BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The American Library in Paris - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20220524T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220524T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 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\nClick here to RSVP to watch the live stream at the Library\n\nClick here to RSVP to watch online\nWritten in 1954 but unpublished until after her death\, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Inseparables is an intimate portrait\, based on life\, of female friendship on the cusp of womanhood.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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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:20260426T152509 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220222T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220222T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 CREATED:20220117T095109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220221T145220Z UID:33374-1645558200-1645561800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) How to Play La Parisienne DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss \nPlaying the Parisienne\nwith actor Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu and journalist Elaine Sciolino \nClick here to RSVP\nIt is almost impossible to live as an expat in France without\, at least once\, confronting the cultural phenomenon that is the Netflix series “Emily in Paris.” If you haven’t watched it\, you have a friend or relative that has. Though the series has received a blend of love\, curiosity\, as well as sometimes vitriol\, a particular target of public attention has been the character Sylvie Grateau (played by Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu)\, who heads the marketing agency that reluctantly hosts Emily Cooper (played by Lily Collins)\, the show’s guileless American heroine.  \nPhilippine Leroy-Beaulieu\, a seasoned French actress who plays the effortlessly chic and compellingly mean antagonist-turned-friend\, believes that her character is more complicated than the stereotypes to which public opinion has reduced her. In a recent New York Times profile by journalist Elaine Sciolino\, she defended the show’s lack of realism\, and explained her method and inspirations for stepping into Sylvie’s strappy shoes. In an exciting evening for expat and French viewers alike\, Leroy-Beaulieu and Sciolino will continue their conversation on femininity\, age\, style\, and mean (and nice) Parisians at the American Library. Join the two women as they discuss the trajectory of Leroy-Beaulieu’s career\, the cultural aftershocks of “Emily in Paris\,” and her experience adopting the mantle of the elegant and infamous Parisienne.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nElaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times\, based in France since 2002. Her latest book\, The Seine: The River That Made Paris\, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a Barnes & Noble nonfiction book-of-the-month selection. Her previous book\, The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs\, published in 2015\, was a New York Times best seller. Sciolino was decorated chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2010 for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States. \nPhilippine Leroy-Beaulieu\, who grew up in Rome before moving to Paris as a teenager\, was nominated for a César for the 1985 comedy and runaway hit\, “Trois Hommes et un Couffin.” Over the years\, she has played roles as varied as Charlotte Corday (Marat’s assassin during the French Revolution)\, a drug addict\, a Russian aristocrat\, a psychopathic doctor turned police officer\, and a Polish-Jewish émigré in World War II France. More recently\, she has been known for playing the beautiful ambitious wife of Mathias Barneville\, the most senior agent\, in Cédric Klapisch’s Dix Pour Cent.   \nClick here to RSVP\n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Leroy-Beaulieu and Sciolino will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nOn-site information regarding COVID-19: In compliance with French law\, a valid Pass Vaccinal (ages 16+) or Pass Sanitaire (ages 12–15) is required to enter the Library. Masks must be worn correctly at all times by all Library visitors ages 6 and up. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/paris22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/emilyparis22-1-e1642413211499.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220216T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220216T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 CREATED:20220114T144753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220216T125925Z UID:33352-1645039800-1645043400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Live) The Creative Process Revealed DESCRIPTION:*Live Event Only* \nJoin Evenings with an Author to discuss \nThe Creative Process Revealed\nwith Jonathan Bloom  \nClick here to RSVP\nIn what ways does tracing the creative process give us a better understanding of a published work? How do writers’ decisions to add or remove material\, however minor or extensive\, substantially alter their work? How does the actual choice and use of writing tools influence that process? In what ways do editorial suggestions for revision enter into the process as well\, after authors submit for publication what they consider to be their final versions?\n\nThis unusually diverse multiple-author collection devoted entirely to British and Irish writers explores many facets of the creative process while revealing hitherto unexamined\, unpublished writings from numerous archives and private collections on both sides of the Atlantic. Spanning over a century of writing\, the volume explores the creative process in four genres (the novel\, poetry\, autobiography\, the short story)\, examines the work of major canonical writers as well as award-winning living writers\, and counts among its contributors distinguished international scholars and writers working in such wide-ranging fields as modernism\, life writing\, genetic criticism\, creative writing\, gender studies\, codicology\, and electronic textual editing. Much can be learned from these pioneering investigations and archival revelations which offer general readers\, writers\, and critics alike the rare opportunity to witness the hidden craftsmanship at the heart of the creative process.