers: \nCécile Wajsbrot was born in Paris in 1954. She writes mostly novels\, sometimes essays and radio fictions. She is also a translator\, from the English (for instance Virginia Woolf) and from the German. Her latest novel\, Nevermore\, published in 2021\, deals with the process of translation. For more than twenty years she has been living in Paris and Berlin. \nTess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Lewis is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship\, and was awarded the ACFNY Translation Prize and the 2017 PEN Translation Prize for her translation of the novel Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap. \nAnne Weber is a German-French author and translator based in Paris. She has received the 3Sat award at the Festival of German-Language Literature as well as a European translation award for her translation of Pierre Michon. Her most recent novel\, Epic Annette\, won the 2020 German Book Prize. She was awarded the 2022 Leipzig Book Fair Prize in Translation for her German version of NEVERMORE. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Wajsbrot\, Lewis\, and Weber 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/wajsbrot23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230518T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230518T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230504T120054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230504T170523Z
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SUMMARY:(In Person at the Center for Fiction) The International Library Part I: Notes on Sugar
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In person at the Center for Fiction (Brooklyn\, NY) and over Zoom\, join celebrated Swiss author Dorothee Elmiger and American writer Kate Zambreno for a conversation about Megan Ewing’s new English translation of Elmiger’s Out of the Sugar Factory (Aus der Zuckerfabrik). \nIn an era of greed and lust\, power and excess\, Out of the Sugar Factory plumbs the impact of the sugar manufacturing industry through a kaleidoscope of memories\, dreams\, literary references\, narrative threads\, and historical fragments. From the Haitian Revolution and Chantal Akerman\, to Karl Marx\, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence\, Elmiger compiles a journal of reflections on global systems of capital through the medium of her personal patterns of experience. At a time when this critical historical lens is under attack across the U.S.\, we can look to Elmiger’s work as inspiration to keep revising old stories we have told until now. \nAbout the speakers: \nDorothee Elmiger was born in 1985 in Switzerland. She is the author of Out of the Sugar Factory\, Shift Sleepers\, and Invitation to the Bold of Heart. She lives in New York City. \nKate Zambreno is the author most recently To Write As If Already Dead\, a study of Hervé Guibert (Columbia University Press)\, and the novel Drifts (Riverhead). The Light Room\, a meditation on art and care\, is forthcoming from Riverhead in July 2023. A collaborative meditation on tone in literature with Sofia Samatar is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in fall 2023. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction\, she teaches in the MFA nonfiction program at Columbia University and is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College. \nImportant information: The discussion will take place at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn\, New York. The conversation will be streamed on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAccess to this event requires registration through the Center for Fiction. Click on the button below to RSVP.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcenterforfiction.org%2Fevent%2Fthe-international-library-part-i-notes-on-sugar%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nAbout The International Library\nConversations across time\, place\, and language \nJoin the American Library in Paris\, the Center for the Art of Translation\, and The Center for Fiction for conversations across time\, place\, culture\, and literary tradition\, with live audiences in San Francisco\, Brooklyn\, and Paris. \nAt the intersection of theory and practice\, past and present\, as well as story and history\, The International Library celebrates the live diffusion of in-person conversations in the hope of conjuring new possibilities and connecting new audiences across land and sea for a collective\, intercultural experience. \nOver the course of these conversations\, we hope to broach the following questions about writing and translation: Who gets to translate? To be translated? How to translate? And for whom to translate? More broadly\, the series will guide readers to think critically about how stories are told\, investigating the points of view\, the timing of the translations\, and the intended or assumed audiences as well as inspiration\, philosophy\, and craft. \nAll meetings will be hybrid\, taking place in person at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn (1:30pm ET) with audiences at the American Library in Paris (in Paris; 19h30 CEST) and the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco (10:30am PT) for a live streaming experience. Events will run for about an hour. \nPlease write to Alice McCrum (mccrum@americanlibraryinparis.org)\, Melanie McNair (melanie@centerforfiction.org)\, or Leslie-Ann Woofter (leslie-ann@catranslation.org) with any questions or thoughts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/sugar23/
LOCATION:The Center for Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230517T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230517T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230404T142044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T142044Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Humanities in Crisis? with Merve Emre
