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SUMMARY:The American Library in Paris Book Award 2020 [Virtual Event]
DESCRIPTION:Honoring literature. Interpreting France.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: 14 January 2021 at 19h30 CET \nLocation: Hosted live on Zoom \n\nRSVP required- please follow this link to register. \n\nDigital tickets to the 2020 Book Award Ceremony are now available. For the first time\, the ceremony will be open to the public and there is no cost to attend. Please sign up below to be added to the event’s guest list and login information will be sent to you in January. \nThe winner of the 2020 prize will be announced and will deliver a live talk on their winning book. The evening will also include a tribute to Library supporters\, remarks from the jury about the six shortlisted books\, and many other special surprises. \nThe Book Award ceremony is the Library’s most significant donor appreciation event of the year\, and the Library will host a separate gathering to celebrate the generosity of its community. If you haven’t donated this year and you would like to join the hundreds of supporters who have made a contribution in 2020\, please use the donate button on this page.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/the-american-library-in-paris-book-award-2020/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:A Special Panel on Change over Time in Technology and Ethics- from 2000 to 2021 [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nFollow this link to register! \nA Panel on Change over Time in Technology and Ethics- from 2000 to 2021\nThis special panel\, moderated by Christine Finn and featuring Nicholas Hall and Mike Cassidy as discussants\, will explore and debate the issues surrounding technology and our relationship with its ethics. Finn first interviewed the discussants in 2000 while adopting a left-field take on technology though its fast-changing material culture\, (Artifacts: an archaeologist’s year in Silicon Valley: MIT Press 2001). They will cover the state of tech around the year 2000\, before and after the dot com bubble burst\, through the era of startups\, the beginnings of social media as a benign means to connect people and ideas\, and apps to make life simpler\, to our present concerns about social media leaving us vulnerable\, and divided by technology. While innovation has the potential for positive and sweeping change\, have the technologies developed in the last two decades grown too large and powerful\, and beyond regulation we rely upon to protect us? Inspired in part by recent popular documentaries such as The Social Dilemma and The Great Hack\, panelists will share their recollections of the early days of tech and Silicon Valley\, and reflect upon how we got here\, where we might go next\, and what an ethics of technology might look like.\n\n\n\n \n  \nChristine Finn is a journalist and creative archaeologist\, and author of Artifacts: an Archaeologist’s Year in Silicon Valley (MIT Press\, 2001) and Past Poetic: Archaeology and the Poetry of WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney (Duckworth\, 2004). She began her journalism career at 16\, and has followed it from analogue to digital\, print\, blog\,  photography and broadcast\, including the BBC’s “From Our Own Correspondent”\, Wired.com\, and Edge.org. In 2003 she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She is a former Reuter Fellow at Oxford\, before returning in 1992 as one of the first undergrads to read Archaeology and Anthropology\,  continuing to a doctorate in archaeology and poetry. She has received seven Arts Council England awards as a visual artist. Her site-specific work engages with change-over-time in technology and media. \n\n\n\n\n \n  \n\n\n\nMike Cassidy\, Signifyd lead storyteller: I was a long-time journalist at the newspaper of Silicon Valley\, covering the valley’s rise and fall and rise and\, well\, you get the idea. I worked and watched as the Mercury News became one of the best newspapers in the U.S.\, shortly before a death-defying collapse that has rendered it almost invisible. I fled to a tech start-up and then another\, called Signifyd\, where I tell the story of a company that protects merchants from online fraud. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nNicholas Hall: I met Christine Finn when she wrote a little piece about my community website\, Startupfailures\, back in 2001. I created the community website after the collapse of my startup\, Intori\, which was focused on becoming an online tool to support offline business networking. At one time I had over 4\,000 connections on LinkedIn but now under 100. The same was true with Facebook. As the noise grows\, our ability to listen lessens. Can you hear me now?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/a-special-panel-on-change-over-time-in-technology-and-ethics/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Amor Towles in conversation with Mark Mayer [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:Update (posted 16/12/20): A Zoom meeting link has been sent to all registered participants. Please check your spam folder if you have not received it (do not sign up twice). If you are registering for the first time today\, Wednesday 16 December\, you can expect a forwarded email with the link to be delivered within an hour or so of your registration.\n  \n  \n*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nClick here to register for this event! \nPlease join us for a conversation with author Amor Towles (moderated by Mark Mayer) about writing\, inspiration\, and especially\, the hugely popular novel\, A Gentleman in Moscow (French translation- Un gentleman à Moscou\, out now with Editions Fayard). \nBorn and raised in the Boston area\, Amor Towles received his BA from Yale College and an MA in English from Stanford University. His first novel\, Rules of Civility\, published in 2011\, was a New York Times bestseller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. His second novel\, A Gentleman in Moscow\, published in 2016\, was on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year while in hardcover. It was named as one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune\, the Washington Post\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and NPR. Both novels have sold over one million copies and been translated into over twenty languages. Having worked as an investment professional for over twenty years\, Mr. Towles now devotes himself fulltime to writing in Manhattan\, where he lives with his wife and two children. \n  \n  \n  \nMark Mayer has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from the University of Denver. His first book\, AERIALISTS\, won the Michener-Copernicus Prize and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He has been published in American Short Fiction\, the Kenyon Review\, Guernica\, the Iowa Review\, Best American Mystery Stories\, and the New York Times and interviewed in the Paris Review and BOMB. He is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the University of Memphis MFA. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/amor-towles/
