BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The American Library in Paris - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The American Library in Paris X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The American Library in Paris REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220706T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220706T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134031 CREATED:20220607T125447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220607T125447Z UID:36231-1657135800-1657139400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Opening Doors in Architecture with Rahim Danto Barry DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nPortes d’Afrique\nwith architect and author Rahim Danto Barry \nClick here to RSVP\nArchitect Rahim Danto Barry will be speaking about his career in France and his seminal work\, Portes d’Afrique (1999). From the Centre Pompidou-Metz\, to the Stade de France\, to terminals of Charles de Gaulle\, Barry has helped develop emblematic sites dedicated to sports\, travel\, and culture across France. He is an expert in movement\, and this fascination with transit is expressed in his writing: Portes d’Afrique is both a rigorous study of doorways in African architecture\, and a meditation upon heritage\, culture\, and identity. Considering the door as both a physical feature and a symbol of passage\, Barry traverses an array of countries and regions in Africa in search of the functional\, aesthetic\, and spiritual as expressed in the doorway.  \nThis conversation will be in French. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nRahim Danto Barry is an architect working in France. Notable projects to which he has contributed include the Centre Pompidou-Metz\, the Stade de France\, and the Pavillon de la France for the 1992 Seville Universal Exposition. His writings on architecture include a chapter in La Fondation Louis Vuitton par Frank Gehry (2014) and his 1999 work Portes d’Afrique.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Barry 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. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/barry22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/barry2.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220705T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220705T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134031 CREATED:20220213T190741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220525T161557Z UID:33981-1657049400-1657053000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Future of Reality with David Chalmers DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss \nReality+\nwith philosopher David Chalmers  \nClick here to RSVP\nIs virtual reality separate from reality? Are our experiences in virtual reality real? If everything is a simulation\, does that mean that nothing is real? The answer to these questions\, proposes philosopher David Chalmers in his new book Reality+\, lies in expanding our definition of what is real. Using the approach of “technophilosophy\,” which employs new technology to answer questions in philosophy and vice versa\, Chalmers offers a thorough and captivating argument for the reality of virtual worlds.  \nTaking up problems in the history of philosophy ranging from Plato’s cave to Descartes’ evil demon\, Chalmers inserts virtual reality and the metaverse into a philosophical debate. His argument is that simulated worlds are not only real\, but that they are capable of providing experiences which exceed those possible in the “real world.” Moving with ease from the mind-body problem to The Matrix\, Chalmers presents (in his work) a refreshing and surprising fusion of cultural commentary\, technological insight\, and philosophical meditation. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nDavid Chalmers is a philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is Professor of Philosophy at New York University and co-director of NYU’s Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness. Chalmers is the author of three books\, including The Conscious Mind (1996)\, as well as numerous articles. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2013. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Chalmers 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. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/chalmers22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/chalmers-3-e1644779234949.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220630T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220630T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134031 CREATED:20220428T141740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220618T093646Z UID:35627-1656617400-1656621000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Jasmine Hemsley on Ayurveda and Mind Body Balance DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nEast by West\nwith author and chef Jasmine Hemsley \nClick here to RSVP\nFollowing her immensely successful pop-up café East by West\, the first Ayurvedic eatery in Central London\, author and chef Jasmine Hemsley has authored the cookbook East by West\, which propels the ancient Ayurvedic relationship between eating and wellbeing into the modern age.  \nA 5\,000-year-old holistic healing system\, Ayurveda promotes the use of nutrition\, mindful rituals\, and cleanses to nourish and energize. Hemsley proposes a method of cooking which changes our approach to food\, replacing damaging notions of guilt and indulgence with balance and respect. Eating well can and should make us feel well\, she argues\, and one does not have to be a trained chef in order to achieve this. Offering 140 recipes\, the book also works to demystify Ayurveda\, offering simple steps for readers to follow to achieve health of body and mind. Hemsley will be speaking at the library on the history of Ayurveda\, how the practice has changed her relation to food and the earth\, and the many uses of Ayurveda in the busy present day. Ultimately\, she will demonstrate how a holistic and healthier life is possible for us all. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nJasmine Hemsley is a best-selling writer\, chef\, TV presenter\, and wellbeing expert. She is the author of East by West (2017)\, awarded the 2018 Women’s Health Wellbeing Book of the Year Award\, and co-author of Good + Simple (2016) and The Art of Eating Well (2014). Hemsley hosts two podcasts\, The Wellness Connection and SELF-Sustainable\, and is an ambassador for Women for Women\, Cool Earth and Wild at Heart Foundation. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hemsley22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/hemsley222-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220629T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220629T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134031 CREATED:20220607T083336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220607T172731Z UID:36202-1656531000-1656534600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Memory\, Mothers\, and Migration with Estelle-Sarah Bulle DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nWhere Dogs Bark with Their Tails\nwith author Estelle-Sarah Bulle \nClick here to RSVP\nJoin the American Library to celebrate the recent English translation of author Estelle-Sarah Bulle’s debut novel\, Là ou les chiens aboient par la queue. A moving and layered story of memory\, heritage\, and diaspora\, the work tells of the Ezechiel family and their slow migration through both geography and class\, from the countryside of Guadeloupe to the suburbs of Paris. Framed by a young woman seeking to learn about her family’s past\, the story is populated by a rich ensemble of voices and woven through with stories which range from devastating to fantastic\, contending with loss\, love\, exploitation\, exile\, and the mythologization of return. The conversation will be moderated by the English translator of the novel\, Julia Grawemeyer. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nEstelle-Sarah Bulle is a French novelist. She has authored three works\, including Les Étoiles les plus filantes (2021) and Les fantômes d’Issa (2020). Là ou les chiens aboient par la queue received the Prix Stanislas du Premier Roman and the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe and Tout-Monde. The English translation was published in 2022.  \nJulia Grawemeyer is a literary translator. Her first translation\, Save the Planet by Corine Sombrun and Almir Narayamoga Surui\, was released in July 2018. She has taught French and Creative Writing at the university level. \nRegistration required. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Bulle and Grawemeyer 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. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/bulle22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/bulle-e1654590732311.