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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
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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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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/
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221130T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221129T193000
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SUMMARY:Entre Nous: Thinking Translation with Gayatri Spivak and Emily Apter
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What is translatable? How is meaning transferred across languages\, and which pockets of signification slip away? What is the nature of this slippage? In her new work Living Translation\, renowned theorist Gayatri Spivak approaches the comparative humanities as a site of translation\, and reflects upon her long career in the field. Moving deftly between postcolonial\, psychoanalytic\, critical\, and linguistic markers\, Spivak operates at the borders of thought\, illuminating translation as a theory of borders. Spivak will converse with philosopher and Living Translation editor Emily Apter about thinking\, writing\, and living in translation. \nAbout the speakers: \nGayatri Spivak is a University Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. She is globally renowned for her work studying British\, French\, and German literature during the long 19th century as well as cultural\, feminist\, Marxist\, Derrida\, and globalist studies.  \nEmily Apter is the Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University. Throughout her long and illustrative career\, she has explored questions in language\, political theory\, translation\, and French philosophy. She was the president of the American Comparative Literature Association from 2017–2018 and editor of the book series Translation/Transnation. She has been awarded Guggenheim\, Mellon\, ACLS\, NEH\, and Rockefeller fellowships. \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: Spivak and Apter will not be appearing in person. While the conversation will happen online (Spivak and Apter will appear on Zoom)\, the Library will stream the conversation in the Reading Room 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_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/en_spivakapter22-2/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221123T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221123T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Marc Selverstone on The Kennedy Withdrawal
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Kennedy administration’s support for withdrawing from Vietnam\, abandoned in the aftermath of President Kennedy’s assassination\, is an ambiguous and heavily-debated moment in American political history. Did Kennedy himself author this plan? What did he stand to gain politically from such a maneuver\, and what was his personal stance on the matter? After careful study of secret White House tapes\, historian Marc Selverstone offers a new perspective on the matter in his new work\, The Kennedy Withdrawal. Combining skilled analysis with historical insight\, Selverstone reveals hidden depths to the Kennedy administration’s strategies and cabinet dynamics. Selverstone will be in conversation with journalist Charles Trueheart. \nAbout the speakers: \nMarc Selverstone is an American historian. He leads the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center\, where he is Associate Professor of Presidential Studies. Selverstone’s 2009 work Constructing the Monolith: The United States\, Great Britain\, and International Communism\, 1945-1950 was awarded the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. \nCharles Trueheart is a contributing editor at the American Scholar. He is a former Washington Post correspondent and director of the American Library in Paris. His book about Vietnam in the early 1960s\, Two Gentlemen in Saigon\, will appear next year. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Selverstone and Trueheart 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.[/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/selverstone22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221122T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221122T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Story of African Émigrés in Harlem with Boukary Sawadogo
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Africans are not the face of immigration debates in the United States as has traditionally been the case of other migrant and diasporic groups. Yet\, Sub-Saharan African émigrés are growing in many places\, doubling their number every ten years since the 1980s to reach two million in 2019. Nowhere is this more vibrant than in the historically Black neighborhood of Harlem in New York City. Join scholar and author Boukary Sawadogo not only to discuss the story of African immigrants in Harlem’s most recent renaissance\, but also to interrogate the multifaceted historical connections and exchanges between Africa and Black America through Harlem. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr. Boukary Sawadogo is an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Black Studies at the City University of New York’s City College and CUNY Graduate Center. Beyond African film and media industries\, Sawadogo’s work is widening in scope and depth to include study of African immigration in the 20th- and 21st-century America amidst national demographic shifts. He has recently authored the book Africans in Harlem: An Untold New York Story (2022). \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Sawadogo 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/sawadogo22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221117T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221117T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114056
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SUMMARY:Critical Conversations Meeting One: Overstimulated in a Hyperstimulated World
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“We have to accept that technological products are not neutral\,” Pope Francis writes in Laudato si’. How did we get here? And what have we lost along the way? \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/cc1_2023/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221116T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221116T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114056
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Lauren Bastide on Feminist Futures
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What would a truly feminist society look like? In new work Futur.es\, author Lauren Bastide asks what would happen if feminist principles were pushed beyond gender relations and applied to all aspects of public and private life. The result\, she argues\, would be a total transformation of our most basic beliefs and practices. From education and prison reform\, to love and work\, feminist theory could be capable of revolutionizing the modern world and confronting the most pressing issues of the contemporary age. The tools to build the future we want\, claims Bastide\, are already at our disposal: it is now our responsibility to use them. Bastide will be speaking with journalist Madeleine Schwartz at the American Library on the state of the present and the multiple possibilities of a feminist future. \nAbout the speakers: \nLauren Bastide is a journalist and writer. She is the creator of the podcast La Poudre\, on which she hosts artists\, writers\, scientists\, and activists to speak on feminist issues. Futur.es follows Bastide’s work Presentes (2020)\, which documents women’s experiences and contemporary feminist struggles. \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 \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Bastide 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.[/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/bastide22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221115T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221115T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114056
CREATED:20221001T140639Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Christopher Prendergast on Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From recent features at the Musée Carnavalet and the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme to uncountable commentaries and historical studies\, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time remains an object of public fascination and adoration one hundred years after its publication. No one is more qualified to speak on the depths of Proustianism than Christopher Prendergast\, general editor of Penguin’s English reissues of Proust’s magnum opus. In new work Living and Dying with Marcel Proust\, Prendergast maps out the life\, mind\, and Recherche of Proust\, revealing the genius of the author and the enduring importance of the text. Join him at the American Library in celebrating life\, literature\, love\, time\, memory\, and Marcel Proust. \nAbout the speaker:  \nChristopher Prendergast is a fellow of Cambridge University and the British Academy. A writer for the London Review of Books and New Left Review\, he is an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Officier dans l‘Ordre des Palmes académiques. Living and Dying with Marcel Proust was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Publishers’ Weekly Most Anticipated Work of 2022. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Prendergast 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.[/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/prendergast22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221109T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221109T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20221001T135427Z
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SUMMARY:(Online) Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim on Ecology and Religion
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What can world religions teach us about the earth? How does religion express our relationship to nature\, and how can we use religious philosophy to mitigate nature’s destruction? Yale historians of religion Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim will speak on their work\, Ecology and Religion. Posing the question\, “what is religious ecology?”\, the book shows how global religions and environmental practices intersect in ways both obvious and surprising. Ultimately\, Tucker and Grim propose that religion can contribute an ethical and spiritual dimension to ecology\, motivating the fight for climate justice. Join them at the Library to discuss ways of thinking about the natural world\, ways of engaging with it\, and ways of changing it for the better. \nAbout the speakers: \nMary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim are Senior Lecturers and Research Scholars at the Yale School of the Environment\, Yale Divinity School\, and Religious Studies Department. Together\, they direct the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology\, and are Executive Producers of the Emmy-award winning film\, Journey of the Universe. Ecology and Religion was published in 2014. \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/ecology22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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LOCATION:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84828708997
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221108T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221108T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
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LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T104706Z
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SUMMARY:Entre Nous: Three Archives in Conversation with Lynnette Widder\, João Pina\, and Mila Turajlić
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Archives are imagined to be well-ordered places of safe-keeping; but most discoveries are made in unsuspected and unordered repositories of the past. Lynnette Widder\, João Pina\, and Mila Turajlić will talk about their experiences with archives as a catalyst for their work – archives neglected by history\, maintained by families\, sequestered in institutions\, left behind in unculled bequests. \nThe conversation is in celebration of Widder’s architecture book Year Zero to Economic Miracle: Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf in Postwar West German Building Culture and Turajlić’s documentary film Ciné-guerrillas: The Scenes From the Labudović Reels\, and in anticipation of Pina’s forthcoming book on the discovery of family photographs of the Tarrafal concentration camp in Cape Verde. \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][/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%2Fentre-nous-three-archives-in-conversation-tickets-445240354887″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/en_widderpinaturajlic/
LOCATION:Reid Hall\, 4 Rue de Chevreuse\, Paris\, Paris\, 75006\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221102T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221102T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
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LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T092707Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Justin Smith on The Internet is Not What You Think It Is
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The internet was born out of a desire to improve human life. By increasing access to information and facilitating communication\, it would bring human beings closer\, united in their quest for enlightened living. This utopian dream\, argues historian Justin Smith in new work The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is\, is the product of centuries of work aimed at making knowledge distributable. Unfortunately\, Smith contends\, this dream is officially\, definitively dead. Considering social media\, information algorithms\, and smartphone dependency\, Smith shows how the internet was transformed from social tool to social problem. Equal parts intellectual history\, philosophical treatise\, and manifesto\, the book sounds the alarm for our future. Smith will be in conversation with Analog Sea founding editor Jonathan Simons and American Library Programs Manager Alice McCrum. \nAbout the speaker: \nJustin Smith is a historian and philosopher of science. A professor at the University of Paris\, Smith is the author of Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason (2019)\, The Philosopher: A History in Six Types (2016)\, and Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (2011). \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.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Smith 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. \nUS viewers\, please note French daylight savings time. This event will happen at 2:30 pm EDT. \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/jsmith22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221026T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221026T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20220908T124828Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Jeff Deutsch on In Praise of Good Bookstores
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What is the role of the bookstore in the contemporary\, digital age? What services does it offer that mammoth entities such as Amazon lack? Can bookstores change the way we read? In his eloquent and impassioned debut\, In Praise of Good Bookstores\, bookseller Jeff Deutsch argues that bookstores are much more than commercial enterprises. Rather\, they are civic institutions which promote unquantifiable values: community\, friendship\, self-reflection\, meditation\, and more. Drawing upon economic\, literary\, and art history\, Deutsch also calls upon his personal experience as director of Chicago’s renowned Seminary Co-op Bookstores to make the case for the personal and public necessity of good bookstores.  \nAbout the speaker:  \nJeff Deutsch is the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores\, the first not-for-profit bookstore whose mission is bookselling.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Deutsch 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.[/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/deutsch22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221025T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221025T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20220914T110225Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Hélène Périvier on The Feminist Economy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Can one be both an economist and a feminist? This is the guiding question of Héléne Périvier’s L’économie féministe\, which seeks to rebuke the alleged neutrality of economics and expose its gendered core. The study of economics\, Périvier argues\, was developed by men to serve a society led by men\, and the field’s fundamental concepts and methods of analysis are derived from a patriarchal model. This is also a field in which women are severely underrepresented: barely a quarter of all economists are women. Responding to the challenges of a discipline which undermines women and from which women are largely absent\, Périvier proposes a critical alternative to the established economic model: the feminist economy. \nAbout the speaker: \nHéléne Périvier is an economist at the Observatoire française des conjonctures économiques of Sciences Po Université\, where she is also director of the Programme de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Savoirs sur le Genre (PRESAGE). Périvier led the European Commission’s Effective Gender Equality in Research and the Academia project from 2014-2017. L’économie féministe was published in 2020. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Périvier 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.[/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/perivier22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221018T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221018T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Writing Ukraine Panel
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Is writing possible when one’s country is at war? What can it achieve\, and what are its limits? What is the relationship of writing to grief\, loss\, violence\, and peace? In 2022\, when the stakes have never been higher\, what does it mean to try to write Ukraine? A panel of Ukrainian and Ukrainian-American authors convene to discuss. \nAbout the speakers:  \nSonya Bilocerkowycz is a Ukrainian-American writer. She is the author of On Our Way Home From the Revolution (2019)\, winner of the Gournay Prize for a debut essay collection. Bilocerkowycz has been published in Guernica\, Ninth Letter\, the New York Review of Books\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She was named a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.  \nArtem Chapeye has authored five novels and four books of creative nonfiction\, and is a co-author of a book of war reportage. A four-time finalist of the BBC Book of the Year Award\, his recent collection The Ukraine was one of three finalists in the award’s new nonfiction category in 2018. His novel Migrant was published in French in 2021\, The Ukraine is forthcoming in English in 2023. In March 2022\, Artem voluntarily enlisted in the Ukrainian Armed Forces\, where he is still serving. \nIrena Karpa is a writer and journalist who has authored twelve books of prose and one children’s book. She is also the frontwoman of the alternative music group Qarpa. Karpa has contributed to Vanity Fair and Deutsche Welle\, and is a frequent guest on French broadcasting. She has been leading online therapeutic writing courses during the war. \nOlesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at several British universities\, and written for the New York Review of Books\, Der Spiegel\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, openDemocracy and Prospect.. Khromeychuk is the author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022) and “Undetermined” Ukrainians. Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS “Galicia” Division (2013). She is currently the Director of the Ukrainian Institute London. \nLyuba Yakimchuk is a poet\, playwright and screenwriter. She is the author of several full-length poetry collections\, including Apricots of Donbas\, which has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is also the celebrated author of two film scripts and two plays. She is the first-ever poet performer at the Grammy Awards: in 2022 she performed her poem\, “Prayer\,” as part of the Free piece by John Legend dedicated to Ukraine. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the panel will take place 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 with the help of the Tompkins Agency for Ukrainian Literature in Translation. \nAdvance registration required.[/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/writingukraine22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221013T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221013T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Processing the Processed Food Industry with Michael Moss
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From unscientific diets to snake-oil products\, ‘healthy eating’ has never been a more nebulous term or challenging project. Nutrition labels\, packed with figures and jargon\, are little help in understanding the content of what we consume. In fact\, argues Michael Moss\, they only serve to further mystify it. In Salt Sugar Fat and Hooked\, Moss reveals the secret ingredients to processed food’s domination of supermarkets. Hidden behind the foods many Americans love most–potato chips\, cookies\, soda–is a world of research and marketing aimed at designing the perfect\, and most perfectly addictive\, snack. Join Moss at the American Library to learn how the world got hooked\, and what we can do now. \nAbout the speaker: \nMichael Moss is a journalist and author of two New York Times bestselling books on the processed food industry\, Salt Sugar Fat (2014) and Hooked (2021). He is a frequent guest on newscasts globally\, from CBS This Morning to the BBC. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2010 for his investigation of the dangers of contaminated meat. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Moss 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/moss22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221012T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221012T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20220824T200233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221012T133100Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Lindsey Tramuta\, Rokhaya Diallo\, and Grace Ly on Who Represents France
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]France\, with its wine country and white cliffs\, has resided in the public imagination for centuries. The image of Paris has undergone a series of transformations: at varying points an artistic refuge\, City of Love\, symbol of the aristocratic world\, and center of revolution\, the capital’s historical identity is rich and many-sided. Yet what lurks behind the city\, the country\, and its people when one looks beyond images of bread\, cheese\, and berets? How have stereotypes evolved with social media\, immigration\, and a changing political landscape over the twenty-first century? What do they share with the reality of contemporary France? Join authors Lindsey Tramuta\, Rokhaya Diallo\, and Grace Ly to discuss the fictions and fantasies of modern French life. \nAbout the speakers: \nLindsey Tramuta is Paris-based journalist and author. She has written for the New York Times\, Condé Nast Traveler\, and Vogue\, among others. She has published two books: The New Paris: the People\, Places\, and Ideas Fueling a Movement (2017) and The New Parisienne: the Women and Ideas Shaping Paris (2020). \nRokhaya Diallo is a French journalist\, author\, and filmmaker known for her activism in the fields of racial and sexual equality. Her work has appeared in the Guardian\, Al Jazeera\, the Washington Post\, Slate\, and ELLE Magazine among others. She has published 10 acclaimed books\, including a graphic novel\, and has produced five activist documentaries. \nGrace Ly is an author\, podcaster\, and anti-racist and feminist activist. Her debut novel\, Jeune fille modèle\, was published in 2018. Ly is the creator of the web series Ça reste entre nous and co-hosts the podcast Kiffe Ta Race with Rokhaya Diallo.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Tramuta\, Diallo\, and Ly 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.[/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/stereotypes22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221011T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221011T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20220824T193800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221001T082021Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Nobles and Yeomen: How French Brought 'Class' to English with Peter Sokolowski
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]French words that we use in English might seem fancy—like cuisine or couture. But these borrowings are just the more recent French invaders into our vocabulary since the time of the Norman Conquest. Waves of French and Latin words over the centuries tell much more than a linguistic story: they are a map of how we identify class and privilege in the words we use every day. \nAbout the speaker: \nPeter Sokolowski is Editor at Large at Merriam-Webster. He has written definitions for many of Merriam-Webster’s dictionaries\, is active as a blogger\, podcaster\, and speaker on language\, and has served as pronouncer for spelling bees worldwide. He was named among TIME‘s 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Sokolowski 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.[/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/sokolowski22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221005T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221005T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20220825T195041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T081831Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Matthieu Aikins and Luke Mogelson on Wartime Journalism
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What is the role of a war correspondent? What challenges await the reporter in the war zone\, and how are they mitigated? What ethical obligations does one have when covering war? Faced with constant danger\, violent regimes\, mass displacement\, and fatality\, what can journalism do? Join journalists Matthieu Aikins and Luke Mogelson as they discuss their experiences on the ground in war zones. From Afghanistan\, Syria\, and Iraq\, to recent reporting in Ukraine\, Aikins and Mogelson have witnessed countless scenes of destruction\, terror\, and tragedy. At risk to their own lives\, they have documented the civilian experience and amplified disempowered voices. They will share what they have seen\, and why war reporting matters. \nRead recent reporting by Aikins on the Taliban here. \nDiscover Mogelson’s writing on Syria. \nAbout the speakers: \nLuke Mogelson has been a contributing writer for the New Yorker since 2013\, covering the wars in Afghanistan\, Syria\, Iraq\, and Ukraine. He was previously based in Kabul as a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. Mogelson is the author of The Storm is Here (2022). He is the recipient of two National Magazine Awards and two George Polk Awards. \nMatthieu Aikins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Naked Don’t Fear the Water (2022). He is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. He was a 2020-21 Visiting Fellow at the American Library\, which was generously supported by The de Groot Foundation. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Aikins and Mogelson 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 will be followed by a catered reception. \nAdvanced registration required. RSVP below. [/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/warjournalism22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221004T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221004T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20220825T193626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T130414Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid): An Evening with Deborah Levy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Acclaimed novelist\, playwright\, and poet Deborah Levy will speak at the Library on her distinctive style and extensive career. Celebrated for her turbulent\, dream-infused prose and philosophical agility\, Levy is a master of language and a cataloguer of its failures\, exploring the limits of what can be articulated. Her ‘living autobiographies’\, a trilogy fusing memoir with theoretical musings\, serve as dispatches from liminal spaces. Levy slips through time and sifts through memory. She conjures the life of a woman and artist seeking to understand womanhood and the practice of art. Join her as she details her experience writing in the “storm of life.” \nAbout the speaker: \nDeborah Levy is the author of acclaimed novels\, short stories and plays. She has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company and dramatized Freud’s two most iconic case histories for the BBC\, Dora and The Wolf Man. Her novels Swimming Home (2011) and Hot Milk (2016) were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Man Who Saw Everything (2019) was long listed for the Booker. The Cost of Living and Things I Don’t Want to Know\, translated by Celine Leroy in France\, won the Prix Femina Etranger 2020. Real Estate\, the final volume of her ‘living autobiography’ trilogy\, was awarded The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose\, 2022. Her new novel\, August Blue\, will be published by FSG in the US\, Hamish Hamilton in the UK. Levy is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature and is currently writing a book about Gertrude Stein\, titled MAMA OF DADA. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Levy 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.[/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/levy22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221003T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221003T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20220916T120215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T101110Z
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SUMMARY:Entre Nous: The Deeper End with Deborah Levy and Colombe Schneck