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Maurice Samuels [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This winter\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nClick here to register for this event! \n\nThe Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal that Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern\n\n\nThe year was 1832\, a cholera pandemic raged\, and the French royal family was in exile\, driven out by yet another revolution. From a drafty Scottish castle\, the duchesse de Berry — the mother of the eleven-year-old heir to the throne — hatched a plot to restore the Bourbon dynasty\, but was betrayed by her trusted advisor\, the son of France’s Chief Rabbi. The betrayal became a cause célèbre for Bourbon loyalists and ignited a firestorm of hate against France’s Jews. By blaming an entire people for the actions of a single man\, the duchess’s supporters set the terms for the century of antisemitism that followed. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Maurice Samuels is the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale University\, where he is also the founding director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship\, he is the author of three previous books\, including The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews (University of Chicago Press\, 2016).  He lives in New Haven\, CT and New York City. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-maurice-samuels/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Monster Dance: a reading and Q&A with Eva Lou and Denis O'Hare (ages 3+) [VIRTUAL]
DESCRIPTION:For children ages 3+ their families\n \n  \nEnjoy a reading of Monster Dance by Denis O’Hare\, then stay for a Q&A with another of the book’s creators: Eva Lou (connecting virtually).\n \n  \n \n  \nMeet Maurice\, an endearingly melodramatic dog\, and Charlie\, an artistic little girl\, as they take on a world that’s suddenly gone topsy-turvy. This picture book (also available as a picture book app) is a story about coping with our fears. Monster Dance was created to teach the youngest readers that living with a virus — or any sickness — isn’t just about “waiting it out.” \nFind out more about Monster Dance\, and buy the book here. \nThis event requires advance registration. Click here to register. \nWe thank you for your continued support and for being a part of the Library community! If you would like to support the Library\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service. \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/monster-dance/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201125T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201125T203000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Peter Gumbel in conversation with Charles Fleming [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease click here to register. \n\nCitizens of Everywhere: Searching for Identity in the Age of Brexit\n\nIn 1939\, with Europe on the brink of war\, Peter Gumbel’s grandparents fled Nazi Germany for England. In 2019\, appalled by the result of the Brexit referendum and the ugliness it exposed in the UK’s politics and wider society\, he became a citizen of Germany\, the country that had persecuted his grandparents eighty years earlier. How had it come to this? In his latest book\, Citizens of Everywhere\, Gumbel uses the story of his family to explore existential issues of identity and belonging in today’s unsettled world. In this Evening with an Author\, he will discuss the essay and reflect on its key themes: the resurgence of a nationalistic world view\, the growing multiplicity of identity in the digital age\, and a surprising reversal of roles as Germany replaces Britain as the hope-bearer in Europe.\n\n\n \n  \nPeter Gumbel is a Paris-based writer and editor. He spent sixteen years at the Wall Street Journal\, including postings in New York\, Moscow\, Berlin\, and Los Angeles\, and moved to Paris in 2002 to cover European business and the economy for Time Magazine. In 2006\, the Work Foundation named him Journalist of the Year. He is the author of four books on France\, including a best-selling critique of the French education system\, On achève bien les écoliers (“They Shoot School Kids\, Don’t They?”) \nPeter will be interviewed by Charles Fleming\, a communications consultant and former Wall Street Journal reporter. \n  \nTo purchase Citizens of Everywhere\, click here. \nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-peter-gumbel/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201124T193000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Scott Carpenter in conversation with Erin Byrne [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease click here to register. \nJoin Erin Byrne as she interviews Scott Dominic Carpenter about his hilarious new memoir\, French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris\nWhen Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris\, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors\, police denunciations\, surly demonstrators\, cooking disasters\, medical mishaps―not to mention all those lectures about cheese! It turns out that nothing in the City of Light can be taken for granted\, where even trips to the grocery store lead to adventure. In French Like Moi\, Carpenter guides us through the merry labyrinth of the everyday\, one hilarious faux pas after another. Through it all\, he keeps his eye on the central mystery of what makes the French French (and Midwesterners Midwestern). \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nScott Dominic Carpenter teaches literature and creative writing at Carleton College (MN). Winner of a Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Prize (2018) and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant\, he’s the author of Theory of Remainders: A Novel (named to Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Books of 2013”) and of This Jealous Earth: Stories. His shorter work has appeared in a wide variety of venues\, including South Dakota Review\, The Rumpus\, Silk Road\, Catapult\, and various anthologies. His website is sdcarpenter.com. \n  \n \nErin Byrne is the award-winning author of Wings: Gifts of Art\, Life\, and Travel in France\, editor of Vignettes & Postcards from Morocco and Vignettes & Postcards from Paris and writer of The Storykeeper film. She is Travel Writing and Photography Curator of The Creative Process Exhibition\, and has taught writing at Shakespeare and Company in Paris\, Book Passage Bookstore\, and on Deep Travel trips. To learn more\, visit e-byrne.com \nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
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CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201117T193000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: François-Xavier Fauvelle [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us for a book talk on The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages\nClick here to sign up! \nFrom the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth\, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which places like Ghana\, Nubia\, and Zimbabwe became the crossroads of civilizations\, and where African royals\, thinkers\, and artists played celebrated roles in the globalized world of the Middle Ages.  Francois-Xavier Fauvelle brings this unsung era marvelously to life\, taking readers from the Sahara and the Nile River Valley to the Ethiopian highlands and southern Africa. Drawing on fragmented written sources as well as his many years of experience as an archaeologist\, Fauvelle painstakingly reconstructs an African past that is too often denied its place in history. \n  \nFrançois-Xavier Fauvelle received his PhD from the University of Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne\, where he specialized in the history of Africa. Since 2002\, he has been affiliated with the CNRS and the Institute for African Studies  in Aix-en-Provence. He spent time as a researcher in the US\, Ethiopia\, and South Africa. Since returning to France in 2009\, he joined a research team\, TRACES\, at the University of Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès. With his colleagues François Bon and Caroline Robion-Brunner\, he created “le Pôle Afrique\,” a research initiative bringing together archaologists specializing in Africa and doctoral students\, some originating from Africa\, pursuing doctoral research in the field. He has been a professor at the Collège de France since 2019. \nTo order the book at a special discounted rate\, please visit https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691181264/the-golden-rhinoceros \n(Use code FAU20 at checkout to receive a 30% discount on sterling and euro + p&p) \n  \nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-francois-xavier-fauvelle/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Eula Biss in conversation with Susan Harlan [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease click here to register. \nJoin us for an interview with Eula Biss about her newest book\, Having and Being Had\, moderated by Susan Harlan. \n“My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts\,” Eula Biss writes\, “the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.” Having just purchased her first home\, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges— in libraries and laundromats\, over barstools and backyard fences— she examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who “advances from all sides\, like a chess player\,” Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury\, of accumulation and consumption\, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon\, Biss asks\, of both herself and her class\, “In what have we invested?” \nEula Biss is the author of four books\, most recently Having and Being Had\, which Cathy Park Hong calls “a revelatory and necessary primer on how late capitalism affects our daily lives.” Biss holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and has been teaching writing at Northwestern University for fifteen years. Her book On Immunity was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review and Notes from No Man’s Land won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 2009. Her work has been translated into over ten languages and has been recognized by a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship\, a Howard Foundation Fellowship\, a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award\, a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library\, and a Pushcart Prize. Her essays and poems have recently appeared in the New Yorker\, the Guardian\, the Times Literary Supplement\, The Believer\, Harper’s\, and the New York Times Magazine. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nSusan Harlan’s essays have appeared in venues including The Guardian US\, The Paris Review Daily\, Guernica\, Roads & Kingdoms\, Literary Hub\, The Common\, Racked\, The Brooklyn Quarterly\, The Bitter Southerner\, and Public Books. Her book Luggage takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support\, accessorize\, and accompany our lives. She also writes satire for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, The Billfold\, Avidly\, Queen Mob’s Tea House\, The Hairpin\, The Belladonna\, Janice\, and The Establishment\, and her humor book Decorating a Room of One’s Own: Conversations on Interior Design with Miss Havisham\, Jane Eyre\, Victor Frankenstein\, Elizabeth Bennet\, Ishmael\, and Other Literary Notables was published by Abrams last October. She teaches English literature at Wake Forest University. \n  \n  \n  \nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-eula-biss-in-conversation-with-susan-harlan/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Oliver Gee [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nJoin us for an evening with Oliver Gee!\nFollow this link to register. \nOliver Gee is an Australian who’s been in Paris since 2015. He arrived as a journalist\, but now makes a living as the host of the hugely popular Paris travel podcast “The Earful Tower”. This year\, he released his laugh-out-loud memoir\, Paris On Air\, which he will discuss with us live on Zoom. Oliver will give an entertaining performance and host a lively Q&A in which he’ll talk about publishing a book during a lockdown\, cancelling a mega US book tour and doing it virtually instead\, and the perks and perils of life as a podcaster in the City of Light.\n\n\n \nIn Paris On Air\, Oliver Gee tells of how five years in France taught him how to order cheese\, make a Parisian person smile\, and convince anyone you can fake French (even if\, like Oliver\, you speak the language like an Australian cow). \nA fresh voice on the Paris scene\, he shares the soaring highs and crushing lows that come with following your dreams to the French capital. \nHe also befriends the city’s too-cool-for-school basketballers\, chases runaway crocodiles\, and goes on a mammoth honeymoon trip around France on his little red scooter.\nTo order\, please visit www.theearfultower.com/memoir. \n  \n  \n  \nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
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CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201029T193000
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DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