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220628T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220628T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134031 CREATED:20220607T081625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220628T154035Z UID:36199-1656444600-1656448200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Family Chao with Lan Samantha Chang DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nJoin Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nThe Family Chao\nwith author Lan Samantha Chang \nClick here to RSVP\nLan Samantha Chang’s latest novel\, The Family Chao\, gives new life to the ancient story of the son (allegedly) killing the father. Reminiscent of Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov\, the work is catalyzed by the murder of a patriarch upon the homecoming of his three sons. Here\, patricide is exceptionally used to explore racist and anti-immigrant attitudes latent in American society\, showing how crisis pushes these sentiments to the surface. Set largely in and around the family Chinese restaurant\, this is a brilliant story of hunger and consumption: devouring traditional and Americanized dishes\, media\, and ideology\, characters are glutted on the drama of the murder\, the spectacle of an ensuing trial\, and the tantalizing mythology of the American dream. Chang will be in conversation with Alex Capdeville.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nLan Samantha Chang is the author of four books\, including the novels Inheritance (2004) and All is Forgotten\, Nothing is Lost (2010). She is the Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in the Arts at the University of Iowa and the Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Chang has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, and the American Academy in Berlin. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, Ploughshares\, and The Best American Short Stories. She was a 2015 recipient of the Library’s Visiting Fellowship\, sponsored by The de Groot Foundation. \nAlex Capdeville lives in Paris with his wife and five-year old daughter\, and works as a set constructor for French TV. He has published a translation of his short story “The Stranger Chain” in the French review Rue Saint Ambroise\, as well as an author interview with Ethel Rohan in the online magazine Scoundrel Time. \nRegistration required.  \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Chang and Capdeville 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. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/chang22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/chang-e1654589700555.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220622T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220622T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134031 CREATED:20220428T161521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220428T161704Z UID:35644-1655926200-1655929800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Sober Curious with Ruby Warrington DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nSober Curious\nwith author Ruby Warrington \nClick here to RSVP\nIn author and editor Ruby Warrington’s Sober Curious\, she dares to ask a question that many adults fear: what would happen if we reconsidered our relationship to alcohol\, and gave it up voluntarily? How would our bodies\, minds\, sleeping habits\, and productivity levels change? What could a life without alcohol look like? \nIn response\, she formulates the path of the “sober curious”: not a sober lifestyle following an alcohol use disorder\, but a series of steps taken by someone considering cutting alcohol out of their life to explore how their life might change. Leading by example\, Warrington describes how her own relationship to alcohol changed as she gained distance from it\, and how this distance revealed dependencies and physical reactions to alcohol to which she had previously been blind. She encourages readers to recognize their own blindspots when it comes to drinking\, and to begin to reconsider why and how alcohol consumption has become the standard in adult life. The choice to go “sober curious” brings a series of lifestyle changes which readers may find challenging\, yet Warrington’s encouraging and nonjudgmental voice offers the perfect blend of practical advice and motivational mantras\, making a more empowered\, alcohol-conscious life accessible to all. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nRuby Warrington is an author\, editor\, and book doula. She has authored four books\, including Sober Curious (2018)\, The Sober Curious Reset (2020)\, and The Numinous Astro Deck (2019). Warrington is the host of the podcast Sober Curious\, and founder of the self-publishing imprint Numinous Books. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/warrington22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/warrington-e1651162464760.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220620T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220620T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134031 CREATED:20220620T073756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220620T073756Z UID:36553-1655753400-1655757000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) An Evening with Souleymane Bachir Diagne DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nLe fagot de ma mémoire\nwith author and philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne  \nClick here to RSVP\nThe American Library is thrilled to invite celebrated philosopher and author Souleymane Bachir Diagne to discuss his recent work\, Le fagot de ma mémoire\, as well as his extensive writings in philosophy and African literature. In Le fagot de ma mémoire\, the author of The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa and African Art as Philosophy: Senghor\, Bergson\, and the Idea of Negritude traces his adolescence in Senegal\, his studies in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne\, and his teaching at universities in Dakar\, Chicago\, and New York\, considering the many figures and diverse lines of thought which have influenced his remarkable path. \nDiagne’s areas of expertise are remarkably vast: the history of early modern philosophy\, philosophy and Sufism in the Islamic world\, African philosophy and literature\, post-colonialism\, translation studies\, and twentieth century French philosophy\, particularly Henri Bergson. In conversation with Programs Manager Alice McCrum\, the two will consider the interactions of these varying fields through the lens of his insistent pluralism and dedication to intellectual openness. They will also speak on the situation of the present-day francophone world\, looking with a critical eye at the recent elections in France\, global COVID responses\, and the geopolitical landscape of the twenty-first century. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nSouleymane Bachir Diagne is an author\, philosopher\, and historian of philosophy. He served as Counselor for Education and Culture for the Republic of Senegal from 1993 to 1999\, and is currently Professor of French and Chair of the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. Diagne has been awarded the 2011 Dagnan-Bouveret prize by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and the 2011 Edouard Glissant Prize for his work. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Diagne 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. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/diagne22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/diagne.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220616T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220616T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134031 CREATED:20220525T170507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220607T150246Z UID:35958-1655407800-1655413200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Centennial of Ulysses with Adam Biles\, Alice McCrum & Lex Paulson DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to celebrate \nBloomsday\nwith Bloomcast podcast hosts Adam Biles\, Alice McCrum & Lex Paulson \nClick here to RSVP\nIn 1924\, celebrated author James Joyce mentioned in a letter that he had recently learned of “a group of people who observe what they call Bloom’s day–16 June.” Named for Ulysses protagonist Leopold Bloom\, what is now known as Bloomsday is celebrated yearly on June 16th\, the day in 1904 that Ulysses takes place. This year\, as we mark the centennial of the publication of Ulysses through famed Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company\, the Library is thrilled to be hosting Programs Manager Alice McCrum\, Literary Director of Shakespeare & Co. Adam Biles\, and Dr. Lex Paulson for a live recording of their Ulysses-themed podcast\, Bloomcast.  \nFollowing a day of celebration of Ulysses at Shakespeare and Company\, this event at the American Library will mark the grand finale of Bloomcast. McCrum\, Biles\, and Paulson will be discussing the book’s famous ending\, their overall reading experiences\, and their final thoughts on Joyce’s magnum opus. Join them as they muddle\, for one last time\, through this radical\, sublime\, and often misunderstood novel first published one hundred years ago\, in 1922. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nA student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris\, Alice McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris. \nIn between fits of Joycean nerdery\, Dr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. An adopted Parisian\, he teaches at Sciences Po-Paris and writes on the past and future of democracy. \nAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company\, Paris. He is the author of the novel Feeding Time\, available in French as Défense de nourrir les vieux. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (McCrum\, Paulson\, and Biles 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. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/bloomsday22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/bloomsday-e1653498274850.