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Thought streams\, digressions\, surface\, breath. A conversation about swimming & writing. \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: \nDeborah Levy is the author of acclaimed novels\, short stories and plays. She has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company and dramatized Freud’s two most iconic case histories for the BBC\, Dora and The Wolf Man. Her novels Swimming Home (2011) and Hot Milk (2016) were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Man Who Saw Everything (2019) was long listed for the Booker. The Cost of Living and Things I Don’t Want to Know\, translated by Celine Leroy in France\, won the Prix Femina Etranger 2020. Real Estate\, the final volume of her ‘living autobiography’ trilogy\, was awarded The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose\, 2022. Her new novel\, August Blue\, will be published by FSG in the US\, Hamish Hamilton in the UK. Levy is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature and is currently writing a book about Gertrude Stein\, titled MAMA OF DADA. \nColombe Schneck is a French writer\, journalist\, director of documentary films\, and swimmer. She swam in all 46 municipal swimming pools in Paris for her most recent work titled Paris à la nage. She is currently working on a new novel which will be published by Grasset in 2023 and writing a weekly column about her reading for Madame Figaro. She has directed four documentary films\, authored eleven books of fiction and non fiction\, and has received prizes from the Académie Française\, Madame Figaro and the Society of French Writers\, as well as having been short-listed for the Renaudot\, Femina\, and Interallié prizes. She is the recipient of scholarships from the Villa Medicis in Rome and the Institut Français. She received the Stendhal grant which helps writers do research and write abroad for a novel about women in Bolivia. \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%2Fentre-nous-deborah-levy-colombe-schneck-in-conversation-tickets-421253238777″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/levyschneck22/
LOCATION:Reid Hall\, 4 Rue de Chevreuse\, Paris\, Paris\, 75006\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220928T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220928T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20220824T191601Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Peter Conradi on Who Lost Russia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In 2017\, author and journalist Peter Conradi released Who Lost Russia? How the World Entered a New Cold War. The work offered expert analysis of Western policy toward Russia following the fall of the USSR. Conradi drew a straight line from the political and economic isolation of Russia to Putin’s rise\, and diagnosed his determination to rebuild the Soviet empire. In 2022 with the invasion of Ukraine\, Conradi saw his prediction confirmed. In this updated edition of the celebrated book\, Conradi turns his attention to Ukraine\, examining the war in the context of Russia’s post-Soviet history and Putin’s authoritarian regime. With clarity and precision\, Conradi considers what the consequences will be for Europe and the world. Conradi will be in conversation with journalist Vivienne Walt. \nAbout the speakers:  \nPeter Conradi is the Europe Editor of the Sunday Times. He is the author of The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia’s Most Brutal Serial Killer (1992) and Hitler’s Piano Player (2002)\, and co-author of the best-selling book The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy (2010). \nVivienne Walt is a Paris correspondent for TIME Magazine and Fortune Magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, National Geographic\, BusinessWeek\, and more. She is governor of the Overseas Press Club of America. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Conradi 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.[/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/conradi22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220927T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220927T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20220824T185146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T130411Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) An Evening with Joyce Maynard
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Joyce Maynard is a renowned American author celebrated for her cool voice\, clear gaze\, and stylistic breadth. A figure of national attention since the publication of her first essay in the New York Times at age eighteen\, Maynard has now authored eighteen books. Over the course of this long career\, Maynard has worked as a New York Times reporter\, a syndicated newspaper columnist\, a performer with the Moth\, and a contributor to NPR\, Vogue\, the New York Times Magazine\, and others. Her most recent novel\, Count the Ways\, was published in July 2021. She will be speaking on her writing process\, the trajectory of her work\, and a life lived dedicated to the written word. \nAbout the speaker:  \nJoyce Maynard is an author and essayist. She is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo as well as the founder of Write by the Lake\, a memoir-writing workshop. Her works Labor Day (2009)\, To Die For (1992)\, Under the Influence (2016)\, and memoirs At Home in the World (1998) and The Best of Us (2017) were New York Times bestselling novels.  \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Maynard 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.[/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/maynard22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220925T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220925T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20220825T161259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T134936Z
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SUMMARY:(In Person at the Maison des Associations in Vincennes) Festival America: L'empire des Sens with Marcial Gala\, Brandon Taylor\, and Bryan Washington
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As part of Festival America\, writers Marcial Gala\, Brandon Taylor\, and Bryan Washington will discuss desire and the body in literature. How does writing give flesh to sensation? What is the bodily experience of writing? From the famous denial of the senses performed by Descartes in order to doubt his own identity to the modern day\, the relationship between sensation\, embodiment\, and writing has been at the center of literature and philosophy. The authors will interrogate the limits of literature faced with the contours of desire\, considering its capacity to describe the intimate\, the corporeal\, and the sensual. Join them as they voyage into the empire of the senses.  \nAbout the speakers: \nMarcial Gala is a Cuban novelist\, poet\, and architect. He is the author of four works\, including The Black Cathedral (2012)\, awarded the 2012 Alejo Carpentier Award for novels and Critics’ Award for the best books published in Cuba in 2012. Gala’s most recent work\, Call me Cassandra (2018)\, was awarded the 2018 Ñ Prize of the City of Buenos Aires-Clarín. \nBrandon Taylor is a novelist. His debut novel Real Life (2020) was a finalist for the 2020 Booker Prize\, The National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize\, and the 2021 Young Lions Fiction Award\, and was named a NYT Editors’ Choice and NYT Notable Book. His story collection Filthy Animals (2021) was awarded the 2022 Story Prize and was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize.  \nBryan Washington is the author of three works. His debut story collection Lot (2019) was the winner of the 2019 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence\, the 2020 Dylan Thomas Prize\, and the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. Washington’s debut novel Memorial (2020) was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and TIME Book of the Year. \nImportant information: The discussion will take place in person at the Maison des Associations at 41 Rue Raymond du Temple\, 94300 Vincennes \nAccess to this event requires advance purchase of a one or two-day PASS through the Festival America website. Click the button below to purchase your Pass.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Purchase your PASS” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-cart-arrow-down” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.festival-america.com%2Fcontenu%2F9-billetterie%23billetterie|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/faempire22/
LOCATION:Maison des Associations\, 41 Rue Raymond du Temple\, Vincennes\, 94300\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220924T181500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220924T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20220825T132056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T135300Z
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SUMMARY:(In Person at the Pompidou in Vincennes) Festival America: Politique de la Littérature with Jonathan Franzen\, Karl Marlantes\, and Viet Thanh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As part of Festival America\, join Jonathan Franzen\, Karl Marlantes\, and Viet Thanh Nguyen for a panel on the politics of literature. To write a novel can be an eminently political gesture. Whether one is denouncing infamy\, reporting on unjust living conditions\, or telling the story of a just fight\, there are many books that have accompanied\, throughout history\, the struggles of humanity. How does the writer wield material that is simultaneously historical and political? Like Dos Passos\, Steinbeck or Toni Morrison\, writers of this camp do not intend to write to entertain\, but rather to help open our eyes to the world as it is.  \nAbout the speakers: \nJonathan Franzen is an essayist and novelist. He is the author of six novels\, including The Corrections (2021)\, which was awarded a National Book Award\, a James Tait Black Memorial Prize\, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Franzen is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  \nKarl Marlantes is an American author. His work Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War received the 2011 Washington State Book Award. His other works are What it is Like to Go to War (2011) and Deep River (2019).  \nViet Thanh Nguyen is the author of eight works. His 2016 novel The Sympathizer was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel\, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. \nImportant information: The discussion will take place in person at the Centre Culturel Georges Pompidou at 142 rue de Fontenay 94300 Vincennes \nAccess to this event requires the advance purchase of a one or two-day PASS through the Festival America website. Click the button below to get your Pass. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Purchase your PASS” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-cart-arrow-down” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.festival-america.com%2Fcontenu%2F9-billetterie%23billetterie|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/fapolitique22/
LOCATION:Centre Culturel Georges Pompidou in Vincennes\, 142 rue de Fontenay\, Vincennes\, 94300\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220921T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220921T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114057
CREATED:20220825T134747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T125545Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Festival America: Invisibles et Très Visibles with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Viet Thanh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As part of Festival America\, join authors Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Viet Thanh Nguyen for a discussion on visibility and invisibility in literature. Invisible as minorities\, visible as stereotypes\, and highly visible as threats\, Asian Americans like Black Americans like First Nation Americans constantly slip in and out of sight\, rarely seen for who they are. How can literature disrupt this slippage? How can writing authentically illuminate the overlooked corners of society? Equipped with humor and violence\, theory and experience\, the best literature exposes not only the hidden tensions of the world\, but the hidden tensions of the reader herself. In exposing depths and wounds\, literature which makes the invisible visible can be seen as a type of cure.  \nAbout the speakers:  \nNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the author of the New York Times-bestselling story collection Friday Black (2018). His writing has been published in the New York Times Book Review\, Esquire\, Literary Hub\, the Paris Review\, and Guernica. Adjei-Brenyah’s forthcoming debut novel Chain-Gang All-Stars will be published in 2023.  \nViet Thanh Nguyen is the author of eight works. His 2016 novel The Sympathizer was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. \nImportant information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Adjei-Brenyah and Nguyen 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. \nThis discussion will be in English.[/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/favisibles22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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