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SUMMARY:Les Années Folles at La Coupole
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Enter the iconic La Coupole dance hall in Paris’s 14th arrondissement and be transported back to the 1920s with a live jazz quartet\, dance demonstrations\, and a guest list of writers\, artists\, and friends of the Library. Last year’s inaugural event was a roaring success and the limited number of tickets will sell out quickly. \nLes Années Folles at La Coupole!\nThursday 20 March 2025 at 20h30\nLa Coupole – 102\, boulevard de Montparnasse 75014 Paris \nYour 100€ ticket includes hors d’oeuvres\, champagne\, wine\, and dessert.\nCostumes are highly encouraged![/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” gradient_color_1=”turquoise” gradient_color_2=”blue” gradient_custom_color_1=”#dd3333″ gradient_custom_color_2=”#eeee22″ gradient_text_color=”#ffffff” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” shape=”rounded” color=”grey” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”” add_icon=”” i_align=”left” i_type=”fontawesome” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-adjust” i_icon_openiconic=”vc-oi vc-oi-dial” i_icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-adjust-brightness” i_icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-note” i_icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-heart” i_icon_monosocial=”vc-mono vc-mono-fivehundredpx” i_icon_material=”vc-material vc-material-cake” i_icon_pixelicons=”vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert” custom_onclick=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D84a328fa-e341-4ab2-95fc-95ff16143736%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank” custom_onclick_code=””][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Purchase Tickets” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famericanlibraryinparis.org%2Fles-annees-folles%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/lesanneesfolles25/
LOCATION:La Coupole\, 102 Boulevard du Montparnasse\, Paris\, 75014\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250319T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250319T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20250129T140325Z
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SUMMARY:Ken Burns\, Sarah Burns\, and David McMahon on Leonardo da Vinci
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Buy Tickets” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D9420afd6-8867-4066-ba7b-c33650c9bbaf%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_message css=””]This event is currently sold out – join the waitlist here.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]This event is part of Ways of Seeing\, a special series exploring the connections between storytelling\, creativity\, and the visual world. Join the conversation and attend events featuring cultural luminaries. Learn more → \nJoin us for an exclusive screening of a highlight reel from the recent PBS documentary Leonardo da Vinci\, directed by Ken Burns\, Sarah Burns\, and David McMahon.  \nThis intimate portrait explores the life of the fifteenth-century polymath\, delving into his masterpieces\, groundbreaking scientific pursuits\, and complex personality.  \nAfter the screening\, stay for a conversation with the acclaimed directors as they discuss the making of the film and the lasting impact of Leonardo’s genius. \nAbout Leonardo da Vinci: \nA 15th century polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect\, Leonardo da Vinci created some of the most revered works of art of all time\, but his artistic endeavors often seemed peripheral to his pursuits in science and engineering. Through his paintings and thousands of pages of drawings and writings\, Leonardo da Vinci explores one of humankind’s most curious and innovative minds. \nDirected and produced by Ken Burns\, Sarah Burns\, and David McMahon\, written by David McMahon and Sarah Burns\, and executive produced by Ken Burns. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: This is an offsite\, ticketed event at Cinéma Le Champo (51 Rue des Écoles\, 75005 Paris).  \n\n19:15 – Doors Open\n19:30 – Introductions\n19:35 – Screening Begins\n20:10 – Q&A with filmmakers Ken Burns\, Sarah Burns\, and David McMahon\n\nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/leonardo25/
LOCATION:Cinéma Le Champo\, 51 Rue des Écoles\, Paris\, 75005\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author,Ways of Seeing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250318T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250318T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20250129T192423Z
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SUMMARY:Poverty\, by America with Matthew Desmond and Lauren Collins
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D91ceeb8d-9c1f-4dd6-9f2d-f624979720bd%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F85122459706|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Why does poverty persist in the richest nation on earth? Acclaimed sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted\, Matthew Desmond returns with Poverty\, by America\, a searing indictment of how the wealthiest Americans sustain inequality at the expense of the poor. Through history\, research\, and original reporting\, Desmond exposes the systems that exploit and exclude\, while offering a bold vision for poverty abolition and collective belonging. \nThe conversation will be moderated by Lauren Collins. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr. Matthew Desmond is a Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and Founder of The Eviction Lab\, which created the first national dataset on evictions in America. He is the author of five books\, including Poverty\, by America (2023) and Evicted (2016). His work\, praised by The New Yorker and Esquire\, examines why poverty persists in America. Desmond writes for The New York Times Magazine and other outlets. A past MacArthur Fellow\, his research focuses on urban sociology\, poverty\, race\, and ethnography. \nLauren Collins began contributing to the New Yorker in 2003 and became a staff writer in 2008. Her subjects have included Michelle Obama\, Donatella Versace\, the graffiti artist Banksy\, Emmanuel Macron\, the refugee crisis\, and equal pay. Since 2015 she has been based in Paris\, covering stories mainly from France. She is the author of When in French: Love in a Second Language\, which the Times named as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2016. She is working on a second book\, about a coup d’état perpetrated by white supremacists in Wilmington\, North Carolina\, in 1898\, and its effects over the past hundred and twenty years.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/desmond25/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250225T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250225T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20250103T123209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250121T092557Z
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SUMMARY:Wheatley at 250: Celebrating the Legacy of America's First Published African-American Poet
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Da9465e4b-b0b2-40e4-ace1-d06887988044%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F88042706353|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Phillis Wheatley Peters\, the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry\, revolutionized American literature with Poems on Various Subjects\, Religious and Moral (1773). In celebration of her groundbreaking work and to mark its 250th anniversary\, Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters brings together 20 Black female poets to reimagine her legacy and voice. \nJoin Danielle Legros Georges and Artress Bethany White\, co-editors of the collection\, and Florence Ladd\, novelist and poet\, as they discuss Wheatley’s impact on the literary world and how her work resonates today. This conversation\, moderated by Professor and author Trica Keaton\, will explore the transformative power of Wheatley’s words and the ongoing influence of Black women poets across generations. \nAbout the speakers: \nDanielle Legros Georges is a writer and editor whose work has been supported by fellowships from organizations including the American Antiquarian Society\, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund\, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art\, and the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. Appointed Boston’s Poet Laureate in 2014\, she served in the role for four years. Her books include Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (Pangyrus\, 2023);  Blue Flare: Three Haitian Poets (Zephyr\, 2024); and Three Leaves\, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti-Congo Story (Beacon Press\, 2025).  \nArtress Bethany White is a poet\, essayist\, and literary critic. Her third poetry collection\, A Black Doe in the Anthropocene: Poems\, is forthcoming from University Press of Kentucky in spring 2025 and chronicles her family’s history of enslavement in America. She is the recipient of the Trio Award for her poetry collection My Afmerica: poems (Trio House Press\, 2019)\, selected by poet Sun Yung Shin. Her prose\, Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity\, received a 2022 Next Generation Finalist Indie Book Award.  White is co-editor of the new anthology Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters. She is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University.  \nFlorence Ladd is the author of two novels\, Sarah’s Psalm and The Spirit of Josephine. She has published two chapbooks: Reclaiming Rose: A Suite of Poems and Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges and His Mother: An Epic. Other poems have been published in The Women’s Review of Books\, The Progressive\, The Rockhurst Review\, Sweet Auburn\, Beyond Slavery\, Transition\, The Golden Shovel Anthology\, MUSE\, Oberon and Renga for Obama. She co-founded Langston’s Legacy\, a collective of poets. For decades\, she lived in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and currently lives in Burgundy.  \nTrica Keaton is a professor and an interdisciplinary social scientist in the department of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College with affiliations in the departments of Sociology and Film and Media Studies. Her publications include #You Know You’re Black in France When…: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness. She is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at French Institute for Advanced Study/ Iméra-Aix*Marseille Université\, France 2024-2025.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/wheatley25/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250212T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20250103T122858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250103T122858Z
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SUMMARY:An Alternative History of Paris with Justinien Tribillon and Aaron Peck
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D397f1ceb-0906-40b1-9b44-845d019b8a07%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F84750477922|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Join us for an illuminating discussion on Justinien Tribillon‘s The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris\, who explores the Parisian hinterland that has shaped the city’s identity for over two centuries. From its origins as defensive walls to its reinvention as the Boulevard Périphérique\, The Zone offers a compelling perspective on the intricate social and spatial dynamics that define modern Paris.  \nThis conversation will be moderated by author and critic Aaron Peck.  \nAbout the speakers: \nJustinien Tribillon is a curator\, writer\, editor and educator with a transdisciplinary practice including social sciences\, photography\, architecture\, history and design. He recently published The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris (Verso\, 2024)\, Ruderal: Liquid Identities (Deux-cent-cinq\, 2024) and Visible upon Breakdown (Spector Books\, 2024). Justinien is a lecturer in History\, theory and criticism at the École nationale supérieures des arts décoratifs in Paris. He received his PhD in Urban Studies from The Bartlett\, University College London. \nAaron Peck is the author of Jeff Wall: North & West\, Letters to the Pacific\, and The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis. A literary and art critic\, he writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and Aperture magazine.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/tribillon25/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250205T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20250108T133927Z
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SUMMARY:Rebuilding Notre-Dame
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Daa561006-85c3-4670-8089-0e4d0334130b%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F82160346890|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]This event is part of Ways of Seeing\, a special series exploring the connections between storytelling\, creativity\, and the visual world. Join the conversation and attend events featuring cultural luminaries. Learn more → \nFive years after the devastating 2019 fire\, Notre Dame has reopened to the public\, thanks to the tireless efforts of thousands of workers in a €900 million restoration. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges\, triumphs\, and artistry that brought Notre Dame back to life.  \nNew York Times journalist Aurelien Breeden\, carpenter Hank Silver\, architect Axelle Ponsonnet\, and photographer Tomas Van Houtryve will share their unique perspectives on the restoration process. Moderated by Erin Ogunkeye\, broadcast journalist with France 24.  \nAbout the speakers: \nAurelien Breeden is a Franco-American journalist who has been a reporter at the Paris bureau of The New York Times for over a decade. He covers a broad spectrum of news\, including the 2019 fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral and the efforts to rebuild it. He has a dual master’s degree in journalism and international affairs from Sciences Po university in Paris\, where he teaches an eight-week writing and reporting workshop. He lives in Paris with his wife and three daughters. \nErin Ogunkeye grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia but has spent more time living in Paris than any other city. She studied French law before realising she wanted to feel a closer connection to the rest of the world by following\, relaying and breaking down current events; perhaps not too differently from the way a lawyer connects with a jury. She is an anchor at France 24 and presents ‘Around the World’ from Thursday to Sunday.  \nAxelle Ponsonnet\, an architect graduated from the École d’Architecture de Paris Belleville\, has been involved in the reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral for the past four years\, overseeing the lead roofing. Passionate about imagery and drawing\, Axelle has been sketching the site since 2020\, providing an intimate and privileged perspective on the rebuilding process of the iconic structure. Her book\, “Balade dans Notre-Dame\, carnet de chantier\,” a unique and intimate exploration of the reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral\, is forthcoming. \nHank Silver is an American timber frame carpenter who has spent close to two years working on the restoration of Notre Dame de Paris. Born in New York City\, Silver honed his craft in Vermont\, before opening his own workshop in western Massachusetts. Since 2018\, Silver has been a member of the France-based volunteer crew\, Charpentiers sans frontières (Carpenters Without Borders) whose mission is the restoration of world carpentry heritage and the transmission of the skills and techniques to future generations of craftspeople. Silver currently resides in Paris. \nTomas van Houtryve is a Paris based artist\, photographer and filmmaker whose major works interweave investigative journalism\, philosophy and metaphor. Van Houtryve was selected to document the Notre-Dame cathedral of Paris after it was devastated by fire in 2019. With rare access to the rebuilding of the Paris icon\, he made images using a wide range of techniques: 19th-century wet plate collodion\, traditional photo reportage\, and aerial drone videography.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/notredame25/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author,Ways of Seeing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250129T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250129T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241129T105957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241220T103145Z
UID:71079-1738179000-1738182600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Maylis de Kerangal on Canoes and Eastbound
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Df0efd885-1993-4f35-93a6-99511794c841%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F89838909854|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]In Canoes\, Maylis de Kerangal explores the haunting\, transformative power of voice through the eyes of a young Parisian woman navigating life in rural Colorado. Seven interconnected stories\, brimming with wit and intimacy\, reveal how language and voice shape identity\, obsession\, and connection.  \nIn Eastbound\, a Russian conscript and a French woman cross paths on the Trans-Siberian railroad\, each fleeing to the east for their own reasons. \nThis conversation will be moderated by Donatien Grau\, Head of Contemporary Programs at the Musée du Louvre. \nAbout the speakers:  \nMaylis de Kerangal is the author of numerous novels\, collections of short stories\, novellas and narratives\, published with Verticales\, including Naissance d’un pont (Prix Médicis 2010)\, Tangente vers l’est (Prix Landerneau 2012)\, Réparer les vivants (2014)\, Un monde à portée de main (2018) and Canoës (2021). Her books are translated into thirty-six languages. \nDonatien Grau is a long-time friend and conversation-partner of Maylis de Kerangal. In his previous position as Head of Contemporary Programs at the Musée d’Orsay\, he collaborated with the author on her 2019-2020 residence as well as on the 2021 exhibition of Maylis de Kerangal and Jean-Philippe Delhomme\, « Légendes des réserves ».[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/dekerangal25/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250124T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250124T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241210T160814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241216T094300Z
UID:71241-1737716400-1737720000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” gradient_color_1=”turquoise” gradient_color_2=”blue” gradient_custom_color_1=”#dd3333″ gradient_custom_color_2=”#eeee22″ gradient_text_color=”#ffffff” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” shape=”rounded” color=”grey” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”” add_icon=”” i_align=”left” i_type=”fontawesome” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-adjust” i_icon_openiconic=”vc-oi vc-oi-dial” i_icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-adjust-brightness” i_icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-note” i_icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-heart” i_icon_monosocial=”vc-mono vc-mono-fivehundredpx” i_icon_material=”vc-material vc-material-cake” i_icon_pixelicons=”vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert” custom_onclick=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D84a328fa-e341-4ab2-95fc-95ff16143736%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank” custom_onclick_code=””][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troops in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 105-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Dbf04ba90-876c-4a04-bdff-c52fbfb3e7d7%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Please contact us if you wish to reserve for 5 or more people (do not reserve through the site). \nFor school or group reservations\, or for other questions\, please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1665240973767{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-1-24-25/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250122T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250122T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241129T110656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T110656Z
UID:71077-1737574200-1737577800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Crafting Personal Narratives with Melissa Febos
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D2b196979-972c-40c8-828d-62358061838a%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Join us for a lecture on the power\, necessity\, ethics\, and craft of narrative writing. Inspired by Melissa Febos‘s essay “In Praise of Navel-Gazing” in her most recent book Body Work\, participate in generative exercises to leave the event with short drafts to expand and revise on your own.  \nAbout the speaker: \nMelissa Febos is the author of four books\, including the national bestselling essay collection\, Girlhood\, which has been translated into eight languages and was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism\, and named a notable book of 2021 by NPR\, Time\, The Washington Post\, and others. Her craft book\, Body Work (2022)\, was also a national bestseller\, an LA Times Bestseller\, and an Indie Next Pick. Her fifth book\, The Dry Season\, is forthcoming from Alfred. A. Knopf on June 3\, 2025. She is currently an 2024-25 American Library Scholar of Note.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available in person only. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/febos25/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/febos25.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250117T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250117T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241210T160713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241216T094416Z
UID:71239-1737111600-1737115200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” gradient_color_1=”turquoise” gradient_color_2=”blue” gradient_custom_color_1=”#dd3333″ gradient_custom_color_2=”#eeee22″ gradient_text_color=”#ffffff” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” shape=”rounded” color=”grey” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”” add_icon=”” i_align=”left” i_type=”fontawesome” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-adjust” i_icon_openiconic=”vc-oi vc-oi-dial” i_icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-adjust-brightness” i_icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-note” i_icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-heart” i_icon_monosocial=”vc-mono vc-mono-fivehundredpx” i_icon_material=”vc-material vc-material-cake” i_icon_pixelicons=”vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert” custom_onclick=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D84a328fa-e341-4ab2-95fc-95ff16143736%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank” custom_onclick_code=””][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troops in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 105-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D890815ef-09a3-434b-90f5-0f8f5e3bed50%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Please contact us if you wish to reserve for 5 or more people (do not reserve through the site). \nFor school or group reservations\, or for other questions\, please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1665240973767{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-1-17-25/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250115T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250115T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241129T111452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T111452Z
UID:71075-1736969400-1736973000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Claire Messud on This Strange Eventful History
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D85656e02-2944-4fe5-bc29-1374972440d8%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F82092159315|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]A work of breathtaking historical sweep and vivid psychological intimacy\, This Strange Eventful History (Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize) charts the Cassars’ unfolding story as its members move between Salonica and Algeria\, the US\, Cuba\, Canada\, Argentina\, Australia and France – their itinerary shaped as much by a search for an elusive wholeness\, as by the imperatives of politics\, faith\, family\, industry and desire.  \nJoin us with a conversation with author Claire Messud\, moderated by Distinguished Professor\, novelist\, critic\, and translator Dan Gunn.  \nAbout the speakers: \nClaire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. A recipient of a Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, with her family. \nDan Gunn is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature & English at The American University of Paris. He is a novelist\, critic\, and translator. His critical works include Psychoanalysis and Fiction: an exploration of literary and psychoanalytic borders and Wool-gathering or How I Ended Analysis. His novels include Almost You and Body Language. He is Director of AUP’s Center for Writers & Translators and Series Editor of the ‘Cahiers Series’. He was co-editor of the four-volume Letters of Samuel Beckett and is currently editing The Letters of Muriel Spark.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/messud25/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/messud25.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250114T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250114T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241129T121035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T121035Z
UID:71073-1736883000-1736886600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Meghan O'Rourke on The Invisible Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Df56242d8-aceb-47d6-8e5e-8ecc660afd10%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F86514827162|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses\, poorly understood and often invisible\, affects millions of Americans\, from autoimmune diseases to long COVID. In The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness\, a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction\, Meghan O’Rourke blends personal experience with a decade of research\, uncovering the history and misconceptions behind these elusive conditions. This conversation will be moderated by Clémentine Goldszal\, a frequent contributor to Elle and Le Monde Magazine. \nAbout the speakers: \nMeghan O’Rourke is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness and The Long Goodbye\, as well as the poetry collections Sun In Days\, Once\, and Halflife. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, and The New York Times\, and more. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Radcliffe Fellowship\, and a Whiting Nonfiction Award\, she resides in New Haven\, where she teaches at Yale University and is the editor of The Yale Review. \nClémentine Goldszal writes about culture and literature for Elle and Le Monde Magazine. She likes to tell stories about how books\, movies and the people who make them shape the world we live in. She lived in Los Angeles for three years in the early 2010s and is now based in her hometown of Paris. Her first book of non-fiction\, Premiers cris\, will be out in France on January 24th (Le Seuil)\, and will be available in 2026 in the UK (Pushkin Press).[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/orourke25/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/orourke25.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250110T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250110T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241210T160558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241216T094337Z
UID:71237-1736506800-1736510400@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” gradient_color_1=”turquoise” gradient_color_2=”blue” gradient_custom_color_1=”#dd3333″ gradient_custom_color_2=”#eeee22″ gradient_text_color=”#ffffff” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” shape=”rounded” color=”grey” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”” add_icon=”” i_align=”left” i_type=”fontawesome” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-adjust” i_icon_openiconic=”vc-oi vc-oi-dial” i_icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-adjust-brightness” i_icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-note” i_icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-heart” i_icon_monosocial=”vc-mono vc-mono-fivehundredpx” i_icon_material=”vc-material vc-material-cake” i_icon_pixelicons=”vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert” custom_onclick=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D84a328fa-e341-4ab2-95fc-95ff16143736%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank” custom_onclick_code=””][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troops in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 105-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D275b5985-4154-4f4c-b0e2-f73026d6e13f%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Please contact us if you wish to reserve for 5 or more people (do not reserve through the site). \nFor school or group reservations\, or for other questions\, please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1665240973767{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-1-10-25/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/file1-9-soldier-reading-on-motocycle-waiting-for-the-officer-who-occupied-the-sidecar-1919-e1680714604531.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250108T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250108T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241129T121232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T121446Z
UID:71069-1736364600-1736368200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D9ebd5bbb-438e-4230-8cce-882dd8a092f6%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F89049349242|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake\, Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award\, is a darkly funny and propulsive noir about an American woman infiltrating a French anarchist collective. Seduction\, deceit\, and power collide in this dazzling tale of strategy and desire. \nAbout the speakers: \nRachel Kushner is the author of the novels Creation Lake\, The Mars Room\, The Flamethrowers\, and Telex from Cuba\, a book of short stories\, The Strange Case Of Rachel K\, and The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Folio Prize\, the James Tait Black Prize\, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker and the Paris Review\, and her nonfiction in Harpers and the New York Times Magazine.  \nRachel Donadio\, the Library’s Curator of Cultural Programs\, is a Paris-based writer\, journalist and critic\, a contributing writer for the Atlantic\, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former European Culture Correspondent and Rome Bureau Chief of the New York Times.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kushner25/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241213T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241213T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241030T155352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T155352Z
UID:70840-1734087600-1734091200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” gradient_color_1=”turquoise” gradient_color_2=”blue” gradient_custom_color_1=”#dd3333″ gradient_custom_color_2=”#eeee22″ gradient_text_color=”#ffffff” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” shape=”rounded” color=”grey” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”” add_icon=”” i_align=”left” i_type=”fontawesome” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-adjust” i_icon_openiconic=”vc-oi vc-oi-dial” i_icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-adjust-brightness” i_icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-note” i_icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-heart” i_icon_monosocial=”vc-mono vc-mono-fivehundredpx” i_icon_material=”vc-material vc-material-cake” i_icon_pixelicons=”vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert” custom_onclick=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D84a328fa-e341-4ab2-95fc-95ff16143736%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank” custom_onclick_code=””][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troops in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 104-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D2789a7e1-1264-4c1d-877e-68700c55f7da%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Please contact us if you wish to reserve for 5 or more people (do not reserve through the site). \nFor school or group reservations\, or for other questions\, please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1665240973767{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-12-13-24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241211T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241211T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241105T154833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241112T155141Z
UID:70769-1733945400-1733949000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Baya\, an Algerian Outsider Artist in Post-War Paris with Alice Kaplan and James McAuley
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Dfcb491b4-80a5-449b-920c-129f617506dc%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F86057362005|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]In the first biography of Baya\, Yale professor Alice Kaplan recounts how this young woman seemingly trapped in subsistence farming became a sensation in Paris in 1947\, then mysteriously faded from the history of modern art—only to reemerge after independence as an icon of Algerian artistic heritage. \nThis event will be moderated by James McAuley. \nAbout the speakers:  \nAlice Kaplan is Sterling Professor of French at Yale. She is the author of many books at the intersection of literature and history\, including Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic and The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach. Co-founder of the Yale Translation Initiative\, former Guggenheim Fellow\, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and recipient of the French Légion d’Honneur as well the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History (for The Collaborator)\,  Alice is a proud member of the American Library in Paris Writers Council.  \nJames McAuley is the author of The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France\, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 2022. He is a former Paris correspondent for the Washington Post\, and his writing has been anthologized in the Best American Essays of 2024. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kaplan24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241206T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241206T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241030T155144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T155144Z
UID:70838-1733482800-1733486400@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” gradient_color_1=”turquoise” gradient_color_2=”blue” gradient_custom_color_1=”#dd3333″ gradient_custom_color_2=”#eeee22″ gradient_text_color=”#ffffff” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” shape=”rounded” color=”grey” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”” add_icon=”” i_align=”left” i_type=”fontawesome” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-adjust” i_icon_openiconic=”vc-oi vc-oi-dial” i_icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-adjust-brightness” i_icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-note” i_icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-heart” i_icon_monosocial=”vc-mono vc-mono-fivehundredpx” i_icon_material=”vc-material vc-material-cake” i_icon_pixelicons=”vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert” custom_onclick=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D84a328fa-e341-4ab2-95fc-95ff16143736%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank” custom_onclick_code=””][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troops in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 104-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Deabdce58-c2bf-4140-9306-1fecb8126ffa%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Please contact us if you wish to reserve for 5 or more people (do not reserve through the site). \nFor school or group reservations\, or for other questions\, please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1665240973767{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-12-06-24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241203T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241203T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241025T095735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241125T130614Z
UID:70761-1733252400-1733257800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:How Did Trump Win?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D54826b5d-475a-4f02-97dd-e0f78e4724ad%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F84994359437|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Fresh from the campaign trail\, four journalists unpack Trump’s victory. How did the Democrats lose so badly? What does this imply about America and what does it mean for the country’s future? What are the ramifications for the rest of the world? And how did pundits\, media analysts\, and pollsters make such incorrect assumptions about the political mood in the U.S. ? Join us to ask questions and discuss the year’s seismic events in the U.S. \n This event is in partnership with the Overseas Press Club. \nThis event is currently sold out. Zoom tickets are still available.  \nAbout the Panelists: \nRichard Fausset\, The New York Times. Based in Atlanta\, Fausset writes about conservative politics\, and covered Trump’s campaign. He has focused on the politics of the South\, gun ownership\, race\, and poverty.  \nVivian Salama\, The Wall Street Journal. (Joining on Zoom from Washington.) Salama has been on the campaign trail all year\, and covered Trump’s first term. She has reported from about 85 countries\, including as AP’s Baghdad bureau chief\, and been based in the UAE\,  Pakistan\, Egypt\, and Israel/Palestine. She is also an attorney and member of the District of Columbia bar.  \nSylvie Kauffmann\, Le Monde. Columnist for Le Monde and the paper’s former Editor-in-Chief\, Kauffmann was previously a longtime foreign correspondent\, with postings in the U.S.\, London\, Moscow\, and Singapore.  \nBen Barnier\, France Info TV. Senior correspondent for France Televisions news channel\, Barnier co-anchored a nightly program on air during the campaign’s final weeks\, and covered the Trump campaign. Barnier previously worked for ABC News\, and is a graduate of Columbia University School of Journalism.  \nModerator: Vivienne Walt\, Paris Correspondent for TIME & Fortune Magazines. Walt has reported from dozens of countries across Europe\, Africa and the Middle East\, for TIME and Fortune Magazines. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, National Geographic\, and other publications. She is a governor of the Overseas Press Club of America\, the U.S.’s oldest organization for foreign correspondents. \nAbout the Overseas Press Club: \nThe Overseas Press Club of America is the nation’s oldest and largest association of journalists engaged in international news. Every year\, it awards the most prestigious prizes devoted exclusively to international news coverage. It was founded in 1939 by nine foreign correspondents in New York City\, and has grown to nearly 400 members worldwide. The club’s mission is to uphold the highest standards in news reporting\, advance press freedom and promote good fellowship among colleagues while educating a new generation of journalists.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/opcelection24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241127T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241127T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241014T122715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T122739Z
UID:70514-1732735800-1732739400@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:The Real Fictional Housewives of Silicon Valley with novelists Kirstin Chen and Colombe Schneck
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D790c4018-a0eb-4ec8-b069-53ad3a79b5ea%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F85933994128|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Delve into the myth of genius perpetuated by the tech industry and its destructive consequences. This discussion will explore themes of sanctioned vs. unsanctioned criminality\, the complicity of tech wives in their partners’ dominance\, and our collective roles as consumers of technology\, highlighting the urgent need to resist the unchecked power of Big Tech. \nAbout the speakers: \nKirstin Chen is the author of three novels: Counterfeit\, Bury What We Cannot Take\, and Soy Sauce for Beginners. Her forthcoming book\, Tech Wives\, unmasks the myth of tech founders as solitary geniuses by contemplating the women who enable their success.  \nKirstin Chen is also a 2024-25 American Library in Paris Scholar of Note. \nColombe Schneck is the author of eleven books of fiction and non-fiction. She has received prizes from the Académie Française\, Madame Figaro and the Society of French Writers. The recipient of scholarships from the Villa Medicis in Rome and the Institut Français\, as well as a Stendhal grant which allows French writers to do research and write abroad\, she also spent fifteen years as a broadcaster for Canal Plus\, France TV and Radio France.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/son_chen24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241126T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241126T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241010T155148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T093246Z
UID:70477-1732644000-1732656600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Screening: Fred Wiseman's Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D5784ae98-109c-47fb-a979-bb9d03f7e48a%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]As part of Frederick Wiseman\, nos humanités • Chapitre 1\, a retrospective with la Bibliothèque publique d’information du Centre Pompidou\, join us for a screening of Ex Libris\, Wiseman’s renowned film on the New York Public Library. \nBehind the scenes of one of the greatest knowledge institutions in the world: the New York Public Library. The Library strives to inspire learning\, advance knowledge and strengthen communities. It is one of the most democratic institutions in America – everyone is welcome. \nScreen the film in the American Library’s famed Florence Gould Reading Room. Runtime: 03 hours 17 min. VO: English\, Subtitles: French \nAbout Frederick Wiseman\, nos humanités\, the retrospective:  \nLa cinémathèque du documentaire à la Bpi presents a complete retrospective of Frederick Wiseman’s work\, to coincide with the restoration of 33 of his films. This retrospective will take place in two phases: chapter 1 in autumn 2024\, chapter 2 in winter 2025. Discover the full program.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]   [/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The screening will be in person only. Attendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/wiseman24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241122T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241122T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241001T143013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T151358Z
UID:70338-1732273200-1732276800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:History Tour: 1920s Edition
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” gradient_color_1=”turquoise” gradient_color_2=”blue” gradient_custom_color_1=”#dd3333″ gradient_custom_color_2=”#eeee22″ gradient_text_color=”#ffffff” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” shape=”rounded” color=”grey” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”” add_icon=”” i_align=”left” i_type=”fontawesome” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-adjust” i_icon_openiconic=”vc-oi vc-oi-dial” i_icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-adjust-brightness” i_icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-note” i_icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-heart” i_icon_monosocial=”vc-mono vc-mono-fivehundredpx” i_icon_material=”vc-material vc-material-cake” i_icon_pixelicons=”vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert” custom_onclick=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D84a328fa-e341-4ab2-95fc-95ff16143736%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank” custom_onclick_code=””][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Did you know that Gertrude Stein had a penchant for pulpy mystery novels? Or that Hemingway attempted to secure a job at the Library for his drinking buddy? \nThe American Library in Paris invites you to register for a 1920s-focused History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troops in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Daa8533f4-392a-4420-b70a-0de43a07d837%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][vc_column_text css=””] \n\nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Please contact us if you wish to reserve for 5 or more people (do not reserve through the site). \nFor school or group reservations\, or for other questions\, please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1665240973767{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-11-22-24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241120T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241120T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20240930T131324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240930T155614Z
UID:70300-1732131000-1732134600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:The Body is a Battleground with Fernanda Eberstadt and Benjamin Moser
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Df1ef9d9b-7a36-4b87-876e-0c81d4dc4014%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F87031185890|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Part memoir\, part history\, Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant explores the lives of a handful of outrageously brave men and women—saints\, philosophers\, artists–who have used their own wounded or stigmatized bodies to challenge society. \nFrom the time of the Ancient Greek thinkers\, to anti-Putin demonstrators\, and even in the life of the author’s mother\, Fernanda Eberstadt investigates how advocates have literally put their bodies on the line to further their causes.  \nThis event will be moderated by Benjamin Moser.  \nAbout the speakers: \nFernanda Eberstadt was born in New York City. She has published five novels and one work of nonfiction\, a memoir about her friendship with a family of Rom musicians in Southern France. She has written for publications including the New York Times Magazine\, the New Yorker\, the London Review of Books\, Vogue\, and Granta\, and is an editor at large for the European Review of Books. \nBenjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector\, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 2009. For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence\, including through publishing her complete works in English\, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. For Sontag: Her Life and Work\, he won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book\, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters\, was published in October 2023. He lives in the Netherlands and France.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/eberstadt24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241119T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241119T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20240819T111833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240923T141517Z
UID:68904-1732044600-1732048200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:French Cooking with an American Touch with Rosa Jackson\, Jane Bertch\, and Alec Lobrano
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D84a328fa-e341-4ab2-95fc-95ff16143736%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F85299706996|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]After working as a food journalist\, Rosa Jackson moved to Paris in 1995 and began the city’s first company to offer tours of Parisian food markets. She has lived in Nice since 2004\, choosing the city for its unique culinary culture. Her new cookbook\, Niçoise\, explores the beauty and bounty of food between the Alps and the Mediterranean.   \nHaving spent more than a decade working in the financial services industry\, including several years in the Paris office\, Jane Bertch decided to pursue Entrepreneurial endeavors. In 2009 she founded one of the largest nonprofessional culinary schools in France\, La Cuisine Paris. Her new memoir\, The French Ingredient\, documents her audacity\, as an American\, to begin a cooking school in Paris. \nThis conversation will be moderated by food and travel writer\, Alec Lobrano.  \nAbout the speakers: \nRosa Jackson has run her cooking school Les Petits Farcis in Nice\, France\, for over twenty years. A former Paris restaurant critic\, she has written about French food for international publications\, including the Financial Times and Food & Wine\, and also runs the Paris food tour company Edible Paris. \nJane Bertch has spent more than two decades living and working in Europe. In 2009\, she started La Cuisine Paris\, which has become the largest nonprofessional culinary school in France. She holds a BA in English\, an MA in labor and industrial relations from the University of Illinois\, and an executive MA from the French business school INSEAD. The French Ingredient is her first book. \nAlexander Lobrano lived in Boston\, New York and London before moving to Paris in 1986. As a food and travel writer\, he has worked as Paris correspondent for Travel & Leisure\, Departures Magazine and Gourmet Magazine\, and he is the author of Hungry for Paris\, Hungry for France and My Place at the Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris. He is currently working on second volume of memoir tentatively entitled My Second French Life\, and he contributes regularly to the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, France Today and other publications and is a Contributing Writer at Airmail News.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: Attendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/jacksonbertch24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241115T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241115T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20240930T125206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T151705Z
UID:70294-1731668400-1731672000@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” gradient_color_1=”turquoise” gradient_color_2=”blue” gradient_custom_color_1=”#dd3333″ gradient_custom_color_2=”#eeee22″ gradient_text_color=”#ffffff” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” shape=”rounded” color=”grey” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”” add_icon=”” i_align=”left” i_type=”fontawesome” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-adjust” i_icon_openiconic=”vc-oi vc-oi-dial” i_icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-adjust-brightness” i_icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-note” i_icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-heart” i_icon_monosocial=”vc-mono vc-mono-fivehundredpx” i_icon_material=”vc-material vc-material-cake” i_icon_pixelicons=”vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert” custom_onclick=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D84a328fa-e341-4ab2-95fc-95ff16143736%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank” custom_onclick_code=””][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troops in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 104-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D0fc23d87-e0d1-4e2f-b418-2e0639540f47%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Please contact us if you wish to reserve for 5 or more people (do not reserve through the site). \nFor school or group reservations\, or for other questions\, please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1665240973767{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-11-15-24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241114T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241010T173931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T174126Z
UID:70506-1731616200-1731619800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:(Online) The International Library: Queer Migrations
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-child” css=”” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.londonlibrary.co.uk%2Fwhats-on%2F258-the-international-library-queer-migrations%3Fdate%3D2024-11-14-19-30|target:_blank”][vc_column_text css=””]The London Library is delighted to welcome Gaar Adams and Sulaiman Addonia\, two writers whose new works consider the complex intersections of queerness and migration. \nGaar Adams’s debut work of non-fiction\, Guest Privileges\, is a mix of memoir and reportage which explores what it means to be queer in the Gulf States and his own decade-long journey of dislocation. Asking why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live in a region where penalties for queer acts include torture and death\, he riskily gathered interviews and stories from across the region. But as he began his own clandestine queer relationship\, faultlines and deeper questions began to emerge\, revealing his own disquieting assumptions about the motivations and identities of others. \nSulaiman Addonia’s third novel\, The Seers\, follows the first weeks of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn\, in the squares of Bloomsbury where its protagonist sleeps\, and against the backdrop of the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the UK asylum system\, the novel considers intergenerational histories and colonial trauma alongside the psychological and sexual lives of refugees\, insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as land and nations are. \nIn conversation with novelist Isabelle Dupuy\, these extraordinary writers discuss migration\, dislocation and queerness\, what it takes to balance opportunity and risk\, subversion and assimilation\, how to build a life and a community and what constitutes home. \nSulaiman Addonia appears as part of Flip Through Flanders\, presented by Flanders Literature. \nAbout the Speakers \nGaar Adams is the author of Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East (Harvill Secker\, 2024.) His reporting from the Middle East and South Asia has been featured in publications including The Atlantic\, Foreign Policy\, Rolling Stone\, Bloomberg\, Al Jazeera\, Slate and VICE. He was on the 2020-21 London Library Emerging Writers Programme and received his Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Glasgow. He currently teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Hull and lives in London. \nSulaiman Addonia FRSL is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist who came to London as an underage unaccompanied refugee. His other novels include The Consequences of Love and Silence is My Mother Tongue\, which have been shortlisted for awards including the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the African Literary Award from MoAD in San Francisco. His essays appear in Lit Hub\, Granta\, Freeman’s\, The New York Times\, De Standaard and Passa Porta. He lives in Brussels where he founded the Creative Writing Academy for Refugees & Asylum Seekers and the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival In Exile (AALFIE). \nIsabelle Dupuy grew up in Haiti\, has lived in America and came to the UK to work on a City trading floor before becoming an author. Her first novel Living the Dream was shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2021. Her writing has been published in the New York Times\, Bad Form Review\, Black Ballad\, the Bookseller\, the RLF’s Writer’s Mosaic and more. She is a trustee of The London Library. \nAbout The International Library: \nThe International Library is a series launched in collaboration with the American Library in Paris\, the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco\, The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn and The London Library\, which offers conversations across time\, place\, and language. The International Library celebrates the live diffusion of in-person conversations in the hope of connecting new audiences across land and sea for a collective\, intercultural experience.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”10″ accent_color=”#bf7a03″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”54509″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/queermigrations24/
LOCATION:The Center for Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241114T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241114T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20240905T095103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T095335Z
UID:69610-1731610800-1731616200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Critical Conversations 2024–25: The Internet Is Not What You Think\, Meeting Two
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register for Critical Conversations” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famericanlibraryinparis.org%2Fcriticalconversations2425%2F”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]What is the internet? How far back in history can we find its precursors\, in the form either of mechanical social\, or perhaps even biological information networks? What are the political and philosophical ideas that drove early efforts to network human society? And is the internet a fulfilment of these ideas\, or does the actually existing internet turn out to be in certain respects fundamentally different from the political and philosophical vision that guided its early development? \nIn this series of conversations\, we will be taking a maximally wide-focused view of these questions\, and we will be looking in particular at their importance for understanding the unprecedent technological revolution we are currently living through\, as well as its economic\, political\, cultural\, and psychological consequences. We will be focusing in particular on those thinkers who have articulated a theoretical account of the nature of information networks\, the possibility of machine intelligence\, or the utopian (or dystopian) prospects of a society reliant on machine-aided decision-making.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””] \nRegistration Details:\n\n\nThe 2024–2025 series will unfold over eight sessions\, on Thursdays from October 2024 to June 2024. Conversations will begin at 19h00 and run for ninety minutes\, in person\, at the Library. \nBy registering\, participants commit to attending all sessions and completing the assigned readings. To maintain the continuity of the series\, attendance to individual sessions is not permitted. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/cc2425m2/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241113T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241113T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20240930T091235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241021T095308Z
UID:70277-1731526200-1731529800@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Giraffe Mania: Paris as City of Natural History with Scholar of Note A. Kendra Greene
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D09cef824-a425-4f56-807e-56ff51a1b7c3%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F87596655210|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]As we near the 200th anniversary of the journey to Paris from Africa of Zarafa\, the first giraffe in Europe since the Medicis\, join writer and illustrator A. Kendra Greene for an essayist’s illumination of curiosity and encounter\, from medieval reports of the camelopard to the first photographic evidence of ghost giraffes. \nAbout the speaker: \nA. Kendra Greene is a writer and book artist based in Dallas. She is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See\, first published by Penguin and Granta\, and now translated into German and French. With publications from Atlas Obscura to Zyzzyva\, her work has been presented at the Smithsonian\, exhibited at The Reading Room\, collected as far away as Qatar\, and supported by fellowships from Fulbright\, MacDowell\, and the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard. Tin House will unleash a collection of her essays in curiosity\, No Less Strange or Wonderful\, in Winter 2025. \nAt the Library as a Scholar of Note\, Greene is working on a nonfiction book-length project on Hell\, or l’enfer.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/greene24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241108T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20241011T153736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T101759Z
UID:70464-1731096000-1731099600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:Yotam Ottolenghi: Comfort\, the tour
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Live on stage\, Yotam Ottolenghi will share his expert tips for infusing your kitchen with his inimitable touch\, creating comforting meals that explode with color\, flavor\, generosity and sunshine. \nThis event will be moderated by Curator of Cultural Programs at the American Library in Paris\, Rachel Donadio. \nThis live event offers a unique chance to hear Yotam share expert tips on creating vibrant\, flavorful meals that reflect his signature style. Yotam will discuss the inspiration behind Comfort\, recounting stories from his childhood\, travels\, and home life that shaped his approach to cooking. Audiences will explore how these personal experiences inspired his evocative comfort recipes\, each celebrating the joy of cooking and tradition. With opportunities for audience Q&A\, The Comfort Tour offers an intimate and inspiring experience beyond the pages of the cookbook.  \nPlease use the code ALYOTAM24 for a discounted ticket.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1662638079176{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: This event will take place in person at Casino de Paris at 16 Rue de Clichy\, 75009 PARIS. \nAccess to this event requires purchase of a ticket through Casino de Paris. Click on the button below to purchase your ticket. Use the code ALYOTAM24 for a discounted ticket![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Purchase your ticket” style=”custom” custom_background=”#194573″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbilletterie.aegpresents.fr%2Ffr%2Fmanifestation%2Fyotam-ottolenghi-billet%2Fidmanif%2F575106%2Fcodtypadh%2FFCM%2Fnumadh%2F01%2Fcodeconf%2FFTMS01%2Fadhonly|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ottolenghi24/
LOCATION:Casino de Paris\, 16 Rue de Clichy\, Paris\, 75009\, France
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241108T120000
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UID:70042-1731063600-1731067200@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:History Tour at the Library
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” gradient_color_1=”turquoise” gradient_color_2=”blue” gradient_custom_color_1=”#dd3333″ gradient_custom_color_2=”#eeee22″ gradient_text_color=”#ffffff” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” shape=”rounded” color=”grey” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”” add_icon=”” i_align=”left” i_type=”fontawesome” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-adjust” i_icon_openiconic=”vc-oi vc-oi-dial” i_icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-adjust-brightness” i_icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-note” i_icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-heart” i_icon_monosocial=”vc-mono vc-mono-fivehundredpx” i_icon_material=”vc-material vc-material-cake” i_icon_pixelicons=”vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert” custom_onclick=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D84a328fa-e341-4ab2-95fc-95ff16143736%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank” custom_onclick_code=””][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The American Library in Paris invites you to register for a History Tour. Come visit us in person at 10 rue du Général Camou and discover: \n\n\n\nOur origin story\, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troops in WWI\nThe establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library\nThe famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein\, Ernest Hemingway\, Henry Miller\, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris\nOur Paris Library School\, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s\nThe true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII\nHow the Library has evolved over its 104-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D1078bd46-d91e-4bbc-91f5-1704a7e7d648%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAll tours are on Fridays at 11h00\, last one hour\, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris. \nTours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Please contact us if you wish to reserve for 5 or more people (do not reserve through the site). \nFor school or group reservations\, or for other questions\, please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nThis initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1665240973767{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/history-tours-11-08-24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241105T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241105T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T203504
CREATED:20240930T125325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T125149Z
UID:70207-1730835000-1730838600@americanlibraryinparis.org
SUMMARY:How Ike Eisenhower Led America with Susan Eisenhower and Elaine Sciolino
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Da55a159a-8d62-4e66-834d-ba59b9bc5635%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F89019713608|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Few people have made such momentous decisions as Eisenhower\, and rarely has one person had to make such a varied range of decisions. From D-Day to school integration in Little Rock\, from the Korean War to Cold War crises\, from the Red Scare to the Missile Gap controversies\, Ike was able to give the United States eight years of peace and prosperity by relying on a core set of principles. Susan Eisenhower‘s latest book\, How Ike Led\, illustrates not only what Eisenhower did\, but why―and what we can learn from him today. \nSusan Eisenhower will appear in conversation with Elaine Sciolino\, contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times.  \nAbout the speakers: \nSusan Eisenhower is one of Ike Eisenhower’s four grandchildren\, is a consultant\, author\, and a Washington\, DC-based policy strategist with many decades of work on national security issues. She lectures widely on such topics\, including strategic leadership.  \nElaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times. Her forthcoming book\, Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum\, will be published in 2025. Decorated Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French state\, she is the author of the national best-sellers The Seine and The Only Street in Paris. She has lived in Paris since 2002.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661353661878{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-color: #9e0143 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/eisenhower24/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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