\n\nCopies of Genesis and Revision in Modern British and Irish Writers will be for sale after the event for just 20€ (retail price 70-100€) thanks to Bill & Rosa’s Book Room (Paris West – Boulogne). After the event\, additional copies may be ordered by contacting BRbookroom@gmail.com.\n \nAbout the speaker: \nJonathan Bloom is Senior Lecturer at the University of Paris-Dauphine\, Paris Sciences & Lettres\, France. He has published widely and his book The Art of Revision in the Short Stories of V. S. Pritchett and William Trevor (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2007) received critical acclaim and was nominated for the MLA First Book Prize.  He has been awarded three Harry Ransom Center Fellowships and works primarily in 20th century British literature and genetic criticism. \n*The event will not be online. \nOn-site information regarding COVID-19: In compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/jbloom22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/bloom22.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220215T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220215T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 CREATED:20220114T143543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220124T142053Z UID:33349-1644953400-1644957000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) American Runaway with Audrey Edwards DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author and Black History Month to discuss \nAmerican Runaway\nwith author Audrey Edwards and Ellen Wright-Hervé \nClick here to RSVP \nAs the 2016 election campaign wore on\, many Americans promised to leave America if Donald Trump was elected. And when Trump won in November\, celebrated journalist Audrey Edwards did just that. Inspired by a history of Black Americans leaving the United States for France in search of social and political liberation\, Edwards left the country to both protest Trump and to protect her well-being as a Black woman. Her new book\, American Runaway: Black and Free in Paris in the Trump Years\, chronicles the life she made for herself abroad.  \nA witty\, captivating\, and moving work\, American Runaway captures Edwards’s sharp voice and dry humor. Filled with fabulous soirées\, kooky characters\, complicated friendships\, and the occasionally messy cultural exchange\, the work is simultaneously accessible and vulnerable. It broaches the varied challenges known by all expats of leaving one’s home behind\, as well as the particular experience of a Black woman “of a certain age” in the City of Lights. Ultimately\, Edwards offers a triumphant story of self-liberation. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nAudrey Edwards is a journalist and author whose work\, over the course of her career\, grapples with issues of race and gender. A former Executive Editor of Essence and Vice President of Editorial Operations at Black Enterprise\, Edwards has worked with figures such as Oprah Winfrey and Maxime Waters to make the work and experiences of Black women accessible to mass-media audiences. She is the author of Children of the Dream: The Psychology of Black Success and The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women\, among other works.  \nEllen Wright-Hervé is the French granddaughter of Black writer Richard Wright\, who lived and worked in Paris as an expatriate for much of his life. Born in Accra\, Ghana to parents who worked with Kwame Nkrumah for Ghana’s independence\, Wright-Hervé has since lived in Lagos\, London\, Rennes\, Tours and presently Paris. In addition to work dedicated to training in hospitals\, she works actively in the city to preserve her grandfather’s legacy as a writer and cultural figure. She is currently conducting research on his life and work.  \n  \n  \nClick here to RSVP\n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Edwards and Wright-Hervé 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. The conversation is organized and co-sponsored by Little Africa Paris. \nOn-site information regarding COVID-19: In compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/edwards22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/americanrunaway22-e1642170879429.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220209T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220209T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 CREATED:20220114T141451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T104248Z UID:33346-1644433200-1644438600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Myth of a Colorblind France DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author and Black History Month to discuss \nMyth of a Colorblind France*\nwith film-maker Alan Govenar and Monique Wells \nClick here to RSVP \n*Please note that the event will now start at 19h CET and run for 90 minutes.\nThe term ‘colorblind’ is complicated and frequently ambiguous\, carrying with it both negative and positive connotations. Historically\, France has been celebrated for its colorblind ethos\, which favors equality over difference. However\, recent discussions have highlighted the ways the colorblind approach ignores socio-political structures and undervalues the particularities of the Black experience. Alan Govenar’s documentary\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, arrives at a pertinent moment in this debate. Detailing both historical African American artists who saw France as a place of refuge from American racism\, and the experience of immigrants and people of color in present-day France\, Govenar offers a rich picture of Black history in France while also criticizing oversimplified narratives depicting France as a racial utopia.  \nUltimately\, the film invites us to reflect on the nature of myth: what myth is\, how it can be put to use\, and how we can simultaneously find truth and falsity in it. From figures such as Josephine Baker\, James Baldwin\, and Richard Wright\, to contemporary artists such as musician Karim Toure\, Govenar’s tone is neither naïve nor damning\, but rather celebratory of Black life and art.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nAlan Govenar is a writer\, folklorist\, and visual artist. He is the author of eighteen books\, including Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, which won First Place in the New York Book Festival and was awarded a Boston Globe-Hornbook Honor. Also a photographer and film-maker\, his film Stoney Knows How was selected as an Outstanding Film of the Year by the London Film Festival. \nA native of Houston\, Texas\, Dr. Monique Wells is the founder and CEO of the Wells International Foundation which works to empower individuals\, especially women and persons of African descent. As an African-American resident of Paris\, veterinary pathologist and toxicologist\, world traveler\, entrepreneur and arts enthusiast\, Dr. Wells knows there is a great need to expose Paris-based minorities to educational and cultural opportunities that will allow them to have a richer\, more rewarding life. \nClick here to RSVP\n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Wells will appear in the Reading Room and Govenar will appear on Zoom)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. The conversation is organized and co-sponsored by Little Africa Paris. \n*Please note that the event will now start at 19h CET and run for 90 minutes.\nOn-site information regarding COVID-19: In compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/colorblindfrance22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/mythcolorbling22-e1642169627365.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220207T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 CREATED:20220114T134706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220201T162708Z UID:33340-1644264000-1644267600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Hood Feminism with Mikki Kendall DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author and Black History Month to discuss \nHood Feminism\nwith authors Mikki Kendall and Kierstan Kaushal-Carter \nClick here to RSVP\nIn recent years\, many have zeroed in on the workplace as the site of female oppression; from sexual harassment to unequal career opportunities\, women are fighting for their right to work safely and productively. Observing this phenomenon in her work Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot\, Mikki Kendall offers a simple but radical counter-argument: today’s iteration of feminism\, by ignoring material conditions for survival such as food security\, medical care\, education\, and access to safe housing\, has left behind the majority of women.  \nProposing that hunger\, homelessness\, homophobia\, racial discrimination\, and more are feminist issues\, Kendall takes aim at the blindness of feminist movements toward the everyday experience and needs of women. Reintroducing the intersection of race and class into contemporary feminist lexicon\, Kendall writes\, is the only way to salvage the movement itself. Until this moment\, the commitment to solidarity at the heart of the feminist mission is worth nogthing. Equal parts pointed critique\, personal narrative\, and call to action\, the work refuses to exculpate the women who use feminist mantles to opress others. In this way\, Hood Feminism charts a path for true female liberation. The conversation is organized and co-sponsored by Little Africa Paris. \nAbout the speakers: \nMikki Kendall is a writer\, cultural critic\, diversity consultant\, and “occasional feminist.” She speaks and writes on feminist history and race\, as well as on police violence and contemporary culture. Her work has been published in The Guardian\, The Washington Post\, and NBC News; she has appeared on the BBC\, NPR\, The Daily Show\, and PBS. She is the author of graphic novel Amazons\, Abolitionists\, and Activists (2019). \nHaving received a M.A. in Government from Harvard University and a B.A. in English and American Culture Studies from Washington University in St. Louis.\, Kierstan Kaushal-Carter is now a fourth-year doctoral student in African and African American Studies at Harvard University\, where she is writing about policing in the twenty first century. Her published writing can be found in The St. Louis Anthology\, and The New Republic Magazine. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kendall22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hood22.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220204T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220204T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 CREATED:20220114T133316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220130T170233Z UID:33336-1644003000-1644006600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Entre Nous: Black is the Journey\, Africana the Name DESCRIPTION:As part of the Entre Nous series in partnership with Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, join professors Maboula Soumahoro and Kaiama L. Glover\, both specialists of Africana and Diaspora Studies\, for a discussion about Soumahoro’s recent book\, Black is the Journey\, Africana the Name.  \nIn this highly original book\, Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic\, where Africa\, Europe\, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces has its own way of reading the Black body and the Black experience\, and its own modes of visibility\, invisibility\, silence\, and amplification of Black life. By weaving together her personal history with that of France and its abiding myth of color-blindness\, Soumahoro highlights the banality and persistence of structural racism in France today\, and shows that freedom will be found in the journey and movement between the sites of the Atlantic triangle. Africana is the name of that freedom. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nMaboula Soumahoro is an associate professor at the University of Tours and president of the Black History Month Association\, dedicated to celebrating Black history and cultures. A specialist in the field of Africana Studies\, she has conducted research and taught in several universities and prisons in the United States and France and was most recently a Villa Albertine Resident in Atlanta. She is the author of Le Triangle et l’Hexagone\, réflexions sur une identité noire (La Découverte\, 2021)\, translated in English by Dr. Kaiama L. Glover as Black Is the Journey\, Africana the Name (Polity\, 2021). This book received the FetKann! Maryse Condé literary prize in 2020. \nKaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French & Africana Studies and Faculty Director of the Barnard Digital Humanities Center at Barnard College. She is an awardee of the PEN/Heim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the New York Public Library Cullman Center. She is the founding co-editor of archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis\, the founding co-organizer of “The Caribbean Digital\,” and the founding co-director of the digital humanities project In the Same Boats: Toward an Afro-Atlantic Intellectual Cartography. In 2018-2019 she was a resident Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris\, France where she began work on her new book project\, For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/maboula22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ENTRE-NOUS-TEMPLATE-BANNER6-e1642167127655.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220202T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220202T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 CREATED:20211213T084650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220114T125327Z UID:32728-1643830200-1643833800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) What Really Troubles the 99% with Albena Azmanova DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss \nWhat Really Troubles the 99%\nwith professors Albena Azmanova and Lucas Chancel \nClick here to RSVP\nA daring and unapologetic intervention in post-2008 financial crisis leftism\, Albena Azmanova’s Capitalism on the Edge offers a radical alternative to traditional anti-capitalist narratives which place inequality at the center of their critiques. Azmanova claims rather that the central contradiction of the modern age is the emergence of “precarity capitalism”: on one side\, ceaseless pursuit of profit on a corporate level; on the other\, a labor force living in constant financial insecurity. It is this perennial state of anxiety which fosters social and political division; and it is by way of political alliance and social policy aimed at developing trust that we can overcome it. \nBoth polemical and analytic\, Azmanova rejects tropes of capitalism in crisis\, as well as calls for revolution to combat. What we need\, she instead proposes\, is to abandon the rhetoric of utopia\, and to embrace reform beyond ideological boundaries. As such\, rather than asking how we might better capitalism or how we might dismantle it\, Azmanova presents a policy-based action plan aimed at subverting it from within. Azmanova will be in conversation with economist Lucas Chancel. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nAlbena Azmanova is a tenured Associate Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies and author of The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment (2012). She has served as policy advisor for the United Nations\, the Council of Europe\, and the European Parliament\, among other institutions. Born in Bulgaria\, she has resided in Brussels since 1997. \nThe Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris Scool of Economics\, and an Affiliate Professor at Sciences Po\, Lucas Chancel is an economist who specializes in inequality and in environmental policy. His work focuses on the measurement of economic inequality\, its interactions with sustainable development and on the implementation of social and ecological policies. Coverage of his research can be found in Science\, Nature\, The Guardian\, The Financial Times\, the New York Times\, CNN\, Le Monde\, Der Spiegel\, El Pais\, and several other publications. \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 (Azmanova and Chancel 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 \nIn compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/azmanova22/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/capitalismonedge-e1639385110745.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220201T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220201T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 CREATED:20220114T124747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220114T132835Z UID:33330-1643743800-1643747400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) From Slavery to Black Lives Matter with Pap Ndiaye DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author and Black History Month to discuss \nLes Noirs Américains\nwith Professor Pap Ndiaye and writer Jake Lamar \nClick here to RSVP\nIn March 2021\, many news outlets from Le Monde to the New York Times reported on a historic moment: Pap Ndiaye\, a French historian specializing in African American and Afro-French history\, had been appointed director of the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris. Built in 1931 to celebrate French colonialism\, the museum has a troubled historical identity which Ndiaye seeks to expose and transform.  \nDescribed as a “quiet revolutionary\,” Ndiaye’s appointment as director followed an immensely successful transatlantic academic career. Born and raised in Paris\, he first encountered African American history at the University of Virginia\, where he completed his master’s in history. His initial research led him to pioneer a comparative historical approach\, researching the African diaspora in France and America in order to conceive of a transnational philosophy of race as its intersectionality. An authority on questions of race and post-colonialism\, Ndiaye frequently consults on various cultural projects from the Musée d’Orsay’s exhibit “Black Models” to the Opéra Garnier’s diversity report. The author of many books\, including La Condition noire and Les Noirs américains:en marche pour l’égalité\, Ndiaye has also written for Le Monde and Libération. Ndiaye will be in conversation with writer Jake Lamar.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the interviewer: \nJake Lamar is a Paris-based author and professor of creative writing. He has received numerous awards for his work\, most notably the Lyndhurst Prize\, which was awarded to his début novel Bourgeois Blues and France’s Grand Prize for best foreign thriller for The Last Integrationist. He is also the recipient of the Centre National du Livre grant and the Beaumarchais fellowship.  \nClick here to RSVP\n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Ndiaye and Lamar 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. The conversation is organized and co-sponsored by Little Africa Paris. \nOn-site information regarding COVID-19: In compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ndiaye22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/010122papcover-e1642164437879.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220126T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220126T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 CREATED:20211213T091124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211213T092330Z UID:32736-1643225400-1643229000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nWAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts\nwith lawyer\, historian\, and writer Rebecca Hall \nClick here to RSVP\nIn her new graphic novel WAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts\, Dr. Rebecca Hall asks what gaps exist in accepted historical narratives\, and what techniques we have at our disposal for not only making these gaps visible\, but for remedying them. Piecing together the lives and experiences of enslaved women at the front of slave revolts through painstaking archival work\, while also detailing her own experience bringing this history to light\, Hall reinserts Black female resistance into the very historical record which had previously excluded even the possibility of such a phenomenon.  \nWeaving together in-depth research with personal narrative\, the novel is both an historical account and a commentary on history. It embraces a practice of careful imagination–of the names of women\, of their biographies\, and of their outcomes–which in turn demonstrates the value of imagination as a tool in historical reconstruction. Rejecting the position of the distanced historian who describes history without participating in it\, Hall has deliberately inserted herself into the narrative\, assuming the responsibility and the emotional weight which her position as teller of these women’s stories entails. Frequently compared to other graphic novels such as Maus and Persepolis for its striking combination of image and text\, the work enacts a confrontation of the historical with the present\, showing readers that no one is exempt from the wake of the past.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nRebecca Hall is a tenants’ rights lawyer and historian. She was a 2020-21 scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has taught at UC Santa Cruz\, UC Berkeley\, and was a visiting professor of law at the University of Utah. Hall is a committed activist and has worked to support movements in women’s and LGBT rights\, Climate Justice\, and Black Lives Matter.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hall22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/wakerebeccahall-e1639386649501.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220125T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220125T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 CREATED:20220114T121701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220114T121701Z UID:33326-1643139000-1643142600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) The Subversive Simone Weil DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nSimone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas\nwith Professor Robert Zaretsky \nClick here to RSVP\nIn 1929\, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil\, both students\, had a brief and heavily-mythologized confrontation. Having started the conversation\, de Beauvoir stressed her belief in human freedom. Weil responded that feeding humankind took priority. And when de Beauvoir maintained her initial point\, Weil told her\, quite simply\, “It is easy to see you have never gone hungry.”  \nSimone Weil was in a particularly suited position to make this retort\, having renounced her bourgeois background in order to\, among other pursuits\, work in a car factory and volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. A Marxist and an anarchist\, as well as\, later\, a Catholic mystic\, Weil and her life present many enigmas. The supreme achievement of researcher and writer Robert Zaretsky’s new book\, The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas\, is its reading of the complexities of Weil’s work as complementary contradictions of her life. Identifying five central concepts from Weil’s writing\, Zaretsky deftly explores each one by way of Weil’s biography\, demonstrating how her experience informed and inspired her politics and ethics. An original approach to an original philosopher\, Zaretsky unifies Weil’s actions with her thought\, arguing that\, above all\, the philosopher conceived of ideas as\, first of all\, practice.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nRobert Zaretsky is a professor of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston\, specializing in European political and intellectual history. He is the author of many works\, including A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest of Meaning (2013)\, Boswell’s Enlightenment (2015)\, and the forthcoming Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague (2022). Zaretsky is a frequent contributor to the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Boston Globe\, and is the former history editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/weil22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/9780226549330-e1642162589725.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220118T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220118T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 CREATED:20211213T083548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211213T083830Z UID:32722-1642534200-1642537800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Getting Real with Claire Messud DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nA Dream Life\nwith novelist Claire Messud and journalist Christopher Beha \nClick here to RSVP\nA novella as much about the sharp bite of reality as about the allures of living in a dream\, A Dream Life is novelist and essayist Claire Messud’s newest addition to an impressive and diverse body of work. When a family moves from New York to a chateau of fairytale proportions in Australia\, the matriarch\, originally drawn to a Mrs. Dalloway-esque existence of hosting and managing the home\, finds herself trapped in the opulence and frivolity which had originally enticed her.  \nDrawing on tropes of the bourgeois novel–the grandiose estate\, the domestic affairs\, family drama and class relations–Messud has produced a book about confined spaces and the dynamics that emerge within them. Described by writer Helen Garner as “a perfect frolic of a book\,” the novella is a balanced take on fantasy\, deception\, and dissatisfaction\, all within the domestic realm. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nClaire Messud is a novelist and professor of creative writing. Her novel The Emperor’s Children is a New York Times bestseller and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Messud is a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee and recipient of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Addison Metcalf Award and its Strauss Living Award. She has taught creative writing at Harvard University\, Yale University\, and John Hopkins University\, among other institutions.  \nChristopher Beha is a novelist and memoirist\, and serves as the executive editor of Harper’s Magazine. The Index of Self-Destructive Acts\, his most recent novel\, was nominated for the 2020 National Book Award. Beha’s essays and reviews have been published in the New York Times\, New York Review of Books\, and London Review of Books. He received his MFA in creative writing from The New School in 2006. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/messud22/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/A-Dream-Life-front-cover-e1639384446166.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220114T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220114T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T152509 CREATED:20211222T112726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220110T131503Z UID:32959-1642186800-1642192200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:90s London\, Surveillance\, & Young Black Artists with Jamika Ajalon (ages 12–adult) DESCRIPTION:For ages 12–adult \n\n“Skye Papers” may be Ajalon’s first novel\, but she is an experienced artist: a sonic slam poet\, musician\, multimedia performer and filmmaker with a deep back catalog\, evident on every page. From the rhythmic\, riffing\, incantatory prose to the novel’s cinematic crosscutting and recursive structure\, to the minutiae of Skye and her friends’ daily struggles as artists\, we get lost in a world that Ajalon renders with a precision and lyricism that elude her main character.” — New York Times \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nJoin us for an interview with novelist Jamika Ajalon\, the author of Skye Papers\, followed by a Q&A with the audience\, and a reception. Ajalon will be in conversation with three members of the Library’s Teen Writing Group for a discussion focused on her inspiration\, her research\, and her writing process. This event will take place in the Library’s reading room. \n\nSkye Papers is a debut novel by Jamika Ajalon that follows three Black queer artists\, musicians\, and poets-Skye\, Scottie\, and Pieces-as they meet in New York and travel to London\, navigating the 1990s underground art scene as it becomes increasingly threatened by the rise of CCTV and state surveillance. \n\nAbout the author: Jamika Ajalon is an interdisciplinary artist and lecturer\, fortunate enough to have collaborated with many brilliant creatives across the globe. She is a creative polymath; a writer at base (poet\, novelist\, essayist)\, she uses a melange of interdisciplinary practice as her pen\, (filmmaker\, producer\, songwriter\, electronic/digital artist/archivist). She has a BA Film/Video from Columbia University\, and a Masters in Communications in Culture and Society from Goldsmiths University\,London \nAdvance registration is required for this event. Participation is is free for Library members\, and 10€ per person for non-members. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library. \n \n  \n\nImportant: on-site information regarding COVID-19: In compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n  \nQuestions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \nWe thank you for your continued support and for being a part of the Library community! If you would like to support the Library\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service. 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