Please join us for an evening with Rebecca Makkai, who will be speaking with Daniel Levin Becker about her latest critically-acclaimed novel, The Great Believers. Rebecca […]

Tue 17

Tue 17 December 2019 @ 19 h 30 min - 21 h 00 min

Evenings with an Author: David Chaffetz in conversation with Celestine Bohlen

David Chaffetz read Persian, Turkish and Arabic at Harvard University with Wheeler Thackston, Richard Frye, Anne-Marie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch. He worked for the Encyclopedia […]

January 2020

Tue 14

Tue 14 January 2020 @ 19 h 30 min - 21 h 00 min

Evenings with an Author: Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry – and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it by New York Times […]

Wed 15

Wed 15 January 2020 @ 19 h 30 min - 21 h 00 min

Evenings with an Author: Elaine Sciolino, The Seine: The River That Made Paris

Elaine Sciolino is again captivating readers, this time with The Seine: The River That Made Paris, the follow-up to her New York Times best-selling book The […]

Tue 21

Tue 21 January 2020 @ 19 h 30 min - 21 h 00 min

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff on the NBA’s French connections

You may think that you know the National Basketball Association (NBA), but did you know that the world’s elite championship sports a surprisingly zesty French accent? […]

Wed 22

Wed 22 January 2020 @ 19 h 30 min - 21 h 00 min

A Public Panel on the “Bookstagram” Phenomenon with Four Local Bookstagrammers

Please join us for a public panel on the "bookstagram" phenomenon. We will be hosting four Paris-based bookstagrammers for the occasion: moderator Anne-Pauline (@apireading) and panelists […]

Tue 28

Tue 28 January 2020 @ 19 h 30 min - 21 h 00 min

Dina Nayeri in conversation with Stuart Reid on her book, “The Ungrateful Refugee”

Please join us for an evening with Dina Nayeri, who will be in conversation with Stuart Reid about her most recent work, The Ungrateful Refugee. […]

Wed 29

Wed 29 January 2020 @ 19 h 30 min - 21 h 00 min

An Evening with Physicist Emlyn Hughes, “More Radioactive than Chernobyl”

More Radioactive than Chernobyl In the 1940s and 1950s, the United States tested sixty-seven nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, including the detonation of the […]

February 2020

Tue 4

Tue 4 February 2020 @ 19 h 30 min - 21 h 00 min

Evenings with an Author: Katherine Ewing

Sufis embody the mystical side of Islam but are also part of well-established institutional networks—the Sufi orders that extend across the Muslim world. Through the words, […]

Wed 5

Wed 5 February 2020 @ 19 h 30 min - 21 h 00 min

Black ou Noir(e): A Public Panel on Black Expats and Belonging in Paris

Picking up the thread from the Library's February 2019 panel on mixed race and identity, this public panel, moderated by Tarani Merriweather and featuring discussants Jacqueline […]

Tue 11

Tue 11 February 2020 @ 19 h 30 min - 21 h 00 min

Evenings with an Author: Michael Webber

A global tour of energy–the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat. Energy is humanity’s single most important resource. In fact, as energy expert […]

Wed 12

Wed 12 February 2020 @ 19 h 30 min - 21 h 00 min

Emerging disease- the Coronavirus and beyond: A public conversation with Dr. Mariana Marrana and Taylor Gabourie (World Organisation for Animal Health)

Join us for an public conversation with Dr. Mariana Marrana and Taylor Gabourie, who will be discussing the science behind emerging disease, the role of human […]

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