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220608T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220608T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134031 CREATED:20220428T154251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T103443Z UID:35641-1654716600-1654720200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Liminal Spaces with Vanessa Onwuemezi DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nDark Neighbourhood\nwith author Vanessa Onwuemezi and editor Daniel Medin \nClick here to RSVP\nThe Center for Writers and Translators at the American University of Paris is delighted to present\, in collaboration with the American Library in Paris\, a conversation with Vanessa Onwuemenzi about Dark Neighbourhood\, her debut collection of short fiction. Published last October\, the volume was named a Guardian Best Fiction of 2021. “She sends English off on a great line of flight\,” novelist Tom McCarthy has remarked of Onwuemenzi’s writing\, “from which it returns as poetry.” \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nVanessa Onwuemezi lives in London. Her work has appeared in Granta\, Prototype\, frieze and Five Dials. Her story “At the Heart of Things” won the White Review Short Story Prize 2019. \nDaniel Medin is an editor and professor of comparative literature at the American University of Paris. \nRegistration required.  \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Onwuemezi and Medin 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. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/onwuemezi22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/vanessa-e1651160521868.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220530T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220530T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134031 CREATED:20220428T125323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220506T090402Z UID:35621-1653940800-1653944400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(In Person) Entre Nous: Colm Tóibín and Anuk Arudpragasam in conversation DESCRIPTION:Join us at Reid Hall for an evening of readings and exchanges between Colm Tóibín and Anuk Arudpragasam. The Magician\, Tóibín’s book on Thomas Mann\, won the 2022 Rathbone Prize\, and Arudpragasam’s latest novel\, A Passage North\, was shortlisted in 2022 for a Man Booker Prize. \nThe Red Wheelbarrow\, an English-language bookstore in Paris\, will be present at the event for book sales. \nThe Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nColm Tóibín is an Irish novelist\, essayist\, playwright\, and poet. He is currently the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. He has been short-listed 3 times for the Booker Prize and has won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year\, the Costa Novel of the Year\, the Stonewall Book Award\, the Lambda Literary Award\, and the Irish PEN Award for his contribution to Irish literature. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and is a vice president of the Royal Society of Literature. \nAnuk Arudpragasam is a novelist and translator from Colombo\, Sri Lanka. His first novel\, The Story of a Brief Marriage\, won the 2017 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was shortlisted for the 2017 Dylan Thomas Prize. His second novel\, A Passage North\, was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and is currently longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. In 2019 he received a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/toibin-arudpragasam22/ LOCATION:Reid Hall\, 4 Rue de Chevreuse\, Paris\, Paris\, 75006\, France CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_270520239_277125739408_1_original-e1651150358579.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220527T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220527T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134031 CREATED:20220416T091456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220416T092335Z UID:35490-1653679800-1653683400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Literature After Ulysses with Colm Tóibín DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nLiterature After Ulysses\nwith author Colm Tóibín \nClick here to RSVP\nIt has been one hundred years since Stephen Dedalus handed Buck Mulligan his key to the Sandycove Martello tower\, catalyzing a series of events over the course of one day (June 16th) that compose James Joyce’s magnum opus Ulysses. In celebration of this momentous anniversary and in anticipation of Bloomsday\, novelist and scholar Colm Tóibín will speak at the Library about the history\, publication\, and legacy of the text.  \nJoyce once noted that the novel would “keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant.” This event will be an occasion not only to return to Joyce’s quip\, but to discuss what Ulysses means to us\, and what it has come to mean as a cultural artifact. From formal\, technical\, and methodological revolutions in modernist literature\, to the U.S. obscenity trials\, to the ‘Joyce Wars’ surrounding its various textual iterations\, Ulysses has seen much infamy. What did the work do to literature\, and how has literature since reacted? What is its role in the contemporary literary landscape? Join Tóibín for a discussion about the book to which\, in the words of T.S. Eliot\, “we are all indebted\, and from which none of us can escape.” \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nColm Tóibín is a novelist\, essayist\, and critic. He is the author of many works\, including The Blackwater Lightship (1996)\, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Master (2004)\, awarded the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2004 Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year\, and Brooklyn (2009)\, awarded the Costa Novel Award. Tóibín received the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 and the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2021. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Tóibín 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. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/toibin22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ulysses-e1650100441761.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220526T203000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220526T213000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220503T102748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220509T133618Z UID:35680-1653597000-1653600600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Portable Magic with Emma Smith DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author in collaboration with the The London Library* to discuss \nPortable Magic\nwith author Emma Smith \nClick here to RSVP\nAll books are\, as Stephen King put it\, ‘a uniquely portable magic’. In her fascinating new history of bibliophilia\, writer and renowned Shakespeare scholar\, Emma Smith\, tells us why. \nPortable Magic unfurls an exciting and iconoclastic new story of the book in human hands\, exploring when\, why and how it acquired its particular hold over us. Gathering together a millennium’s worth of pivotal encounters with volumes big and small\, Smith reveals that\, as much as their contents\, it is books’ physical form – their ‘bookhood’ – that lends them their distinctive and sometimes dangerous magic.  \nIn partnership with The London Library\, Smith speaks to American Library Programs Manager Alice McCrum about the ways in which our relationship with the written word is more reciprocal – and more turbulent – than we tend to imagine.‘ \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nEmma Smith was born and brought up in Leeds\, went unexpectedly to university in Oxford\, and never really left. She is now Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College and the author of the Sunday Times bestseller This is Shakespeare.  \n\n\nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will happen in person at The London Library. Members and non-members alike are encouraged to join virtually via Zoom.  \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/smith22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ic_large_w900h600q100_portable-magic-website-e1651573611247.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220524T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220524T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220503T101959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220509T132527Z UID:35677-1653422400-1653426000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Inseparables with Lauren Elkin and Deborah Levy DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop* to discuss \nThe Inseparables \nwith novelists Lauren Elkin and Deborah Levy \nClick here to RSVP to watch the live stream at the Library\n\nClick here to RSVP to watch online\nWritten in 1954 but unpublished until after her death\, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Inseparables is an intimate portrait\, based on life\, of female friendship on the cusp of womanhood. Its translator into English Lauren Elkin writes in her introductory note ‘“So is it any good?” people have asked me when I’ve told them I’m translating a ‘lost’ novel by Simone de Beauvoir … And I am relieved to say: yes. It is more than good. It is poignant\, chilling and eviscerating.’ \nElkin\, author of Flâneuse and No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute will be in conversation with novelist and essayist Deborah Levy who has contributed an introduction to the UK edition. The event will be chaired by Alice McCrum\, programs manager at the American Library in Paris. \nClick here to RSVP to watch the live stream at the Library\n\nClick here to RSVP to watch online\nAbout the speakers: \nLauren Elkin’s writing on books\, art\, and culture have appeared in a variety of international publications including the London Review of Books\, the New York Times\, and Le Monde\, among many others. A scholar of literature\, Elkin has taught at New York University\, the American University of Paris\, the University of Liverpool\, and the Université de Paris-Denis Diderot. Elkin’s last book\, Flâneuse: Women Walk the City\, was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017\, and a Radio 4 Book of the Week. \n\nDeborah Levy is a novelist\, playwright\, and poet. Her novels Swimming Home (2011) and Hot Milk (2016) were shortlisted for the Booker Prize\, and her works The Man Who Saw Everything (2019) and Black Vodka (2013) were longlisted. The final volume of her pioneering ‘living autobiography’ trilogy\, winner of the Prix Femina Etranger 2020\, was published in May 2021. \n\nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will take place in-person at the London Review Bookshop. The Library will host a free screening of the conversation in the Reading Room for a live viewing experience.  \nClick here to RSVP to watch the live stream at the Library\n\nClick here to RSVP to watch online\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/inseparables22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_269952909_66759150595_1_original-e1651573077721.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220517T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220517T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220416T105331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220514T091202Z UID:35503-1652815800-1652819400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Racialization and Disorientation with Ian Williams DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nDisorientation\nwith author Ian Williams \nClick here to RSVP\nIn 2020\, author\, poet\, and 2021-22 American Library Visiting Fellow (the Visiting Fellowship is generously sponsored by The de Groot Foundation) Ian Williams was living in Vancouver while working on his second novel. It was from this position that he lived through the beginning of the pandemic\, the wildfires\, and the Black Lives Matter protests. Witnessing a time of momentous change\, Williams felt called to move beyond fiction. The result is Disorientation: Being Black in the World\, a searching and startling new collection of essays. \nConsidering being a Black man in Trinidad\, Canada\, and the United States\, Williams meditates upon the myriad ways racialization occurs. He sees it in higher education\, where Standard Written English is valued over other English dialects such as African-American Vernacular English. He sees it in parking lots\, where white gazes silently accuse him of breaking into his own car. He watches it occur to his niece\, who experiences race for the first time in the playground at recess. An honest and lyrical consideration of both personal events and global movements\, Disorientation describes the intrusion of race upon subjectivity with nuance and precision\, offering an intimate perspective on systemic violence. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nIan Williams is the 2021-22 Visiting Fellow at the American Library in Paris. The Visiting Fellowship is generously sponsored by The de Groot Foundation. The author of six books of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, Williams was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his 2019 novel Reproduction. His latest work\, Disorientation (2021)\, was a finalist for the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Williams is a tenured professor of English at the University of Toronto. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Williams 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. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/williams22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/williams-disorientation-e1650106364513.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220512T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220512T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220416T092253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220509T132711Z UID:35493-1652383800-1652387400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) A Guide to Ulysses with Patrick Hastings DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online*) to discuss \nThe Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses\nwith author Patrick Hastings \nClick here to RSVP\nAuthor and educator Patrick Hastings first discovered Ulysses while living and working at the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore on the left bank of Paris. He now returns to the cobbled streets of the rive gauche to speak about his debut release\, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses\, a product of years of dedicated study of and reverence for Joyce’s text.  \nNo one forgets their first experience reading Ulysses. Hastings\, wielding his pedagogical background\, is not interested in infringing upon this experience\, but enhancing it. The guide’s remarkable feat is to make Ulysses accessible without condescending to the reader or compromising the intellect and humor of the work. Rather than dictating how to interpret the novel\, Hastings provides the reader with the tools for constructing their own interpretations: relating historical context\, explaining the myriad allusions and Joycean vocabulary\, and even producing detailed maps of each episode. With his infectious enthusiasm and scholarly rigor\, Hastings has made the challenge of reading literature’s most daunting book surmountable. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nPatrick Hastings is the English Department Chair at Gilman School in Baltimore\, Maryland. He is the creator of Ulyssesguide.com\, a free website which offers background on Ulysses\, detailed analysis of each episode\, and resources for further reading. Hastings has been researching Joyce and Ulysses since 2003\, and has been published in the James Joyce Quarterly. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*Due to unforeseen pandemic-related events\, the discussion will only be available online. Thank you in advance for your understanding.  \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hastings22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/hastings-joyce-guide-e1650100921187.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220510T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220510T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220206T144648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220322T152839Z UID:33905-1652211000-1652214600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Why Read Shakespeare with Robert McCrum DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nShakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption\nwith author Robert McCrum \nClick here to RSVP\nDescribing his turn to Shakespeare while recovering from a life-altering stroke\, author and editor Robert McCrum writes in his new book\, Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption\, that “during convalescence\, the Complete Works became my book of life.” Written in the contemporary age of chaos and crisis\, McCrum’s demonstrates the relevance of the Shakespearean corpus to a convalescent world.  \nSpanning personal narrative\, textual analysis\, and cultural commentary\, McCrum uncovers the source of Shakespeare’s eternally present voice. How is the Bard able to speak across the centuries with words that still resonate today? What ideas\, experiences\, and outlooks do his characters express that feel timeless? What can reading Shakespeare teach us about being human? The book argues both for the humanity permeating the Shakespearean world\, and for the process of reading\, rereading\, rediscovering\, and reinterpreting Shakespeare as a source of solace and creativity. Ultimately\, McCrum makes the case for the vital importance of listening and speaking in Shakespearean. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nRobert McCrum is a writer\, journalist\, editor\, and broadcaster. After nearly two decades as Editor-in-Chief of Faber & Faber\, McCrum worked at the Observer as Associate Editor and former Literary Editor for many years. He is the author of multiple works in fiction and non-fiction\, including Every Third Thought (2017)\, which was adapted and broadcast as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week. His newest book\, Shakespearean\, was named a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (McCrum 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. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/mccrum22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/shakespearean--e1644158760953.