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:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD 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:20220202T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220202T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 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:20260426T184733 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:20260426T184733 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:20260426T184733 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:20260426T184733 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:20260426T184733 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. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/90s-london-surveillance-young-black-artists-with-jamika-ajalon/ CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/skye-papers.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220112T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220112T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211213T082630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211213T082649Z UID:32717-1642015800-1642019400@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WhiteonWhitecover-e1639383894596.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211207T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211207T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211019T124136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T142819Z UID:31968-1638905400-1638909000@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/noise-e1634646274951.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211204T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211204T150000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211028T213737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211028T213848Z UID:32106-1638626400-1638630000@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/external-content.duckduckgo.com_-e1635457045854.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211201T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211201T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211019T121549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211107T144126Z UID:31965-1638387000-1638390600@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/9781631493645-scaled-e1634645005177.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211130T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211130T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211019T115520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211107T133739Z UID:31962-1638300600-1638304200@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/the-chancellor-e1634643411510.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211123T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211123T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211019T112200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211107T143427Z UID:31959-1637695800-1637699400@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Capture-décran-2021-10-19-à-12.56.56.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211117T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211117T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211019T073543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211107T134828Z UID:31955-1637177400-1637181000@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2-e1634629048460.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211116T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211116T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211102T060451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211107T132603Z UID:32168-1637091000-1637094600@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/fontaine21-2.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211115T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211115T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211004T060437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T060437Z UID:31700-1637004600-1637008200@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/A-conversation-series-e1633326822578.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211110T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211110T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211019T061546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211101T151325Z UID:31952-1636572600-1636576200@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/parisienne.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211102T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211102T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211018T134558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211101T143146Z UID:31945-1635881400-1635885000@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dina-2-scaled-e1634564705724.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211029T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211029T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20210924T162618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210924T163013Z UID:31463-1635534000-1635541200@americanlibraryinparis.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/zombie-fashion-show-pic-e1632500771425.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211027T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211027T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211001T071755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T071755Z UID:31624-1635363000-1635366600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Lauren Oyler on Fake Accounts DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nFake Accounts\nwith author Lauren Oyler \nClick here to RSVP \nA “sharp\, brilliant interrogation of the way we live now\,” Fake Accounts\, Oyler’s debut novel\, follows  a woman who discovers her boyfriend is an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist. Capturing the “neurotic spirit of a generation\,” the way social media has reconfigured the way we relate to the world\, this dense\, funny and fierce work takes place in New York and Berlin\, with a brief detour to Washington\, D.C. \nClick here to RSVP \nOyler’s essays on books and culture have appeared in the New Yorker\, the New York Times Magazine\, the New York Times Book Review\, the London Review of Books\, Harper’s\, the Guardian\, New York Magazine’s The Cut\, Bookforum\, the Baffler\, the New Republic\, and elsewhere. From 2015 to 2017\, Oyler was an editor at Broadly\, the women’s site at Vice. Before that\, she was a freelance copy editor\, among other things\, in Berlin. In addition to Fake Accounts she has co-written two books with Alyssa Mastromonaco and has ghostwritten for other people as well. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/online-lauren-oyler-on-fake-accounts/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/fakeaccountsJPG-e1633329613954.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211026T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211026T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211003T203351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T101042Z UID:31695-1635276600-1635280200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Henry Kissinger: The Diplomat of the Century DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person) to discuss \nHenry Kissinger: The Diplomat of the Century\nwith diplomat Gérard Araud and journalist Elaine Sciolino \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nHenry Kissinger: Le diplomate du siècle (2021) is the story of a young Jewish boy born in Germany in 1923. The story begins as Kissinger\, along with his family\, fled from Nazism to New York. Equipped with luminous intelligence\, an industrious ethic\, and an overly playful character\, Kissinger was able to navigate all situations from the streets of the Bronx to greens of Harvard University to the corridors of the White House. First National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State to President Nixon\, Kissinger played a central role in world history. He was central\, for example\, to the end of the Vietnam War\, the opening up of China in 1972\, the détente with the USSR and the Yom Kippur War. He had many successes in the Middle East and Russia\, but also setbacks in Chile and Cambodia. An outstanding negotiator\, he was as much admired as he was detested. \nThough Kissinger left office more than forty years ago\, he still exerts influence as many great contemporary leaders – Putin\, Xi Jinping\, Modi\, Macron – look to his legacy for guidance. With an insider’s gaze\, Gérard Araud\, a diplomat himself\, retraces the trajectory of a man unloved by Americans\, a man of spirit\, and a man of Realpolitik who regulated global power to guarantee world peace. \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nAbout the speakers: \nGérard Araud \nAraud is a French diplomat\, who served as Ambassador of France to the United States from 2014 to 2019. He previously held many positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Notably\, he was Director for Strategic Affairs\, Security and Disarmament\, Ambassador of France to Israel\, Director General for Political Affairs and Security\, as well as Representative of France to the United Nations in New York. Over the course of his career\, Araud has developed specialized knowledge in two key areas: Middle East and security issues. He was\, for instance\, the French negotiator on the Iranian nuclear issue from 2006 to 2009. \nSince his retirement in 2019\, he has served as trustee of the International Crisis Group and as Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Atlantic Council in Washington DC. He is a columnist for the French weekly Le Point\, for the French TV channel BFM TV and for the National French Radio France Inter. He has frequently been interviewed as an expert on foreign affairs by CNN International\, the BBC\, as well as other English-language news outlets. \nElaine Sciolino  \nSciolino 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. \nThe conversation\, a part of the Library’s Evenings with an Author series\, is sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg. \nIMPORTANT: ON-SITE INFORMATION REGARDING COVID-19 \nA pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. \nVisitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kissinger21/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/kissinger-araud.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211020T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211020T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211001T065721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T103205Z UID:31621-1634758200-1634761800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Entre Nous: Joyce Maynard & Joyce Carol Oates 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 acclaimed writers Joyce Carol Oates and Joyce Maynard–in public conversation for the first time–to mark the publication of their latest books in French\, Où vivaient les gens heureux and Petit oiseaux du ciel\, by Éditions Philippe Rey. They will discuss the evolution of literary trends and politics over the years and what it means to be a woman writer now. This event is dedicated to the memory of translator and editor Christiane Besse. \nRegister Now\nSpeakers: \nJoyce Maynard is a reporter\, columnist\, performer\, as well as the author of eighteen books\, including the New York Times bestselling novel\, Labor Day and To Die For\, Under the Influence and the memoirs\, At Home in the World and The Best of Us. A fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo\, Maynard published her latest novel\, Count the Ways\, a story of a marriage and a divorce\, and the children who survived it\, in July\, 2021. \nJoyce Carol Oates published her first book in 1963\, and has since published 58 novels\, a number of plays and novellas\, and many volumes of short stories\, poetry\, and non-fiction. She has won many awards for her writing\, including the National Book Award\, two O. Henry Awards\, the National Humanities Medal\, and the Jerusalem Prize. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities at Princeton University\, where she taught for over thirty years. \nRegister Now\n  URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/online-entre-nous-joyce-maynard-joyce-carol-oates/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2-e1632128364849.