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SUMMARY:Writers Reading during the Pandemic: A Panel with Joyce Carol Oates\, Edmund White\, and Sheila Kohler [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series and related panels will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nWriters Reading during the Pandemic\nPlease join us for a special panel in which we’ll discuss reading in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. We’ll be joined by acclaimed authors Joyce Carol Oates\, Edmund White\, and Sheila Kohler\, who will speak to us about what they have been reading and how it has shaped their response to the outbreak of the virus and resulting challenges\, including illness\, confinement and quarantine\, isolation and loneliness\, anxiety about the health of our loved ones\, and frustration stemming from the responses of our leaders. We hope attending this event and listening to our panelists trade insights and perspectives might give you a chance to reflect upon how your own reading habits have changed throughout the course of 2020 as well. We believe books have the power not only to captivate\, entertain\, and instruct\, but also to heal. \nPlease click here to register for this event. \n  \nPhoto by Geraint Lewis \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Her most recent book\, Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars\, is out now. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPhoto by Andrew Fladeboe \nEdmund White has written thirty books\, taught at Princeton and won many awards. He lives in New York City. His most recent novel\, A Saint from Texas\, is out now. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPhoto by Beowulf Sheehan \n  \nSheila Kohler is the author of over ten novels\, three volumes of short fiction\, a memoir\, and many essays. Her most recent novel is Open Secrets\, out now. Her memoir Once we were sisters is just out with Penguin as well as Canongate in England. She has won numerous prizes including the O.Henry twice and been included in Best American Short Stories most recently in 2013. Her work has been published in thirteen countries. She has taught at Columbia\, Sarah Lawrence\, Bennington and at Princeton since 2007. Her novel\, Cracks was made into a film with directors Jordan and Ridley Scott with Eva Green playing Miss G. You can find her blog at Psychology Today under “Dreaming for Freud.” \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/writers-reading-during-the-pandemic-a-panel-with-joyce-carol-oates-edmund-white-and-sheila-kohler/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201022T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201022T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
CREATED:20200928T095310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T163112Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop with Susan Tiberghien [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s programs will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. This event is limited to Library members and requires advance reservation. Please use this form to sign up. \nInterested in moving forward with a writing project in the wake of what has been an extremely turbulent year?  \nLibrary members are invited to join us for a multi-genre workshop\, “Finding Our Stories for a New Tomorrow\,” with author and writing instructor Susan Tiberghien. Susan will share her approach\, guide us through writing prompts\, and answer any questions you might have about technique and/or practice. Read her workshop description and more about work below to learn more: \nWhere is the story?  Margaret Atwood writes\, “The story is in the dark.” We will find our way into the dark\, into the unconscious and bring our stories into the light. As we read excerpts from Atwood\, Toni Morrison\, Orhan Pamuk\, and Terry Tempest Williams\, we will start to craft our own stories. Our voices will bear witness in these turbulent times. \nSusan M. Tiberghien\, an American writer living in Geneva\, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and Philosophy with graduate work at the Université de Grenoble and the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich. She is the author of four memoirs: Looking for Gold: A Year in Jungian Analysis\, Circling to the Center\, Side by Side\, Footsteps; two writing books: One Year to a Writing Life\, Writing Toward Wholeness: Lessons Inspired by C.G. Jung; and most recently\, the 20th Anniversary Edition of Circling to the Center\, An Invitation to Silent Prayer.  \nFor over 20 years Tiberghien has been teaching workshops at C.G. Jung Societies\, at the International Women’s Writing Guild\, and at writers’ centers and conferences\, in the U.S. and Europe. Recently she recorded online master classes for the Jung Society of Washington DC: Writing to the Soul\, Seeing Beauty with Words\, and Through Darkness to Light. An active member of International PEN\, Tiberghien founded and directed the Geneva Writers’ Group for 25 years\, bringing together over 230 English language writers. She is married\, with six children\, fifteen grandchildren\, and one great grandchild. \nWebsite: www.susantiberghien.com \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/writing-workshop-with-susan-tiberghien/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201017T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201017T123000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
CREATED:20200826T164549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200827T110445Z
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SUMMARY:Scary Stories: Write Your Own (ages 6-12) [VIRTUAL–RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:For ages 6-12 \n  \nCreate your own haunted tale during this writing workshop – not for the faint of heart!\n \n  \nChildren and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive writing workshop direct to your living room\, kitchen\, bedroom\, or wherever you connect. Caregivers are requested to join in with their children and participate in the program. \n  \nChildren’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste and volunteers will read two short scary stories from the book In a Dark\, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz\, then lead you through as you write your own spooky tale – just in time for Halloween! \n  \nThis event requires advance registration. Click HERE to register. \n  \nWe thank you for your continued support and for being a part of the Library community! If you would like to support the Library\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service. \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/scary-stories-write-your-own-ages-6-12-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201014T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201014T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
CREATED:20200916T124946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201009T124254Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Dalia Sofer [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up (follow this link!). Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n  \nPlease join us for a reading and interview with author Dalia Sofer to learn more about her latest novel\, Man of My Time. \nSet in Tehran and New York\, Man of My Time is the story of Hamid Mozaffarian\, a man as alienated from himself as he is from the world. After decades of working with ambivalence for the Iranian government\, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York\, where he encounters his estranged family and retrieves the ashes of his father. Tucked into a mint tin in Hamid’s pocket\, the ashes propel him into an excavation of a lifetime of betrayals\, forcing him to confront his past. Exploring variations of loss\, Man of My Time is not only about family and memory\, but also about the relationship between captor and captive\, country and citizen\, and individual and history. \n  \nDalia Sofer is the author of the novels Man of My Time—a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, and The Septembers of Shiraz—selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and published in sixteen countries. A recipient of a Whiting Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize\, she has contributed essays and reviews to various publications\, including The New York Times Book Review\, The LA Review of Books\, and The Believer. Born in Tehran\, Iran\, Sofer currently lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-dalia-sofer/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201013T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201013T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
CREATED:20200916T120310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T094555Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Harriet Welty Rochefort in conversation with Alan Riding [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up (follow this link!). Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us for a conversation between Harriet Welty Rochefort and Alan Riding about Harriet’s new book\, Final Transgression. \n \nTwo sisters\, two different destinies. In Final Transgression\, 85-year-old Caroline Aubry tells the tale of the tragic wartime destiny of her beloved younger sister\, Séverine. From their humble beginnings in a hamlet in the southwest of France to a château where Séverine becomes the protegée of the beautiful countess who employs their parents\, their trajectories differ. After they move to Paris\, the pragmatic Caroline becomes a successful designer and the high-spirited Severine marries a rich jeweler. When WW2 breaks out and her collaborationist husband betrays her\, the headstrong Séverine flees to the chateau and the countess –– in spite of warnings about the risk of traveling to an area that is a fierce battleground for rival groups of résistants\, Nazis and collaborators. Severine is beautiful\, intelligent but obstinate – and it is that obstinacy that will ultimately seal her fate. The end of the war in France was a time for settling scores. Séverine\, an ordinary woman living in extraordinary times\, unwittingly hands the hangman’s noose to her enemies in one egregious act—her final transgression. \nHarriet Welty Rochefort grew up in Iowa\, traveled to France after graduating from college\, and never left. She is the author of three nonfiction books about the French: French Toast\, French Fried and Joie de Vivre\, all published by St. Martin’s Press. Final Transgression is her first work of fiction. Learn more at www.harrietweltyrochefort.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAlan Riding is the former Paris bureau chief and European cultural correspondent for The New York Times. Still living in Paris and now devoted to writing plays\, he is author of several books\, most recently And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-harriet-welty-rochefort-in-conversation-with-alan-riding/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201002T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201002T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
CREATED:20200727T143020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200727T145124Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual-ish: A Language-Exploring Comic Workshop with Kate Gavino (ages 12-18) [VIRTUAL—RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:For ages 12-18 \n\n  \n\nJoin graphic novel author and artist Kate Gavino for a virtual workshop that explores the highs and lows of being bilingual\, whether you’re perfectly fluent in many languages or struggling to get by in more than one. By making our own short comics\, we’ll explore different language personalities\, un-translatable words\, and more. Come prepared to share a little about your second (or third or fourth) tongue\, but don’t worry: there’s no need to be perfectly fluent in those languages. In fact\, misunderstandings and mix-ups will be encouraged in our comics! \n\n  \nAbout Kate: Kate Gavino is a writer and illustrator. She is the creator of the website\, Last Night’s Reading\, which was compiled into a published collection by Penguin Books in 2015. Her work has been featured in BuzzFeed\, Lenny Letter\, Oprah.com\, Rookie\, and more. She was recently named one of Brooklyn Magazine’s 30 Under 30. Her second book\, Sanpaku\, was published by BOOM! Studios in 2018. \n\nThis event is free and open to Library members ages 12-18 and will be hosted virtually via Zoom. Advance registration is required (sign-up HERE). Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event via email.\n \nSend an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about events and collections for children and teens: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/bilingual-ishl-a-language-exploring-comic-workshop-with-kate-gavino-ages-12-18-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200926T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200926T160000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
CREATED:20200914T134958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200924T140148Z
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SUMMARY:The Art of the Scary Story: Write the Haunted Paris Script (ages 14-adult) [VIRTUAL—BY RSVP]
DESCRIPTION:For ages 14-adult \n\n  \n\nWork on your craft in a fun\, creative atmosphere with other writers and help us build the script for our Haunted Library! \n  \nScripts are an art form. Just like short stories and novels\, they must be crafted carefully. Join us in crafting the script for the evening portion of the Library’s Halloween event. We will have a basic outline drafted of the route tours will take through the 7th arrondissement on the evening of 31 October 2020. During this workshop\, we’ll create scary vignettes for actors to perform\, and a tale for our tour guides to recount during the evening. Help us create an evening of scares for visitors who attend the event on Saturday 31 October. New writers\, fans of scary stories and professionals are all welcome to attend! \n\n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and open to Library members ages 12-adult and will be hosted virtually. Advance registration is required (sign-up HERE). Registered participants will be sent the info about how to join the meeting.\n \nSend an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about this event\, or any of our events for children and teens: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/the-art-of-the-scary-story-write-the-haunted-paris-script-ages-14-adult-virtual-by-rsvp/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200924T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200924T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
CREATED:20200828T135725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T094603Z
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Mindfulness Workshop with Daria Steketee [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event has filled; thank you for your understanding. \n  \n*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s programs will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nMindfulness Workshop for Creatives (1 hour in length) \nPlease join us for a relaxing and informative session in which you’ll get a preview of Mindfulness Meditation techniques\, all of which can be used for writers and other creatives looking to find their flow. \nThis workshop presents a secular approach to Mindfulness that focuses on how it can be practical and helpful in our daily lives. Participants will take away practical and accessible ways to reduce stress\, increase enjoyment of the present moment\, and promote resilience. No prior experience in meditation necessary. \nThis workshop will include:\n• an overview of the global phenomenon that mindfulness has become\n• simple techniques to get you started\n• a few short guided meditations\n• a Q&A \nDaria Steketee began meditating over 30 years ago in New York City\, where she grew up. She studied meditation in the Buddhist and Yogic traditions\, while pursuing studies in Comparative Religion\, Theatre\, and Art at Bryn Mawr College and New York University. Working as a visual artist in Paris\, she continued meditation training in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition before discovering Mindfulness through a series of classes\, silent retreats\, and books. A graduate of Mindfulness Training Institute\, she has been certified to teach meditation in a variety of formats and settings (for companies\, associations\, individuals\, etc.). \nFor more\, please visit Daria’s website: https://www.mindfultoday.fr.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/mindfulness-workshop-with-daria-steketee/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200922T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200922T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
CREATED:20200824T084939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200917T090633Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Clara Oropeza [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n  \nPlease join us for an evening with Clara Oropeza\, author of Anaïs Nin: A Myth of Her Own\, which traces Nin’s literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and poetic expression attained in the details of the quotidian\, transfigured into fiction. By digging into the mythic tropes that permeate both her literary diaries and fiction\, this book demonstrates that Nin constructed a mythic method of her own\, revealing the extensive possibilities of an opulent feminine psyche. \nIn this work\, Clara demonstrates that the literary diary\, for Nin\, is a genre that with its traces of trickster archetype\, among others\, reveals a mercurial\, yet particular understanding of an embodied and at times mystical experience of a writer. The cogent analysis of Nin’s fiction alongside the posthumously published unexpurgated diaries\, within the backdrop of emerging psychological theories\, further illuminates Nin’s contributions as an experimental and important modernist writer whose daring and poetic voice has not been fully appreciated. By extending research on diary writing and anchoring Nin’s literary style within modernist traditions\, this book contributes to the redefinition of what literary modernism was comprised\, who participated and how it was defined. \nDr. Clara Oropeza is a Latina writer and Professor of English Literature at Santa Barbara City College\, California. Clara’s research combines comparative mythology\, feminist and literary studies and cultural theory. She has contributed various essays to Sagewoman and Between. Clara earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Mythology and Literature from Pacifica Graduate Institute and an MA in English Literature from California State University\, Los Angeles. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-clara-oropeza/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200917T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200917T180000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200829T101259Z
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SUMMARY:Fantasy Book Club (ages 12-adult) [VIRTUAL—RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:ages 12-adult\n \n  \n\nJoin fantasy fans to discuss new worlds and novels with like-minded readers.\n\n  \n\nBring along your current or most recent fantasy read to talk about with the group during our online meeting. Participants are also encouraged to prepare a cup of tea or coffee to enjoy during the meeting. Each participant will be asked to read the first line of the fantasy novel they’ve selected and share a bit about the book. High and low fantasy\, contemporary or classic–it’s all perfect to bring along to discuss during these book club meetings. New members are welcome! This book club is facilitated by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLooking for your next great fantasy read? Stop by and browse our extensive collections! These titles are available for Library members in e-book format: \nThe Cruel Prince by Holly Black\, The Inquisitor’s Tale by Adam Gidwitz\, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin\, Coraline by Neil Gaiman\, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien\, and The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\nAdvance registration is required for this book group (sign-up HERE). Once registered\, participants will be sent an email with instructions to join the online meeting. Participation in this book group is open to Library members\, and free of charge. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library before the first session. Send an email to Celeste Rhoads\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about this event: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ya-fantasy-book-club-ages-12-adult-virtual-rsvp-required-4/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200916T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200916T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200915T144453Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Mamta Chaudhry in conversation with Russell Banks [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nMamta Chaudhry’s debut novel\, Haunting Paris\, is set in Paris in 1989. Alone in her luminous apartment on Île Saint-Louis\, Sylvie discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover’s possessions\, launching her into a decades-old search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of the Second World War. She is unaware that she is watched over by Julien’s ghost\, his love for her powerful enough to draw him back to this world\, though doomed now to remain a silent observer. Sylvie’s quest leads her deep into the secrets of Julien’s past\, shedding new light on the dark days of Nazi-occupied Paris. A timeless story of love and loss\, Haunting Paris matches emotional intensity with lyrical storytelling to explore grief\, family secrets\, and the undeniable power of memory. \nThe book has been praised as “elegantly wrought” by The New York Times Book Review\, “extraordinarily beautiful” by Bonjour Paris\, and “a heart-wrenching love letter to Paris” by Publishers Weekly. Marilynne Robinson called “this fine first novel . . . a small parable\, pondering the nature of civilization itself\,” and Russell Banks described it as “powerful and moving . . . with a heartbreaking\, profoundly adult love story at its center.” \nMamta Chaudhry lives with her husband in Coral Gables\, Florida. They spend part of each year in India and in France. Much of her professional career was in television and classical radio at stations in Calcutta\, Gainesville\, Dallas\, and Miami. Mamta has studied with Marilynne Robinson and has also taught literature and creative writing at the University of Miami. Her early fiction\, poetry\, and feature articles have been published in newspapers and magazines in the States and in India. She is currently working on a second novel. \n  \n  \nPhoto by Nancie Battaglia \nFor her virtual evening at the Library\, Mamta will be in conversation with Russell Banks. Russell is the author of Cloudsplitter and Continental Drift\, and is one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers\, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers\, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards. He lives in upstate New York and Miami\, Florida.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-mamta-chaudhry/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200908T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200908T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T162251Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Alice Jardine [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n \n  \nPlease join us as we welcome Alice Jardine\, author of At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva. \nAt the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva–one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Kristeva’s work to a broader readership by connecting Kristeva’s personal journey\, from her childhood in Communist Bulgaria to her adult life as an international public intellectual based in Paris\, with the history of her ideas. Informed by extensive interviews with Kristeva herself\, this telling of a remarkable woman’s life story also draws out the complexities of Kristeva’s writing\, emphasizing her call for an urgent revival of bold interdisciplinary thinking in order to understand–and to act in–today’s world. \nDr. Jardine is Professor of Studies of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality and of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her publications include The Future of Difference\, Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity\, Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan\, and\, as translator\, Julia Kristeva’s Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-alice-jardine/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Evenings with an Author: Hollis Clayson [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event is now FULL\, thank you for your understanding.\n\n*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up.\n\nHollis Clayson will be speaking about her latest book\, Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Epoque. She will explain her interest in artificial lighting technologies and highlight the artworks that most fascinated her and informed her work.\n\nDr. Clayson is Professor of Art History and Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University\, where she has taught for 30+ years. Trained at Wellesley and UCLA\, she specializes in Paris-based art practices. Her books include Painted Love\, Paris in Despair\, and Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? In 2014\, she was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Culture.\n\n*The Library has a limited number of copies of Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Epoque available for purchase\, at a special discounted rate of 20 euros (list price 50 euros). Please email programs@americanlibraryinparis.org to reserve yours. Payment and pick up at the Library\, with details to be communicated by email upon reservation of the book.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-holly-clayson/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200822T110000
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SUMMARY:Gift-making and Crafting (ages 6-12) [VIRTUAL - RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:Ages 6-12 \nJoin us for an hour dedicated to crafting and making fun gifts to give to friends and loved ones.  \nGet your paper\, pencils and scissors at the read and join Children’s and Teens’ Services Librarian Kirsty for some summer inspired crafts!  We’ll make some cool presents to give out and all crafting abilities are welcome! \nCrafts will be made using paper\, scissors\, coloring pens (or pencils or crayons!) and glue. Any other craft supplies you have at home can also be used. \nThis program requires advance registration\, and is open to Library members. Click HERE to register. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event via Zoom. Parents and caregivers are responsible for connecting to the meeting\, and monitoring their children’s use of the internet.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/gift-making-craft-party-ages-6-12-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200816
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CREATED:20200116T163534Z
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SUMMARY:Library is closed
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URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/library-is-closed-75/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200731T230000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200731T230000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
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SUMMARY:Teen Advisory Group (ages 12-18): deadline to apply
DESCRIPTION:Open to Library members ages 12-18 \n  \nProvide valuable feedback and earn community service hours! \n  \n  \nProvide feedback and earn community service hours by joining the Teen Advisory Group. Members of this group are asked to read widely and offer opinions on a selection of new books that we are considering adding to our collections. you may also be asked to offer input and suggestions about programs\, policies and more. Your feedback will be valued\, and you will learn about the behind-the-scenes work of the Library and its staff while getting a sneak peek at some of the newest YA reads. Meetings will be held one Friday a month from 17h00-18h30\, and members of the group are expected to commit to attending all meetings. \n  \nMeetings will be held one Friday a month at The American Library in Paris from 17h00-18h30 (dates TBC)\n \n  \nIf you are interested in joining the Teen Advisory Group\, fill in the ONLINE APPLICATION (HERE) by 31 July at 23h00. You can expect to write one to two paragraphs about your reading\, and why you would like to join the group. \n  \n If you know what you want to see in the Library\, and if you want to have more input in our collections and programs for teens\, submit an application today! \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/teen-advisory-group-ages-12-18-deadline-to-apply-click-here/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200715T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200715T180000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
CREATED:20200609T151909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200617T124051Z
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SUMMARY:Ask the Doctor: COVID-19 update by Dr. Rob Murphy [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nAsk the Doctor- COVID-19 update by Dr. Rob Murphy\n\nAmerican Library in Paris member\, Dr. Robert L. Murphy has been at the forefront of every infectious disease global crisis since the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s. In this special Zoom session\, Dr. Murphy will share with us the latest updates in the fight against COVID-19. He will also answer questions from the audience. He will join us from Chicago\, where he is the Executive Director\, Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Murphy is currently involved in cutting edge research in diagnostics and treatment of COVID-19.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-dr-rob-murphy/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200714
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200715
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
CREATED:20200116T162612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250727T073407Z
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SUMMARY:Library is closed
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URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/library-is-closed-69/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200709T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200709T183000
DTSTAMP:20260422T042415
CREATED:20200622T135009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200623T100906Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop with Anissa Bouziane [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is FREE and open to Library members. \nSpace is limited and registration is required. Please RSVP here. \nThis event will run via Zoom from 17h00-18h30 on Thursday 9 July. \nWriting our Way out of Confinement\nMany of us see the process of deconfinement as a new beginning\, much like a blank page. This writing workshop will encourage participants to reflect upon their personal experiences of confinement and imagine their way out through writing. With Anissa as our guide\, we will consider what confinement has taught us about our own powers of observation and imagination\, and how these might be translated onto the page. We will explore how isolation has variously challenged and/or nourished our writing and creative practices. This workshop will feature a mix of instruction and quiet time for reflection and writing prompts. We hope you come away from the course with a seed or an idea for a piece of writing that you can continue to develop independently. \nAnissa Bouziane was born in Tennessee\, daughter of a Moroccan father and a French mother.  She grew up in Morocco\, but returned to the US to attend Wellesley College\, and went on to earn an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. Her debut novel\, Dune Song\, is rooted in her experience of witnessing the collapse of the Twin Towers. She now works and teaches in Paris.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/writing-workshop-with-anissa-bouziane-2/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200701T170000
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CREATED:20200608T133514Z
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Evenings with an Author: Lindsey Tramuta and Thomas Chatterton Williams [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event has filled. Those who signed up will receive meeting details tomorrow (1 July). Those who were unable to sign up should look out for a YouTube video of the Zoom recording of the event which will be posted to the Library’s YouTube channel later this week.  \n*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom. We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us for a conversation between Lindsey Tramuta and Thomas Chatterton Williams as they speak about her much-anticipated book\, The New Parisienne\, to be released by Abrams on 7 July 2020. \nLifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman—white\, lithe\, ever fashionable—The New Parisienne demystifies this oversimplified archetype and recasts the women of Paris as they truly are\, in all their complexity. Featuring 50 activists\, creators\, educators\, visionaries\, and disruptors—such as Leïla Slimani\, Lauren Bastide\, and Mayor Anne Hidalgo—the book reveals Paris as a blossoming cultural center of feminine power and showcases those who are bucking tradition\, making names for themselves\, and transforming the city.\n\nLindsey Tramuta is also the author of the bestselling book The New Paris and a regular contributor to the New York Times\, Condé Nast Traveler\, Afar and Fortune Magazine.\n\nLinks to pre-order The New Parisienne\nhttps://www.abramsbooks.com/product/new-parisienne_9781419742811/\nhttps://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781419742811/the-new-parisienne-the-women-ideas-shaping-paris\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThomas Chatterton Williams is the author of Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race (2019) and Losing My Cool: Love\, Literature\, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd (2010). He is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine\, a columnist at Harper’s\, and a 2019 New America Fellow. Reach him on Twitter @ThomasChattWill.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-lindsey-tramuta/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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