BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The American Library in Paris - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The American Library in Paris X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The American Library in Paris REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART: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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210710T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210710T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 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:20260426T220202 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:20260426T220202 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:20260426T220202 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:20260426T220202 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:20260426T220202 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210420T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210420T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210401T145022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210419T135725Z UID:28738-1618947000-1618950600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Sanaë Lemoine [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO RSVP\nJoin the American Library in Paris’s Evenings with an Author series as we host Sanaë Lemoine to discuss her debut novel\, The Margot Affair. Margot Louve\, the novel’s protagonist\, is a secret: the child of a longstanding affair between an influential French politician with presidential ambitions and a prominent stage actress. This hidden family exists in stolen moments in a small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank. It is a house of cards that Margot—fueled by a longing to be seen and heard—decides to tumble. The summer of her seventeenth birthday\, she meets the man who will set her plan in motion: a well-regarded journalist whose trust seems surprisingly easy to gain. But as Margot is drawn into an adult world she struggles to comprehend\, she learns how one impulsive decision can threaten a family’s love with ruin\, shattering the lives of those around her in ways she could never have imagined. \nSanaë Lemoine \nAbout the author: \nSanaë Lemoine was born in Paris to a Japanese mother and French father\, and raised in France and Australia. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her MFA at Columbia University. She now lives in New York. \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/lemoine21/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/9781984854452-e1617288159375.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210413T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210413T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210329T164134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T163040Z UID:28587-1618342200-1618345800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Amanda Dennis in Conversation with Rachel Donadio [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 author Amanda Dennis. Dennis with be speaking about her debut novel\, Her Here\, in conversation with Rachel Donadio\, contributing writer at The Atlantic. In Her Here\, Dennis introduces us to a reckless and unmoored Elena\, who abandons her studies and relationship for an unconventional task proposed to her by an estranged family friend. Struggling with trauma and its various manifestations\, Elena loses herself in Thailand while looking for a woman who went missing six years earlier.  Dennis delivers an existential detective story in a hypnotic and seductive debut which demonstrates the revealing nature of narrative itself. The conversation will include live questions from the audience.\n\n  \n\nCLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information.\n\n  \n\n\n \n\n\n  \nAbout the authors: Amanda Dennis is an assistant professor of comparative literature and creative writing at the American University of Paris. She earned her PhD from the University of California\, Berkeley Department of Rhetoric and was awarded a Whited Fellowship in creative writing from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Outside of her speaking engagements for Her Here\, Dennis is researching Samuel Beckett and the influence of 20th century French philosophy on his work.\n\nRachel Donadio is a Paris-based contributing writer for The Atlantic\, covering politics and culture across Europe. She was previously a correspondent at the New York Times\, including its European Culture Correspondent and Rome Bureau Chief\, and a writer and editor at the New York Times Book Review. She has reported from more than two dozen countries\, interviewed heads of state and film directors\, and profiled three Nobel laureates in literature.\n\n  \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-amanda-dennis-in-conversation-with-rachel-donadio/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HER-HERE-9781942658764-e1617036137279.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210406T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210406T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210329T165531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210329T165531Z UID:28556-1617737400-1617741000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Cara Black presents "Three Hours in Paris" [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 on 6 April as we host “doyenne of the Parisian crime novel” Cara Black.  During this virtual conversation with Programs Manager Alice McCrum\, Black will speak about her latest book\, Three Hours in Paris. \nNamed a Best Mystery of 2020 by the Washington Post\, Three Hours in Paris reimagines Hitler’s brief visit to Paris in June of 1940. The thriller tells the story of a young American markswoman\, Kate\, tasked with assassinating the Führer against the fall of the City of Lights to the Nazis. Miles away from her native rural Oregon\, Kate fights for her life and the fate of the world. \nThe program will draw on live questions from the audience. \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information.\n \nAbout the author: Cara Black‘s affinity for France is the driving force behind her work. The attention to detail and immersive research undertaken during her trips to Paris earned the New York Times-bestselling author a Médaille de la Ville de Paris for her contributions to French culture. Best known for the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series\, Black is regarded as one of the leading names in Parisian crime novels. Visit www.carablack.com to learn more. \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-cara-black-2/ LOCATION:The American Library in Paris CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cara.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210331T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210331T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210217T103038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T103523Z UID:27889-1617219000-1617222600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Dylan Fisher [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nRegister here! \n \nIn Dylan Fisher’s debut novella\, told in a sequence of long\, twisting\, breathless sentences\, the titular The Loneliest Band in France claims to have a song that can hurt —even kill—its listeners. When Migara (a Sri Lankan student\, new to Montpellier) is recruited to help debut this murderous song\, he’s forced to interrogate his relationship with his mother’s death\, his estranged father\, his own aspirations—and the cost of each. \nDylan Fisher’s first book\, The Loneliest Band in France\, was the Winner of Texas Review Press’s 2019 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and a 2020 Coups de Cœur selection by The American Library in Paris. He holds a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. He lives in Atlanta\, Georgia\, where he’s pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at Georgia State University.\n\n  URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-dylan-fisher/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DSC_9438-scaled-e1613557870203.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210330T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210330T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210210T114550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210210T182720Z UID:27812-1617132600-1617136200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Lisa See in conversation with Pauline Lemasson [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nRegister here! \nAn evening of conversation with Lisa See on writing\, inspiration\, and female friendships\nPlease join us for a conversation with New York Times bestselling author Lisa See (moderated by Pauline Lemasson) about writing\, creativity and inspiration\, female friendships\, and historical research\, with particular focus on her novels Shanghai Girls (2010)\, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (2017) and The Island of Sea Women (2019). See’s fiction is widely read and beloved for her deep look into Chinese culture and history\, the focus on female friendships\, and the long arc of historical events written in lavish detail. We will discuss her writing process\, where she finds creativity and inspiration\, how she dives into historical research\, and what she finds in female relationships that hold up against time\, hardship\, and life-changing choices. \n  \n \nLisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women\, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, The Island of Sea Women\, Peony in Love\, Shanghai Girls\, China Dolls\, and Dreams of Joy\, which debuted at #1. She is also the author of On Gold Mountain\, which tells the story of her Chinese American family’s settlement in Los Angeles. Ms. See has also written a mystery series that takes place in China. Her books have been published in 39 languages.  See was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the History Maker’s Award from the Chinese American Museum. She was also named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women. \nMs. See wrote the libretto for Los Angeles Opera based on On Gold Mountain\, which premiered in June 2000. That same year\, she also curated the exhibition On Gold Mountain: A Chinese American Experience at the Autry Museum. Ms. See then helped develop and curate the Family Discovery Gallery at the Autry Museum\, an interactive space for children and their families that focused on Lisa’s bi-racial\, bi-cultural family. In 2003\, she curated the inaugural exhibition—a retrospective of artist Tyrus Wong—for the grand opening of the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles. \n\nPauline Lemasson is contributing writer on culture\, history\, and current affairs for Inspirelle and Untapped Paris. She was formerly the Strategic Partnerships Manager at the American Library in Paris and Executive Director of the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-lisa-see-in-conversation-with-pauline-lemasson/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/515INGaw5L.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210325T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210325T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210217T105834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T112229Z UID:27902-1616698800-1616704200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Writing Workshop with Laura Cronk- Poetry\, Nonfiction\, and Open Genre [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This spring\, the Library’s programs will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. This event is limited to Library members and requires advance reservation. Please use this form to sign up. \nRegister here! \n Join us for a Writing Workshop with Laura Cronk (Poetry\, Nonfiction\, and Open Genre)\nWhat would you say if you could speak directly to a former apartment\, to a powerful leader\, to your alarm clock\, to time itself? \nThe classic poetic device of apostrophe\, or direct address\, can be uniquely productive for both poets and prose writers\, leading us into discovery and unexpected connection. This generative session provides an opportunity to experiment with apostrophe and the idea of the ode. As Kenneth Koch\, an American poet with an affinity for Paris\, did in his book New Addresses\, we’ll aim to surprise ourselves by writing directly to who and what haunts us\, delights us\, and has shaped us. Open to writers of any genre. \nWorkshop Agenda: \nIntroduction & conversation with Joydeep Sengupta  \nPresentation of ode examples  \nTwo timed writing sessions of ten minutes each \nReflection and optional sharing with class \n\n \n  \nLaura Cronk is the author of two books of poems\, Ghost Hour and Having Been an Accomplice from Persea Books. She is the chair of undergraduate writing at The New School in New York City where she teaches courses on pedagogy and creative practice. More information at lauracronk.org. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nJoydeep Sengupta is a corporate lawyer who moved to Paris from New York City\, and a member of the American Library in Paris. He fully agrees with one of his law school teachers who once told him\, “Behind every great lawyer are the ruins of a poet.” URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/writing-workshop-with-laura-cronk/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/RF76HGAOJQI6PBENY6KM7DB6RQ-e1613560939827.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210324T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210324T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210210T181138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210211T161309Z UID:27825-1616614200-1616617800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Kate Kirkpatrick [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nRegister here! \nJoin us for an evening with Dr. Kate Kirkpatrick as she speaks about her new book\, Becoming Beauvoir\n\nSimone de Beauvoir was one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. Yet her life has been widely misrepresented and profoundly misunderstood. In Becoming Beauvoir\, Kate Kirkpatrick draws on previously unpublished diaries and letters to offer a unique insight into Beauvoir’s relationships\, her philosophy of freedom and love\, and the complex struggle it was to become herself.\n\n\n \nphoto (c) John Cairns \nDr. Kate Kirkpatrick is Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Regent’s Park College\, Oxford. Her research focuses primarily on French existentialism and phenomenology\, the philosophy of religion\, and feminist philosophy. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-kate-kirkpatrick/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Becoming-Beauvoir-hi-res-cover-scaled-e1612980859699.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210317T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210317T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210218T144320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210218T154027Z UID:27926-1616009400-1616013000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Lisa Barrett [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This spring\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nRegister here! \nHave you ever wondered why you have a brain?\n Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears. In seven short essays (plus a bite-sized story about how brains evolved)\, this slim and accessible collection reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. You’ll learn where brains came from\, how they’re structured (and why it matters)\, and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way\, you’ll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a “lizard brain” and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions\, or even between nature and nurture\, to determine your behavior. Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike\, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises\, humor\, and important implications for human nature. \n \n  \nDr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is among the top 1% most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University with appointments at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Barrett was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in neuroscience in 2019\, and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada. She is also the author of How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-lisa-barrett/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/barrett-Seven-and-a-half-lessons-about-the-brain-cover-e1613659560768.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210311T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210311T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210215T090141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T105630Z UID:27866-1615489200-1615494600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Writing Workshop with Erin Byrne- La Fin (finishing that piece!) [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This spring\, the Library’s programs will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. This event is limited to Library members and requires advance reservation. \nRegister here! \nLa Fin- Finally finishing that piece that has taken forever to write\nDo you have a piece of work\, whether an essay\, short story\, book\, or film\, that you have left hanging\, and may not even know why?  It’s time to see it through to the end! \nIn this workshop\, we will sharpen our writerly intuition to ascertain the reasons we have been unable to finish this work: \nAre we truly “stuck” with some kind of block? (This is seldom the case) \nDoes this piece of work simply need more time to percolate? \nAre we being lazy? \nWhat is missing from this work that may be required? \nIs the ending evading us? \nIn each case\, we will move forward – get unstuck\, find how to nurture a growing story\, kick ourselves into gear\, or pick up the threads and work to a natural and satisfying ending. \n  \nErin Byrne is the award-winning author of Wings: Gifts of Art\, Life\, and Travel in France\, editor of Vignettes & Postcards from Morocco and Vignettes & Postcards from Paris and writer of The Storykeeper film. She is Travel Writing and Photography Curator of The Creative Process Exhibition\, and has taught writing at Shakespeare and Company in Paris\, Book Passage Bookstore\, and on Deep Travel trips. To learn more\, visit erinbyrnewriter.com URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/writing-workshop-erin-byrne/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Erin-Byrne-Bio-Photo-2-e1559504620549.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210306T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210306T120000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210205T162816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210302T121551Z UID:27667-1615028400-1615032000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Paris by Phone: A Reading with Pamela Druckerman (ages 5–adult) [VIRTUAL; RSVP REQUIRED] DESCRIPTION:For children ages 5+ their families\n \n  \nEnjoy a reading of Paris by Phone by bestselling author Pamela Druckerman\, followed by a Q&A.\n \n  \nThe magic of independence meets the meaning of home in the picture book debut of the #1 bestselling author of Bringing Up Bébé. When Josephine Harris decides that Paris is where she really belongs\, all it takes is a quick call on her magical phone to whisk her away. The city of lights has fancy cafés\, baguettes under every arm\, the Eiffel Tower\, and a fabulous new family who can’t wait to show her around. \nJoin us as Pamela reads Paris by Phone from her own home in the city of light\, and then stick around for a Q&A about her writing process and the inspiration for her first picture book. \n  \nAbout Pamela: \nPamela Druckerman is the author of five books including Bringing Up Bébé\, which has been translated into 30 languages and optioned as a feature film by Blueprint Pictures. (Its UK title is French Children Don’t Throw Food.) Pamela also wrote There Are No Grown-Ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story\, Bébé Day By Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting and Lust in Translation: Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee. Her rhyming picture book for kids\, Paris by Phone\, illustrated by Benjamin Chaud\, will appear in February 2021. Pamela writes a column about France for The New York Times\, and the Dress Code column for 1843/The Economist. Her op-eds\, essays\, articles and reviews have also appeared in the The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Book Review\, New York Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Vanity Fair France\, Madame Figaro\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, the Financial Times\, The Times (UK)\, The Sunday Times (U.K.) and many other publications. She has appeared as a commentator on All Things Considered\, Morning Edition\, BBC Woman’s Hour\, Good Morning America\, the Today Show\, CNN\, CNBC\, MSNBC\, PRI\, the CBC\, Europe1\, Le Grand Journal\, On n’est pas couché\, France24 and Oprah.com. \n  \nThis event requires advance registration. Click HERE to register. \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public. We 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. \n  \n  URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/paris-by-phone-a-reading-with-pamela-druckerman-ages-5-adult-virtual-rsvp-required/ CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/pamelaDruckerman-author-photo-e1612553071201.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210303T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210303T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210215T081528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210216T091329Z UID:27857-1614799800-1614805200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:A Panel on Women's Travel Writing in France and Beyond\, moderated by Erin Byrne [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nRegister here! \nA special panel event centered around The Best Women’s Travel Writing \, Volume 12: True Stories from Around the World\nJoin us for a special virtual reading and conversation celebrating The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, Volume 12: True Stories from Around the World\, the newest collection in the award-winning series that invites you to travel along with intrepid female nomads as they wander the globe. The program will feature New Orleans-based editor Lavinia Spalding and contributing writers Christina Ammon\, Erin Byrne\, Marcia DeSanctis\, and Colette Hannahan. \nThis new volume offers readers illuminating cultural connections and personal revelations to inform and encourage their future journeys. Stories offer insights through the lens of a woman’s experience in a foreign place. The result is a rich and intimate personal exploration of a culture and lasting shifts in personal perspective. \n \n  \nLavinia Spalding has edited five previous editions of The Best Women’s Travel Writing. She is the author of Writing Away and the co-author of With a Measure of Grace and This Immeasurable Place\, and she introduced the e-book edition of Edith Wharton’s classic travelogue\, A Motor-Flight Through France. Her work appears in such publications as Tin House\, Longreads\, Yoga Journal\, Sunset\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and The Guardian\, and has been widely anthologized. Her AFAR essay “Playing by Heart” received a Lowell Thomas Gold Award and was recognized by The Best American Travel Writing. She is also a public speaker and teacher. When she isn’t leading international writing workshops\, she lives with her family in New Orleans and on Cape Cod. laviniaspalding.com \n  \n  \n Christina Ammon has penned stories for BBC\, Orion Magazine\, Hemispheres\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, Conde Nast\, and numerous travel anthologies. She is the recipient of an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship for nonfiction\, and her stories have earned several awards from Travelers’ Tales publishers. In the winters\, she organizes writing and storytelling workshops in Morocco\, Mexico\, Nepal\, and Spain through her company\, Deep Travel Workshops. When not traveling\, she lives in rural Oregon. deeptravelworkshops.com \n  \n  \n  \n Erin Byrne is author of Wings: Gifts of Art\, Life\, and Travel in France\, editor of Vignettes & Postcards from Paris and Vignettes & Postcards from Morocco\, and writer of The Storykeeper film. Erin’s books\, travel essays\, poetry\, fiction and screenplays have won awards including the 2020 Grand Prize Solas Award for Travel Story of the Year. She has taught writing at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris; is host of LitWings event series featuring writers\, photographers and filmmakers; and is travel writing and photography curator for The Creative Process Exhibition. She lives in Seattle. erinbyrnewriter.com \n  \n  \n Marcia DeSanctis is a former television news producer who worked for Barbara Walters and Peter Jennings at ABC News\, and at CBS News 60 Minutes and NBC News. She is the New York Times bestselling author of 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go\, and she contributes to Vogue\, Town & Country\, Departures\, Travel & Leisure\, BBC Travel\, National Geographic Traveler\, Marie Claire\, The New York Times\, and many other publications. She is the recipient of five Lowell Thomas Awards for excellence in travel journalism\, including one for Travel Journalist of the Year\, for her essays from Rwanda\, Russia\, Haiti\, France\, and Morocco. She lived and worked for several years in Paris and travels as much as possible to France. marciadesanctis.com \n  \n  \n  \n Colette Hannahan is a San Francisco-based writer\, painter\, and illustrator who created of the illustrations for The Best Women’s Travel Writing. In addition to peddling knives in Minnesota\, she has delivered mail at a retreat center in the woods of the Hudson Valley\, applied makeup on brides-to-be at a salon in Brooklyn\, steamed blouses for models in Manhattan\, taught art and yoga to adults with autism in Chicago\, mentored teens at a boarding school in New Mexico\, and organized fundraisers for artists with life-threatening illnesses in San Francisco. colettehannahan.com \n  \n  URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/a-panel-on-the-best-womens-travel-writing-in-france-and-beyond-moderated-by-erin-byrne/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BWTWv23-9781609521899-Cover-1040x1585-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210302T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210302T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210126T163058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210126T163308Z UID:27479-1614713400-1614717000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Nita Wiggins [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nSign up here!\n\nJoin us as Nita Wiggins presents her book\, Civil Rights Baby: My Story of Race\, Sports\, and Breaking Barriers in American Journalism\n\nCivil Rights Baby is about a determined girl’s pursuit of the career she wants\, believing the laws of the land\, especially the Civil Rights Act of 1964\, protect her. But\, in reaching her dream destination in Dallas\, she finds that the decades of competing in a male-dominated field have brutalized her on many levels. Fighting for acceptance and proving qualifications come to a dramatic head one day–leading her to move to France.\n\n\n\nAn American author and award-winning sports broadcaster\, Nita Wiggins teaches at l’Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Paris. Since 2009\, she has trained students to include a wider range of perspectives and voices to better serve the public. Because of her impact on education\, Black Women in Europe named Wiggins to the group’s Power List of 2018. In the U.S.\, Wiggins worked 21 years as a reporter and anchor\, for ABC\, CBS\, NBC\, and Fox affiliates. She’s an occasional guest on France 24. Outside of journalism\, she has created a Listen to Others as you would have them listen to you program so that people can improve their relationships in their working and private lives.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-nita-wiggins/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Civil-Rights-Baby-Nina-Wiggins-e1611678394132.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210224T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210224T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20201208T135902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T163022Z UID:26399-1614195000-1614198600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Janet Skeslien Charles in conversation with Naida Culshaw [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nJoin us for an evening of conversation with Janet Skeslien Charles\, author of The Paris Library and an interview moderated by Naida Culshaw\nSign up here! \n\nBased on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris\, this is an unforgettable story of romance\, friendship\, family\, and the power of literature to bring us together. \nParis\, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet has it all: her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. When the Nazis march into Paris\, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear\, including her beloved library. Together with her fellow librarians\, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. But when the war finally ends\, instead of freedom\, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal. \nMontana\, 1983: Lily is a lonely teenager looking for adventure in small-town Montana. Her interest is piqued by her solitary\, elderly neighbor. As Lily uncovers more about her neighbor’s mysterious past\, she finds that they share a love of language\, the same longings\, and the same intense jealousy\, never suspecting that a dark secret from the past connects them. \nA powerful novel that explores the consequences of our choices and the relationships that make us who we are—family\, friends\, and favorite authors—The Paris Library shows that extraordinary heroism can sometimes be found in the quietest of places. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanet Skeslien Charles (left) is the award-winning author of Moonlight in Odessa and The Paris Library. Her shorter work has appeared in revues such as Slice and Montana Noir. She learned about the history of the American Library in Paris while working there as the programs manager.\n\n\n\n\n\nNaida Culshaw (right) is a workshop facilitator\, developmental coach\, and lecturer at the Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM). As an alumni of the American Library in Paris she continues to create learning environments designed to encourage reflection\, self-expression\, analytical and critical thinking.\n\n\n  \n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-janet-skeslien-charles/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/the-paris-library-cover-e1611571743727.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210220T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210220T120000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210201T133936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210203T153926Z UID:27578-1613818800-1613822400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:You and Your Kids Online: Internet Safety Tips with Elizabeth Milovidov (for parents and caregivers) [VIRTUAL—RSVP REQUIRED] DESCRIPTION:To foster discussion and provide support for our community\, we’re hosting this special event for parents with digital safety advocate Elizabeth Milovidov. Bring along your questions and concerns.\n \nInternet Safety Advocate Prof. Elizabeth Milovidov will host this event and give parents tips as to how to keep up to date and cope appropriately with new technologies and devices considering the increasingly digital world in which our children are growing up. \nThe event will feature an open discussion focused on online technologies from social media to gaming consoles. Special attention will be given to screen addictions\, Internet Safety measures and how to protect our children on the digital highway. \n  \nAbout Elizabeth:\n \nDr. Elizabeth Milovidov is a law professor and children’s rights advocate. She practiced as an international lawyer\, litigator and General Counsel in California for four years before moving to France. She is the founder of DigitalParentingCoach.com and provides information and support to caregivers and parents who are looking for best practices when it comes to social media\, internet laws and the internet at large. Elizabeth’s publications include The Parent’s Guide to Parenting in the Digital Age\, The Parent’s Guide to Youtube and Youtube Kids\, and The Parent’s Guide to Digital Detox and Disconnect (available at The American Library in Paris). As a member of the Working Group of experts on Digital Citizenship Education\, she brings awareness to the adolescent digital world\, and serves as an active advisor on European Cooperation and International Projects for e-Enfance\, a French online child protection association. You can find tips and expert advice from Elizabeth in her interviews with France24\, InternetMatters.org\, Financial Times\, and CafeMom to name a few. Elizabeth’s passion for navigating the digital world stems from her two young\, tech-savvy children. \n  \nJoin the Digital Parenting Community on Facebook\, or follow Elizabeth on Instagram for 1 Minute tutorials and tips about online safety. \n  \nThis program requires advance registration\, and is open to Library members. Click HERE to register. This program is free for Library members. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event via Zoom. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/you-and-your-kids-online-internet-safety-tips-with-elizabeth-milovidov-for-parents-virtual-rsvp-required/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Elizabeth-Milovidov.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210217T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210217T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20201210T154305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210106T143706Z UID:26508-1613590200-1613593800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Lilianne Milgrom [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease click here to register. \nJoin us for a book talk with Lilianne Milgrom about her new novel\, L’Origine: The secret life of the world’s most erotic masterpiece\nLilianne Milgrom brings a fresh\, feminine perspective to Gustave Courbet’s infamous and contentious portrait of a woman’s exposed torso and sex entitled L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World)\, a painting that has drawn millions of visitors to Paris’ Orsay Museum. L’Origine traces the extraordinary\, clandestine odyssey of this iconic nineteenth-century painting that shook up the author’s world and continues to scandalize all who set eyes upon it. But L’Origine offers readers more than a riveting romp through history–it also reflects upon society’s complex attitude towards female nudity. \nBorn in Paris\, Lilianne Milgrom grew up in Australia and now resides in the United States. She is an artist\, author and published writer on the arts. She is the recipient of multiple awards and residencies. Her paintings can be found in both private and institutional collections around the world and her articles have appeared in publications such as the Huffington Post\, Bonjour Paris\, Inspirelle\, Ceramics Monthly and Daily Art Magazine. In 2020 she released her first novel\, L’Origine: The secret life of the world’s most erotic masterpiece (Little French Girl Press\, 2020) receiving critical praise from readers and art historians alike. \nBook trailer available here. \nTo purchase the book\, please follow this link. \n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-lilianne-milgrom/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FINAL-COVER-FOR-LORIGINE-e1607954754638.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210216T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210216T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20201208T140257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210127T132422Z UID:26401-1613503800-1613507400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Fredrik Logevall in conversation with Charles Trueheart [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nRegister here! \nPlease join us for an evening of conversation with Dr. Fredrik Logevall about his latest book\, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century\, 1917–1956\, with an interview moderated by Charles Trueheart\nBy the time of his assassination in 1963\, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen\, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had become among Boston’s wealthiest\, Kennedy knew political ambition from an early age\, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest elected president cemented his status as one of the most mythologized figures in American history. And while hagiographic portrayals of his dazzling charisma\, reports of his extramarital affairs\, and disagreements over his political legacy have come and gone in the decades since his untimely death\, these accounts all fail to capture the full person. \nBeckoned by this gap in our historical knowledge\, Fredrik Logevall has spent much of the last decade searching for the “real” JFK. The result of this prodigious effort is a sweeping two-volume biography that properly contextualizes Kennedy amidst the roiling American Century. This volume spans the first thirty-nine years of JFK’s life—from birth through his decision to run for president—to reveal his early relationships\, his formative experiences during World War II\, his ideas\, his writings\, his political aspirations. In examining these pre–White House years\, Logevall shows us a more serious\, independently minded Kennedy than we’ve previously known\, whose distinct international sensibility would prepare him to enter national politics at a critical moment in modern U.S. history. \nAlong the way\, Logevall tells the parallel story of America’s midcentury rise. As Kennedy comes of age\, we see the charged debate between isolationists and interventionists in the years before Pearl Harbor; the tumult of the Second World War\, through which the United States emerged as a global colossus; the outbreak and spread of the Cold War; the domestic politics of anti-Communism and the attendant scourge of McCarthyism; the growth of television’s influence on politics; and more. \nJFK: Coming of Age in the American Century\, 1917–1956 is a sweeping history of the United States in the middle decades of the twentieth century\, as well as the clearest portrait we have of this enigmatic American icon. \n\nFredrik Logevall is Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and professor of history at Harvard University. A specialist on U.S. foreign-relations history and modern international history\, he is the author or editor of nine books\, most recently Embers of War\, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize. \n  \n  \n\nCharles Trueheart was director of the American Library in Paris from 2007 to 2017\, and he continues to oversee its annual book award. Most of his earlier career was in journalism\, including 15 years at the Washington Post\, first covering book and magazine publishing and literary issues\, then as a correspondent in Canada and France. Before joining the Post\, Trueheart was associate director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and the American Scholar\, where he is a contributing editor. Trueheart was educated at Exeter and Amherst.  \n  \n  \n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-fredrik-logevall/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Logevall-JFK_jacket-scaled-e1611686700283.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210210T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210210T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20201207T164831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201207T165119Z UID:26374-1612985400-1612989000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Paul Richter [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nFollow this link to register! \nJoin us for an evening with Paul Richter as he presents his new book\, The Ambassadors\nThe Ambassadors is the story of a small circle of career U.S. ambassadors who served as Washington’s top troubleshooters in the greater Middle East in the tumultuous decade and a half after the 911 attacks.  Thrust into war and upheaval\, these diplomats took on far more than most envoys — organizing new governments\, brokering political deals between warring blocs\, overseeing military operations. They served as another line of national defense\, often at the risk of their own lives. The book offers insiders’ perspectives on America’s frustrated efforts in the volatile region\, and an assessment of the American diplomatic service in a period when the Trump administration has challenged its value. The book was awarded the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon Prize for distinguished writing on American diplomacy.\n\n\n  \n\nPaul Richter has written about foreign policy and national security for three decades. As a Washington-based reporter for the Los Angeles Times\, he traveled to sixty countries and appeared in U.S. and international media. He is also principal author of California and the American Tax Revolt\, University of California Press\, 1983. He lives in the Washington\, D.C. area.\n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-paul-richter/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Front-cover-paperback-edition-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210209T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210209T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20201210T094439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210125T110239Z UID:26478-1612899000-1612902600@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Suzanne Nossel in conversation with Michelle Kuo [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease follow this link to register! \nJoin us for an interview with Suzanne Nossel (moderated by author and lawyer Michelle Kuo) as she introduces her new book\, Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All\nOnline trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus lectures. Cancel culture versus censorship. The daily hazards and debates surrounding free speech dominate headlines and fuel social media storms. In an era where one tweet can launch—or end—your career\, and where free speech is often invoked as a principle but rarely understood\, learning to maneuver the fast-changing\, treacherous landscape of public discourse has never been more urgent. \nIn Dare To Speak\, Suzanne Nossel\, a leading voice in support of free expression\, delivers a vital\, necessary guide to maintaining democratic debate that is open\, free-wheeling but at the same time respectful of the rich diversity of backgrounds and opinions in a changing country. Centered on practical principles\, Nossel’s primer equips readers with the tools needed to speak one’s mind in today’s diverse\, digitized\, and highly-divided society without resorting to curbs on free expression. \nSuzanne Nossel is Chief Executive Officer at PEN America and author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All. Prior to joining PEN America\, she served as the Chief Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch and as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. She has served in the Obama Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations\, leading US engagement in the UN and multilateral institutions on human right issues\, and in the Clinton Administration as Deputy to the US Ambassador for UN Management and Reform. Nossel coined the term “Smart Power\,” which was the title of a 2004 article she published in Foreign Affairs Magazine and later became the theme of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s tenure in office. She is a featured columnist for Foreign Policy magazine and has published op-eds in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, and LA Times\, as well as scholarly articles in Foreign Affairs\, Dissent\, and Democracy\, among others. Nossel serves on the Board of Directors of the Tides Foundation. She is a former senior fellow at the Century Foundation\, the Center for American Progress\, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Nossel is a magna cum laude graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School. \n  \n \nMichelle Kuo is the author of Reading with Patrick\, runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Goddard Riverside Book for Social Justice. She has worked as a lawyer for undocumented immigrants and incarcerated people. Michelle has written for the New York Times\, the New York Review of Books\, Public Books\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Point\, and other publications. Currently\, she is an associate professor of History\, Law\, and Society at the American University of Paris\, where she works closely with students on issues of social justice. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-suzanne-nossel/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Suzanne-Nossel-headshot-scaled-e1607593262658.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210202T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210202T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20201207T154139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201207T164939Z UID:26357-1612294200-1612297800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Stephen Clarke [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nFollow this link to register! \nJoin us for an evening with Stephen Clarke as he presents his new book\, The Spy Who Inspired Me\n\nIt is April 1944\, just before D-Day. A young woman spy\, Margaux Lynd\, has to go undercover into Occupied France to find missing agents in the Resistance. Unfortunately she is lumbered with a male sidekick\, a suave naval officer called Ian Lemming (not\, not Fleming). He thinks Occupied France is dirty and dangerous and wants to go back to his office in the Admiralty\, but she has to drag him along\, and meanwhile teaches him all the tricks of real wartime spy craft. To compensate for the humiliation\, he starts to fantasise about a male spy who would operate in champagne luxury while lording it over women. A world-famous secret agent is born…\n\nStephen Clarke is a British writer living in Paris (unless he’s since been deported because of Brexit). He is the author of the worldwide bestselling Merde series of novels about an Englishman failing to adapt to life in France. He has also written history books such as 1000 Years of Annoying the French and The French Revolution & What Went Wrong.\n\nPraise for Stephen Clarke \n‘An entertaining and thrilling read.’ -The Historical Novel Society. \n‘Tremendously entertaining’ -Sunday Times \n‘Outrageously readable’ -Daily Mail \n‘Edgier than Bryson\, hits harder than Mayle’ -The Times \n‘Wicked and witty’ -Daily Express \n‘Breezy\, entertaining’ -Sunday Express \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-stephen-clarke/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Stephen2017HS©MarieLissSmallDef-e1607355517612.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210127T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210127T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20200203T144407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210121T162347Z UID:20485-1611775800-1611779400@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: V. E. Schwab [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nClick here to register for this event! \nVICTORIA “V.E.” SCHWAB is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books\, including the internationally acclaimed Shades of Magic series\, the Villains series\, the Cassidy Blake series and more. Her latest novel\, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue\, is set to be adapted into a feature film by eOne and First Kill – a YA vampire series based on Schwab’s short story – is set to hit Netflix\, produced by Emma Roberts’ Belletrist Productions. When she’s not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides\, she lives in Edinburgh\, Scotland\, and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop\, dreaming up monsters. Her newest book\, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue\, follows the title character across centuries and continents\, across history and art\, as she learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. \nFor her evening at the American Library\, Victoria will be in conversation with Kirsty McCulloch Reid. Kirsty works here at the Library\, assisting in the Children’s and Teens’ Services department with programs\, the collection\, and social media. She holds a Masters in Information and Library studies from Robert Gordon University. \n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/v-e-schwab/ CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/gu5a3552_1-e1580740161979.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210126T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210126T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20201207T131134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210120T115202Z UID:26320-1611689400-1611693000@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Fiona Sze-Lorrain [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:Photo by Dominique Nabokov \n*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nClick here to register for this event! \nJoin us for an evening of poetry and art\nFiona Sze-Lorrain is one of the rare few English-language poets of our times who works across genres and artistic expressions\, as well as more than three languages or cultures.  In this reading\, she will present poems from her latest collection\, Rain in Plural (Princeton\, 2020)\, and her new translations of contemporary Chinese-language and American poets.  She will also discuss the role and aesthetics of poetry beyond language/culture in a seemingly globalized yet politically fragile world\, and the relationship between her writing\, music\, art\, and life.\n\n“If ordering the book via the link above\, attendees can use the code RAI21 for a 20% discount on the website. This code will expire on 28 February 2021.”\nFiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet\, translator\, editor\, and zheng harpist who writes and translates in English\, French\, Chinese\, and occasionally Spanish.  Her latest poetry title out from Princeton is Rain in Plural (2020).  Also the author of The Ruined Elegance (2016)\, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and two earlier collections\, My Funeral Gondola (2014) and Water the Moon (2010)\, she has translated more than a dozen books of contemporary Chinese\, French\, and American poetry.  A 2019-20 Abigail R. Cohen Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, she lives in Paris and co-runs a small independent press\, Vif Éditions. \n\n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-fiona-sze-lorrain/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/unnamed-scaled-e1607346775544.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210116T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210116T150000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20201119T111022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210121T162743Z UID:25952-1610805600-1610809200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:The Ship We Built: A Discussion with Lexie Bean and Noah Grigni (ages 9-adult) [VIRTUAL—BY RSVP] DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an interactive book talk on The Ship We Built with author Lexie Bean and illustrator Noah Grigni. \nfor ages 9-Adult \nPlease join us for an interactive book talk on The Ship We Built with author Lexie Bean and illustrator Noah Grigni. We’ll talk about the creative process\, and how identity shaped the story\, as well as how the author and illustrator worked together to find artwork to fit the story. Lexie will read a passage from The Ship We Built\, and Noah will share several of the sketches used in the book\, then following a discussion moderated by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste\, we will move into a Q&A with the audience. Both Lexie and Noah identify as queer and trans\, and The Ship We Built\, which received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist\, is the first middle grade book from a major American publisher centering a trans boy and written by one. The text deals with themes of isolation\, faith\, gender and sexuality\, abuse\, addiction\, incarceration\, and imagination as a tool for survival. This event is sure to interest young readers\, aspiring writers\, activists\, and artists of all ages. You can check out the book from our collections. \nAbout Lexie: Lexie Bean is a queer and trans multi-media artist from the Midwest USA whose work revolves around themes of bodies\, homes\, cyclical violence\, and LGBTQIA+ identity. They are a member of the RAINN National Leadership Council and are Lambda Literary Finalist for their anthology Written on the Body\, centering trans survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault. The Ship We Built is their debut novel\, which began with a text message dare from a crush in 2014. It has also taken the form of an animated short\, and soon a feature-length script. Like Rowan\, Lexie has a deep resonance with water and letter writing\, and is also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.\n\n  \n\nAbout Noah: Noah Grigni is a children’s book illustrator and trans activist from Atlanta\, Georgia. Influenced by queer futurism\, magical realism\, dreams\, and the subconscious\, Noah uses art to imagine a radically inclusive future and uplift voices fighting for change. Their art ranges from vibrant watercolor illustrations\, to meticulous anatomical drawings\, to promotional graphics for activist groups. Noah is the illustrator of It Feels Good To Be Yourself by Theresa Thorn\, The Every Body Book by Rachel Simon\, The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean\, and The Gender Identity Workbook For Kids by Kelly Storck. Last year\, The American Library in Paris hosted Noah’s first-ever book signing event! Noah is excited to return to the library virtually for this discussion.\n\n  \n\nThis event is free and open to the public (ages 9-Adult). This event will be hosted virtually via Zoom. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event. Advance registration is required (register HERE). \n  \nSend an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about events and collections for ages 0-18: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/the-ship-we-built-a-discussion-with-lexie-bean-and-noah-grigni-ages-9-adult-virtual-by-rsvp/ CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids,Teens ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Lexie-and-Noah-2020-e1605784416801.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210114T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210114T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20210112T094048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T104957Z UID:27158-1610652600-1610656200@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:The American Library in Paris Book Award 2020 [Virtual Event] DESCRIPTION:Honoring literature. Interpreting France.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: 14 January 2021 at 19h30 CET \nLocation: Hosted live on Zoom \n\nRSVP required- please follow this link to register. \n\nDigital tickets to the 2020 Book Award Ceremony are now available. For the first time\, the ceremony will be open to the public and there is no cost to attend. Please sign up below to be added to the event’s guest list and login information will be sent to you in January. \nThe winner of the 2020 prize will be announced and will deliver a live talk on their winning book. The evening will also include a tribute to Library supporters\, remarks from the jury about the six shortlisted books\, and many other special surprises. \nThe Book Award ceremony is the Library’s most significant donor appreciation event of the year\, and the Library will host a separate gathering to celebrate the generosity of its community. If you haven’t donated this year and you would like to join the hundreds of supporters who have made a contribution in 2020\, please use the donate button on this page. URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/the-american-library-in-paris-book-award-2020/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SL-cover-images-block.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210106T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210106T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T220202 CREATED:20201127T183609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210104T115806Z UID:26162-1609961400-1609966800@americanlibraryinparis.org SUMMARY:A Special Panel on Change over Time in Technology and Ethics- from 2000 to 2021 [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required] DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nFollow this link to register! \nA Panel on Change over Time in Technology and Ethics- from 2000 to 2021\nThis special panel\, moderated by Christine Finn and featuring Nicholas Hall and Mike Cassidy as discussants\, will explore and debate the issues surrounding technology and our relationship with its ethics. Finn first interviewed the discussants in 2000 while adopting a left-field take on technology though its fast-changing material culture\, (Artifacts: an archaeologist’s year in Silicon Valley: MIT Press 2001). They will cover the state of tech around the year 2000\, before and after the dot com bubble burst\, through the era of startups\, the beginnings of social media as a benign means to connect people and ideas\, and apps to make life simpler\, to our present concerns about social media leaving us vulnerable\, and divided by technology. While innovation has the potential for positive and sweeping change\, have the technologies developed in the last two decades grown too large and powerful\, and beyond regulation we rely upon to protect us? Inspired in part by recent popular documentaries such as The Social Dilemma and The Great Hack\, panelists will share their recollections of the early days of tech and Silicon Valley\, and reflect upon how we got here\, where we might go next\, and what an ethics of technology might look like.\n\n\n\n \n  \nChristine Finn is a journalist and creative archaeologist\, and author of Artifacts: an Archaeologist’s Year in Silicon Valley (MIT Press\, 2001) and Past Poetic: Archaeology and the Poetry of WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney (Duckworth\, 2004). She began her journalism career at 16\, and has followed it from analogue to digital\, print\, blog\,  photography and broadcast\, including the BBC’s “From Our Own Correspondent”\, Wired.com\, and Edge.org. In 2003 she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She is a former Reuter Fellow at Oxford\, before returning in 1992 as one of the first undergrads to read Archaeology and Anthropology\,  continuing to a doctorate in archaeology and poetry. She has received seven Arts Council England awards as a visual artist. Her site-specific work engages with change-over-time in technology and media. \n\n\n\n\n \n  \n\n\n\nMike Cassidy\, Signifyd lead storyteller: I was a long-time journalist at the newspaper of Silicon Valley\, covering the valley’s rise and fall and rise and\, well\, you get the idea. I worked and watched as the Mercury News became one of the best newspapers in the U.S.\, shortly before a death-defying collapse that has rendered it almost invisible. I fled to a tech start-up and then another\, called Signifyd\, where I tell the story of a company that protects merchants from online fraud. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nNicholas Hall: I met Christine Finn when she wrote a little piece about my community website\, Startupfailures\, back in 2001. I created the community website after the collapse of my startup\, Intori\, which was focused on becoming an online tool to support offline business networking. At one time I had over 4\,000 connections on LinkedIn but now under 100. The same was true with Facebook. As the noise grows\, our ability to listen lessens. Can you hear me now?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/a-special-panel-on-change-over-time-in-technology-and-ethics/ CATEGORIES:Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/5759243-e1606920133803.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR