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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Oliver Gee [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, 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 with Oliver Gee!\nFollow this link to register. \nOliver Gee is an Australian who’s been in Paris since 2015. He arrived as a journalist\, but now makes a living as the host of the hugely popular Paris travel podcast “The Earful Tower”. This year\, he released his laugh-out-loud memoir\, Paris On Air\, which he will discuss with us live on Zoom. Oliver will give an entertaining performance and host a lively Q&A in which he’ll talk about publishing a book during a lockdown\, cancelling a mega US book tour and doing it virtually instead\, and the perks and perils of life as a podcaster in the City of Light.\n\n\n \nIn Paris On Air\, Oliver Gee tells of how five years in France taught him how to order cheese\, make a Parisian person smile\, and convince anyone you can fake French (even if\, like Oliver\, you speak the language like an Australian cow). \nA fresh voice on the Paris scene\, he shares the soaring highs and crushing lows that come with following your dreams to the French capital. \nHe also befriends the city’s too-cool-for-school basketballers\, chases runaway crocodiles\, and goes on a mammoth honeymoon trip around France on his little red scooter.\nTo order\, please visit www.theearfultower.com/memoir. \n  \n  \n  \nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-oliver-gee/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201029T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201029T203000
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SUMMARY:Writers Reading during the Pandemic: A Panel with Joyce Carol Oates\, Edmund White\, and Sheila Kohler [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series and related panels 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. \nWriters Reading during the Pandemic\nPlease join us for a special panel in which we’ll discuss reading in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. We’ll be joined by acclaimed authors Joyce Carol Oates\, Edmund White\, and Sheila Kohler\, who will speak to us about what they have been reading and how it has shaped their response to the outbreak of the virus and resulting challenges\, including illness\, confinement and quarantine\, isolation and loneliness\, anxiety about the health of our loved ones\, and frustration stemming from the responses of our leaders. We hope attending this event and listening to our panelists trade insights and perspectives might give you a chance to reflect upon how your own reading habits have changed throughout the course of 2020 as well. We believe books have the power not only to captivate\, entertain\, and instruct\, but also to heal. \nPlease click here to register for this event. \n  \nPhoto by Geraint Lewis \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Her most recent book\, Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars\, is out now. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPhoto by Andrew Fladeboe \nEdmund White has written thirty books\, taught at Princeton and won many awards. He lives in New York City. His most recent novel\, A Saint from Texas\, is out now. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPhoto by Beowulf Sheehan \n  \nSheila Kohler is the author of over ten novels\, three volumes of short fiction\, a memoir\, and many essays. Her most recent novel is Open Secrets\, out now. Her memoir Once we were sisters is just out with Penguin as well as Canongate in England. She has won numerous prizes including the O.Henry twice and been included in Best American Short Stories most recently in 2013. Her work has been published in thirteen countries. She has taught at Columbia\, Sarah Lawrence\, Bennington and at Princeton since 2007. Her novel\, Cracks was made into a film with directors Jordan and Ridley Scott with Eva Green playing Miss G. You can find her blog at Psychology Today under “Dreaming for Freud.” \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/writers-reading-during-the-pandemic-a-panel-with-joyce-carol-oates-edmund-white-and-sheila-kohler/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201022T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201022T203000
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop with Susan Tiberghien [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, 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. \nInterested in moving forward with a writing project in the wake of what has been an extremely turbulent year?  \nLibrary members are invited to join us for a multi-genre workshop\, “Finding Our Stories for a New Tomorrow\,” with author and writing instructor Susan Tiberghien. Susan will share her approach\, guide us through writing prompts\, and answer any questions you might have about technique and/or practice. Read her workshop description and more about work below to learn more: \nWhere is the story?  Margaret Atwood writes\, “The story is in the dark.” We will find our way into the dark\, into the unconscious and bring our stories into the light. As we read excerpts from Atwood\, Toni Morrison\, Orhan Pamuk\, and Terry Tempest Williams\, we will start to craft our own stories. Our voices will bear witness in these turbulent times. \nSusan M. Tiberghien\, an American writer living in Geneva\, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and Philosophy with graduate work at the Université de Grenoble and the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich. She is the author of four memoirs: Looking for Gold: A Year in Jungian Analysis\, Circling to the Center\, Side by Side\, Footsteps; two writing books: One Year to a Writing Life\, Writing Toward Wholeness: Lessons Inspired by C.G. Jung; and most recently\, the 20th Anniversary Edition of Circling to the Center\, An Invitation to Silent Prayer.  \nFor over 20 years Tiberghien has been teaching workshops at C.G. Jung Societies\, at the International Women’s Writing Guild\, and at writers’ centers and conferences\, in the U.S. and Europe. Recently she recorded online master classes for the Jung Society of Washington DC: Writing to the Soul\, Seeing Beauty with Words\, and Through Darkness to Light. An active member of International PEN\, Tiberghien founded and directed the Geneva Writers’ Group for 25 years\, bringing together over 230 English language writers. She is married\, with six children\, fifteen grandchildren\, and one great grandchild. \nWebsite: www.susantiberghien.com \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/writing-workshop-with-susan-tiberghien/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201014T193000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Dalia Sofer [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, 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 (follow this link!). Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n  \nPlease join us for a reading and interview with author Dalia Sofer to learn more about her latest novel\, Man of My Time. \nSet in Tehran and New York\, Man of My Time is the story of Hamid Mozaffarian\, a man as alienated from himself as he is from the world. After decades of working with ambivalence for the Iranian government\, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York\, where he encounters his estranged family and retrieves the ashes of his father. Tucked into a mint tin in Hamid’s pocket\, the ashes propel him into an excavation of a lifetime of betrayals\, forcing him to confront his past. Exploring variations of loss\, Man of My Time is not only about family and memory\, but also about the relationship between captor and captive\, country and citizen\, and individual and history. \n  \nDalia Sofer is the author of the novels Man of My Time—a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, and The Septembers of Shiraz—selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and published in sixteen countries. A recipient of a Whiting Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize\, she has contributed essays and reviews to various publications\, including The New York Times Book Review\, The LA Review of Books\, and The Believer. Born in Tehran\, Iran\, Sofer currently lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-dalia-sofer/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201013T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201013T203000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Harriet Welty Rochefort in conversation with Alan Riding [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, 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 (follow this link!). Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us for a conversation between Harriet Welty Rochefort and Alan Riding about Harriet’s new book\, Final Transgression. \n \nTwo sisters\, two different destinies. In Final Transgression\, 85-year-old Caroline Aubry tells the tale of the tragic wartime destiny of her beloved younger sister\, Séverine. From their humble beginnings in a hamlet in the southwest of France to a château where Séverine becomes the protegée of the beautiful countess who employs their parents\, their trajectories differ. After they move to Paris\, the pragmatic Caroline becomes a successful designer and the high-spirited Severine marries a rich jeweler. When WW2 breaks out and her collaborationist husband betrays her\, the headstrong Séverine flees to the chateau and the countess –– in spite of warnings about the risk of traveling to an area that is a fierce battleground for rival groups of résistants\, Nazis and collaborators. Severine is beautiful\, intelligent but obstinate – and it is that obstinacy that will ultimately seal her fate. The end of the war in France was a time for settling scores. Séverine\, an ordinary woman living in extraordinary times\, unwittingly hands the hangman’s noose to her enemies in one egregious act—her final transgression. \nHarriet Welty Rochefort grew up in Iowa\, traveled to France after graduating from college\, and never left. She is the author of three nonfiction books about the French: French Toast\, French Fried and Joie de Vivre\, all published by St. Martin’s Press. Final Transgression is her first work of fiction. Learn more at www.harrietweltyrochefort.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAlan Riding is the former Paris bureau chief and European cultural correspondent for The New York Times. Still living in Paris and now devoted to writing plays\, he is author of several books\, most recently And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-harriet-welty-rochefort-in-conversation-with-alan-riding/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200926T140000
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SUMMARY:The Art of the Scary Story: Write the Haunted Paris Script (ages 14-adult) [VIRTUAL—BY RSVP]
DESCRIPTION:For ages 14-adult \n\n  \n\nWork on your craft in a fun\, creative atmosphere with other writers and help us build the script for our Haunted Library! \n  \nScripts are an art form. Just like short stories and novels\, they must be crafted carefully. Join us in crafting the script for the evening portion of the Library’s Halloween event. We will have a basic outline drafted of the route tours will take through the 7th arrondissement on the evening of 31 October 2020. During this workshop\, we’ll create scary vignettes for actors to perform\, and a tale for our tour guides to recount during the evening. Help us create an evening of scares for visitors who attend the event on Saturday 31 October. New writers\, fans of scary stories and professionals are all welcome to attend! \n\n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and open to Library members ages 12-adult and will be hosted virtually. Advance registration is required (sign-up HERE). Registered participants will be sent the info about how to join the meeting.\n \nSend an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about this event\, or any of our events for children and teens: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/the-art-of-the-scary-story-write-the-haunted-paris-script-ages-14-adult-virtual-by-rsvp/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200924T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200924T200000
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Mindfulness Workshop with Daria Steketee [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event has filled; thank you for your understanding. \n  \n*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s programs will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nMindfulness Workshop for Creatives (1 hour in length) \nPlease join us for a relaxing and informative session in which you’ll get a preview of Mindfulness Meditation techniques\, all of which can be used for writers and other creatives looking to find their flow. \nThis workshop presents a secular approach to Mindfulness that focuses on how it can be practical and helpful in our daily lives. Participants will take away practical and accessible ways to reduce stress\, increase enjoyment of the present moment\, and promote resilience. No prior experience in meditation necessary. \nThis workshop will include:\n• an overview of the global phenomenon that mindfulness has become\n• simple techniques to get you started\n• a few short guided meditations\n• a Q&A \nDaria Steketee began meditating over 30 years ago in New York City\, where she grew up. She studied meditation in the Buddhist and Yogic traditions\, while pursuing studies in Comparative Religion\, Theatre\, and Art at Bryn Mawr College and New York University. Working as a visual artist in Paris\, she continued meditation training in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition before discovering Mindfulness through a series of classes\, silent retreats\, and books. A graduate of Mindfulness Training Institute\, she has been certified to teach meditation in a variety of formats and settings (for companies\, associations\, individuals\, etc.). \nFor more\, please visit Daria’s website: https://www.mindfultoday.fr.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/mindfulness-workshop-with-daria-steketee/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200922T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200922T203000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Clara Oropeza [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, 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. \n  \nPlease join us for an evening with Clara Oropeza\, author of Anaïs Nin: A Myth of Her Own\, which traces Nin’s literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and poetic expression attained in the details of the quotidian\, transfigured into fiction. By digging into the mythic tropes that permeate both her literary diaries and fiction\, this book demonstrates that Nin constructed a mythic method of her own\, revealing the extensive possibilities of an opulent feminine psyche. \nIn this work\, Clara demonstrates that the literary diary\, for Nin\, is a genre that with its traces of trickster archetype\, among others\, reveals a mercurial\, yet particular understanding of an embodied and at times mystical experience of a writer. The cogent analysis of Nin’s fiction alongside the posthumously published unexpurgated diaries\, within the backdrop of emerging psychological theories\, further illuminates Nin’s contributions as an experimental and important modernist writer whose daring and poetic voice has not been fully appreciated. By extending research on diary writing and anchoring Nin’s literary style within modernist traditions\, this book contributes to the redefinition of what literary modernism was comprised\, who participated and how it was defined. \nDr. Clara Oropeza is a Latina writer and Professor of English Literature at Santa Barbara City College\, California. Clara’s research combines comparative mythology\, feminist and literary studies and cultural theory. She has contributed various essays to Sagewoman and Between. Clara earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Mythology and Literature from Pacifica Graduate Institute and an MA in English Literature from California State University\, Los Angeles. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-clara-oropeza/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200917T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200917T180000
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SUMMARY:Fantasy Book Club (ages 12-adult) [VIRTUAL—RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:ages 12-adult\n \n  \n\nJoin fantasy fans to discuss new worlds and novels with like-minded readers.\n\n  \n\nBring along your current or most recent fantasy read to talk about with the group during our online meeting. Participants are also encouraged to prepare a cup of tea or coffee to enjoy during the meeting. Each participant will be asked to read the first line of the fantasy novel they’ve selected and share a bit about the book. High and low fantasy\, contemporary or classic–it’s all perfect to bring along to discuss during these book club meetings. New members are welcome! This book club is facilitated by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLooking for your next great fantasy read? Stop by and browse our extensive collections! These titles are available for Library members in e-book format: \nThe Cruel Prince by Holly Black\, The Inquisitor’s Tale by Adam Gidwitz\, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin\, Coraline by Neil Gaiman\, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien\, and The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\nAdvance registration is required for this book group (sign-up HERE). 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. \n  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ya-fantasy-book-club-ages-12-adult-virtual-rsvp-required-4/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200916T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200916T203000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Mamta Chaudhry in conversation with Russell Banks [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, 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. \nMamta Chaudhry’s debut novel\, Haunting Paris\, is set in Paris in 1989. Alone in her luminous apartment on Île Saint-Louis\, Sylvie discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover’s possessions\, launching her into a decades-old search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of the Second World War. She is unaware that she is watched over by Julien’s ghost\, his love for her powerful enough to draw him back to this world\, though doomed now to remain a silent observer. Sylvie’s quest leads her deep into the secrets of Julien’s past\, shedding new light on the dark days of Nazi-occupied Paris. A timeless story of love and loss\, Haunting Paris matches emotional intensity with lyrical storytelling to explore grief\, family secrets\, and the undeniable power of memory. \nThe book has been praised as “elegantly wrought” by The New York Times Book Review\, “extraordinarily beautiful” by Bonjour Paris\, and “a heart-wrenching love letter to Paris” by Publishers Weekly. Marilynne Robinson called “this fine first novel . . . a small parable\, pondering the nature of civilization itself\,” and Russell Banks described it as “powerful and moving . . . with a heartbreaking\, profoundly adult love story at its center.” \nMamta Chaudhry lives with her husband in Coral Gables\, Florida. They spend part of each year in India and in France. Much of her professional career was in television and classical radio at stations in Calcutta\, Gainesville\, Dallas\, and Miami. Mamta has studied with Marilynne Robinson and has also taught literature and creative writing at the University of Miami. Her early fiction\, poetry\, and feature articles have been published in newspapers and magazines in the States and in India. She is currently working on a second novel. \n  \n  \nPhoto by Nancie Battaglia \nFor her virtual evening at the Library\, Mamta will be in conversation with Russell Banks. Russell is the author of Cloudsplitter and Continental Drift\, and is one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers\, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers\, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards. He lives in upstate New York and Miami\, Florida.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-mamta-chaudhry/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200908T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200908T203000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Alice Jardine [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, 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. \n \n  \nPlease join us as we welcome Alice Jardine\, author of At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva. \nAt the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva–one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Kristeva’s work to a broader readership by connecting Kristeva’s personal journey\, from her childhood in Communist Bulgaria to her adult life as an international public intellectual based in Paris\, with the history of her ideas. Informed by extensive interviews with Kristeva herself\, this telling of a remarkable woman’s life story also draws out the complexities of Kristeva’s writing\, emphasizing her call for an urgent revival of bold interdisciplinary thinking in order to understand–and to act in–today’s world. \nDr. Jardine is Professor of Studies of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality and of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her publications include The Future of Difference\, Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity\, Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan\, and\, as translator\, Julia Kristeva’s Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-alice-jardine/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200901T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200901T203000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20191220T172742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200901T145142Z
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Evenings with an Author: Hollis Clayson [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event is now FULL\, thank you for your understanding.\n\n*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, 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.\n\nHollis Clayson will be speaking about her latest book\, Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Epoque. She will explain her interest in artificial lighting technologies and highlight the artworks that most fascinated her and informed her work.\n\nDr. Clayson is Professor of Art History and Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University\, where she has taught for 30+ years. Trained at Wellesley and UCLA\, she specializes in Paris-based art practices. Her books include Painted Love\, Paris in Despair\, and Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? In 2014\, she was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Culture.\n\n*The Library has a limited number of copies of Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Epoque available for purchase\, at a special discounted rate of 20 euros (list price 50 euros). Please email programs@americanlibraryinparis.org to reserve yours. Payment and pick up at the Library\, with details to be communicated by email upon reservation of the book.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-holly-clayson/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200715T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200715T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20200609T151909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200617T124051Z
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SUMMARY:Ask the Doctor: COVID-19 update by Dr. Rob Murphy [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nAsk the Doctor- COVID-19 update by Dr. Rob Murphy\n\nAmerican Library in Paris member\, Dr. Robert L. Murphy has been at the forefront of every infectious disease global crisis since the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s. In this special Zoom session\, Dr. Murphy will share with us the latest updates in the fight against COVID-19. He will also answer questions from the audience. He will join us from Chicago\, where he is the Executive Director\, Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Murphy is currently involved in cutting edge research in diagnostics and treatment of COVID-19.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-dr-rob-murphy/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200709T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200709T183000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20200622T135009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200623T100906Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop with Anissa Bouziane [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is FREE and open to Library members. \nSpace is limited and registration is required. Please RSVP here. \nThis event will run via Zoom from 17h00-18h30 on Thursday 9 July. \nWriting our Way out of Confinement\nMany of us see the process of deconfinement as a new beginning\, much like a blank page. This writing workshop will encourage participants to reflect upon their personal experiences of confinement and imagine their way out through writing. With Anissa as our guide\, we will consider what confinement has taught us about our own powers of observation and imagination\, and how these might be translated onto the page. We will explore how isolation has variously challenged and/or nourished our writing and creative practices. This workshop will feature a mix of instruction and quiet time for reflection and writing prompts. We hope you come away from the course with a seed or an idea for a piece of writing that you can continue to develop independently. \nAnissa Bouziane was born in Tennessee\, daughter of a Moroccan father and a French mother.  She grew up in Morocco\, but returned to the US to attend Wellesley College\, and went on to earn an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. Her debut novel\, Dune Song\, is rooted in her experience of witnessing the collapse of the Twin Towers. She now works and teaches in Paris.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/writing-workshop-with-anissa-bouziane-2/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200701T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200701T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20200608T133514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T074520Z
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Evenings with an Author: Lindsey Tramuta and Thomas Chatterton Williams [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event has filled. Those who signed up will receive meeting details tomorrow (1 July). Those who were unable to sign up should look out for a YouTube video of the Zoom recording of the event which will be posted to the Library’s YouTube channel later this week.  \n*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom. We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us for a conversation between Lindsey Tramuta and Thomas Chatterton Williams as they speak about her much-anticipated book\, The New Parisienne\, to be released by Abrams on 7 July 2020. \nLifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman—white\, lithe\, ever fashionable—The New Parisienne demystifies this oversimplified archetype and recasts the women of Paris as they truly are\, in all their complexity. Featuring 50 activists\, creators\, educators\, visionaries\, and disruptors—such as Leïla Slimani\, Lauren Bastide\, and Mayor Anne Hidalgo—the book reveals Paris as a blossoming cultural center of feminine power and showcases those who are bucking tradition\, making names for themselves\, and transforming the city.\n\nLindsey Tramuta is also the author of the bestselling book The New Paris and a regular contributor to the New York Times\, Condé Nast Traveler\, Afar and Fortune Magazine.\n\nLinks to pre-order The New Parisienne\nhttps://www.abramsbooks.com/product/new-parisienne_9781419742811/\nhttps://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781419742811/the-new-parisienne-the-women-ideas-shaping-paris\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThomas Chatterton Williams is the author of Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race (2019) and Losing My Cool: Love\, Literature\, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd (2010). He is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine\, a columnist at Harper’s\, and a 2019 New America Fellow. Reach him on Twitter @ThomasChattWill.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-lindsey-tramuta/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200630T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200630T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20200607T125916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T140401Z
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Evenings with an Author: Emilio Williams [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event is now full\, thank you for your understanding. A recording will be released in our Podcast series\, “Evenings with an Author.” \n*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom. We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n\nEmilio Williams presents\n“Empty Streets\, Busy Lives:\nA surprising historical tour of le Septième through the iconic photos of Eugène Atget (1857–1927)”\n\nA century ago\, ex-pat American photographers Man Ray and Berenice Abbott discovered a treasure trove of photos that an unknown commercial photographer\, Eugène Atget\, had taken of the empty streets of Old Paris. The surrealists became enthralled by his uncanny and eerie images\, now regarded as the foundational masterpieces of street photography. During his research on the history of 7th arrondissement\, Emilio found an album of forgotten photos of the district taken by Atget. For his lecture\, Emilio has combined those rarely seen photos with surprising discoveries of the colorful figures who lived in the neighborhood and walked the streets around the American Library in Paris.\n\nEmilio Williams divides his time between Paris and Chicago\, where he is a playwright resident and faculty member at Chicago Dramatists. This fall he will be teaching at Columbia College\, Dominican University\, and Georgia State University. He is currently working on a non-fiction book about the forgotten stories of the 7th arrondissement in the Parisian Left Bank. His award-winning theater plays have been produced and published internationally to much critical acclaim. In his previous life as a journalist\, he worked for CNN in Atlanta and Washington DC.\n\n\nPhoto: “Fontaine de Mars” Eugène Atget\, 1903.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-emilio-williams-virtual-public-event-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200624T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200624T183000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20200607T131212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200622T122757Z
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SUMMARY:Cause of Death: COVID-19\, Police Violence\, or Racism?: A Conversation about Racial Inequalities in France and the United States with Dr. Jean Beaman and Inès Seddiki [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n  \n \n  \nCause of Death: COVID-19\, Police Violence\, or Racism?: A Conversation about Racial Inequalities in France and the United States with Dr. Jean Beaman and Inès Seddiki. \nFor this evening of conversation\, Inès will interview Jean about her research\, including her book\, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France. Jean will then pose some questions to Inès about her organization\, GHETT’UP. Finally\, the two will discuss racism in France more broadly re COVID-19 and police violence. They will also offer their thoughts and perspectives on the recent protests in France for Adama Traoré and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. \nThere will be limited time for questions after the conversation. \nJean Beaman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She was previously on the faculty at Purdue University and has held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence\, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity\, racism\, international migration\, and state-sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She is an Editor of H-Net Black Europe\, an Associate Editor of the journal\, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power\, and Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques. She earned her B.A.\, M.A.\, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. \n \n  \n  \nInès Seddiki is a French-Moroccan activist and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) professional living in the banlieues of Paris. Inès graduated with a masters degree in corporate social responsibility from Grenoble Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Pierre Mendès-France University. In 2016\, she founded GHETT’UP\, an organization dealing with youth empowerment and leadership in the underprivileged areas of Paris\, the banlieues. 5000+ youth have been impacted by the organization’s programs.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/cause-of-death-covid-19-police-violence-or-racism/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200623T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200623T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20200607T105240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200618T132928Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Visiting Fellow Mark Braude [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us for a discussion with author and American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Mark Braude about his recent book\, The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Exile to Escape\,  a “coup de coeur” for the 2019 American Library in Paris Book Award and a community favorite. \nAs many of us continue to follow confinement or quarantine measures in the fight against covid-19\, themes of exile\, banishment\, and separation are at the forefront of our minds. Indeed\, Mark’s interest in Napoleon stems from this very specific experience of his off the main stage of Europe in 1814-15. In finding a novel approach to a larger than life personality\, Mark gives us something unexpected and fresh–he takes us far beyond those chapters of Napoleon’s life that have received extensive treatment and analysis. In our discussion\, Mark will tell us more about his research and findings\, and provide his reflections on how exile affected one of the most famous historical figures of all time\, reminding us that despite having lived an extraordinary life\, Napoleon was\, after all\, a human being who often found himself separated from or at the mercy of others\, as was the case during his exile on Elba. \nMark was selected as an American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow for Spring 2020. Though Mark was unable to join us at the Library in May 2020 as originally planned\, we look forward to welcoming him sometime in 2020-21\, during which time he will write\, research\, and engage further with our community by offering another lecture as well as a workshop. \nMARK BRAUDE is the author of The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba From Exile to Escape and Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle. He is currently at work on a book of narrative nonfiction about the French artist and model Kiki de Montparnasse\, focusing on her professional and romantic entanglement with the American photographer Man Ray in 1920s Paris\, to be published by W.W. Norton. 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-visiting-fellow-mark-braude-virtual-public-event-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200616T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200616T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20200526T123356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200526T123356Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Traci Brimhall [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nJoin us for an evening of reading and discussion with poet and essayist Traci Brimhall. We will hear Traci read from her new essay “The Grief Artist” about the role of creativity and grief\, as well as discuss the work she is doing now researching creativity in epidemics. She lives 20 miles from the source of the 1918 flu outbreak and is looking at both the art produced at that time\, as well as what it means to grieve long distance. An audience Q&A will follow. \nIn “The Grief Artist\,” Traci braids several narratives that explore the relationship of the creative process to the grief processes of both death and divorce. She traces lost love letters she finds in a used book and ties them to the end of her marriage; examines the year she spent making hospice blankets after her mother’s death; and interviews a woman who used flowers from her mother’s funeral to make art for 100 days. In each of these Traci asks how art can help us grieve in a culture that no longer has public bereavement rituals and how the creative process can possibly even help us with the physical aspects of grief. \nTraci Brimhall is the author of four books: Come the Slumberless from the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon); Saudade (Copper Canyon); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton)\, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press)\, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The Believer\, The New Republic\, Orion\, and Best American Poetry. Her essays have appeared in Georgia Review\, Southern Review\, New England Review\, Brevity\, and cited as notable in several editions of Best American Essays.  She’s received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the National Endowment for the Arts.  She’s the Director of Creative Writing at Kansas State University and lives in Manhattan\, KS. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-traci-brimhall-virtual-public-event-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200611T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200611T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20200529T113415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200529T113509Z
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SUMMARY:Watercolor Workshop with Jessie Kanelos Weiner [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is FREE and open to Library members. \nSpace is limited and registration is required. Please RSVP here. \nThis event will run via Zoom from 17h00-18h00 on Thursday 11 June. \nPARIS IN STRIDE: A WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP \n11 years ago\, illustrator Jessie Kanelos Weiner was a young dreamer who arrived in Paris with artistic desires\, minimal talent and no tangible ambitions. With nothing but time and a sketchbook\, it’s the moment where she developed her distinct style by documenting the intoxicating fragrance of French roast chicken\, the circuitous streets of Paris and how she found her place amongst it all. Jessie will walk participants through her creative process\, her watercolor tips and tricks and some backstory on how her time in Paris shaped her career as a professional watercolorist. \nJessie is a Franco-American watercolor illustrator (Vogue\, WSJ\, NYT) and coauthor of Paris in Stride and New York in Stride.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/watercolor-workshop-with-jessie-kanelos-weiner-virtual-event-library-members-only-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200609T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200609T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20200506T123904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200601T214751Z
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SUMMARY:2020 Annual General Meeting [Virtual Event for Members; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:All members of the American Library in Paris are invited to the Annual General Meeting of the American Library in Paris\, Inc.\, a membership corporation organized under the laws of Delaware and operating in France. \nThe Library Director\, Chairman of the Board\, and Board Trustees will live-streaming from the Library to report on activities from 2019. Members may participate via Zoom. Please email programs@americanlibraryinparis.org to register for the meeting. Zoom details will be sent prior to the meeting to those who have registered.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/2020-annual-general-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200603T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200603T173000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20200529T111955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200601T214747Z
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SUMMARY:Dispatches from the Library with Director Audrey Chapuis [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:Join Library Director Audrey Chapuis to catch up about the Library’s recent activities and plans for progressive deconfinement. \nRSVP is required for this event\, which will be held via Zoom. \nPlease use this link to sign up.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/dispatches-from-the-library-with-director-audrey-chapuis/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200526T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200526T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20200513T122522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200526T161028Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Anissa Bouziane [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:[Registration CLOSED] \n*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us for an informal conversation with author Anissa M. Bouziane. Anissa was born in Tennessee\, daughter of a Moroccan father and a French mother.  She grew up in Morocco\, but returned to the US to attend Wellesley College\, and went on to earn an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. Her debut novel\, Dune Song\, is rooted in her experience of witnessing the collapse of the Twin Towers. She now works and teaches in Paris. \n“I came to the Sahara to be buried.” \nAfter witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Center\, Jeehan Nathaar leaves her New York life with her sense of identity fractured and her American dream destroyed. She returns to Morocco to make her home with a family that’s not her own. Healed by their kindness but caught up in their troubles\, Jeehan struggles to move beyond the pain and confusion of September 11th. On this desiccated landscape\, thousands of miles from Ground Zero\, the Dune sings of death\, love\, and forgiveness. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-anissa-bouziane-virtual-public-event-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200505T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200505T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
CREATED:20200416T113348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200505T143832Z
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Evenings with an Author: Whitney Scharer [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event is now FULL and the RSVP link has been removed\, thank you for your understanding. \n*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public via Zoom. We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us as we check in with author Whitney Scharer\, author of The Age of Light. This absorbing debut tells a fictionalized account of Lee Miller’s life\, focusing on the years she spent in Paris and her tumultuous relationship with Surrealist artist Man Ray. An icon during her own time\, Lee’s bold vision and fearlessness still serve today as a template for a life lived fully. In Whitney’s novel\, we follow Lee through her time as a model\, Surrealist photographer\, fashion photographer\, war correspondent\, and gourmet chef. Whitney will discuss her book as well as provide us with updates about its reception and translation. \nWhitney holds a BA in English Literature from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. Her short fiction\, essays\, and interviews have appeared in numerous publications including Vogue\, The Telegraph\, The Tatler\, and Bellevue Literary Review. Her first novel\, The Age of Light\, was published by Little\, Brown (US) and Picador (UK) in February\, 2019\, and was a Boston Globe and IndieNext bestseller and named one of the best books of 2019 by Parade\, Glamour Magazine\, Real Simple\, Refinery 29\, Booklist and Yahoo. Internationally\, The Age of Light won Le prix Rive Gauche à Paris\, was a 2019 coup de coeur selection from the American Library in Paris\, and has been published or is forthcoming from over a dozen other countries. Whitney has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Arts and Ragdale\, a St. Botolph Emerging Artists Grant\, and a Somerville Arts Council Artists Fellowship. She teaches fiction in the Boston area and is a co-founder of the Arlington Author Salon\, a quarterly reading series.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-whitney-scharer-virtual-public-event/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200416T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200416T190000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
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SUMMARY:[FULL] A Virtual Movement Workshop with Hiie Saumaa [Free to members; registration required]
DESCRIPTION:*This workshop has filled and the sign up link has been removed. If you signed up\, your response has been recorded and you can expect a confirmation email by Monday 6 April. If you hoped to sign up but were not able to before the offering filled\, please stay tuned for other virtual programming possibilities. We will not open a waitlist for this workshop. Thank you!*\nWe are pleased to be offering our first virtual movement workshop for adults! This workshop will be held on Thursday 16 April from 17h-19h and will be free and open to Library members. Space is limited and advance registration is required.\nJoy of Movement\nIn this workshop\, we learn to connect to our home\, the body\, through movement. The class is based on Nia dance\, a technique developed in the US in the 1980s. This method blends movements from dance arts\, martial arts\, and healing practices. We use simple choreography and free dance. In Nia\, as in any somatic method\, the focus is always on how you feel when you move and on finding comfort\, energy\, ease\, and support through movement. No previous dance experience is necessary; all ages can participate (though this workshop is intended primarily for adults). We dance barefoot and in comfortable exercise clothes. I hope the class will give you energy\, joy\, calm\, and a sense of healing. \n  \nHiie Saumaa (Ph.D\, Columbia) is a somatic dance educator\, writer\, and scholar. She teaches classes and workshops in mind-body movement techniques (Nia dance\, BodyLogos\, JourneyDance) and writes about dance\, health\, and the creative process. She has taught movement in the US\, Estonia\, France\, and Romania. Hiie writes a regular column for the Journal of Alternative & Complementary Therapies and her articles have appeared in international peer-reviewed dance journals. She is currently finishing a book on the artistry of Jerome Robbins. In 2018-19\, she was an inaugural fellow at Columbia’s Institute for Ideas & Imagination in Paris and an artist in residence at the Cite Internationale des Arts. She has taught at Columbia University\, New York University\, the University of Tennessee\, and Paris College of Art.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/a-virtual-movement-workshop-with-hiie-saumaa-free-to-members-registration-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200314T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200314T123000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025131
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SUMMARY:Understanding the American University Application Process: with College Goals (By RSVP)
DESCRIPTION:For teens ages 14-18 and their parents\n \n  \n \n  \nGiven the demands of the American university application process\, students interested in pursuing higher education in the US are well advised to begin preparing early in their high school career\, before they embark on their final two years of study toward the French bac or IB. What do families need to know for their students to be successful and satisfied by the university search and application process? How do students produce a strong and interesting US university application? College Goals’ counselor\, Andrea van Niekerk\, will address the complexities of the American university application system\, with special attention to the process and mechanics. She will also take questions about applications to the UK and Canada. \nAndrea van Niekerk served for a decade as Associate Director of Admission\, with a focus on international applicants\, and as Freshman Academic Adviser at Brown University\, and as Residential Fellow in a dorm at Stanford. Still based in Silicon Valley\, she now works with both American and international families as part of College Goals. Andrea has over 20 years of experience in college admission and academic advising. She is a member of NACAC\, HECA and WACAC. \nCollege Goals is a university admission consulting practice specializing in counseling families interested in higher education opportunities in the US and in English-medium universities around the world. The team of counselors collectively offers decades of professional experience in higher education. College Goals provides expert counsel and support throughout the college search and application process\, including choice of appropriate institutions\, test requirements\, recommendations and interviews\, essay writing\, and the preparation of distinguished applications. Find out more at www.collegegoals.com \nThis event has been moved to a virtual forma\, and will be hosted via GoToMeeting.  \n  \nDownload the application here: \nhttps://global.gotomeeting.com/install/150274525 \nTo join\, download the meeting here:\n https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/150274525  \n To connect by phone:\nÉtats-Unis: +1 (571) 317-3112 \nAccess code: 150-274-525 \nSend an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.\n \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/understanding-the-american-university-application-process-with-college-goals-by-rsvp/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200311T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200311T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025133
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Roger Lipsey
DESCRIPTION:Politics and Conscience: Dag Hammarskjöld on the Art of Ethical Leadership\, published in late February\, gives us the occasion to look at Hammarskjöld’s life and contributions as a whole. Roger’s talk\, richly illustrated with photographs and documents\, will explore Hammarskjöld’s eight-plus years as secretary-general of the United Nations\, his simmering conflict with Charles de Gaulle (the UN? “ce machin!”)\, and the power of his political thought and practice.\n\n\n\n‘At a time when political leadership in many contexts seems to be assimilating itself to the worst and most corrosive bits of the entertainment industry\, and when the whole ideal of public service is disregarded or despised\, it matters that we know where to look for hope and challenge.  Dag Hammarskjöld’s extraordinary example of a statesmanship that was at once astute\, humble\, courageous\, patient and risky is as necessary for us as water in the desert; and in this welcome book\, Hammarskjöld’s finest modern biographer sets out with model clarity and passion just what we might learn from him\, just what we might hold ourselves accountable to.’    \n— Rowan Williams\, Master of Magdalene College (Cambridge)\, Archbishop of Canterbury (ret.) \n\n\n\n\nRoger is the author of Hammarskjöld: A Life (2013)\, the first full biography in 40 years\, well-received in the English-speaking world and Scandinavia. He has published many other books on topics ranging from the spiritual in twentieth-century art to the life of the Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton. Roger has an undergraduate degree from Yale College and a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts (New York University). Visit rogerlipsey.net for a complete overview of his work as a writer.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-roger-lipsey/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200226T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200226T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025133
CREATED:20191220T165213Z
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SUMMARY:A Public Panel on French Strike Culture
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a public panel on the topic of French strike culture and mentality. The event will be moderated by Adam Nossiter (New York Times)\, and feature discussants James McAuley (Washington Post)\, Sylvie Kauffmann (Le Monde)\, and Philippe Askenazy (CNRS). Panelists will address the history and politics of French strikes in a broad manner. For example\, what can/do strikes achieve? What role do unions play in organizing strikes and assisting with negotiations? Why do the French tolerate–indeed\, support–such frequent disruptions? How has the tone\, frequency\, or length of strikes changed in recent years\, especially in the context of the Gilets Jaunes and instances of violence against police\, protesters\, and property? \nThere will be limited time for audience questions following the panel. \nBefore becoming Paris Bureau Chief\, Adam Nossiter was a Paris correspondent for The New York Times since July 2015. Previously\, Nossiter served as the West Africa bureau chief for The Times\, starting in 2009. He served as a Times national correspondent in New Orleans from 2006 to 2009. \nJames McAuley is Paris correspondent for The Washington Post focusing on French and European politics and culture. Education: University of Oxford\, DPhil in history; Harvard University\, BA in history and literature. He also holds a PhD in French history. \nPhilippe Askenazy is senior researcher at the CNRS-Centre Maurice Halbwachs and professor of economics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a specialist of industrial relations. His next book Share the Wealth: How to End Rentier Capitalism\,  will be published Fall 2020. He is also the author of The Blind Decades: Employment and Growth in France\, 1974-2014. \nSylvie Kauffmann is editorial director and columnist at Le Monde as well as a contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously\, she served as a foreign correspondent stationed in various locations\, including London\, Warsaw\, and Moscow\, for Agence France-Presse. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/frenchstrikeculture/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200225T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200225T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025133
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SUMMARY:Marc Weitzmann in conversation with Rachel Donadio
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a conversation between journalist Rachel Donadio and the 2019 American Library in Paris Book Award winner\, Marc Weitzmann. The two will discuss his book\, Hate: The Rising Tide of Anti-semitism in France (and What it Means for Us).  \nMarc Weitzmann is a French author and journalist\, previously the editor in chief of the cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles. He has authored 12 books\, including Une Place dans Le Monde\, Fraternité\, Quand j’étais Normal\, Une Matière Inflammable\, and Un Temps pour Haïr. His work–both fiction and non-fiction–explores family relationships as well as the contemporary condition\, marked by globalization\, terrorism\, questions and politics of identity\, and social isolation. \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\, 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 \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/marc-weitzmann-in-conversation-with-rachel-donadio/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T025133
CREATED:20200207T102649Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging disease- the Coronavirus and beyond: A public conversation with Dr. Mariana Marrana and Taylor Gabourie (World Organisation for Animal Health)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an public conversation with Dr. Mariana Marrana and Taylor Gabourie\, who will be discussing the science behind emerging disease\, the role of human and animal interaction in its spread\, and the global response to the current outbreak. \nMariana and Taylor will discuss the following themes before taking audience questions: \n\nKey factors associated with emerging disease and importance of animal health and biodiversity;\nApproaches to building global capacity to prevent\, detect and react to emerging diseases;\nThe current public health event concerning the coronavirus (2019-nCoV).\n\nDr. Mariana Marrana\nMariana is a veterinarian by training. She graduated from the University of Porto with a master’s degree in veterinary medicine focused on public health. During her studies\, Mariana gained experience in Brazil\, Portugal\, and the United Kingdom. After a period in Portugal working in the domain of food safety\, Mariana has been part of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Preparedness and Resilience Department for the last 4 years\, where she is Coordinator of the OIE Laboratory Twinning Programme\, the Co-Secretariat for the FAO-OIE Joint Rinderpest Secretariat\, and part of the Secretariat for Coordination of Serious Events. \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nTaylor Gabourie\nTaylor is an applied anthropologist specializing in ethnography and behaviour change in the animal health sector. She is currently the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Communications Officer within the Communication Department at the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) headquarters located in Paris. Previously\, she was a member of the One Health Institute at the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine implementing the USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT Project in country project coordination and global qualitative behavior change activities in areas of zoonosis and antimicrobial resistance. She holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Applied Anthropology.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/a-public-conversation-on-the-coronavirus-outbreak-with-mariana-marrana-and-taylor-gabourie-world-organisation-for-animal-health/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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