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211019T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211019T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211001T064526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T064526Z UID:31618-1634671800-1634675400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Online) Torrey Peters on Detransition\, Baby DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nDetransition\, Baby\nwith author Torrey Peters \nClick here to RSVP \nPeters’ electrifying and provocative debut\, Detransition\, Baby\, follows three women – transgender and cisgender –whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender\, motherhood\, and sex. Equipped with original\, witty and visceral prose\, Peters explores love\, the evolving shape of the modern family\, as well as the trans experience in all of its complex messiness. Described as a “deeply searching novel that resists easy answers\,” Detransition\, Baby enters the canon of trans culture with aplomb. \nClick here to RSVP \nReese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy\, an apartment in New York City\, a job she didn’t hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane\, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend\, Amy\, detransitioned and became Ames\, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. \nAmes isn’t happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier\, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese–and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over\, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames’s boss and lover\, Katrina\, reveals that she’s pregnant with his baby–and that she’s not sure whether she wants to keep it–Ames wonders if this is the chance he’s been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family–and raise the baby together? \nTorrey Peters is the author of the novel Detransition\, Baby\, published by Random House\, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She is also the authors of the novellas Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. Peters rides a pink motorcycle and splits her time between Brooklyn and an off-grid cabin in Vermont. For the past few years\, Peters has been part of a trans literary movement based on trans people sharing their work among each other without barriers. \n \n  URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/online-torrey-peters-on-detransition-baby/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/detransitionbaby.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211013T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211013T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20211001T060254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T180812Z UID:31613-1634153400-1634157000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:(Hybrid) A New Era of US Foreign Policy DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author to discuss \nA New Era of US Foreign Policy\nwith journalists Robin Wright\, Steven Erlanger & Serge Schmemann \nDoes the retreat from Afghanistan mark the end of the American era\, or else the start of a new one? Join us for an in-person and online discussion about President Biden’s attempt to reset America’s place in a new decade of global collaboration\, with a particular focus on Biden’s exit from Afghanistan and recent alliance with Great Britain and Australia. 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 moderated discussion. \nThe event will take place online (panelists will be tuning in virtually)\, and the Library will project the conversation onto a screen in the Reading Room for a live viewing experience. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person 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. \n  URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hybrid-a-new-era-of-us-foreign-policy/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-08-26T214549Z_1651294620_RC29DP9KKCDP_RTRMADP_3_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-USA-BIDEN-e1633066875538.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211007T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211007T200000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20210922T142509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T084818Z UID:31433-1633633200-1633636800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Let's Talk About Bilingualism [Virtual event] DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \nJoin us for a virtual event in collaboration with the Association of American Women in Europe (AAWE)! \nBeth Austin\, president of AAWE\, will talk about the new edition of the AAWE Guide to Education in France\, then the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads will interview neuroscientist Anjali Morard about bilingualism and the brain\, as well as ways to support bilingual children. The event will wrap up with an audience Q&A. \nAbout Anjali Morard: Anjali Morard has a bachelor’s degree in human biology and a master’s degree in psychology from Stanford University and a doctorate in psychology and behavioral neuroscience from McGill University. Her research interests include perception of all things auditory\, including emotion in music and speech. Since her arrival in Paris in 2010\, she has been increasingly interested in bilingualism and its neuroscientific basis from an intellectual as well as a personal perspective\, raising three bilingual kids of her own. She is currently a freelance writer and editor\, specializing in scientific and children’s literature. \nAbout AAWE: The Association of American Women in Europe is a bi-cultural community of American women primarily in France and in Europe and around the world. AAWE offers activities for all stages of life\, with the goal of fostering an environment that enables members to create bonds\, develop supportive networks and lifelong friendships. AAWE is a vibrant\, active\, diverse and multi-generational association. The 9th edition of the trusted AAWE Guide to Education in France is an essential reference guide to bilingual education. The guide includes bilingual and international schools\, private and public schools\, extension programs offering Wednesday English lessons for bilinguals\, and boarding schools. Covering preschool through secondary schooling\, topics range from questions to ask when choosing a school\, to understanding the different options available\, with expanded French/English glossaries and a section of model “notes to the teacher.” \nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \nIf you have questions about events and/or collections for children and teens\, please contact Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nWe are an independent\, nonprofit organization. 