American Library in Paris

Critical Conversations Meeting Seven: Art in Dark Times
2023-05-11 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Paris) | The American Library in Paris
In 1955, Theodor Adorno declared that “to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric.” He questioned the value of metaphor after a tragedy as unfathomable as the Holocaust. Past and present, some dismiss the arts as bourgeois pastimes, out of touch with the struggles of ordinary people. Given the climate emergency and our many other global problems, many today ask what value there is in pretty pictures and fictional stories.
In this seminar, we will discuss the purpose of art during dark times—ecological and political crises, war, genocide. Before the Romantic revolution, music and art helped to organize society and structure meaning. In contrast, is art today only about pleasure? Or might the arts and letters play an integral role in nourishing civil society and democracy? What is the role of the writer and artist under authoritarianism, under tyranny? Even if they eschew conventional activism, can artists nonetheless help maintain not only healthy minds but healthy societies too?
In partnership with Analog Sea, an offline publisher of printed books, we’re delighted to announce the fourth season of Critical Conversations, an expert-led discussion series that allows Library members to ponder the most important issues of our time. This season, we will reflect on how to lead a contemplative, vital, and unmediated life in an ever-faster digital world. We will discuss questions such as: What do we gain from disconnecting, and how can we do it? How can we sharpen our senses and redirect our attention in order to change our thoughts and actions? And most of all, how can we live in contemporary society with nuance and intention?
Some details: The 2022–23 series will unfold over nine sessions, from November 2022 to July 2023. Conversations will begin at 19h00 CET and run for two hours, in person, at the Library; technology of all description is happily forbidden. Each participant will receive copies of all four Analog Sea Review volumes published so far. Course reading and discussion will, for the most part, be based on work published in The Analog Sea Review. Jonathan Simons, founding editor of Analog Sea, will begin each meeting with some opening remarks, before guiding a group discussion.
About Critical Conversations: Whether in France or America, debate is central to healthy democracy. Critical Conversations encourages both disagreement and agreement through thinking, talking, reading, and actively participating in community. Since the series’ inception in 2020, we have tackled race in America, the climate crisis, and migration. Across seasons, participants have challenged themselves, their peers, and the world in which we live. Please write to Emilie Biggs at biggs@americanlibraryinparis.org with any questions.
About the Critical Conversations 2022-23 leader:
Jonathan Simons is the founding editor of offline publishing house Analog Sea and its literary journal, The Analog Sea Review. As a poet and essayist, he has written for publications including The London Magazine, PN Review, El País, subTerrain Magazine, and The Analog Sea Review. His work has been covered by, among others, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post and La Vanguardia. He researched Buddhist poetics at Naropa University and McGill University and was formerly a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Humans and Machines, in Berlin.
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.

(Hybrid) A Hidden Figure of Wartime Paris with Livia Manera Sambuy and Tash Aw
2023-05-10 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
When journalist Livia Manera Sambuy discovered a striking portrait of princess Amrit Kaur in a Mumbai museum, she had no idea who the luminous figure was, much less the journey that lay ahead of her in excavating Kaur’s history. Fascination with Kaur led to a search across the globe for information on her past, which in turn uncovered Kaur’s participation in the resistance effort against the Nazis, her commitment to the fight for women’s rights, a complicated family life, and a tragic death following imprisonment in a concentration camp. Equal parts moving and riveting, Sambuy’s tale of Kaur’s inspiring life and living legacy is infused with remarkable, improbable stories of figures across history and the reminder that every individual is part of a cause bigger than themselves. Sambuy will appear in conversation with author Tash Aw.
About the speaker:
Livia Manera Sambuy is an Italian writer whose book of profiles of American writers, Don’t Write About Me, was published in 2015. She has been a staff writer at the literary pages of the Italian national daily Corriere della Sera for more than twenty years and is the author and co-director of two documentary films on Philip Roth. She divides her time between Paris and Tuscany.
Tash Aw is an award-winning author. His first novel, The Harmony Silk Factory (2005) was longlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and won the 2005 Whitbread Book Awards First Novel Award. His 2013 novel Five Star Billionaire was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. In 2016, he published The Face: Strangers on a Pier, , which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His 2019 novel, We, The Survivors, was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His novels have been translated into 23 languages.
Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Sambuy and Aw 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.
This event requires advance registration.
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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Story Hour: At the Zoo (ages 3–5)
2023-05-10 14:30 - 15:30 | The American Library in Paris
For this Story Hour, we’ll read stories about the zoo and zoo animals. Each Story Hour program features short picture books such as Dear Zoo by Rod Cambell, as well as songs and rhymes.
This Story Hour will be hosted by Assistant Children’s and Teens’ Services Librarian Jason Hazard and Children and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads. They will read books and lead you and your little one in songs and hand-rhymes during a live, interactive session. This participatory program is intended to encourage children to actively engage with stories. Plan to join in, sing along, and move around, and model movement and listening for your little one. We ask that all caregivers put away their phones and other electronic devices for the duration of this program. Important information:
Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) Behind the Scenes of the Opéra Comique
2023-05-09 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
We are delighted to welcome Missy Mazzoli, composer, and Royce Vavrek, librettist, alongside performer Sydney Mancasola, to discuss their highly-anticipated staging of Breaking the Waves at the Opéra Comique. Based on Lars Von Trier’s award-winning 1996 film, Mazzoli and Vavrek’s fresh take on the trials of a devout young woman from a strict Calvinist enclave in Northern Scotland was awarded the International Opera Award for Best World Premiere in 2017. Join them at the Library as they discuss the immense task of adapting age-old problems, from faith and morality to love and community, to the contemporary operatic stage.
The Opéra Comique is offering the Library community a generous 40% discount for tickets to Breaking the Waves.
To purchase your discounted tickets, click here.
About the speakers:
Missy Mazzoli’s music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the BBC Symphony, the Cincinnati Orchestra, the National Symphony, LA Opera, Scottish Opera, eighth blackbird, Kronos Quartet and many others. She is one of the first two women to receive a main stage commission from the Metropolitan Opera, and was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Classical Composition. From 2018-2021 she was Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and from 2012-2015 was Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia.
Royce Vavrek is a Canada-born, Brooklyn-based librettist and lyricist who has been called “the indie Hofmannsthal” (The New Yorker) a “Metastasio of the downtown opera scene” (The Washington Post), “an exemplary creator of operatic prose” (The New York Times), and “one of the most celebrated and sought after librettists in the world” (CBC Radio). His opera “Angel’s Bone” with composer Du Yun was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Sydney Mancasola studied voice at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and later went on join Oper Frankfurt as a member of the ensemble. Sydney’s notable debuts have included her house debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Pamina in the Julie Taymor production of The Magic Flute, her company and role debut as Adina L’elisir d’amore at the Opéra de Paris, and Melisande Pelléas et Mélisande with LA Opera, and her debut as Bess in a new production of Breaking the Waves at the Adelaide Festival Centre in Australia and Edinburgh International Festival, where she was awarded a Herald Angel for her performance.
Nicolas Chesneau is a French pianist, vocal coach and conductor. He studied in Paris with Anne le Bozec. He worked in many opera houses in France (Bastille, Lille, Dijon, Strasbourg, Marseille) and as assistant in international festivals (Aix-en-Provence, Ruthrtriennale, Wienerfestwochen).
Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Mazzoli, Vavrek, Mancasola, and Chesneau 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.
This event is presented in partnership with the Opéra Comique, with the support of The Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture.
This event requires advance registration.
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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Blackout Poetry (ages 8–12)
2023-05-07 14:00 - 15:00 | The American Library in Paris
Join Assistant Children’s and Teens’ Services Librarian Jason Hazard for a workshop dedicated to creating original poetry using found words. Blackout poetry is a type of “found poetry.” Participants will take pages from worn, broken, and damaged books and scan for words that inspire them, then, they’ll construct a new poem of their own!