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220504T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220504T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220408T121705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T080024Z UID:35418-1651692600-1651696200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) The War in Ukraine\, Analyzed DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nThe War in Ukraine\nwith journalists Robin Wright\, Steven Erlanger\, and Serge Schmemann \nClick here to RSVP\nThe Russian invasion of Ukraine rocked the globe. As emergency councils convene and as an increasing list of sanctions is considered\, the future of international diplomacy seems to hang in the balance. What will be the global consequences of this war? What will it mean for NATO\, and for Europe? How might this crisis end? \nWhile the war rages on\, three eminent journalists will speak virtually at the American Library on the invasion’s history\, the many forces at play in the war\, and the possible directions the conflict might take. Robin Wright (the New Yorker)\, Steven Erlanger (the New York Times) and Serge Schmemann (the New York Times)\, drawing on their collective knowledge and long international careers\, will tune in virtually for a discussion moderated by Alice McCrum. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nRobin Wright is a foreign affairs analyst\, author and journalist for the New Yorker. She has authored five books\, including Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East (2008)\, which was a 2008 New York Times Notable Book\, and Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World (2011)\, selected as a Best Book on International Affairs by the Overseas Press Club. She is a MacArthur Foundation grant recipient. \nSteven Erlanger is the Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for Europe for the New York Times. He has worked as a journalist for the Times since 1987\, and previously served as the London bureau chief. Erlanger\, along with his colleagues at the Times\, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for reporting on Al Qaeda and in 2017 for reporting on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to project Russia’s power abroad. \nSerge Schmemann is a journalist and author. He served as the editorial page editor of The International Herald Tribune in Paris from 2003 to 2013\, and has been a Times correspondent and bureau chief in Moscow\, Bonn and Jerusalem and at the United Nations. An expert in Russia and Soviet history\, Shmemann received the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for coverage of the reunification of Germany and the fall of Soviet communism.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ukraine22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ukraine3-e1649420213920.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220429T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220429T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220206T145826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220317T092532Z UID:33909-1651260600-1651264200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Entre Nous: The Future of the Humanities with Roosevelt Montás and Andrew Delbanco DESCRIPTION:Are the humanities in crisis? What to do with the hotly-contested idea of the (hard to define) canon? In the midst of an American identity crisis\, are the liberal arts struggling to articulate their method\, content\, and goals? Should students still read the canon? How might it be taught? Should we work to expand its limits\, or should we be abolishing it entirely? In his new book\, Rescuing Socrates\, Columbia University Professor Roosevelt Montás argues that the humanities must not relinquish its Great Books. \nClick here to RSVP\nAs part of the Entre Nous series in collaboration with Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, Montás will be discussing Rescuing Socrates\, with Columbia Professor Andrew Delbanco. Drawing on his experience as a Dominican-born\, low-income undergraduate at Columbia discovering Augustine\, Plato\, and Gandhi for the first time through the university’s Core Curriculum\, Montás makes a case for the liberal arts. Similarly advocating for the humanities as a force for good is  Delbanco who\, in his position as trustee for the Teagle Foundation\, works to strengthen liberal arts education by increasing its accessibility. In conversation\, the two will consider the challenges the humanities face\, the ways they need to change\, and what they offer in the contemporary age. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nRoosevelt Montás is senior lecturer at Columbia’s Center for American Studies. From 2008 to 2018\, he served as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Columbia College. Montás is director of Columbia’s Freedom and Citizenship Program\, which instructs low-income high school students on the foundational texts of the Western political tradition.  \nAndrew Delbanco is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of nine books\, including College: What It Was\, Is\, and Should Be (2012). Delbanco is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, a member of the American Philosophical Association\, and a trustee of the Teagle Foundation and the Library of America. He was awarded a National Humanities Medal by Barack Obama in 2012. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/socrates22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/montas-e1644159468575.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220427T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220427T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220222T110526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220322T152647Z UID:34437-1651087800-1651091400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) News as a Public Good with Julia Cagé DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nNews as a Public Good\nwith economist Julia Cagé \nClick here to RSVP\nWe face a crisis of faith in the media. From fake news to online misinformation campaigns\, the knowledge economy arrives at a pivotal moment. In her work L’Information est un bien public (2021)\, Sciences Po economist Julia Cagé addresses this broken relationship between the media and the public\, and offers a radical\, structural solution.   \nCagé’s argument is not that media content needs revision\, but that its organizational and economic structure must be reworked. Arguing for a change in tax rules on the basis of the media’s role as a public good\, Cagé offers a stabilized and decentralized solution for an industry constantly in flux. At stake is the free press\, which is to say\, democracy itself. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nJulia Cagé is Associate Professor of Economics at Sciences Po and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research. Cagé is the author of five books. Sauver les médias (2015) was awarded the 2016 Special Jury Prize for Best Books on Media by the Assises du Journalisme\, and Le prix de la démocratie (2018) was awarded the Prix Ethique by Anticor and the Prix Pétrarque de l’Essai France Culture-Le Monde. She published Pour une télé libre contre Bolloré in 2022 of this year. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Cagé 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. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/cage22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cagé-e1645527899409.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220426T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220426T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220221T154531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T083507Z UID:34414-1651001400-1651005000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The French Election\, Analyzed DESCRIPTION:Evenings with an Author and The Overseas Press Club of America (in person and online*) present \nThe French Election\, Analyzed\nwith journalists Vivienne Walt\, Victor Mallet\, Sarah Paillou\, and Nadia Pantel. The conversation will be moderated by David A. Andelman. \nClick here to RSVP\nThe Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) and the American Library in Paris will convene to discuss the outcome of the 2022 French presidential election. Broadly seen as a litmus test for the rising tide of populism across Europe\, the results of this election may determine the future of the European Union and its international vision. At stake is the identity of the Fifth Republic: will the French people align themselves with Macron’s image of France as the center of European partnership\, or with the nationalist picture of a once-strong France in decline? What will happen to immigration\, secularism\, security\, and social cohesion in France in the election’s wake? \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nVivienne Walt\, OPC Governor and Paris correspondent for TIME & Fortune. \nVictor Mallet\, Paris bureau chief\, Financial Times \nSarah Paillou\, presidential campaign reporter\, Journal du Dimanche. \nNadia Pantel\,  chief Paris correspondent\, Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich). \nThe moderator will be David A. Andelman\, Past OPC President\, CNN columnist and former CBS News Paris correspondent\, author of Andelman Unleashed.\nClick here to RSVP\nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (all panelists 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. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/electionspanel22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/elections-image-e1645457579767.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220420T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220420T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220213T190101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220307T101959Z UID:33976-1650483000-1650486600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) How Forests Think with Eduardo Kohn DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nHow Forests Think\nwith anthropologist and author Eduardo Kohn \nClick here to RSVP\nCan forests think? The driving force (and question) of anthropologist Eduardo Kohn’s How Forests Think is quickly answered; yes\, he writes\, and other entities are capable of thought\, too. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from the Runa people of Amazonian Ecuador\, Kohn offers a different approach to anthropology\, one that decenters the human from the field of research. Rather\, he describes a landscape of relations among different beings–a landscape that at once involves and exceeds humans. \nKohn’s central argument revolves around signs\, and the ways that trees and other non-human entities are capable of producing\, interpreting\, and responding to them. If a forest is capable of communication between trees\, how is this communication not thought? What else in the natural world could be viewed as thinking? What anthropocentric biases exist which prevent us from seeing thought in this way? And how might the Runa people’s approach to nature help push anthropology in a more non-human direction? Join Kohn as he wrestles with these questions and with the future of ethnographic research. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nEduardo Kohn is an author and Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University. He was awarded the 2014 Gregory Bateson Prize in Anthropology for How Forests Think. He has lectured at the New York Academy of Sciences\, arguing for the ecologization of ethics. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kohn22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/kohn-e1644778788146.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220419T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220419T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220221T155944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T135740Z UID:34422-1650396600-1650400200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Entre Nous: Alternative Narratives with Helen Lewis and Christia Mercer DESCRIPTION:In Difficult Women\, writer and journalist Helen Lewis explores the complexities\, incoherencies\, and bad behavior across a history of feminism. Rejecting the contemporary taste for feel-good stories of perfect heroines\, Lewis lands on hard questions: When does the harm outweigh the good? How can we measure the moral sum of a person? And\, now free from the grip of the one-dimensional ‘badass babe’ trope\, where can contemporary feminism take us? \nContinuing her research on forgotten women\, Lewis’ new radio program\, Great Wives\, looks at the spouses of history’s most famous geniuses. How have men consistently attained the status of “genius\,” while women have remained (by their side) wives? Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University Christia Mercer has done similar work uncovering forgotten voices and destabilizing the mythology of genius. From Spanish mysticism to 17th-century Neoplatonism\, Mercer’s research in overlooked women complicates the legend of modern philosophy’s origins and most famous contributors. As part of the Entre Nous series in partnership with Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, join these two authors as they discuss their work on changing the historical record and seeking alternative narratives for the history of thought and action. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nHelen Lewis is an author and journalist. A staff writer at The Atlantic\, Lewis is also the former deputy editor of the New Statesman and has written for The Guardian and The Sunday Times. She was appointed 2018-19 Women in the Humanities Honorary Writing Fellow at Oxford University\, and serves on the advisory board for the Reuters Institute for Journalism at Oxford. Lewis is the creator of the longform Radio 4 interview series The Spark (2019). \nChristia Mercer is the Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. A specialist in early modern philosophy\, Platonism\, and philosophy and gender\, Mercer founded and acts as Director of the Center for New Narratives in Philosophy at Columbia. She served as the 2019-20 President of the American Philosophical Association. Mercer is the editor of Oxford Philosophical Concepts and co-edits Oxford New Histories of Philosophy. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/narratives22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ENTRE-NOUS-TEMPLATE-BANNER-Vignette-YouTube-4-e1646648156101.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220412T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220412T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20211213T085445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220322T152629Z UID:32732-1649791800-1649795400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Private World of Édouard Vuillard with Julia Frey & Beverly Held DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nVenus Betrayed: The Private World of Édouard Vuillard\nwith art biographer Julia Frey and art historian Beverly Held  \nClick here to RSVP\nMany have researched Édouard Vuillard\, prolific and adventurous 20th-century painter\, for his contributions to the avant-garde. But what sets Venus Betrayed (Professor Emeritus and writer Julia Frey’s study of the artist) apart is its attention to the figure behind the paintings. Indeed\, Frey uses Vuillard’s body of work to access the interior state of the artist. In this way\, rather than a chronology of Vuillard’s life\, Frey subtly reveals this life through: his relationships with figures ranging from Toulouse-Lautrec to Mallarmé; the ideas that obsessed him; his often-tortured artistic process. This newfound access into Vuillard’s private life in turn draws out previously hidden depths from the artist’s work.  \nCarefully reading Vuillard’s unpublished journals and looking to his work with exacting visual analysis\, Frey has produced a deeply intimate picture of the artist in life and at work. The result is a refined perspective into both the artist’s masterpieces and unfinished projects\, as well as a striking argument for the relationship between artistic atmosphere and production. Venus Betrayed reinvigorates the genre of biography\, infusing new motivations and stakes into the project of reading art through the lens of life.  \nCopies of Venus Betrayed will be for sale at a discounted price during the event thanks to Bill & Rosa’s Book Room (Paris West – Boulogne). After the event\, additional copies may be ordered by contacting BRbookroom@gmail.com. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nJulia Frey\, PhD in French literature and culture\, is professor emeritus at the University of Colorado. A biographer and novelist\, she is the author of Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life\, which received the 1995 Pen Center West Nonfiction Literary Award\, and Balcony View: A 9/11 Diary. She currently resides in France. \nBeverly Held\, PhD in History of Art\, was the founding director of San Francisco Arts & Humanities Seminars\, a non-profit educational organization. Held now writes a weekly newsletter on art exhibitions\, collectors\, and collections in and around Paris where she spends most of her time running from one exhibition to another. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Frey and Held 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. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/vuillard22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/8534E628-93F9-4829-965A-263EEBFBA7E2_1_105_c.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220404T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220404T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220221T154002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220322T152607Z UID:34411-1649100600-1649104200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Entre Nous: Shakespeare Speaks to the Present with Stephen Greenblatt and James Shapiro DESCRIPTION:As part of the Entre Nous series in partnership with Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, join professors Stephen Greenblatt and James Shapiro (in person and online*) for a discussion about Shakespeare and the present age. \nClick here to RSVP\nFrom the collected works on Abraham Lincoln’s White House desk\, to the Public Theater’s incendiary 2018 production of Julius Caesar\, Shakespeare has long been adopted as the voice of the cultural moment. Two figures qualified to speak on this phenomenon are Stephen Greenblatt and James Shapiro\, celebrated Shakespeare scholars and authors of multiple books on the Bard.  \nIn his 2020 book Shakespeare in a Divided America\, Shapiro considers the many uses and abuses of Shakespeare in American history; from issues of race and democracy\, to liberty and marriage\, Shapiro highlights Shakespeare’s presence at the heart of the American cultural imagination. In his 2019 book Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics\, Greenblatt demonstrates the similarities between Shakespearean tyranny and power in the current age: unstable leaders\, crumbling faith in institutions\, and a public more interested in the spectacle of politics than participation. This April at the Library\, the two authors will discuss Shakespeare in relation to the pandemic\, racial justice\, the climate crisis\, arguing\, in a moderated conversation\, for Shakespeare’s role as an eternal mouthpiece of the present. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nStephen Greenblatt is an author\, literary historian\, Shakespearean\, and the John Cogan Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. He is General Editor of and a contributor to The Norton Shakespeare and The Norton Anthology of English Literature\, and is a founding editor of the literary-cultural journal Representations. The author of fourteen books\, he was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his work The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011). \nJames Shapiro is an author and Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. A specialist in Shakespeare and the early modern period\, Shapiro has published a number of books on topics ranging from the Shakespeare authorship question to Shakespeare’s legacy in American history. Shapiro was inducted into the Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. \nClick here to RSVP\n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Greenblatt and Shapiro 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. \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/shakespeare_present22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ENTRE-NOUS-TEMPLATE-BANNER-Vignette-YouTube-2-e1646647637784.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220329T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220329T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220213T185114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220216T152031Z UID:33970-1648582200-1648585800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) The Weight of Inheritance with Megan Mayhew Bergman DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nHow Strange a Season\nwith author Megan Mayhew Bergman \nClick here to RSVP\nAuthor and journalist Megan Bergman’s new collection of stories describes women who are losing control. From failed marriages and ailing parents\, to their own aging bodies\, these are women caught between a past which has escaped them and a future whose direction is unclear.  \nBergman’s voice (insightful and empathetic) guides the reader through a series of landscapes: a glass house bequeathed by a beloved grandmother\, a sustainability ranch invaded by hedge funders\, an ancient southern estate contending with the weight of its familial past\, and more. The narrative thread linking each story is that of inheritance\, both material and psychological. Is inheritance a gift or a burden? What will these women suffer because of what has been left with them? How can ancestral wrongs be rectified? Can one ever be liberated from the past? \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nMegan Mayhew Bergman is a writer\, journalist\, and former Visiting Fellow at the American Library in Paris. She is the author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise (2012) and Almost Famous Women (2015). Bergman has written columns on climate change and the nature world for The Paris Review and The Guardian\, winning the 2019 Phil Reed Environmental Writing Award in Journalism award for the latter. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/mayhewbergman22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/how-strange-a-season-9781476713106_xlg-1-e1644778467479.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220323T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220323T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220206T141422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220216T151801Z UID:33892-1648063800-1648067400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Meeting of the Minds with Alison Gopnik\, Peter Godfrey-Smith\, and Annie Murphy Paul DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nMeeting of the Minds\nwith psychologist Alison Gopnik\, philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith\, and journalist Annie Murphy Paul \nClick here to RSVP\nIn a truly cerebral event\, the Library will host three esteemed theorists of the mind: Alison Gopnik\, specialist of cognitive psychology\, theories of language\, and learning\, will wield her expertise in the realm of child development and the consciousness of children; Peter Godfrey-Smith\, who conducts research in theories of consciousness in relation to underwater creatures\, will bring us into the brains and neurologically-complex tentacles of octopuses; While Annie Murphy Paul will discuss her research in the “extra-neural\,” making a case for thinking beyond the limits of the human brain.  \nIn their conversation\, these three researchers and writers will ask: how can we define\, identify\, and expand our notions of intelligence? Where can we locate the mind\, if not inside the biological brain? How does biology limit cognition\, and vice versa? Can we measure consciousness? Does it have an origin? Combining philosophical thought with cutting-edge research in psychology\, biology\, and neuroscience\, the three speakers will confront questions both timeless and urgent for the modern\, digital age. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nAlison Gopnik is a psychologist and professor working in cognitive and language development. Gopnik is the author of five books and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, and Science. Gopnik was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013 and received the James McKeen Cattell Lifetime Achievement Award for Applied Research from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in 2021.  \nPeter Godfrey-Smith is a philosopher of science working in the philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind as it relates to evolution and animal intelligence. His 2016 book on consciousness and marine biology\, Other Minds: The Octopus\, the Sea\, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness\, received the Patrick Suppes Prize for Philosophy of Science from the American Philosophical Society and was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.  \nAnnie Murphy Paul is a science writer and journalist. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the Boston Globe\, Scientific American\, Slate\, Time magazine\, and The Best American Science Writing\, among other publications. She is the author of Origins (2010)\, which was selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Publication. Her most recent work\, The Extended Mind (2021) was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/minds22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/8FF9ACC5-E614-469E-94A0-7FDD66A13355-1-e1644156820547.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220322T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220322T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220206T135646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220322T152344Z UID:33880-1647977400-1647981000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Reading for the Planet with Jennifer Wenzel DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nThe Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature\nwith scholar Jennifer Wenzel \nClick here to RSVP\nAs the climate crisis becomes one of the dominant topics of the 21st century\, scholars and activists are still seeking a vocabulary with which to describe it. The phasing out of “climate change” and “global warming\,” and the emphasis on justice\, remind us of the importance of rhetorical choices as we try to build a liveable future. There are few more qualified to speak on the relationship between narrative and climate than scholar Jennifer Wenzel\, whose recent work\, The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature\, argues for the role of cultural imagining in climate discourse.  \nTraversing political ecology\, geography\, anthropology\, history\, and law\, and punctuated by case studies in world literature\, the book is a searching and invigorating contribution to the climate debate. Demonstrating to readers how their relation to earth is informed by their consumption of media depicting it\, Wenzel argues for new ways of imagining the world and our place in it. The solution will not be to merely read the planet\, but to begin to read for it. Wenzel will be in conversation with Programs Manager Alice McCrum. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nJennifer Wenzel is a scholar of postcolonial studies and environmental and energy humanities\, and Associate Professor at Columbia University. The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature (2020)\, was shortlisted for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2020 Book Prize. She is also the author of Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (2009)\, awarded Honorable Mention for the Perkins Prize by the International Society for the Study of Narrative. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Wenzel and McCrum 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. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant on-site information regarding COVID-19: Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/wenzel22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/wenzel221-1-e1644155889358.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220312T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220312T120000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220303T121950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T134534Z UID:34742-1647082800-1647086400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Joan Koenig on the Power of Music (ages 0–6) DESCRIPTION:Joan Koenig on The Power of Music\n\nFor ages 0–6 \n\nJoin Joan Koenig\, Founder & Executive Director of the L’Ecole Koenig Preschool & Music School\, for an introduction on the importance of musical education. During this interactive program\, Koenig will discuss the benefits of a musical education\, and demonstrate examples of tools to make music with children and for integrating music into our daily lives. Adult chaperones are expected to actively participate in the program with their children. \nIn Joan Koenig’s book The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who Are Happy\, Healthy\, and Whole\, Koenig shares stories from her classrooms\, along with tips about how to use the latest research during the critical years when children are most sensitive to musical exposure—and most receptive to its benefits. The Musical Child reveals the multiple ways music can help children thrive—and how\, in the twenty-first century\, its practice is more vital than ever. \n\nAbout Joan Koenig: Koenig is an American-born musician\, educator\, author\, public speaker\, mother\, creative dervish\, and science nerd who has made her home in Paris for the past 40 years. She’s a graduate of the Juilliard School and has performed worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician. Jazz and Hindustani music (classical music of northern India) have played an integral role in her musical life and reflection on human musicality. Koenig’s pioneering research and innovative work with music have earned L’Ecole Koenig a solid reputation in the Parisian community\, among music cognition experts\, and beyond. Her dynamic and integrative approach to early music experience has shifted conventional thinking about literacy acquisition\, empathy building\, and the potential for creating collaborative communities among young children. Koenig is regularly invited to present her research in education and music cognition conferences around the world. \n\n  \n\nImportant information: This event is for Library members\, and advance registration is required. In compliance with French regulations\, please note: a valid Pass Vaccinal (ages 16+) or Pass Sanitaire (ages 12–15) is required to enter the Library. Masks are strongly encouraged for all Library visitors ages 6 and up\, staff\, and volunteers. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \nChildren in the Library Policy\n \nRegister here\n \n\n\n\nWe are an independent\, nonprofit organization celebrating our 101st year of service. With your continued support\, we are able to provide over 200 programs each year for ages 0–18. If you would like to support the Library\, you can make a donation to help sustain this vital institution\, and programs such as this one. \n  \n  \n\nDonate to the Library\n \n\n\n\n  URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/joan-koenig-on-the-power-of-music-ages-0-6/ CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/the-musical-child-using-the-power-of-music-to-raise-children-who-are-happy-healthy-and-whole-e1646309921926.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220309T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220309T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220206T133754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T093025Z UID:33876-1646854200-1646857800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Arendt Revisited with Samantha Rose Hill and D.N. Rodowick DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss \nHannah Arendt\nwith author Samantha Rose Hill and professor D.N. Rodowick \nClick here to RSVP\nSince she first gained international attention for her writing on the Eichmann trial\, Hannah Arendt’s life and image has developed a mythological status: from her refusal of the title of ‘philosopher’ to her battles with Theodor Adorno over Walter Benjamin’s legacy\, the legend of Arendt the person is as well-known as her more famous theoretical texts. The triumph of author and researcher Samantha Rose Hill’s new book\, Hannah Arendt\, is that it avoids demystifying Arendt. Rather\, it complicates the myth\, contributing new and contradictory information to the historian (and sometimes philosopher’s) biography.  \nA volume of the University of Chicago Press’s Critical Lives book series\, Rose Hill’s concise and intelligent work draws from heavy archival research. After looking at Arendt’s original notebooks\, Rose Hill has returned to the world with news: Arendt\, famous for her austere disposition and analysis of human evil\, also wrote poetry\, loved to shop\, and enjoyed drinking Campari with soda. This does not lighten the intellectual weight of Arendt’s works\, but rather highlights the pathos informing them. Rose Hill presents us with a nuanced picture of a woman who rejected any classification of herself or her ideas\, and whose perspective on tragedy and violence was made all the more astute by a love for life and for the world. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nSamantha Rose Hill is a writer and researcher. She is associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and previously served as assistant director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. Rose Hill is the author of two books on Arendt: Hannah Arendt (2021) and Hannah Arendt’s Poems (2022). She is currently writing a book about loneliness for Yale University Press.  \nD.N. Rodowick is the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Elegy for Theory (2014)\, and Philosophy’s Artful Conversation (2015)\, among other texts. In his most recent work\, An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities (2021)\, Rodowick argues that Arendt’s philosophy of judgment could reorient the humanities toward a practice of free engagement.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While Rodowick will be speaking in person in the Reading Room\, Rose Hill will be appearing over Zoom. The Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant: on-site information regarding COVID-19 \nIn compliance with French law\, a valid Pass Vaccinal (ages 16+) or Pass Sanitaire (ages 12–15) is required to enter the Library. Masks remain strongly recommended\, per the French Ministry of Health. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/arendt22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9CCFD519-A111-40A7-9B4D-09C7EB80FBFE-1-e1644154524631.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220302T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220302T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T134032 CREATED:20220206T132423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220221T144153Z UID:33864-1646249400-1646253000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Architecture for the Future with Mollie Claypool and Jack Self DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nArchitecture for the Future\nwith architects Mollie Claypool and Jack Self  \nClick here to RSVP\nAs we look to the future\, how might architecture and design help to bring about a brighter one? Indeed\, how can architecture engage with feminism\, anti-capitalism\, and sustainability? What tools are available within the field to support society-wide change? These are the questions that two leaders in imaginative architecture and design\, Mollie Claypool and Jack Self\, will seek to ask and answer.  \n  \nA specialist in architecture and automation\, Mollie Claypool argues for a rethinking of architectural production. Considering the individual parts that make up a building\, she asks how we might employ automation to create more equitable frameworks for design production. Architect Jack Self\, for his part\, works in domestic design and housing\, the history of communitarian life\, alternative modes of finance and ownership\, and new environmental standards. In their work\, both Claypool and Self are critical of the state of the world. But\, as Self writes\, “Criticism does not mean negativity. I believe powerfully in the proposition\, the project\, and the positive act. The present and past are tools for constructing the future.” Together\, the two will discuss the positive role of criticism in architecture\, while also considering the role of the practical and the imaginative in creating alternative futures. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nMollie Claypool is an architecture theorist focused on issues of social justice highlighted by increasing automation in architecture and design production. She is Co-Founder and CEO of technology company Automated Architecture (AUAR) Ltd and Co-Director of AUAR Labs at The Bartlett School of Architecture\, UCL\, where she is an Associate Professor in Architecture. She isco-author of Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation (Detail Edition 2019) and author of the SPACE10 report “The Digital in Architecture: Then\, Now and in the Future” (2019). \nJack Self is a London-based architect\, curator\, and writer. He is the Director of REAL\, a cultural institute and architectural practice\, Editor-in-Chief of Real Review and co-founder of REAL homes. Self curated the British Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale with the show Home Economics. He is the author of Real Estates: Life Without Debt (2014)\, and Home Economics: New Models of Domestic Life (2016)\, among other works. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/architecture22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/492F270D-0F71-4E87-8EF9-CBD09F0C04CD-1-e1644153350302.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR