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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220204T193000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220202T193000
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220125T193000
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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
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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
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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.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/90s-london-surveillance-young-black-artists-with-jamika-ajalon/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Creating and Inventing with Ayşegül Savaş
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss \nWhite on White\nwith novelist Ayşegül Savaş \nClick here to RSVP\nUnder the watchful eye of the anonymous narrator in Ayşegül Savaş’s second novel\, White on White\, a picturesque setting begins to fall apart. Having arrived in an unnamed European city to study Gothic sculpture for her doctoral thesis\, our narrator is trained in observing inert bodies. What readers confront\, however\, is her struggle to see real life clearly–particularly in the case of her landlord-turned-friend\, whose experience and philosophy as a painter is juxtaposed with the narrator’s scholarly background. \nAs the story evolves\, the student finds herself caught in the same trappings of representation and revelation that she had intended to study. Ultimately\, Savaş pushes the boundaries between artistic creation and self-invention to the point of breaking. A compelling and deeply psychological story of identity\, connection\, and storytelling\, White on White been praised as an elegant and haunting masterpiece. Join Savaş as she discusses this immensely impressive new release: its inception\, its characters\, its commentary on the relationship between art and self.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nAyşegül Savaş is the author of Walking on the Ceiling\, published in 2019. She has been published in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The Guardian\, among other outlets. Originally from Turkey\, Savaş currently resides in Paris.  \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 (Savaş 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/savas22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Too Much Noise with Olivier Sibony
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nNoise: A Flaw in Human Judgment\nwith best-selling author Olivier Sibony and Professor of Strategy at HEC Laurence Lehmann Ortega \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nImagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients – or that two judges in the same court give different sentences to people who have committed matching crimes. Now imagine that the same doctor and the same judge make different decisions depending on whether it is morning or afternoon\, or Monday rather than Wednesday\, or they haven’t yet had lunch. These are examples of noise: variability in judgements that should be identical. \nIn Noise\, Daniel Kahneman\, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein show how noise produces errors in many fields\, including in medicine\, law\, public health\, economic forecasting\, forensic science\, child protection\, creative strategy\, performance review and hiring. And although noise can be found wherever people are making judgements and decisions\, individuals and organizations alike commonly ignore its impact\, at great cost. \nPacked with new ideas\, and drawing on the same kind of sharp analysis and breadth of case study that made Thinking\, Fast and Slow and Nudge international bestsellers\, Noise explains how and why humans are so susceptible to noise and bias in decision-making. We all make bad judgements more than we think. With a few simple remedies\, this groundbreaking book explores what we can do to make better ones. \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nAbout the speakers: \nOlivier Sibony \nSibony is a professor\, author and advisor specializing in the quality of strategic thinking and the design of decision processes. Sibony is Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris. He is also an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School in Oxford University\, and has taught at London Business School\, Ecole Polytechnique\, ENA\, IE Madrid\, and other institutions. Previously\, he spent 25 years with McKinsey & Company in France and in the U.S.\, where he was a Senior Partner. There\, he was\, at various times\, a leader of the Global Strategy Practice and of the Consumer Goods & Retail Sector. \nSibony’s latest book\, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment\, co-authored with Daniel Kahneman and Cass R. Sunstein\, has appeared on multiple bestseller lists worldwide\, including the New York Times list. His previous book\, You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake!\, was awarded the 2019 Manpower Foundation Grand Prize for best management book of the year\, and is translated into multiple languages. Sibony builds on this research and experience to advise senior leaders on strategic and operational decision-making. He is a frequent keynote speaker and facilitator of top management and board meetings. He also serves as a member of corporate\, advisory and investment boards. Sibony is a graduate of HEC Paris and holds a Ph. D. from Université Paris-Dauphine. He is a knight in the French Order of the Légion d’Honneur. He is married and the father of two children. He lives in Paris. \nLaurence Lehmann Ortega \nAfter graduating from HEC (1993)\,Lehmann Ortega first worked as a consultant in strategy before joining Montpellier Business School as a Director of Graduate and MBA programs. Since 2009\, she is an Education Track Professor at the HEC Paris Strategy and Business Policy department. Besides teaching strategic and business model innovation in master programs\, at the MBA and in Executive Education\, she is he scientific director of the Master in Strategic Management and academic director of several corporate custom programs at HEC Executive Education. \nSince 2006\, she holds a PhD in Management from the University of Aix en Provence. Her research focuses on strategic innovation\, especially in incumbent firms in mature and low-tech industries. In this context\, she deals with business model innovation as a response to sustainable development constraints and with its consequences in multinational firms\, in particular the learning process and the questioning of mental schemes. Lehmann Ortega co-authored Strategor\, the leading strategic management textbook in France (translated into 4 languages). She has also published several articles in reviews and periodicals such as Long Range Planning and Management. She is the co-author of “Odyssey 3.14 Reinvent your business model”\, an original approach combining innovation and strategy. \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 (Sibony and Lehmann Ortega 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 \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. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe discussion is co-sponsored by AmCham France\, which was founded in 1894 to promote economic exchanges between France and the United States. As a platform for meetings\, reflection and exchange\, AmCham France acts as a link between the political\, economic andacademic communities. Today\, it brings together 200 leading French and American companies as well as numerous academic and economic partners committed to the transatlantic relationship. Independent of any government\, and convinced that businesses have a crucial role to play in bringing new ideas to the public debate\, it is a force for proposals to meet the major societal\, economic and environmental challenges. As such\, AmCham France is committed to strengthening the attractiveness of France. On behalf of its members\, AmCham France works with public decision-makers to develop and consolidate a French environment that is favorable to international companies\, particularly American companies\, which are the leading foreign investors and employers in France.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/sibony21/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Fantasy Book Club: "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" (ages 12–adult)
DESCRIPTION:Join fantasy fans to discuss new worlds and novels with like-minded readers.\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \n\n\n\nIn December\, we’ll be reading and discussing Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. Some book club members will likely read the entire trilogy. Beware—there will be spoilers! This book club meeting will be facilitated by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager (and fantasy fan) Celeste Rhoads.\n \n\n  \n\n\nAdvance registration is required. Participation in this book group is open to Library members\, and free of charge. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library before this session.\n\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \n\n\nFor questions about collections or events at the Library for Children and Teens contact Celeste Rhoads\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/fantasy-book-club-daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-ages-12-adult/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211201T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211201T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Translating the Nights
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nTales from 1001 Nights\nwith translator and poet Yasmine Seale \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nA cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling\, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors\, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz\, Clarice Lispector\, and Angela Carter. Now\, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The Annotated Arabian Nights the acclaimed literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and brilliant poet and translator Yasmine Seale present a new selection of tales from the Nights\, featuring treasured original stories as well as later additions including “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves\,” definitively bringing the Nights into the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nAlthough readers have long been enchanted by the legendary tales\, the English-speaking world has relied on dated translations by Richard Burton\, Edward Lane\, and other nineteenth-century adventurers. Seale’s distinctly contemporary and lyrical translations – working from both Arabic and French sources – break decisively with this masculine dynasty\, stripping away the deliberate exoticism of Orientalist renderings and bringing an urgency to Shahrazad’s voice. \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nYasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer and literary translator. Her essays\, poetry\, visual art\, and translations from Arabic and French have appeared widely — in Harper’s\, the Paris Review\, the Times Literary Supplement\, Apollo and elsewhere. Her first translated book\, Aladdin\, came out from W. W. Norton in 2018. Seale’s work has received a PEN America Literary Grant and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Seale will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/seale21/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211130T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211130T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss \nThe Odyssey of Angela Merkel\nwith Kati Marton and Thomas Chatterton Williams \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nThis Fall\, Chancellor Merkel\, a pillar on the international stage\, is expected to step down after a remarkable 16 years in office. This is sure to be a consequential change for Germany\, Europe\, and the world at large\, and whoever takes her place will have very large (modest\, practical) shoes to fill. With this event on the horizon\, bestselling author\, award-winning journalist\, and connected political insider Kati Marton’s biography couldn’t be better timed. \nThe Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider—a research chemist and pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany—who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West. Marton set out to pierce the mystery of how Angela Merkel achieved all this. And she found the answer in Merkel’s political genius: in her willingness to talk with adversaries rather than over them\, her skill at negotiating without ever compromising on what’s most important to her\, her canniness in appointing political rivals to her cabinet and exacting their policies so they have no platform to run against her\, the humility to allow others to take credit for things done in tandem\, the wisdom to stay out of the papers and off Twitter\, and the vision to take advantage of crises to enact bold change. \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nAbout the speakers: \nKati Marton is the author of True Believer: Stalin’s Last American Spy; Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World; Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History; Wallenberg; The Polk Conspiracy; and A Death in Jerusalem. She is an award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent. She was born in Hungary and lives in New York City. \nThomas Chatterton Williams is the author of Losing My Cool and Self-Portrait in Black and White. He is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine\, a Columnist at Harper’s\, a 2019 New America Fellow and a visiting fellow at AEI. His work has appeared in the New Yorker\, the London Review of Books\, Le Monde and many other places\, and has been collected in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing. He has received support from Yaddo\, MacDowell and The American Academy in Berlin\, where he is a member of the Board of Trustees. His next book\, Nothing Was the Same: The Pandemic Summer of George Floyd and the Shift in Western Consciousness\, will be published by Knopf. \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 (Marton and Chatterton 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. \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/hybrid-the-remarkable-odyssey-of-angela-merkel/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) An Ideal Presence
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nAn Ideal Presence\nwith Eduardo Berti and Daniel Levin Becker  \nClick here to RSVP for the in person event \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nIn 2015\, the Argentinian novelist Eduardo Berti spent several weeks in a “medico-literary” residency at the University Hospital Centre in Rouen\, France\, observing and conversing with the staff and volunteers of its palliative care department. From that experience he created this series of lightly fictionalized testimonials from nurses\, nursing aides\, doctors\, administrators\, porters\, volunteer musicians\, and the other people who make the unit tick. The result is a distinctly intimate and often poignant portrait of sickness and care\, and unflinching look at death through the eyes of the people who work with it every day—but also a profound reflection on what it means to be alive. An Ideal Presence was translated from French into English by Daniel Levin Becker and published by Fern books. \nAbout the speakers: \nEduardo Berti\, born in Buenos Aires in 1964\, is the author of a vast body of work that includes novels\, stories\, music writing\, and various unclassifiable books. He has translated authors such as Gustave Flaubert\, Jane Austen\, and Marguerite Yourcenar into Spanish\, and is the editor of a Spanish edition of Henry James’s complete stories. A member of the OuLiPo since 2014\, he lives in Bordeaux. \nDaniel Levin Becker\, born in Chicago in 1984\, is the author of Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature and the translator of\, among others\, Georges Perec’s La Boutique Obscure. He has been a member of the OuLiPo since 2009. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Berti and Levin Becker 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. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP for the in person event \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \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/berti21/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Entre Nous: Lauren Elkin & Lauren Collins
DESCRIPTION:Join The American Library in Paris\, Columbia Global Centers | Paris\, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination for the second in-person conversation of #EntreNousSeries.  \nA public transport vigil\, an observation of the world through the screen of her phone and from the height of her bus seat\, a study of the counterpoint between the everyday and the Event\, No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus follows Elkin on her daily commutes from her apartment in the 5th Arrondissement to her teaching job in the 7th. The book\, a love letter to Paris that unfolds over the course of the 2014-15 academic year\, is also a meditation on how the city has changed in two decades\, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first\, from analog to digital. \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \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.  \nLauren Collins began contributing to the New Yorker in 2003 and became a staff writer in 2008. She is the author of When in French: Love in a Second Language\, which the Times named as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2016. She is working on a second book\, about a coup d’état perpetrated by white supremacists in Wilmington\, North Carolina in 1898\, and its effects on the city during the past 120 years. \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 (Elkin and Collins will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \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/elkincollins21/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211116T193000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) An Evening of Jean de La Fontaine
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online) to celebrate the work of \nJean de La Fontaine\nwith Christopher Carsten and Odile Doutriaux-Mouterde  \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nJoin Evenings with an Author to celebrate Jean de La Fontaine\, a French poet whose 17th century Fables rank among the greatest masterpieces of French literature. Born in 1621 to a family of bourgeois civil servants\, La Fontaine obtained a lawyer’s diploma in 1649. As a student\, he spent most of his time in literary circles\, writing poems and stories. The Fables represent the peak of La Fontaine’s achievement. A brief discussion about La Fontaine\, as well as his most famous fables with translator Christopher Carsten will be followed by a live performance of his poetry by Odile Doutriaux-Mouterde and Carsten. Performed poems will include “The Wolf and the Lamb\,” “The Rat Who Retired From The World\,” and “La Fille\,” among others.  \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nAbout the speakers: \nChristopher Carsten \nAfter earning a BA from St John’s College\, Carsten joined the French Department at Yale University\, where he received MA and MPhil degrees in French literature.  \nSince the early 1990s\, Carsten has lived in Aix-en-Provence\, where he has taught English literature at the Université d’Aix-Marseille\, and philosophy and world literature at the private American institute\, I.A.U. Over the years\, Carsten has published various translations of La Fontaine’s fables: Fables of La Fontaine in 2005 for the University of Washington Press; 25 Fables Jean de La Fontaine in 2015 for Librairie Editions Tituli; and Wolves\, Frogs & Other Beasts in 2020 for Archétype Press.  \nOdile Doutriaux-Mouterde \nA former lawyer\, psychologist\, and a current family mediator\, Doutriaux-Mouterde has studied singing with Françoise Semellaz\, Jean-Louis Bindi and Nicole Uzan\, among others. Especially attracted to the baroque period\, Doutriaux-Mouterde obtained her CEM in baroque singing at the Conservatoire de Musique de Melun. She has also worked with Sylvie Portal\, former choir director of the Aria de Paris. \nLooking to treaties which illustrate the authentic gestures of eloquence and movement from the baroque period\, Doutriaux-Mouterde practices performance techniques from the 17th century. Specifying that her performance is not a question of reinvention\, but rather of restitution\, she practices the Fables of La Fontaine in particular. Doutriaux-Mouterde has participated twice in the Haydn Festival of La Roche-Posay. \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 (Carsten and Doutriaux-Mouterde 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 \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/lafontaine21/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Online) Entre Nous: Anto Neosoul & Robert O'Meally
DESCRIPTION:The American Library in Paris\, Columbia Global Centers | Paris\, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination are pleased to present Entre Nous. At the intersection of art and academia\, France and the United States\, the conversation series featuring academics\, authors\, journalists\, filmmakers\, and visual artists. \nJoin us for a conversation between Anto Neosoul and Robert O’Meally. \nRegister Now\nSpeakers: \nAnto Neosoul \nBorn in 1985 to a teacher (his mother) and a banker and theologian (his father)\, Neosoul is today one of Africa’s most popular soul musicians. He started to sing in primary school\, and continued to perform in secondary school as well as at the University of Nairobi\, where he studied broadcast journalism. \nAnto’s debut album “Starborn” launched Neosoul onto first a local and then a worldwide stage; he has since toured in both Africa and Europe. His performances have been described as “high on melody\, rhythm and harmonies.” Neosoul was nominated for the MTV African Music Awards in 2009. He was also nominated for two Kisima Awards for the Afro Fusion Song of the year and Best New Artist in 2012\, as well as two Groove Awards for video of the year and song of the year in 2013. \n  \nRobert O’Meally  \nO’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, where he has served on the faculty for twenty-five years. The founder and director of Columbia’s Center for Jazz Studies\, O’Meally is the author of The Craft of Ralph Ellison\, Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday\, The Jazz Singers\, and Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey. His edited volumes include The Jazz Cadence of American Culture\, Living With Music: Ralph Ellison’s Essays on Jazz\, History and Memory in African American Culture\, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (co-editor)\, among others. For his production of a Smithsonian record set called The Jazz Singers\, he was nominated for a Grammy Award. His new books are The Romare Bearden Reader (edited for Duke University Press\, 2019) and Antagonistic Cooperation: Collage\, Jazz\, and American Fiction (Columbia University Press\, 2020). \nRegister Now
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/entrenousneosoul/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid & In French) Les Femmes qui font Paris
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss \nLa Nouvelle Parisienne\nA panel with Aline Asmar d’Amman\, Victoire de Taillac\,  \nand Lindsey Tramuta \nModerated by: Colombe Schneck \nThe fantasy of the Parisienne\, with her subtle blend of beauty and elegance\, has captured the world’s imagination for centuries. In La Nouvelle Parisienne: Les femmes et les idées qui font Paris\, Lindsey Tramuta examines and deconstructs the stereotype\, showing us that there are many ways to be a Parisienne in contemporary France. The conversation will happen in French.  \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nClick here to RSVP for the online event  \nAbout the speakers: \nLindsey Tramuta is a Paris-based journalist and author who moved to France from the United States nearly 15 years ago. Writing for numerous publications\, Tramuta has covered lesser-known topics\, uncovered new trends\, shared her travels\, and introduced readers to inspiring Francophiles. She is the author of The New Paris and The New Parisienne. \nAline Asmar d’Amman is the architect and interior designer behind Culture in Architecture\, a design studio based in Beirut and in Paris\, committed to bridging cultures while balancing the past with the present. The international firm has been at the helm of several iconic interior projects\, including the re-opening of Hôtel de Crillon in Paris and the renovation the Eiffel Tower’s gastronomic restaurant Le Jules Verne. \nAfter working for many years in the world of fashion and beauty\, Victoire de Taillac now runs Officine Universelle Buly alongside co-founder Ramdane Touhami. With boutiques in Japan\, South Korea\, Denmark\, the United Kingdom\, Taiwan\, the United States\, and Australia\, Officine Universelle Buly celebrates a history of apothecaries\, perfumeries\, and laboratories. \nThe panel discussion will be moderated by Colombe Schneck\, an award-winning writer\, journalist\, and director of documentary films. The recipient of scholarships from the Villa Medicis in Rome and the Institut Français\, Schneck is currently working on a novel that will soon be published by Grasset. She also writes a weekly column about reading for Madame Figaro.  \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. \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nClick here to RSVP for the online event  \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/tramuta21/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:(Online) Who Gets Believed? With Dina Nayeri
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nWho Gets Believed?\nwith author Dina Nayeri \nClick here to RSVP \nJoin Dina Nayeri for a discussion about themes from her upcoming book\, Who Gets Believed: Reflections on Stories and Truth. Several questions follow: How does truth shift to accommodate insiders of class\, faith\, and culture? How does an idea become true or a person credible? What does it mean to believe? The discussion will explore how lying and belief are embedded into various cultures\, as well as how the culture of belief is built\, coded\, and reaffirmed over time. \nClick here to RSVP \nNayeri is the Library’s current Visiting Fellow; the Fellowship is generously sponsored by The de Groot Foundation. She is the author of The Ungrateful Refugee\, winner of the 2020 Geschwister-Scholl-Preis\, finalist for the 2021 Elle Grand Prix des Lectrices\, the 2019 Kirkus Prize\, The Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and winner of the 2020 Clara Johnson Award. The recipient of many fellowships\, including\, most recently\, the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination’s Fellowship in 2019\, Nayeri’s stories and essays have been published by the New York Times\, the New York Times Magazine\, the Guardian\, the Los Angeles Times\, the New Yorker\, the Wall Street Journal\, and many others. Her debut novel\, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea was translated into fourteen languages. Her second novel\, Refuge\, was a New York Times editor’s choice. She holds a BA from Princeton\, an MBA from Harvard\, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and Teaching Writing Fellow.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/who-gets-believed-with-dina-nayeri/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Zombie Fashion Show (ages 12–adult)
DESCRIPTION:The American Library in Paris presents: the annual Halloween Extravaganza\, with a Zombie Fashion Show on 29 October! \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER TO ATTEND THE SHOW. \nThe American Library in Paris will turn into a hot spot for the undead the evening of Friday 29 October. The event will feature zombie trivia\, a screening of an original film by the Library’s Master Shot Film Club\, a reading by Amy Plum (who will share a zombie battle scene from her novel Die for Me)\, and a Zombie catwalk show (a.k.a. a costume contest for the best of the undead).The audience will select the most rotten of the zombies after zombie contestants crawl the catwalk. \n\n\nTo participate in the event as part of the audience\, registration is required. Register early\, as space is limited! \n\nContestants may REGISTER HERE. To enter as a zombie fashion show contestant\, fill out this form online by 15 October. Each zombie contestant will have 2 minutes to walk the catwalk in their undead attire. Fashion show prizes will be awarded in the following categories: \n\nLiterary Zombie Masterpiece\nMost Creative Zombie Attire\nUndead Zombie Champion\n\n\nAdvance registration is required for this event. Participation is free for Library members. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library.  \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER TO ATTEND THE SHOW. \n\nQuestions about the Halloween Extravaganza? Contact the Children’s and Teens’ Services Department: 01 53 59 12 69 or send an email to Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org \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.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/zombie-fashion-show-ages-12-adult/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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