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 donate here to help sustain this vital institution\, and programs such as this one\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service. \n  \n  URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/lets-talk-about-bilingualism-virtual-event/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CoverGuide9w-e1632320704622.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210710T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210710T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20210624T172014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210705T120554Z UID:30171-1625932800-1625936400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Fantasy Book Club: The Cruel Prince (ages 12-adult) [VIRTUAL] DESCRIPTION:Join fantasy fans to discuss new worlds and novels with like-minded readers.\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \nJoin us (virtually) for an animated discussion each month of the latest and greatest fantasy reads. Participants are also encouraged to prepare a cup of tea or coffee to enjoy during the meeting.  New members are always welcome!\n\n\n\n\nIn July\, we’ll be reading and discussing The Cruel Prince by Holly Black\, plus its sequels The Wicked King and The Queen of Nothing. If you haven’t read all three you are still welcome to join but beware there will be spoilers! This book club meeting will be facilitated by Children’s and Teens’ Librarian (and fantasy fan) Kirsty.\n \n\n  \n\n\n Advance registration is required for this book group. Once registered\, participants will be sent an email with instructions to join the online meeting. 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\nSend an email to Kirsty\, our Children’s and Teens’ Librarian\, with questions about this event: kirsty@americanlibraryinparis.org. \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-ages-12-adult-virtual-2/ CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Cruel-Prince-long-300x169-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210522T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210522T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20210420T161901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210420T161901Z UID:29065-1621699200-1621702800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Fantasy Book Club: Shadow and Bone (ages 12–Adult) [Virtual Event\, Library members only; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:Join fantasy fans to discuss new worlds and novels with like-minded readers.\n\n  \nClick here to register. \n\nJoin us (virtually) for an animated discussion each month of the latest and greatest fantasy reads. Participants are also encouraged to prepare a cup of tea or coffee to enjoy during the meeting. This book club is facilitated by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager (and fantasy fan) Celeste Rhoads. New members are always welcome!\n\n\n\n\nIn May\, we’ll be reading and discussing Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo.\n \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAdvance registration is required for this book group. Once registered\, participants will be sent an email with instructions to join the online meeting. 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 the first session. Send an email to Celeste Rhoads\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about this event: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/fantasy-book-club-shadow-and-bone-ages-12-adult-virtual-event-library-members-only-rsvp-required/ CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/shadow-and-bone-scaled-e1618935521762.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210505T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210505T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20210417T124902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210502T080207Z UID:29008-1620243000-1620246600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:An Unlikely Resistance Campaign (Jackson) DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) as we host historian and author \nJeffrey H. Jackson\non Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis \nClick here to RSVP \nPaper Bullets is the first book to tell the true story of an anti-Nazi resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair. Two French women –– Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe (better known today by their artistic names Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore) –– drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute hundreds of notes\, songs\, poems\, and drawings designed to demoralize German troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the Channel Islands. To do so\, they assumed the identity of a Nazi soldier\, calling themselves “The Soldier With No Name.” \nAs the war continued\, they escalated their actions\, often putting themselves at great personal risk all the while pretending to be one of the enemy. Lucy and Suzanne were in danger because of who they were: lesbian partners known for cross-dressing and their gender-bending photography back in Paris\, Lucy’s Jewish heritage\, and their communist affiliations. Jackson’s story takes readers inside the day-to-day struggles of civilians surviving in occupied territory and facing tough\, sometimes gut-wrenching\, choices. \nJeffrey H. Jackson \nClick here to RSVP \nJeffrey H. Jackson is Professor of History at Rhodes College in Memphis\, Tennessee. His most recent book\, Paper Bullets\, was longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and selected as an Editor’s Choice “Best of the Best” for 2020 by the American Library Association’s publication Booklist. He is also the author of Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 and Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris\, both of which have been received with high acclaim. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/jeffreyjackson/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CoverImage2-e1618666738392.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210504T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210504T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20210417T105752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210502T060632Z UID:28996-1620156600-1620160200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:On Dialogue\, Friendship and Literature (Williams & Garrett) DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) as long-time friends \nRowan Williams and Greg Garrett\ndiscuss the issues of the day\, dialogue\, friendship\, family\, literature\, and life. \nClick here to RSVP \n \nRowan Williams served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury and is a towering intellectual and moral figure in Britain. The author of over two dozen books on faith\, politics\, literature\, language\, and ethics\, Lord Williams recently retired as Master of Magdalene College\, Cambridge. \nGreg Garrett is Professor of English at Baylor University and serves as Theologian in Residence at the American Cathedral in Paris. He too has published over two dozen books\, including novels\, memoir\, and nonfiction exploring narrative\, racism\, politics\, faith\, and popular culture. \nClick here to RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/rowanwilliams/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/InConversation_BookTwoFinalCover_300RGB-scaled-e1618666552136.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210428T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210428T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20210331T121241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210406T163246Z UID:28664-1619638200-1619641800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Kristin Harmel in conversation with Lauren Elkin [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information.\nJoin the American Library in Paris’s Evenings with an Author series as we host New York Times-bestselling author Kristin Harmel. She will share her novel\, The Book of Lost Names\, in conversation with fellow author Lauren Elkin. Programs Manager Alice McCrum will draw on live questions from the audience. \nEva Traube Abrams\, a semi-retired librarian in Florida\, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a newspaper nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying newspaper article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II\, which Eva remembers well as a Jewish war refugee from Paris. The book in the photograph\, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war\, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library\, it appears to contain some sort of code\, but researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means. Eva knows the answer—but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war? \nAn engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of The Lost Girls of Paris and The Alice Network\, The Book of Lost Names is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil. \nAbout the authors: \nKristin Harmel \nKristin Harmel is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names\, The Winemaker’s Wife\, The Room on Rue Amélie\, The Sweetness of Forgetting and a dozen other novels that have been translated into 28 languages. Her new book\, The Forest of Vanishing Stars\, will be released in July 2021. She is also the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series Friends and Fiction. She lives in Orlando\, Florida. \n  \nLauren Elkin \nLauren Elkin is the author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City\, a Radio 4 Book of the Week and a finalist for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the Art of the Essay. Her next book\, 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus will be out in September 2021 from Semiotext(e)/Les Fugitives\, as will her translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s lost novel The Inseparables (Vintage Classics). \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-kristin-harmel-in-conversation-with-lauren-elkin-virtual-public-event-rsvp-required/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/the-book-of-lost-names-9781982131890_hr-e1617188615135.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210427T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210427T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T184733 CREATED:20210330T153006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210417T134833Z UID:28628-1619551800-1619555400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Amanda Frost in conversation with Lauren Collins [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO RSVP\nJoin the American Library in Paris’s Evenings with an Author series on 27 April as we host Amanda Frost\, author of You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers\, in conversation with New Yorker staff writer Lauren Collins. \nThe American government has historically revoked US citizenship to suppress dissent and shape the nation’s demography. When the Supreme Court rejected the idea of Black citizenship in the case Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857\, new questions were raised about identity\, belonging\, and exclusion. Law professor Amanda Frost explores narratives of those who have struggled to be included as citizens and full members of “We the People” and exposes citizenship stripping as a fundamental tool of discrimination in America. \n  \nAmanda Frost \nAbout the speakers: Amanda Frost is the Ann Loeb Bronfman Distinguished Professor of Law and Government at the American University Washington College of Law. Professor Frost writes and teaches in the fields of constitutional law\, immigration and citizenship law\, federal courts and jurisdiction\, and judicial ethics. Her scholarship has been cited by over a dozen federal and state courts\, and she has been invited to testify before both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Her non-academic writing has been published in the Atlantic\, Slate\, the American Prospect\, the Washington Post\, the New York Times\, and USA Today\, and she authors the “Academic round-up” column for SCOTUSblog. In 2019 she was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to complete her book\, You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers (Beacon Press)\, which was published in January 2021. \nLauren Collins \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. \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-amanda-frost-in-conversation-with-lauren-collins-virtual-public-event-rsvp-required/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/9780807051429.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR