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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
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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:20260427T043614
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200630T180000
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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:20260427T043614
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200623T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200623T180000
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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:20260427T043614
CREATED: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:20260427T043614
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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:20260427T043614
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200603T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200603T173000
DTSTAMP:20260427T043614
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200526T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200526T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T043614
CREATED:20200513T122522Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200505T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200505T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T043614
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200416T190000
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200314T123000
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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
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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:20260427T043614
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:20260427T043614
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200211T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200211T210000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Michael Webber
DESCRIPTION:A global tour of energy–the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat.\nEnergy is humanity’s single most important resource. In fact\, as energy expert Dr. Michael E. Webber argues in Power Trip\, the story of how societies rise can be told largely as the story of how they manage energy sources through time. In 2019\, as we face down growing demand for and accumulating environmental impacts from energy\, we are at a crossroads and the stakes are high. But history shows us that energy’s great value is that it allows societies to reinvent themselves. \nPower Trip explores how energy has transformed societies of the past and offers wisdom for today’s looming energy crisis. There is no magic bullet; energy advances always come with costs. Scientific innovation needs public support. Energy initiatives need to be tailored to individual societies. We must look for long-term solutions. Our current energy crisis is real\, but it is solvable. We have the power. \nMichael is based in Paris\, France where he serves as the Chief Science and Technology Officer at ENGIE\, a global energy & infrastructure services company. Michael is also the Josey Centennial Professor in Energy Resources at the University of Texas at Austin. His expertise spans research and education at the convergence of engineering\, policy\, and commercialization on topics related to innovation\, energy\, and the environment. His latest book Power Trip: the Story of Energy was published May 7\, 2019 by Basic Books with a 6-part companion series in development for PBS. His first book\, Thirst for Power: Energy\, Water and Human Survival\, addressed the connection between earth’s most valuable resources and offers a hopeful approach toward a sustainable future.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-michael-webber/
CATEGORIES:Adults,General
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200205T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200205T210000
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SUMMARY:Black ou Noir(e): A Public Panel on Black Expats and Belonging in Paris
DESCRIPTION:Picking up the thread from the Library’s February 2019 panel on mixed race and identity\, this public panel\, moderated by Tarani Merriweather and featuring discussants Jacqueline Ngo Mpii\, Yanique Francis\, and Maya Dorsey\, will explore questions related to how Black expats define their racial identity in France. What impact can language and vocabulary have on an individual’s sense of identity and belonging? How does this differ when they relocate or become expats? How are they perceived in their new communities\, and by locals? What are the commonalities among Black French and Black Americans in reclaiming language and identity and in seeking inclusion\, equity\, and justice? In a country where acknowledging race is taboo\, but gender issues are openly debated\, how do Black women acknowledge the intersections of these two salient identities? \n  \nTarani \nTarani Merriweather is a PhD candidate in Social-Organizational Psychology at Teachers College\, Columbia University in New York\, where she also completed her Masters. A native of Cincinnati\, Ohio\, Tarani received her BA in Psychology from Spelman College in Atlanta\, Georgia. She is presently living in Paris\, completing her dissertation\, which applies an intersectional lens to the study of gender and leadership. \nJacqueline \nBehind the rise of the Little Africa enterprise is its founder and CEO\, Jacqueline NGO MPII. She is the cultural ambassador for Paris’s cosmopolitan community of Afro-Parisian entrepreneurs – who are fusing these two vibrant cultures to create magic in food\, art\, and fashion. Little Africa is a sustainable and inclusive enterprise whose mission is to help connect individuals and corporations to African culture in Paris. \nWebsite: www.littleafrica.fr \nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LittleAfricaparis/\nInstagram: http://instagram.com/littleafricaparis/\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/LittleAfrica__ \nYanique \nYanique Francis is an event planner\, travel consultant\, and the founder and creative director of My Parisian LAB @myparisianlife @elopeinparis @parisfoodiebag and a writer for HuffPost and Travel&Leisure. \nMaya \nMaya Dorsey is a California- bred\, adopted Parisienne and proud citizen of the world. With a wealth of knowledge and resources accumulated from her six years living in Paris\, Maya is happy to make your visit or move to Paris as seamless as possible.  With her experiences ranging from first-time visitor\, to Masters student\, to joining the workforce as a full-fledged expat\,  Maya can help make your dreams in Paris a reality. \nWebsite : lavielocale.com \nInstagram: @lavielocale
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/black-ou-noire-a-public-panel-on-black-expats-and-belonging-in-paris/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200204T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T043614
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Katherine Ewing
DESCRIPTION:Sufis embody the mystical side of Islam but are also part of well-established institutional networks—the Sufi orders that extend across the Muslim world. Through the words\, sounds\, and images of a brief Youtube video of a meeting an American Sufi leader and a hereditary caretaker of a thirteenth-century shrine in India\, we can see how Sufis use new media in ways that upend the usual rituals of status and authority within Sufi orders while pushing against powerful global forces that would seek to delegitimize Sufism as unIslamic and archaic. Based on a close reading of this encounter memorialized (at least for now) by Youtube\, I examine how modern Sufis are striving to embody a continuing tradition while simultaneously repositioning themselves in response to the pressures of secular and Islamist modernities. \nKatherine Pratt Ewing (PhD\, University of Chicago) is Professor of Religion at Columbia University and Professor Emerita of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Among her books are “Arguing Sainthood: Modernity\, Psychoanalysis and Islam” (Duke\, 1997)\, which focused on debates about Sufism and Islamic reform in Pakistan\, and the forthcoming volume “Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond\,” edited with Rosemary Corbett (Columbia\, 2020). \nHer current research in Mauritania\, Morocco\, and Senegal examines the effects of shifting policies toward Sufism on local subjectivities and their implications for understanding how Islam is evolving as a living religious tradition within a fraught global order. \nEvenings with Authors and other weeknight programs at the Library are free and open to the public (except as noted) thanks to support from GRoW @ Annenberg\, our members\, and those who attend programs. There is a suggested donation of ten euros for non-members. Doors open at 19h00 and the event begins at 19h30.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-katherine-ewing/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200129T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200129T210000
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CREATED:20191204T151522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191211T152754Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Physicist Emlyn Hughes\, "More Radioactive than Chernobyl"
DESCRIPTION:More Radioactive than Chernobyl\n\n\n \n\n\nIn the 1940s and 1950s\, the United States tested sixty-seven nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands\, including the detonation of the largest US thermonuclear weapon (fifteen megatons)\, named Castle Bravo on March 1\, 1954. Decades later\, the impact of these tests on the Marshallese people is still apparent. The more recent challenge of rising sea levels\, coupled with the remaining nuclear waste stored on low lying islands represents a particularly chilling problem. In the summers of 2015\, 2017\, and 2018\, we commissioned an advanced scuba diving ship and traveled to the northern Marshall Islands to perform numerous environmental assessments of the radiological contamination to these islands. Our results were submitted for publication on March 1\, 2019 (65th anniversary of the Bravo bomb) and published in a series of three papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) in July\, 2019.\n\n\n \n\n\nEmlyn Hughes is a professor of physics at Columbia University and the founding director of the K=1 Project: Center for Nuclear Studies. He earned his undergraduate degree at Stanford\, his PhD at Columbia and is presently a fellow at the Columbia Institute of Ideas and Imagination in Paris.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/an-evening-with-physicist-emlyn-hughes/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200128T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T043614
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SUMMARY:Dina Nayeri in conversation with Stuart Reid on her book\, "The Ungrateful Refugee"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening with Dina Nayeri\, who will be in conversation with Stuart Reid about her most recent work\, The Ungrateful Refugee.\n\n\n \n\n\nWhat is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought to\, and yet there are more than 25 million refugees in the world. To be a refugee is to grapple with your place in society\, attempting to reconcile the life you have known with a new\, unfamiliar home. All this while bearing the burden of gratitude in your host nation: the expectation that you should be forever thankful for the space you have been allowed.\n\n\n \n\n\nDina Nayeri is the author of The Ungrateful Refugee\, a finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize. Her essay of the same name was one of the most widely shared 2017 Long Reads in The Guardian. A 2019 Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination Fellow\, winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant (2015)\, O. Henry Prize (2015)\, Best American Short Stories (2018)\, and fellowships from the McDowell Colony\, Bogliasco Foundation\, and Yaddo\, her stories and essays have been published by The New York Times\, New York Times Magazine\, The Guardian\, Los Angeles Times\, New Yorker\, Granta New Voices\, Wall Street Journal\, and many others. Her debut novel\, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea (2013) was translated to 14 languages. Her second novel\, Refuge (2017) was a New York Times editor’s choice. She holds a BA from Princeton\, an MBA from Harvard\, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and Teaching Writing Fellow. She lives in Paris.\n\n\n \n\n\nStuart Reid is a managing editor at Foreign Affairs magazine. He has written for publications including The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is currently at work on a book about the 1960s Congo Crisis\, to be published by Pantheon Books.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/an-evening-with-dina-nayeri-author-of-the-ungrateful-refugee/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200123T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200123T203000
DTSTAMP:20260427T043614
CREATED:20200102T172201Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Angie Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening with young adult author Angie Thomas. \n  \nAngie Thomas was born\, raised\, and still lives in Jackson\, Mississippi. A former teen rapper\, she holds a BFA in creative writing from Belhaven University. Her award-winning\, acclaimed debut novel\, The Hate U Give\, is a #1 New York Times bestseller and major motion picture. Her second novel\, On the Come Up\, was released in 2019 and received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly\, School Library Journal\, and Kirkus. She is an inaugural winner of the Walter Dean Myers Grant 2015\, awarded by We Need Diverse Books. Find out more about Angie Thomas here. \n  \nDoors will open at 19h00 for this event. Seating is available on a first-come\, first-serve basis. Books will be available for purchase at the Library courtesy of The Red Wheelbarrow bookshop. \n  \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public thanks to the generous support of the Annenberg Foundation. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-angie-thomas/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200122T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200122T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T043614
CREATED:20191204T151231Z
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SUMMARY:A Public Panel on the "Bookstagram" Phenomenon with Four Local Bookstagrammers
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a public panel on the “bookstagram” phenomenon. We will be hosting four Paris-based bookstagrammers for the occasion: moderator Anne-Pauline (@apireading) and panelists Clara (@thebookwormofnotredame)\, Jordan (@sparkyjordy)\, and Romie (@romiewedeservelove). Our panel will explore the ways in which digital reading communities are created and how they enrich the social and intellectual experience of individuals who belong to them. How can “bookstagram” help individuals discover new literature? How is taking part in “bookstagram” different from blogging or creating content on “booktube\,” Facebook\, or Twitter? How do “bookstagrammers” liaise with publishers and authors in order to bring fresh and authentic content to their readers and followers? What motivates someone to become a “bookstagrammer” or follow “bookstagram” accounts and personalities? In what ways can “bookstagrammers” advocate for causes about which they hope to raise awareness\, such as mental health\, underrepresented voices or stories\, LGBTQ+ issues)?\n\n\nAnne-Pauline– Best known as Api on social medias\, I mostly read young adult books (especially dystopia and contemporary) in french and in english. My target audience is young readers 14 and up who are eager to discover books off the beaten track.\n\ninstagram : @apireading \ntwitter : @bluemaevor \nblog : apireading.blogspot.com \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nClara- Clara is a French bookstagrammer and book blogger known as the Bookworm of Notre-Dame. She has been discussing young adult and middle grade novels\, as well as classics\, for three years now\, to any bookworms online. \nInstagram | Twitter | Goodreads | Blog\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJordan– Social networks are a way for me to get in touch with people who share the same urge to grow an experience new things. It can be through books\, music or simple discussions. Books genres\, representations\, well-being or spirituality are the topics I like to discuss with the people of the internet (who often turn out to become good friends in real life). My credo ? There is a beauty in believing in our potential for good\, we just have to open up and trust that things will be okay! \nInstagram : @sparkyjordy\nTwitter : @sparkyjordy\nFacebook : @sparkyjordy\nYouTube : Sparky Jordy \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRomie– I’ve been on bookstagram for nearly four years and booktube for a year. I consider my different platforms as one safe space for not only myself\, but also the people who follow me. I use this safe space to talk about mental health\, something that’s very important to me\, and diversity in books. \nInstagram: @romiewedeservelove \nYoutube: books & coffee with romie \nTwitter: romiescoffee \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/a-public-panel-on-the-bookstagram-phenomenon-with-four-local-bookstagrammers/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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SUMMARY:Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff on the NBA's French connections
DESCRIPTION:You may think that you know the National Basketball Association (NBA)\, but did you know that the world’s elite championship sports a surprisingly zesty French accent? Food\, fashion\, and football are usually associated with France. Yet\, the land of Ducasse\, Vuitton\, and Zidane has stealthily become a basketball breeding ground\, despite the sport remaining “caché.” Eight ‘Frenchies’ were on October 2019 opening night rosters\, the most of any European country for the 13th consecutive season for France is one of the leading all-time pipelines of international NBA and WNBA talent. Learn how a unique combination of transatlantic cultural influences\, the Franco-American relationship\, basketball diplomacy and more have helped make France a Basketball Empire.\n\n\n \n\n\nLindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a historian\, journalist\, and consultant working at the intersection of global sport and diplomacy. The author of The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France (Lexington Books\, 2012) and Basketball Empire: A Hidden Story of the NBA’s Globalization (in process)\, she has written for outlets like SB Nation\, The Athletic\, CNN International\, The Washington Post\, and The New Yorker\, serves as an Executive Committee member of Sport & Démocratie\, and is a Research Associate with the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy\, SOAS University of London.\n\n\n \n\n\nLindsay is a veteran of the U.S. Department of State’ Office of the Historian and holds a PhD in History from The Graduate Center (City University of New York)\, MA in Journalism and French Studies (NYU)\, and BA in International Affairs (The George Washington University).
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/lindsay-sarah-krasnoff-on-the-nbas-french-connections/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Elaine Sciolino\, The Seine: The River That Made Paris
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Sciolino is again captivating readers\, this time with The Seine: The River That Made Paris\, the follow-up to her New York Times best-selling book The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs. \nMelding history and mythology\, the romantic and the everyday\, Sciolino’s depiction of the Seine is a love letter to Paris and the magical river at its heart. A contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times\, Sciolino fell for the Seine when she came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent for Newsweek magazine. In The Seine\, she traces the river’s origin to a remote plateau in Burgundy and discovers the roots of its name in the story of Sequana\, the Gallo-Roman goddess who healed pilgrims at a temple at the Seine’s source. Thus begins a 483-mile journey from source to sea\, animated by the river’s lively characters—a bargewoman and a houseboat dweller\, a riverbank bookseller and a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river’s light. As Sciolino travels among cities and towns\, tributaries and islands\, ports and bridges\, she patrols with river police\, rows with restorers of antique boats\, sips Champagne at a riverside vineyard\, and even dares to swim in the Seine. \nFull of rich anecdotes and historical detail\, The Seine shows the river as a source of life not only for Paris and France but also for the entire world. As Sciolino follows the river’s path\, she charts its course through history\, recounting how it has carried Roman conquerors\, Viking invaders\, World War II soldiers\, and the ashes of Joan of Arc and of Napoléon Bonaparte in its current. The Seine illustrates how necessary the river is to the street life\, economy\, industry\, culture\, and identity of France\, and Sciolino explores the spell that the river has cast upon musicians\, photographers\, painters\, and writers. Revelatory and brilliantly researched\, The Seine reminds us why we are enchanted by the river and why the likes of Monet and Matisse\, Zola and Hemingway have made it their own. \nLauren Collins\, Paris staff writer for The New Yorker\, calls the book “a soulful\, transformative voyage along the body of water that defines the City of Light.” David A. Bell\, Professor of History at Princeton University\, said\, “Elaine Sciolino writes with the authority of a historian\, the sleuthing skills of a journalist\, and the voice of a storyteller eager to recount the tales of those who have been touched by the Seine.” \nSciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times\, based in France since 2002. She was decorated chevalier of the Legion of Honor\, the highest honor of the French state\, in 2010 for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-elaine-sciolino/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Dana Thomas\, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
DESCRIPTION:An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry – and the grassroots\, high-tech\, international movement fighting to reform it by New York Times bestselling author and journalist Dana Thomas. \nIn Fashionopolis\, journalist Dana Thomas surveys the environmental and human cost of a globalized\, profit-hungry supply chain: sweatshop labour\, ecological degradation\, overconsumption\, waste and creative exhaustion. As awareness of the damage inflicted on the planet by globalisation and consumerism increases\, “Fashionopolis” investigates the way that the clothing industry has become environmentally and ethically unsustainable. \nBut Fashionopolis also documents renewal\, and how technology and purpose are changing how we buy and produce clothes: from 3D printing to clean denim processing\, from smart manufacturing to hyperlocalism\, from the creation of truly circular fabrics to lab-grown leather. We have all been casual about how we get dressed. Fashionopolis is the first comprehensive look at how to change. \nDana is the author of Gods and Kings and the New York Times bestseller Deluxe. She began her career writing for the Style section of The Washington Post\, and she has served as a cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Style section and has written for The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The Wall Street Journal\, the Financial Times\, Vogue\, Harper’s Bazaar\, T: The New York Times Style Magazine\, and Architectural Digest. In 2016\, the French Minister of Culture named Dana a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. She lives in Paris. \nA book sale will follow the event\, with books provided by The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-dana-thomas/
CATEGORIES:Adults,General
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SUMMARY:Library is closed
DESCRIPTION:The Library is closed from Tuesday 22 December 2019 until Wednesday 1 January 2020. The Library will reopen at 10h00 on Thursday 2 January 2020.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/library-is-closed-62/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191217T193000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: David Chaffetz in conversation with Celestine Bohlen
DESCRIPTION:David Chaffetz read Persian\, Turkish and Arabic at Harvard University with Wheeler Thackston\, Richard Frye\, Anne-Marie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch. He worked for the Encyclopedia Iranica under Ehsan Yarshater. He wrote A Journey through Afghanistan (Chicago\, 2006). Over a period of 45 years he has travelled extensively in India\, Central Asia and China. \nHis latest book is Three Asian Divas: Women\, Art and Culture in Shiraz\, Dehli and Yangzhou. The diva is a nearly universal phenomenon. Wherever poetry\, music and mime have been practiced with virtuosity\, great women performers always take centre stage. Traditional Asian divas are however less well known and understood among English language readers than the great divas of Mozart and Puccini. Whether from Shiraz at the court of the Injuids\, from Delhi during the twilight of the Moghuls\, or from Yangzhou under the last Ming emperors\, these Asian divas constitute the first identifiably modern women. Though practicing classical and tradition-bound arts\, they were economically independent\, and were free to give or withhold love. Indeed\, in many ways\, they paved the way for the emergence of the modern woman in Asian societies. \n  \nFor his evening at the Library\, David will be in conversation with Celestine Bohlen\, a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times\, Washington Post and Bloomberg\, who did tours in Moscow\, Rome\, Budapest and Paris.  She now lives in Paris\, where she writes occasionally for The New York Times and teaches at SciencesPo. \n  \n“In Three Asian Divas\, David Chaffetz zeroes in on erasures in the history of these traditions: the brilliant women performers\, virtuoso singers\, and dancers who graced and cut a swath through the opulent courts of Iran\, India\, and China. These were dazzling enough to be able to make their fortunes\, and their own choices\, in cultures where women were subordinate and invisible” (Liz Gray). Celestine will explore with David the themes of tradition and virtuosity\, exploitation and empowerment\, as evidenced in the lives of the divas.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-david-chaffetz-in-conversation-with-celestine-bohlen/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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