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In anticipation of Merve Emre’s forthcoming monograph\, Post-Discipline: Literature\, Professionalism\, and the Crisis of the Humanities\, join Emre for a discussion about two curious and much-discussed phenomena. On the one hand\, veritable crisis within the academy: against a backdrop of program closures\, decreasing student enrollments\, and budget cuts\, the study of English and history at the collegiate level in America has fallen by a third over the last decade. On the other hand\, flourishing outside the classroom walls: professional schools in medicine\, law\, and business have emerged as new sites for literary study and teaching\, drawing productive links between reading literature and in-the-world practice. How did this happen? And what will happen next? \nMerve Emre is Professor of Criticism at Wesleyan University and Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. She is the author and editor of several books\, including Paraliterary\, The Ferrante Letters\, The Personality Brokers\, and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway\, and a contributing writer at the New Yorker. She is working on two books: one on love; the other on the discipline of literary studies. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Emre 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/emre23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230516T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230516T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230331T102842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T144706Z
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SUMMARY:Word for Word 2023 at Théâtre Le Ranelagh (Paris 16)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Word for Word presents \nHome by George Saunders\nDirected by Sheila Balter \nTHIS EVENT IS OFF-SITE\, AT THÉÂTRE LE RANELAGH (5 Rue des Vignes\, 75016 Paris) \nHome is the story of Mikey\, a war veteran returning to a home that is increasingly cruel and absurd—and his quest for understanding and compassion. Saunders’ subtle yet absurdist humor brings a unique slant to otherwise dark topics. Home is directed by Word for Word core company member Sheila Balter. \nThis event requires advance registration. Please reserve your tickets below and bring your printed ticket to the show.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Tickets for HOME” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fword-for-word-presents-home-by-george-saunders-tickets-604802128447|target:_blank”][vc_column_text]This event is sponsored by the American Library in Paris\, the Fondation Jeannine Manuel\, and Word for Word Performing Arts Company. \nWORD FOR WORD Performing Arts Company performs short works of fiction in their entirety\, preserving the author’s voice and honoring her/his intent with exciting visuals and inventive staging. Founded in 1993 by Susan Harloe and JoAnne Winter\, Word for Word believes in the power of the short story to provide solace\, compassion\, and insight into our daily lives. In its vibrant history\, Word for Word has performed over 70 stories by some of the world’s best writers. Many of these stories have been performed in front of the authors themselves. \nGeorge Saunders is the author of twelve books\, including Lincoln in the Bardo\, which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for best work of fiction in English\, and was a finalist for the Golden Man Booker. His stories have appeared regularly in the New Yorker since 1992. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships\, the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story\, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013\, he was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. \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][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/wfw/
LOCATION:Théâtre le Ranelagh\, 5 rue des Vignes\, Paris\, 75016\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults,General
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230516T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230516T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230404T171656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T171656Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Jami Attenberg and Lauren Collins on Writing Through Life
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Celebrated novelist Jami Attenberg’s new memoir I Came All This Way to Meet You details a life on the road and the many ways one can create a home. An invigorating race through the varied places and spaces temporarily inhabited by Attenberg before moving on\, the book celebrates the rejection of a conventional life in favor of spontaneity and creativity. Throughout it all\, we learn\, Attenberg found solace in writing: in lieu of a static life\, she sought stability in the practice of her craft. Though her subjects and techniques have changed across time\, the very activity of putting the pen to paper has remained constant. Attenberg\, in conversation with author Lauren Collins\, will discuss the meandering trajectory of life and the many roads taken to arrive back at herself.   \nAbout the speakers:  \nJami Attenberg is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books of fiction\, including The Middlesteins and All Grown Up\, and\, most recently\, a memoir\, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home. She has written for the New York Times Magazine\, the New Yorker\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Sunday Times\, and the Guardian. Her work has been published in sixteen languages. She is also the creator of the annual online group writing accountability project #1000wordsofsummer. She lives in New Orleans. \nLauren Collins began contributing to the New Yorker in 2003 and became a staff writer in 2008. 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 on the city during the past 120 years. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Attenberg and Collins 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/attenberg23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230514T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230514T153000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230323T104143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230408T152611Z
UID:50082-1684072800-1684078200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:The Vocabulary of U.S. College Admissions with College Goals (ages 12–adult)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Given the demands of the American university application process\, students interested in pursuing higher education in the U.S. are well advised to begin preparing early in their high school career for its demands\, perhaps even before they embark on their final two years of study toward the French bac or IB. In this presentation with guests from College Goals\, teens and their parents will explore the application and admissions process for US colleges and universities and how best to prepare. What do families need to know for their students to be successful and satisfied by the university search and application process? How can students produce a strong and interesting U.S. university application? In the first of a series of presentations on aspects of the American college application process\, College Goals’ counselor\, Andrea van Niekerk will discuss the concepts\, language\, and protocols students need to be aware of if they hope to apply to US institutions. \n  \nAbout Andrea van Niekerk: Andrea served for a decade as Associate Director of Admission\, with a focus on international applicants\, and as Freshman Academic Adviser at Brown University\, and as Residential Fellow in a dorm at Stanford. Still based in Silicon Valley\, she now works with both American and international families as part of College Goals. Andrea has over 20 years of experience in college admission and academic advising. She is a member of NACAC\, HECA and WACAC. \n About College Goals: College Goals is a university admission consulting practice specializing in counseling families interested in higher education opportunities in the US and in English-medium universities around the world. The team of counselors collectively offers decades of professional experience in higher education. College Goals provides expert counsel and support throughout the college search and application process\, including choice of appropriate institutions\, test requirements\, recommendations and interviews\, essay writing\, and the preparation of distinguished applications. Find out more at www.collegegoals.com \n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1677065186598{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”]Important information: \nThis event is for Library members\, and advance registration is required. All visitors are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. After-hours events for teens\, such as Teen Nights\, require a signed permission slip\, which can be downloaded here. One permission slip is needed per academic year (September–July). \nQuestions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Library Policy” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-child” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famericanlibraryinparis.org%2Fchildren-in-the-library-policy%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-marker” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSfLH7X2izgmrJFypBwrrrsp-91uLpqIH_iRq46cfBidsrCyTQ%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/the-vocabulary-of-u-s-college-admissions-with-college-goals-ages-14-adult/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230512T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230512T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230321T161917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T171226Z
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SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troupes in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 103-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nPlease email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org with any 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_1665240973767{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][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-5-12-23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230511T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230511T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20221112T114612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230319T130955Z
UID:44651-1683831600-1683838800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Critical Conversations Meeting Seven: Art in Dark Times
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In 1955\, Theodor Adorno declared that “to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric.” He questioned the value of metaphor after a tragedy as unfathomable as the Holocaust. Past and present\, some dismiss the arts as bourgeois pastimes\, out of touch with the struggles of ordinary people. Given the climate emergency and our many other global problems\, many today ask what value there is in pretty pictures and fictional stories. \nIn this seminar\, we will discuss the purpose of art during dark times—ecological and political crises\, war\, genocide. Before the Romantic revolution\, music and art helped to organize society and structure meaning. In contrast\, is art today only about pleasure? Or might the arts and letters play an integral role in nourishing civil society and democracy? What is the role of the writer and artist under authoritarianism\, under tyranny? Even if they eschew conventional activism\, can artists nonetheless help maintain not only healthy minds but healthy societies too? \nIn partnership with Analog Sea\, an offline publisher of printed books\, we’re delighted to announce the fourth season of Critical Conversations\, an expert-led discussion series that allows Library members to ponder the most important issues of our time. This season\, we will reflect on how to lead a contemplative\, vital\, and unmediated life in an ever-faster digital world. We will discuss questions such as: What do we gain from disconnecting\, and how can we do it? How can we sharpen our senses and redirect our attention in order to change our thoughts and actions? And most of all\, how can we live in contemporary society with nuance and intention? \n Some details: The 2022–23 series will unfold over nine sessions\, from November 2022 to July 2023. Conversations will begin at 19h00 CET and run for two hours\, in person\, at the Library; technology of all description is happily forbidden. Each participant will receive copies of all four Analog Sea Review volumes published so far. Course reading and discussion will\, for the most part\, be based on work published in The Analog Sea Review. Jonathan Simons\, founding editor of Analog Sea\, will begin each meeting with some opening remarks\, before guiding a group discussion. \nAbout Critical Conversations: Whether in France or America\, debate is central to healthy democracy. Critical Conversations encourages both disagreement and agreement through thinking\, talking\, reading\, and actively participating in community. Since the series’ inception in 2020\, we have tackled race in America\, the climate crisis\, and migration. Across seasons\, participants have challenged themselves\, their peers\, and the world in which we live. Please write to Emilie Biggs at biggs@americanlibraryinparis.org with any questions. \nAbout the Critical Conversations 2022-23 leader: \nJonathan Simons is the founding editor of offline publishing house Analog Sea and its literary journal\, The Analog Sea Review. As a poet and essayist\, he has written for publications including The London Magazine\, PN Review\, El País\, subTerrain Magazine\, and The Analog Sea Review. His work has been covered by\, among others\, the Guardian\, the Times Literary Supplement\, the Washington Post and La Vanguardia. He researched Buddhist poetics at Naropa University and McGill University and was formerly a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development\, Center for Humans and Machines\, in Berlin. \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_1665240973767{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][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register for Critical Conversations 2022-23″ style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSfu4-PA93z4p-WV7S4q0mn5cY0Ly_476uzyMAOKMvu12vUwjA%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/cc7_2023/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230510T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230510T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230403T184209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T080017Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) A Hidden Figure of Wartime Paris with Livia Manera Sambuy and Tash Aw
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When journalist Livia Manera Sambuy discovered a striking portrait of princess Amrit Kaur in a Mumbai museum\, she had no idea who the luminous figure was\, much less the journey that lay ahead of her in excavating Kaur’s history. Fascination with Kaur led to a search across the globe for information on her past\, which in turn uncovered Kaur’s participation in the resistance effort against the Nazis\, her commitment to the fight for women’s rights\, a complicated family life\, and a tragic death following imprisonment in a concentration camp. Equal parts moving and riveting\, Sambuy’s tale of Kaur’s inspiring life and living legacy is infused with remarkable\, improbable stories of figures across history and the reminder that every individual is part of a cause bigger than themselves. Sambuy will appear in conversation with author Tash Aw.  \nAbout the speaker: \nLivia Manera Sambuy is an Italian writer whose book of profiles of American writers\, Don’t Write About Me\, was published in 2015. She has been a staff writer at the literary pages of the Italian national daily Corriere della Sera for more than twenty years and is the author and co-director of two documentary films on Philip Roth. She divides her time between Paris and Tuscany. \nTash Aw is an award-winning author. His first novel\, The Harmony Silk Factory (2005) was longlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and won the 2005 Whitbread Book Awards First Novel Award. His 2013 novel Five Star Billionaire was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. In 2016\, he published The Face: Strangers on a Pier\, \, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His 2019 novel\, We\, The Survivors\, was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His novels have been translated into 23 languages. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Sambuy and Aw 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/sambuy23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230509T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230509T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230404T193304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T101429Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Behind the Scenes of the Opéra Comique
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are delighted to welcome Missy Mazzoli\, composer\, and Royce Vavrek\, librettist\, alongside performer Sydney Mancasola\, to discuss their highly-anticipated staging of Breaking the Waves at the Opéra Comique. Based on Lars Von Trier’s award-winning 1996 film\, Mazzoli and Vavrek’s fresh take on the trials of a devout young woman from a strict Calvinist enclave in Northern Scotland was awarded the International Opera Award for Best World Premiere in 2017. Join them at the Library as they discuss the immense task of adapting age-old problems\, from faith and morality to love and community\, to the contemporary operatic stage.[/vc_column_text][vc_message css=”.vc_custom_1681464167931{background-color: #9bc0db !important;}”] \nThe Opéra Comique is offering the Library community a generous 40% discount for tickets to Breaking the Waves.\nTo purchase your discounted tickets\, click here. \n[/vc_message][vc_column_text]About the speakers: \nMissy Mazzoli’s music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic\, Atlanta Symphony\, the Philadelphia Orchestra\, the BBC Symphony\, the Cincinnati Orchestra\, the National Symphony\, LA Opera\, Scottish Opera\, eighth blackbird\, Kronos Quartet and many others. She is one of the first two women to receive a main stage commission from the Metropolitan Opera\, and was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Classical Composition. From 2018-2021 she was Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra\, and from 2012-2015 was Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia. \nRoyce Vavrek is a Canada-born\, Brooklyn-based librettist and lyricist who has been called “the indie Hofmannsthal” (The New Yorker) a “Metastasio of the downtown opera scene” (The Washington Post)\, “an exemplary creator of operatic prose” (The New York Times)\, and “one of the most celebrated and sought after librettists in the world” (CBC Radio). His opera “Angel’s Bone” with composer Du Yun was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music. \nSydney Mancasola studied voice at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music\, and later went on join Oper Frankfurt as a member of the ensemble. Sydney’s notable debuts have included her house debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Pamina in the Julie Taymor production of The Magic Flute\, her company and role debut as Adina L’elisir d’amore at the Opéra de Paris\, and Melisande Pelléas et Mélisande with LA Opera\, and her debut as Bess in a new production of Breaking the Waves at the Adelaide Festival Centre in Australia and Edinburgh International Festival\, where she was awarded a Herald Angel for her performance. \nNicolas Chesneau is a French pianist\, vocal coach and conductor. He studied in Paris with Anne le Bozec. He worked in many opera houses in France (Bastille\, Lille\, Dijon\, Strasbourg\, Marseille) and as assistant in international festivals (Aix-en-Provence\, Ruthrtriennale\, Wienerfestwochen). \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Mazzoli\, Vavrek\, Mancasola\, and Chesneau 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. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the Opéra Comique\, with the support of The Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture.  \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/breakingthewaves23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230505T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230505T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T171108Z
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SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troupes in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 103-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nPlease email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org with any 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_1665240973767{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][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-5-5-23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230503T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230503T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) High Hopes and Harlem’s Hidden Histories with Jake Lamar
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join author Jake Lamar\, in conversation with professor Marcus Bruce\, to discuss Lamar’s celebrated noir novel\, Viper’s Dream. The story of an aspiring jazz musician’s descent into the Harlem drug trade\, Viper’s Dream redefines the crime genre\, infusing it with tension and depth. Readers are swept into a hero’s journey\, motivated by the central question: how much can one sacrifice to achieve one’s dreams? Hailed by Deborah Levy as “moody\, poetic\, and immersing\,” the novel is a rich and atmospheric portrait of mid-century Manhattan’s dark underbelly. Lamar navigates murder\, betrayal\, romance\, and jazz with skill\, masterfully crafting a book both politically charged and poetically written.  \nAbout the speakers: \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 one of France’s top universities\, Sciences Po. \nMarcus Bruce is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies in the Religious Studies Department at Bates College in Lewiston\, Maine. He is also a founding member of the American Studies and Africana Programs at the college. He has published Henry Ossawa Tanner: A Spiritual Biography\, a study of the first African American painter to achieve international recognition at the Paris Salon. He is currently writing a book entitled The Ambassadors: African Americans\, Paris and A New Birth of Freedom\, a study of African Americans at the Paris Exposition of 1900. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Lamar and Bruce 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/lamar23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230502T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230502T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230402T180028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T110111Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Writing to the Moon with Fatoumata Kébé
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The moon has been the subject of human fascination since the dawn of recorded history. Celebrated in epic poetry and sacred texts\, spanning ancient mythology and modern physics\, it has been the object of awe\, worship\, investigation\, and analysis across every era of civilization. In La lune est un roman\, astronomer Fatoumata Kebe tells us the story of the moon. The moon’s story\, we learn\, is also the story of the humans looking at\, studying\, rhapsodizing\, and loving it. We have always looked at the same moon. Kebe demonstrates that our ways of looking at it\, and writing about it\, have not changed all that drastically\, either. \nAbout the speaker: \nFatoumata Kébé is a doctor of astronomy at Sorbonne Université. She researches the impact of space activities on astronomical observations\, and how such activities contribute to pollution around the Earth. She is also working on “Connected Eco\,” an entrepreneurial project for water preservation in the farming sector\, and is the founder of the Éphémérides organization\, which promotes the practice and teaching of astronomy among the public. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Kébé 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/kebe23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230427T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230427T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230423T124123Z
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SUMMARY:George Monbiot\, Sébastien Treyer\, and Emma Heiling on Feeding the World
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nWhile half of the world’s habitable land is used to produce our food\, fertilizers\, sewage\, and pesticides contaminate large swathes of the rest. How to feed the world\, we might ask\, without destroying the planet? \nThe Library’s contribution to this joint program is supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Arts and Culture. \nPlease note the special start time of this event. \nAbout the speakers: \nGeorge Monbiot\, author of Regenesis:Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet\, is a columnist\, filmmaker\, and essayist. \nSébastien Treyer is Executive Director of IDDRI\, a think tank which facilitates the transition towards sustainable development. \nEmma Heiling is the Founder & CEO of ClimaTalk\, a youth-led non-profit organisation demystifying climate policy and empowering young people in the fight for climate action. \nImportant information: The 2023 series will unfold over six sessions\, from 26 January to 29 June. Conversations will begin at 19h00 CET and run for ninety minutes. Conversations will be hybrid\, taking place both in person at the American Library in Paris and online. Though participants are encouraged to join all six sessions for a holistic overview\, the discrete and diverse nature of topics will allow audience members to attend based on interest. Alice McCrum\, head of cultural programming at the American Library in Paris\, will begin each conversation with brief opening remarks\, before guiding an in-depth group discussion. \n\n\nThis event requires advance registration. \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. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ecologues4/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230426T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230426T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230331T094839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T095326Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Changing our Approach to Change with Adam Phillips
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Please note that in-person reservations for this event are now closed. We invite you to sign up to attend online by clicking the RSVP button. \nCan people truly change? When one is unhappy or unwell\, is it possible to get better? Adam Phillips\, the UK’s foremost literary psychoanalyst\, thinks that these may not be the right questions to ask. Rather\, we should consider what we mean by the terms ‘change’ and ‘get better’\, and how transformation and self-betterment have been mythologized. In bestselling works On Wanting to Change and On Getting Better\, Phillips encourages us to rethink the ways we talk about mental health and the lives we lead. By redefining the terms of the conversation surrounding change\, we may learn to think more clearly about ourselves. At the Library\, Phillips will discuss the human mind and the tools we have to understand it.  \nAbout the speaker:  \nAdam Phillips\, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital\, London\, is a practicing psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of various works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism\, including most recently The Cure For Psychoanalysis\, On Getting Better\, On Wanting to Change\, Attention Seeking\, and In Writing. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations\, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature\, and a contributor to the London Review of Books. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Phillips 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/phillips23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230425T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230425T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Nina Gelbart on the Forgotten Women of the Enlightenment
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The most frequently-cited version of the Enlightenment is that of a group of brilliant men whose contributions to science and the humanities defined the contours of the centuries to come. These men’s names now decorate Parisian streets and metro stops\, cementing their legacy as founders of modern France. Historian Nina Gelbart proposes we expand this vision of the eighteenth century. In Minerva’s French Sisters\, Gelbart reveals the forgotten stories of six women whose contributions to science rival their most famous male peers. Gelbart breaks with traditional ways of writing history\, offering a biography equal parts rigorous and imaginative. Join her to discuss new approaches to old narratives and the hidden women of the Enlightenment.  \nAbout the speaker:  \nNina Rattner Gelbart is Professor of History and Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women’s Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her research on female journalists\, midwives\, scientists and revolutionaries of 18th century France has been supported by the National Science Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and most recently by the Guggenheim Foundation. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Gelbart 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. \nThis event requires advance registration. \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/gelbart23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230424T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230424T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T025426
CREATED:20230328T140007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T140007Z
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SUMMARY:Entre Nous: Enter Ghost with Isabella Hammad and Yasmine Seale
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After years away from her family’s homeland\, and reeling from a disastrous love affair\, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. While Haneen made a life here commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university\, Sonia remained in London to focus on her acting career and now dissolute marriage. On her return\, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile\, both bone-deep and new. \nWhen Sonia meets the charismatic and candid Mariam\, a local director\, she joins a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon\, Sonia is rehearsing Gertrude’s lines in classical Arabic with a dedicated group of men who\, in spite of competing egos and priorities\, all want to bring Shakespeare to that side of the wall. As opening night draws closer and the warring intensifies\, it becomes clear just how many obstacles stand before the troupe. Amidst it all\, the life Sonia once knew starts to give way to the daunting\, exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home. \nTimely\, thoughtful\, and passionate\, Isabella Hammad’s highly anticipated second novel is an exquisite story of the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. \nAbout the speakers: \nIsabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian and her second novel\, Enter Ghost\, is forthcoming in 2023. She won a 2019 National Book Award “5 Under 35” and received the 2020 Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation\, MacDowell\, the Santa Maddalena Foundation\, and the Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation\, and has taught creative writing in the graduate programs at New York University and Brown University. \nYasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer and translator. Her poetry\, essays\, visual art\, and translations from Arabic and French have appeared widely. She is the author\, with Robin Moger\, of Agitated Air: Poems after Ibn Arabi (Tenement Press\, 2022). Other work includes Aladdin: a New Translation (2018) and The Annotated Arabian Nights(2021)\, both out from W. W. Norton. She has received a PEN America Literary Grant and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. \nThe Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris\, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, and the American Library in Paris. \nImportant information: This event will take place in person at Reid Hall | Columbia Global Centers at 4 rue de Chevreuse. \nAccess to this event requires registration through Columbia Global Centers | Paris. Click on the button below to reserve your place.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1666352729001{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][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fbook-launch-enter-ghost-tickets-600467011997″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/en_hammad-seale23/
LOCATION:Reid Hall\, 4 Rue de Chevreuse\, Paris\, Paris\, 75006\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troops in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nThe Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 103-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nPlease email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org with any 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_1665240973767{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][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-4-21-23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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SUMMARY:Critical Conversations Meeting Six: Leisure
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The terms free time and leisure are often used interchangeably. But are they the same? For the Ancient Greeks\, leisure was scola (the origin of our word for school)\, which meant\, more than recreation or relaxation\, the pursuit of knowledge. \nFor Marx\, leisure stood in opposition to the industrial worker’s alienation from the value of their own labor and represented time spent away from addressing the necessities of life. \nGerman philosopher Byung-Chul Han speaks of the vita contemplativa being privileged over the vita activa well into the Middle Ages and that the overemphasis today on constant activity is engendering a “new barbarism” (ASR1\, p. 83). \nIn this seminar\, we will ask what defines leisure today: is it something greater than entertainment and relaxation? Do digital tools bring us more or less leisure? Do we feel as individuals that we have sufficient leisure in our lives? If not\, what stands in the way\, and what does the pursuit of true leisure teach us? \nIn partnership with Analog Sea\, an offline publisher of printed books\, we’re delighted to announce the fourth season of Critical Conversations\, an expert-led discussion series that allows Library members to ponder the most important issues of our time. This season\, we will reflect on how to lead a contemplative\, vital\, and unmediated life in an ever-faster digital world. We will discuss questions such as: What do we gain from disconnecting\, and how can we do it? How can we sharpen our senses and redirect our attention in order to change our thoughts and actions? And most of all\, how can we live in contemporary society with nuance and intention? \n Some details: The 2022–23 series will unfold over nine sessions\, from November 2022 to July 2023. Conversations will begin at 19h00 CET and run for two hours\, in person\, at the Library; technology of all description is happily forbidden. Each participant will receive copies of all four Analog Sea Review volumes published so far. Course reading and discussion will\, for the most part\, be based on work published in The Analog Sea Review. Jonathan Simons\, founding editor of Analog Sea\, will begin each meeting with some opening remarks\, before guiding a group discussion. \nAbout Critical Conversations: Whether in France or America\, debate is central to healthy democracy. Critical Conversations encourages both disagreement and agreement through thinking\, talking\, reading\, and actively participating in community. Since the series’ inception in 2020\, we have tackled race in America\, the climate crisis\, and migration. Across seasons\, participants have challenged themselves\, their peers\, and the world in which we live. Please write to Emilie Biggs at biggs@americanlibraryinparis.org with any questions. \nAbout the Critical Conversations 2022-23 leader: \nJonathan Simons is the founding editor of offline publishing house Analog Sea and its literary journal\, The Analog Sea Review. As a poet and essayist\, he has written for publications including The London Magazine\, PN Review\, El País\, subTerrain Magazine\, and The Analog Sea Review. His work has been covered by\, among others\, the Guardian\, the Times Literary Supplement\, the Washington Post and La Vanguardia. He researched Buddhist poetics at Naropa University and McGill University and was formerly a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development\, Center for Humans and Machines\, in Berlin. \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_1665240973767{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][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register for Critical Conversations 2022-23″ style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSfu4-PA93z4p-WV7S4q0mn5cY0Ly_476uzyMAOKMvu12vUwjA%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/cc6_2023/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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