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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Bruno Patino on the Age of Information
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Are we living through an information overload? Constantly bombarded by images\, facts\, and opinions emanating from screens of varied shapes and sizes\, one may begin to wonder what purpose staying up to date ultimately serves. In the words of ARTE President Bruno Patino\, is it only natural to ask\, “s’informer\, à quoi bon?” Yet Patino insists upon the social imperative of remaining informed\, providing a compelling case for knowledge as a public good. Patino will discuss new essay “S’informer\, à quoi bon”\, as well as his celebrated works on the attention economy and the failures of internet utopianism. Join him to learn how we can rework digital society to reclaim our relationship to our devices and re-enter the shared human world.  \nAbout the speaker: \nBruno Patino is an author and journalist. He has published five works on digital media with Grasset\, including La civilisation du poisson rouge (2019) and its sequel\, Tempête dans le bocal : la nouvelle civilisation du poisson rouge (2022). “S’informer\, à quoi bon?” was published in 2023. Patino has been CEO of the French-German TV channel ARTE since 2021\, after previously serving as Editorial Director of Arte France. He is Associate Professor at Sciences Po and an analyst of digital society.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Patino 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. \nPlease note the Daylight Savings gap between the US and France. This event will take place at 19h30 CET / 14h30 EDT \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/patino23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Noga Arikha on the Self and the Disrupted Mind
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Philosopher Noga Arikha’s decision to study neuropsychiatric patients at a hospital in Paris was not initially motivated by personal experience. However\, when her mother began to succumb to dementia\, Arikha’s research into the threats to the self posed by mental illness took on new dimensions. Seeking to understand the confrontation of the mind with its own dissolution\, Arikha grew close to a network of patients whose variety of symptoms defied neat classification and whose loss of identity is a current of intense pain throughout Arikha’s new work\, The Ceiling Outside. Empathic and unflinching\, the book details the fragility of the mind\, the limits of medical practice\, and\, above all\, the humanity of all beings trying to grapple with who they are. Arikha will appear in conversation with writer Rachel Donadio.   \nAbout the speaker:  \nNoga Arikha is a philosopher\, historian of ideas and essayist who works as a “science humanist”. Her book The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind was published in spring 2022 by Basic Books. She is also the author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours (2007). She is a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Fiesole\, Associate Fellow of the Warburg Institute and of the Center for the Politics of Feelings (London)\, Research Associate at the Institut Jean Nicod (Paris)\, and Research Associate at the Fotopoulou Lab at UCL. \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 (Arikha 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. \nPlease note the Daylight Savings gap between the US and France. This event will take place at 19h30 CET / 14h30 EDT \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/arikha23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid at The London Library) Nancy Cunard\, Jazz Age Icon
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nancy Cunard\, writer\, heiress and political activist\, was an icon of the Jazz Age\, who was said to have inspired half the poets and novelists of the twenties. \nRebelling against expectations to pursue a life in the arts\, she moved between the glamorous cafes and artistic circles of London and Paris\, reading widely\, writing poetry\, campaigning for civil rights and fighting fascism. Her Paris life – the focus of Anne de Courcy’s glorious new biography – was filled with art\, sex and alcohol. Mina Loy wrote poems to her; Constantin Brâncuși sculpted her; Man Ray photographed her; she played tennis with Ernest Hemingway and had love affairs with\, amongst others\, Ezra Pound\, Aldous Huxley\, Louis Aragon and jazz musician Henry Crowder\, with whom she ran a printing press. \nIn conversation with American Library in Paris Programs Manager Alice McCrum at The London Library\, de Courcy discusses Five Love Affairs and a Friendship\, a tempestuous tale of passion and intrigue\, which is as much a portrait of twenties Paris as it is the story of an extraordinary woman who defined her age. \nAbout the speakers: \nAnne de Courcy is the author of fourteen widely acclaimed works of social history and biography\, including\, Chanel’s Riviera\, The Husband Hunters\, The Fishing Fleet\, The Viceroy’s Daughters and Debs at War. In the 1970s she was Woman’s Editor on the London Evening News and in the 1980s she was a regular feature-writer for the Evening Standard.  \nAlice McCrum is the head of cultural programming at The American Library in Paris. She also studies at Sciences Po\, and co-hosts a podcast at Shakespeare and Company. \nImportant information: This event will happen offsite at The London Library and will be live-streamed on Zoom. \nAccess to this event requires purchase of a ticket through The London Library. Click on the button below to purchase your ticket.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Purchase your ticket” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.londonlibrary.co.uk%2Fwhats-on%2F185-nancy-cunard-jazz-age-icon%3Fdate%3D2023-03-09-19-30″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/decourcy23/
LOCATION:The London Library\, 14 St James's Square\, London\, London\, SW1Y 4LB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Philippe Sands on Britain’s Living Colonial Legacy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Please note that this event will exceptionally begin at 19h00 CET.  \nIn the immediate post-World War II period\, the founding of the International Court of Justice heralded a new age of international cooperation according to a shared code of human rights. Thirty years later\, in flagrant violation of these rights\, the UK forcibly removed the population of the Chagos Islands in order to found the British Indian Ocean Territory. In new work The Last Colony\, human rights lawyer Philippe Sands exposes the heart of this scandal and his experience defending the case of Chagossian repatriation in 2018 in the court of The Hague itself. Sharing stories from Chagossians forced into exile and demystifying the legal framework\, Sands uncovers a hidden history of British colonialism unfolding in the present day. \nAbout the speaker: \nPhilippe Sands KC is Professor of Law at University College London and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard. He is a practicing barrister at 11KBW\, appears as counsel before the International Court of Justice and other international courts and tribunals\, and sits as an international arbitrator. He is a Board Member of Hay Festival and President of English PEN. His latest books are East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide (2016)\, The Ratline: Love\, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive (2020) and The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile\, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy (2022). \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Sands 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/sands23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Getting Life Back on Track with Oliver Mol
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Listed as a best Australian book of 2022 by the Guardian\, writer Oliver Mol’s new memoir\, Train Lord\, tells the story of how a chronic\, 10-month-long migraine subsumed him\, robbing him of writing\, reading\, and–ultimately–existence itself. “Two things happened\,” Mol notes\, “I became a writer who no longer wrote\, and a person who could no longer communicate with the modern world. In literature\, and life\, I began to disappear.” Steadied by a job as a train guard\, and surrounded by a new collection of characters\, Mol reflects on his new vocation with wit and honesty\, sharp images and deep emotions. Ultimately Train Lord captures the experience of pain\, but it also captures the bright ideas of possibility\, creativity\, and growth that pain so often trails in its wake.   \nAbout the speaker: \nOliver Mol is the author of Lion Attack! (Scribe Publications\, 2015) and Train Lord (Penguin Michael Joseph\, 2022)\, which was a Guardian\, Australian Book Review and Sydney Morning Herald book of the year. He is a contributing editor at Apartamento Magazine and was a 2022 Marten Bequest Scholar for Prose through the Australian Council for the Arts. He grew up in Australia\, and currently lives in Paris. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Mol 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/mol23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Linda Kinstler on the Haunting of History
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What is the nature of proof\, and how is it obfuscated by memory and time? Faced with indescribable monstrosities\, what level of justice can a court trial achieve? In the aftermath of a totalitarian regime\, what remains of national memory? In Linda Kinstler’s rich and probing work Come to This Court and Cry\, family and international history intertwine in an investigation a Latvian Nazi killing squad. The granddaughter of a member of this group\, Kinstler uncovers decades of revisionist practices which rehabilitated its figurehead and rewrote historical reality. From legal cases to cultural narratives and evolving national identities\, Kinstler demonstrates the world’s failure to reckon with the Holocaust and its enduring\, haunting presence today. Kinstler will be in conversation with journalist Madeleine Schwartz. \nAbout the speakers: \nLinda Kinstler is the author of Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends (Le Contraire De L’Oubli\, Denoël\, January 2023). She is the deputy editor of The Dial magazine and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The Economist\, and other publications. She is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at U.C. Berkeley\, where she is writing a history of legal oblivion. Kinstler is Deputy Editor of The Dial.  \nMadeleine Schwartz is a journalist and editor based in Paris whose work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books. Schwartz is Editor-in-Chief of The Dial.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Kinstler and Schwartz 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/kinstler23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Lex Paulson on Philosophy and Power
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Does “the will of the people” exist? How could any community of divided views and changing minds ever have a single will? And where did we get the idea that self-government could only happen through elections and ruling elites? \nThe answer emerges in the story of a young orator from the Italian countryside who rose to the heights of power as his republic fell apart. Cicero and the People’s Will is an adventure story of ideas\, centered on the creative genius of Rome’s greatest orator and most underappreciated thinker\, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Surviving plots\, exile\, and the rise of Julius Caesar\, Cicero fuses Roman tradition with Greek philosophy\, establishing an idea–popular sovereignty through an elected elite–that failed in his time but has shaped the modern world. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the UM6P School of Collective Intelligence (Morocco) and lectures in advocacy at Sciences Po-Paris. Trained in classics and community organizing\, he served as mobilization strategist for the campaigns of Barack Obama in 2008 and Emmanuel Macron in 2017. He served as legislative counsel in the 111th U.S. Congress (2009-2011)\, organized on six U.S. presidential campaigns\, and has worked to advance democratic innovation at the European Commission and in India\, Tunisia\, Egypt\, Uganda\, Senegal\, Czech Republic and Ukraine. He is author of Cicero and the People’s Will: Philosophy and Power at the End of the Roman Republic\, from Cambridge University Press\, and is co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Paulson 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/paulson23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:Ecologues Meeting Two: Environmental Justice
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nIf environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people with respect to the development\, implementation\, and enforcement of environmental laws\, regulations\, and policies\, then there is much to do. Where to start? \nIn partnership with News Decoder and the Climate Academy at the European School of Brussels\, we’re delighted to announce Ecologues\, a series of interactive webinars featuring experts on various aspects of the environmental crisis. Attached to The Writing’s on the Wall (WoW)\, a year-long project helping students across the world grapple with the climate crisis through journalism\, activism\, and art\, the series will allow participants of all ages to deepen understanding\, tackle disinformation and\, ultimately\, inspire change in their communities. Reconciling science and art\, knowledge and action\, pragmatism and hope\, the conversations will stir curiosity and encourage participation. The Library’s contribution to this joint program is supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Arts and Culture. \nAbout the speakers: \n\n\nMarie Cohuet\, spokesperson for Alternatiba\, is a climate and social justice activist. \n\n\nPaul Spencer Sochaczewski\, former head of creative services for WWF\, is a writer\, journalist\, and lecturer. \n\n\nFloriane Marié specializes in climate education in Latin America and Africa. \n\n\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. \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/ecologues2/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Online) Deesha Philyaw on The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Secret Lives of Church Ladies\, a debut short story collection from author Deesha Philyaw\, places Black female desire on proud display. The work\, currently being adapted for television by HBO Max with Tessa Thompson executive producing\, is populated by a rich cast of voices spanning multiple generations in the South of the United States. Exploring the varied intersections of religion and sexuality\, from trysts with pastors to suppressed queer attraction\, the stories celebrate women who learn what it means to want. Philyaw sanctifies the sinful\, demonstrating that that the most godly activity of all is that of shameless\, embodied love. She will speak virtually at the library about writing worship in all of its different\, sensual forms. \nAbout the speaker: \nDeesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection\, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (2020)\, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction\, the 2020/2021 Story Prize\, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. Philyaw is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and will be the 2022-2023 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. \nImportant information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/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/philyaw23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Joshua Rubenstein on The Last Days of Stalin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In 1952\, Stalin terrorized the USSR with his seemingly limitless supply of power. Within three months of 1953\, he was dead. What plans was he setting into motion before his death\, and what were the immediate effects of his passing? Had he not suffered the ultimately fatal stroke\, what would history look like now? In new work The Last Days of Stalin\, Historian Joshua Rubenstein uncovers hidden depths to Stalin’s final months as dictator\, and highlights surprising policy shifts and missed diplomatic opportunities between the Eisenhower administration and the Soviet regime in the post-Stalin era. Join him in conversation with Edward Charlton-Jones at the Library as they discuss this conclusive period and its lasting consequences. \nAbout the speakers: \nJoshua Rubenstein has written and edited several path-breaking books on Soviet history\, with a focus on the dissident movement\, the Holocaust on German-occupied Soviet territory\, and biographies of Leon Trotsky and Ilya Ehrenburg. The Last Days of Stalin is his tenth book. He was an organizer and regional director for Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012. He is a longtime Associate of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. \nEdward Charlton-Jones studied History and Russian at Oxford and Harvard. He has written and lectured on the Russian emigration to Constantinople in 1918-1923\, as well as on aspects of Russian literature and art. He has practiced law in Paris and Istanbul\, with a focus on international energy projects. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Rubenstein and Charlton-Jones 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/rubenstein23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230216T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230216T203000
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SUMMARY:Critical Conversations Meeting Four: Wonderment
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Most would agree that wonderment is a state of mind which cannot be called up at will. But do certain conditions encourage or obstruct it? Guy Debord\, the Dadaists\, and others described the May 1968 student protests in Paris as a poetic revolution against the ubiquity 4 of the marketplace and its pressures\, which made facets of consciousness such as wonderment\, curiosity\, reverie\, and playfulness more difficult to experience. \nIs wonderment indeed harder to come by in modernity\, as we move away from traditions of magic and mystery such as myth\, religion and monarchism? And does the efficiency underpinning a digital lifestyle invite or hinder the wide-eyed state we call wonder? Can a photograph of the northern lights trigger in us a true state of wonder\, say\, or does wonderment most often arise from multisensorial experience? Is wonderment an occasional influx of heightened feeling\, or might it be indicative of a life well lived? Finally\, what does wonderment\, or the lack of it\, 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 ninety minutes\, 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 or thoughts. \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/cc4_2023/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230215T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230215T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Caroline Fourest on the Offended Generation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Have cultural conflicts invaded our private lives and private minds? Should we be concerned by the cult of identity? Does adherence to origins endanger free democratic exchange? In polemic treatise Génération Offensée\, author Caroline Fourest outlines the biggest threat currently facing the intellectual left: itself. From canceling Dostoevsky to firing professors at will\, Fourest uncovers a self-cannibalizing instinct at the heart of leftism which is eating the movement from the inside. This fight against offense has finally arrived in France\, she argues\, and brought with it its entourage cultural police turned thought police. Without any desire to return to the way things were before\, Fourest proposes a simultaneously feminist\, antiracist\, and universalist path forward which allows for a distinction between cultural plunder and cultural homage.  \nAbout the speaker: \nCaroline Fourest is a filmmaker\, director\, and journalist. She was the co-founder of the feminist\, anti-racist and secularist journal ProChoix and taught at Sciences-Po Paris on themes of multiculturalism and universalism. Fourest has been columnist for Le Monde\, France Culture\, and Marianne\, directed feminist film Sisters in Arms (2019)\, and now directs Franc-Tireur\, a weekly newspaper against polarization and extremism. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Fourest 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/fourest23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230214T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230214T203000
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SUMMARY:(Online) Breaking the Silence on Sex with Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In groundbreaking work The Sex Lives of African Women\, author and activist Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah does away with imposed silences and cultural taboos to investigate identity\, gender\, and expression through sex. Assembling interviews with Black and Afro-descendant women from a wide age range and over thirty countries\, Sekyiamah shows that there is no univocal way to experience desire\, intimacy\, and love. From unabashed kinks to systemic abuse\, she casts an unflinching eye upon the part of adult life least discussed publicly. Creating a space for women to put these experiences into words\, Sekyiamah charts a path toward self-discovery and sexual freedom. Written through openness and with empathy\, the work celebrates African female sexuality in all of its multiplicities. \nAbout the speaker: \nNana Darkoa Sekyiamah is the author of The Sex Lives of African Women (2021)\, listed by the Economist as a best book of the year and given a starred review in Publishers Weekly. She is also co-founder of Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women\, a website\, podcast and festival that publishes and creates content that tells stories of African women’s experiences around sex\, sexualities\, and pleasure. She was cited by the BBC in its list of 100 inspirational and influential women from around the world in 2022. \nImportant information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/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/sekyiamah23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230207T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230207T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Laurence Engel and Elaine Sciolino on the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After twelve years of construction\, the reopening of the 18th-century Bibliothèque nationale de France Richelieu site has been hailed as a triumph. From a museum exhibiting Greek vases\, rare coins\, and diverse costumes; to a lavish public reading room; to a peerless collection of manuscripts ranging from Proust to Pascal; the library serves as both a sumptuous celebration of French intellectual history and an inspiring community space for the French intellectual present. Join Bibliothèque nationale de France president Laurence Engel in conversation with New York Times journalist Elaine Sciolino to discuss the role of the BnF in the French cultural landscape: its rich past\, its current status\, and its exciting future. \nAbout the speakers: \nLaurence Engel has devoted most of her career to the cultural sectors. Director of the office of Jérôme Clément\, President of Arte and la Cinquième\, advisor for audiovisual and cinema to the Ministry of Culture and Communication\, advisor for culture from 2003 to 2008 to the Mayor of Paris\, she managed the cultural affairs department of the City of Paris for five years before becoming Chief of Staff to the Minister of Culture. She has been President of the Bibliothèque nationale de France since April 2016. \nElaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times\, based in France since 2002. Her latest book\, The Seine: The River That Made Paris\, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a Barnes & Noble nonfiction book-of-the-month selection. Her previous book\, The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs\, published in 2015\, was a New York Times best seller. Sciolino was decorated chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2010 for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Engel and Sciolino 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/engel-sciolino23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230201T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230201T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Toni Ann Johnson and Robinne Lee on Light Skin Gone to Waste
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When a middle class Black family moves to an all-white suburb\, fantasies of class ascension and racial transcendence clash with cruel realities. Thus begins screenwriter and author Toni Ann Johnson’s new release Light Skin Gone to Waste\, an honest and devastating account of an already-fractured family’s collapse under the prism of a racialized world. With theatrical agility\, Johnson stages a collision of individual psychologies with malignant social structures which has tragic proportions. A story of intergenerational trauma\, cycles of abuse\, childhood\, marriage\, lofty aspirations and high prices paid\, the work lays bare the multiple networks of pain which have racism at their core. Johnson will be in conversation with author and actor Robinne Lee.  \nAbout the speakers: \nToni Ann Johnson won the Flannery O’Connor Award for her linked story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste (UGA Press\, 2022)\, which was selected for the prize and edited by Roxane Gay. This work of autobiographical fiction follows the Arringtons\, an upper-middle- class Black family that moves to a White\, working-class town in Upstate New York in the 1960s. Homegoing\, a novella\, was released by Accents Publishing after winning the press’s inaugural novella contest and revisits the Arrington family and the town’s effect on them years later in 2006. A novel\, Remedy For a Broken Angel\, was published in 2014 and earned a 2015 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. \nRobinne Lee is a Jamaican-American writer\, actor\, and producer. A graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School\, Robinne has accrued numerous acting credits in both film and television over the past two decades\, most notably in “Hitch\,” “Seven Pounds\,” “Hotel for Dogs\,” “13 Going on 30\,” “Being Mary Jane\,” and the “Fifty Shades” franchise. Her debut novel\, The Idea of You\, originally published by St. Martin’s Press in 2017\, is now an international bestseller\, with over a dozen foreign translations and is in production at Amazon Prime Studios with Anne Hathaway in the lead role. Robinne is attached as a producer. She can currently be seen in Netflix’s limited series “Kaleidoscope\,” opposite Giancarlo Esposito. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Johnson and Lee 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 organized in partnership with The Californien. \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/johnsonlee23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230131T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230131T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
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SUMMARY:Looking to Sea with Lily Le Brun
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Across British history\, from ancient conflict to contemporary Brexit\, the water surrounding the islands has served as a symbolic and political boundary as well as a physical landmark. Lily Le Brun’s innovative work Looking to Sea examines the central motif of the ocean across representations of modern British life. The sea–an instrument of both imperial expansion and isolation\, a place of both leisure and work\, representing both refuge and danger–has served as muse to British artists across centuries. Considering ten depictions of the sea from the past hundred years\, Le Brun uncovers a changing and multifaceted image of Britain itself. Join her at the Library to discuss navigating the troubled waters of identity and ways of seeing oneself through the sea.  \nAbout the speaker: \nLily Le Brun is a writer from London. A graduate of Edinburgh University and the Courtauld Institute of Art\, she has written on art for publications such as Art Quarterly\, the Financial Times and the Economist. In 2018 Lily won a Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for the early chapters of Looking to Sea. She lives in Paris\, and this is her first book. Author photo © Sophie Davidson. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Le Brun 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/lebrun23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230126T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230126T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
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SUMMARY:Ecologues Meeting One: What is the Climate Crisis?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nWe find ourselves firmly in the Anthropocene\, the period in which human activity is the dominant influence on the natural world. We wonder: what is happening to the earth\, the sky\, and the oceans? How did we get here\, and where are we going? \nIn partnership with News Decoder and the Climate Academy at the European School of Brussels\, we’re delighted to announce Ecologues\, a series of interactive webinars featuring experts on various aspects of the environmental crisis. Attached to The Writing’s on the Wall (WoW)\, a year-long project helping students across the world grapple with the climate crisis through journalism\, activism\, and art\, the series will allow participants of all ages to deepen understanding\, tackle disinformation and\, ultimately\, inspire change in their communities. Reconciling science and art\, knowledge and action\, pragmatism and hope\, the conversations will stir curiosity and encourage participation. \n\nAbout the speakers: \nAlister Doyle\, author of The Great Melt\, formerly reported on the environment for Reuters. \nMatthew Pye\, founder of the Climate Academy\, is a teacher\, philosopher\, and author. \nRahmina Paulette\, founder of Kisumu Environmental Champs\, is an activist and conservationist.  \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. The Library’s contribution to this joint program is supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Arts and Culture. \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/ecologues1/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230125T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230125T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
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SUMMARY:(Online) Barnabas Calder on Architecture and Energy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A central question in the climate debate today is that of energy. Yet the problem of energy–how to acquire it\, how to wield it–is as old as human civilization. Behind every building\, from the Parthenon to the modern home\, lies the energy technology used to build it. Barnabas Calder’s project in Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency is to trace out the history of architecture from this perspective. From manual labor and the Parthenon to coal’s impact on Victorian building styles\, Calder maps out transformations in built space along the timeline of industrialization. Leading us all the way to the present day\, he proposes a new approach to energy\, seeking to revolutionize architecture and lead us away from environmental collapse.  \nAbout the speaker: \nBarnabas Calder is a historian of architecture specializing in the relationship between architecture and energy throughout human history. Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Liverpool\, Calder is the author of two works: Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (2021) and Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism (2016). \nImportant information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/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/calder23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230124T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230124T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Zimbabwe Yesterday and Today with Lucy Mushita and Kidi Bebey
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Lucy Mushita’s Chinongwa is a riveting and emotional coming-of-age story set in rural 1920s Zimbabwe. A young girl seeking to understand the boundaries between family myth and cultural mythology finds herself cast into a situation of nightmarish proportions. As the violence surrounding her is increasingly wrought upon her\, the fantastic intervenes as a way to understand and cope with her reality. Ultimately\, the protagonist translates her own life into a mythical register\, refusing to succumb to the raw\, magicless cruelty of the world. Mushita will be in conversation at the Library with journalist Kidi Bebey about the writing of this work and its enduring relevance throughout the multiple transformations of present-day Zimbabwe.  \nAbout the speakers: \nLucy Mushita grew up in a small village in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Six years after the 1980 end of apartheid\, she settled in Nancy\, France\, where she started writing Chinongwa\, her first novel. She also taught Business English in multinationals\, universities and grandes écoles. Chinongwa was first published in S. Africa in 2008\, then translated into French (by Elise Argaud) and published by Actes-Sud in 2012. \nBorn and raised in Paris\, Kidi Bebey is the daughter of the late Cameroonian artist and composer\, Francis Bebey. A writer and journalist\, her novel\, My Kingdom for a Guitar\, (translated from French by Karen Lindo and published by Indiana University Press in 2021) is inspired by her family history. Currently\, Kidi writes online weekly chronicles on African literature in Le Monde. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Mushita and Bebey 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/mushita-bebey23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230119T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
CREATED:20221205T161608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230118T164428Z
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SUMMARY:(ONLINE) Entre Nous: Ellington Plays Shakespeare with Robert G. O’Meally and Courtney Bryan
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Please note that this event will take place online due to planned metro disturbances. \nFor the Stratford\, Ontario Shakespeare Festival of 1957\, the American composers Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn created Such Sweet Thunder\, a jazz concert honoring Shakespeare. “Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today\,” said Ellington\, “he might be a jazz fan himself. He’d appreciate the combination of team spirit and informality\, of academic knowledge and humor\, of all the elements that go into a great jazz performance.” \nThis talk will examine scores and recordings of Duke and Strays’ dark bluesy “harlemizations” of certain Shakespearean scenes and characters. Ellington had said that Lady Mac\, for example\, “had a little ragtime in her soul.” The talk will also feature contemporary video responses to these richly vibrant materials by the award-winning composer Courtney Bryan. \nThe Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris\, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, and the American Library in Paris. \nAbout the speakers: \nRobert G. O’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, and the founder and director of Columbia’s Center for Jazz Studies. For his production of a Smithsonian record set called The Jazz Singers\, he was nominated for a Grammy Award. O’Meally has co-curated exhibitions for The Smithsonian Institution\, Jazz at Lincoln Center and The High Museum of Art (Atlanta). He has held Guggenheim and Cullman Fellowships\, and was a recent fellow at Columbia’s new Institute for Ideas and Imagination at the Global Center/Paris. \nCourtney Bryan is “a pianist and composer of panoramic interests” (New York Times). Bryan is currently the Albert and Linda Mintz Professor of Music at Newcomb College\, Tulane University. Bryan was the 2018 music recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts\, a 2019 Bard College Freehand Fellow\, and is currently a 2019-20 recipient of the Samuel Barber Rome Prize in Music Composition and a 2020 United States Artists Fellow. She has recently begun a new role as Creative Partner with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO). \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][/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.fr%2Fe%2Fsuch-sweet-thunder-ellington-plays-shakespeare-tickets-481659264827″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/en_omeallybryan23/
LOCATION:Reid Hall\, 4 Rue de Chevreuse\, Paris\, Paris\, 75006\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230118T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230118T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
CREATED:20230102T105115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230104T110406Z
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SUMMARY:(Online) Martin Rees on How Science Can Save Us
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a time of unprecedented climate crisis\, as faith in channels of communication erodes and systems of knowledge fracture\, the development of a public scientific consciousness has never been more urgent. In new work If Science is to Save Us\, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees demonstrates the extreme importance of science in confronting humanity’s most pressing challenges\, and the social framework which needs to accompany this. Scientific progress must take social good as its object; simultaneously\, the public needs to develop a scientific register which allows them to participate in major scientific decisions. Join him as he discusses the vitality of scientific funding\, training\, and research in the fight for the future of humankind.  \nAbout the speaker: \nMartin Rees is the UK’s Astronomer Royal. He is based at Cambridge University where he is a Former Master of Trinity College. He is a former President of the Royal Society\, co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risks at Cambridge University (CSER)\, and has served on many bodies connected with education\, space research\, arms control and international collaboration in science. In addition to his research publications he has written many general articles and ten books. \nImportant information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function. \nThis event requires advance registration.[/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/rees23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230117T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230117T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
CREATED:20221202T182741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230113T135011Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Jean D'Amérique: A New Voice of Haiti
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Celebrated author Jean D’Amérique\, lauded one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Haitian literature\, will be speaking on his debut novel\, A Sun to be Sewn. A rhythmic\, phantasmagoric journey into a Haitian neighborhood plagued by violence\, the work adopts the voice of a child to observe the many tragedies and cruelties of the adult world. At the center of this story\, D’Amérique carves out a space for love as a redemptive and remedial force. The result is a poetic\, dream-infused account of the harshness of reality and the imaginative work which permits one to survive it. Join D’Amérique\, in conversation with his English translator Thierry Kehou\, at the Library as they speak on language\, form\, genre\, the Haitian present\, and the Haitian future.  \nAbout the speakers:  \nJean D’Amérique is a poet\, playwright\, and novelist. He is the director of the festival Transe Poétique and the poetry journal Davertige. He received the Prix de Poésie de la Vocation for his poetry collection Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante étreinte (2017) and the Prix Jean-Jacques Lerrant des Journées de Lyon des Auteurs de Théâtre for his play Cathédrale des cochons (2020). A Sun to be Sewn (2021) was awarded the Prix littéraire Montluc Résistance et Libérté 2022. \nThierry Kehou is a writer and literary translator from French. He is a founder and board member of Lampblack\, a magazine and literary organization. His writing and translation have appeared in Departures Magazine\, Lampblack\, The Huron River Review\, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Fulbright\, a Katherine Bakeless Nason Endowment Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference\, and his completed translation of Francis Bebey’s Three Little Shoeshiners was longlisted for the 2020 John Dryden Translation Competition. A Sun to be Sewn is his debut translation. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (D’Amérique will appear in the Reading Room and Kehou will appear on 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/damerique23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230112T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230112T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
CREATED:20221008T152520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T150516Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Conversations Meeting Three: The Society of the Spectacle
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In La société du spectacle (1967)\, French philosopher and avant-gardist Guy Debord describes an image-saturated world overtaken by the market economy. He writes\, “The Spectacle is not a collection of images\, but a social relation among people\, mediated by images. … The more he identifies with the dominant images of need\, the less he understands his own life and his own desires.” \nWhat challenges or limitations does a society of spectacle inflict on its members? And\, without abandoning all digital interaction\, how can individuals and communities invite more direct experience into their lives while keeping the spectacle at bay? \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? \nThe Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset writes that agitation dazzles\, blinds\, and compels us to act mechanically\, like “frenetic sleepwalkers.” To address the perils of today is\, first of all\, to name them. Whether distraction\, compulsion\, and isolation\, or noise\, bright light\, and convenience\, during meetings one\, two\, and three\, we will identify and begin to understand the snares of today’s increasingly digital world. \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 ninety minutes\, 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/cc3_2023/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230111T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230111T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
CREATED:20221203T150152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230110T090406Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Akil Kumarasamy on Radical Compassion
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Meet Us by the Roaring Sea\, the debut novel from writer Akil Kumarasamy\, takes place in a future located ambiguously near the present. Dealing with a loss in the family\, the narrator escapes from the monotony of her AI job and her personal grief by translating a mysterious manuscript written in Tamil. Originally seeking a distraction\, she uncovers channels of human connection lost in her impersonal\, technology-driven world. As she dives into the multiple voices of the text\, the boundaries between her own identity and those of its authors begin to thin. Written in vivid\, striking prose\, Kumarasamy’s novel is rich in detail and endlessly imaginative. Kumarasamy will appear in conversation with Dinaw Mengestu at the Library. \nAbout the speakers: \nAkil Kumarasamy is the author of the novel\, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea (FSG\, 2022)\, and the linked story collection\, Half Gods (FSG\, 2018)\, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, was awarded the Bard Fiction Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award\, and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s\, The Atlantic\, among others. She is an assistant professor in the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program. \nDinaw Mengestu is the author of three novels: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2008) How to Read the Air (2010)\, and All Our Names (2014)\, all of which were New York Times Notable Books. His fiction and journalism have been published in the New Yorker\, Granta\, Harper’s\, Rolling Stone\, and the New York Times. He is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor in the Humanities at Bard College. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Kumarasamy and Mengestu 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/kumarasamy23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230110T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230110T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
CREATED:20221202T181933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230104T110229Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Natasha Brown on Assembly
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Natasha Brown’s debut novel Assembly\, a carefully crafted identity begins to come apart. When a successful Black woman receives unsettling news\, she considers the constituent parts of her life: her high-paying job in finance\, her prestigious education\, her white boyfriend. Having formed herself into a success story\, she finds her life reduced to the narrative white society demands of her. Ultimately\, Brown’s narrator is forced to decide the price she is willing to pay to undo the structures which limit her\, and reclaim agency over her circumstances. A poetic and concise examination of race\, gender\, and class\, the work refuses to look away from the power relations comprising the core of the modern world.  \nAbout the speaker: \nNatasha Brown is a British novelist. She was a 2019 London Writers Award recipient\, a 2022 Burgess Fellow at the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing\, and a Women’s Prize x Good Housekeeping Futures Award finalist. Assembly (2021) was shortlisted for the Folio Prize\, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Orwell Prize for Fiction. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Brown 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 conversation will be followed by a catered reception. \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/brown23/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221208T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221208T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
CREATED:20221008T151935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T150447Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Conversations Meeting Two: The Cult of the Image
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Today\,” Susan Sontag writes\, “everything exists to end in a photograph.” Are we all image-junkies? Are images mental pollution? What lurks outside the frame of our image-dominated society? \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? \nThe Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset writes that agitation dazzles\, blinds\, and compels us to act mechanically\, like “frenetic sleepwalkers.” To address the perils of today is\, first of all\, to name them. Whether distraction\, compulsion\, and isolation\, or noise\, bright light\, and convenience\, during meetings one\, two\, and three\, we will identify and begin to understand the snares of today’s increasingly digital world. \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 ninety minutes\, 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 leaders: \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/cc2_2023/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221207T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T093909
CREATED:20221123T184559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221123T185039Z
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SUMMARY:(In person at the Centre Culturel Irlandais) The Waste Land Centenary
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Le Centre Culturel Irlandais\, in conjunction with the T.S. Eliot Foundation and the American Library in Paris\, will welcome Charlotte Rampling\, Lambert Wilson\, Amira Casar\, Bruno Fontaine and Christophe Dilys for a special celebration of the centenary of T.S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece\, The Waste Land. Rampling and Wilson will revive Hope Mirrlees’s 1919 modernist poem entitled Paris\, a 600-line journey through the city where Mirrlees lived before and after the Great War. Virginia and Leonard Woolf published the work which was acclaimed\, dismissed and then forgotten. In the twenty-first century it has been rediscovered and reassessed as an early modernist masterpiece\, anticipating a poem published by the Woolfs a few years later: The Waste Land.  \nDuring the celebration\, Bruno Fontaine will perform music that inspired the rhythms of The Waste Land\, as well as music of the era and songs admired by Eliot\, in a unique improvisation commissioned especially for the evening. France Musique’s Christophe Dilys will present and contextualize the different parts of this one-off performance. \nImportant information: This event will happen at the Centre Culturel Irlandais at 5\, rue des Irlandais\, 75005 Paris. \nAccess to this event requires purchase of a ticket through the Centre Culturel Irlandais. Click on the button below to purchase your ticket.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Purchase your ticket” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmy.weezevent.com%2Fthe-waste-land-by-ts-eliot”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/wasteland22/
LOCATION:Centre Culturel Irlandais\, 5 rue des Irlandais\, Paris\, Paris\, 75005\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221206T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221206T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Joanna Walsh on My Life as a Godard Movie
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“It is rare to find a writer who can take such candid pleasure in beauty—the beauty of faces\, figures\, clothing\, and cities—while also querying its injustices. To watch Godard’s films through Joanna Walsh’s eyes is to see envy and appreciation\, longing and disavowal\, walking hand in hand. This book is a gorgeous complex gesture of criticism.”—Merve Emre\, writer and critic. Join Joanna Walsh\, author of Girl Online\, Break.up and Vertigo\, to discuss her new book\, My Life as a Godard Movie\, a meditation on beauty\, fashion\, desire\, politics\, youth\, art\, and Paris\, via the 1960s films of Jean-Luc Godard. Walsh will be in conversation with Summer Brennan.  \nAbout the speaker: \nJoanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer for print\, digital and performance. The author of eleven books (several co-written with AI)\, her publishers include Semiotext(e)\, Bloomsbury and Verso. She also works as an editor and university teacher. She is a Markievicz Awardee in the Republic of Ireland and a UK Arts Foundation fellow. She founded and ran the Twitter campaign @read_women (2014-18)\, described by the New York Times as ‘a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers’. She currently runs @noentry_arts. Her latest book is My Life as a Godard Movie\, published by Transit books. \nSummer Brennan is a Paris-based writer. An award-winning journalist\, Brennan is an Orion Book Award Finalist\, and author of The Oyster War\, High Heel\, and the forthcoming The Parisian Sphinx\, A True Tale of Art and Obsession.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Walsh and Brennan 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/walsh22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(In Person at mk2 Bibliothèque) Femme. Vie. Liberté avec Azar Nafisi
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A conversation at the mk2 Bibliothèque with Azar Nafisi. Writer and professor of literature\, author of best-seller Lire Lolita à Téhéran\, Azar Nafisi is one of the biggest intellectual figures engaged in the fight for Iranian women’s rights. Expelled from the University of Tehran in 1981 for refusing to wear a veil\, forced to work in hiding\, and finally self-exiled to the United States in 1997\, Azar Nafisi has worked incessantly in the fight against any form of political or religious authoritarianism. Nafisi will be in conversation with essayist and journalist Caroline Fourest. All proceeds from this event will go toward the human rights agency Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).  \nThe American Library in Paris will be co-sponsoring this event. \nImportant information: This event will take place in person at the mk2 Bibliothèque at 128 – 162 Av. de France\, 75013 Paris. \nThis conversation will be in French. \nAccess to this event requires purchase of a ticket through mk2. Click on the button below to purchase your ticket.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Purchase your ticket” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mk2.com%2File-de-france%2Ffilm%2Ffemme-vie-liberte-azar-nafisi”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/nafisi22/
LOCATION:mk2 Bibliotheque\, 128 - 162 Av. de France\, Paris\, 75013\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Online) Simon Critchley on Questioning Everything
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The New York Times’s philosophy series\, the Stone\, provides a platform for voices in different fields to speak on timeless philosophical questions. From democracy and ethics to human nature and the meaning of life\, Times editors invite authors\, artists\, politicians\, and more to contribute perspectives informed by their crafts. In Question Everything\, editors Simon Critchley and Peter Catapano compile essays published in the Stone which\, rather than providing definitive answers\, call to attention the value of questioning itself. Presenting a diverse array of stances and demanding self-reflection\, the work is a celebration of critical thought. Critchley will speak on the project of the Stone\, the many directions of contemporary philosophy\, and the art and importance of questioning in the current day.  \nAbout the speaker: \nSimon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of more than thirty works of philosophy in diverse topics such as humor\, democracy\, suicide\, and David Bowie. Critchley is moderator of the Stone.  \nImportant information: This event requires advance registration.[/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/critchley22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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