Children between the ages 8–12 may participate in Library programs on their own, while their chaperone remains inside the Library. Children ages 6–8, and children who cannot yet write on their own must have a chaperone with them to assist with writing. Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

Saturday Series: Game Day (ages 6–12)
2023-05-06 11:00 - 12:00 | The American Library in Paris
Learn how to play Candyland, Boogle, or Clue, or bring in a board game from home to share and play. Volunteers will be on hand to help walk you through the rules of the games. Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

History Tour at the Library
2023-05-05 11:00 - 12:00 | The American Library in Paris
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:

Our origin story, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troupes in WWI
The establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library
The famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris
Our Paris Library School, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s
The true stories of the brave Librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII
How the Library has evolved over its 103-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent

All tours are on Fridays at 11h00, last one hour, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris.
Tours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required.
This initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture.
Please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org with any questions.
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.

Toddler Time (ages 1–3)
2023-05-04 11:00 - 11:30 | The American Library in Paris
Stories featured during our Toddler Time programs include short picture books and board books, such as Hey, Water by Antoinette Portis, which will be included in this 4 May event.
Our Toddler Time is for children ages 1–3 and their caregivers, and lasts 30 minutes. This session will be hosted by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads and Assistant Children’s and Teens’ Services Librarian Jason Hazard. Each child must be accompanied by an adult chaperone, and chaperones are required to remain with their children for the duration of the program. Parents and caregivers are expected to sit with their children beside them, or in their laps, and participate in the program. Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) High Hopes and Harlem’s Hidden Histories with Jake Lamar
2023-05-03 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
Join author Jake Lamar, in conversation with professor Marcus Bruce, to discuss Lamar’s celebrated noir novel, Viper’s Dream. The story of an aspiring jazz musician’s descent into the Harlem drug trade, Viper’s Dream redefines the crime genre, infusing it with tension and depth. Readers are swept into a hero’s journey, motivated by the central question: how much can one sacrifice to achieve one’s dreams? Hailed by Deborah Levy as “moody, poetic, and immersing,” the novel is a rich and atmospheric portrait of mid-century Manhattan’s dark underbelly. Lamar navigates murder, betrayal, romance, and jazz with skill, masterfully crafting a book both politically charged and poetically written.
About the speakers:
Jake Lamar is the award-winning author of a memoir, seven novels and a play. His most recent work, Viper’s Dream, is a crime novel set in the jazz world of Harlem between 1936 and 1961. Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, Jake Lamar has lived in Paris since 1993. He is a professor of creative writing at one of France’s top universities, Sciences Po.
Marcus Bruce is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies in the Religious Studies Department at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He is also a founding member of the American Studies and Africana Programs at the college. He has published Henry Ossawa Tanner: A Spiritual Biography, a study of the first African American painter to achieve international recognition at the Paris Salon. He is currently writing a book entitled The Ambassadors: African Americans, Paris and A New Birth of Freedom, a study of African Americans at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Lamar and Bruce 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.
This event requires advance registration.
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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Story Hour: Our Community (ages 3–5)
2023-05-03 14:30 - 15:30 | The American Library in Paris
For this Story Hour, we’ll read stories about the communities we live in and the people who keep them functioning every day—from firefighters to teachers. Each Story Hour program features short picture books such as Last Stop on Market Street by Newbery Medal-winner Matt de la Peña and illustrated by Christian Robinson, as well as songs and rhymes.
This Story Hour will be hosted by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads and Library volunteer Mary Wessels. They will read books and lead you and your little one in songs and hand-rhymes during a live, interactive session. This participatory program is intended to encourage children to actively engage with stories. Plan to join in, sing along, and move around, and model movement and listening for your little one. We ask that all caregivers put away their phones and other electronic devices for the duration of this program. Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) Writing to the Moon with Fatoumata Kébé
2023-05-02 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
The moon has been the subject of human fascination since the dawn of recorded history. Celebrated in epic poetry and sacred texts, spanning ancient mythology and modern physics, it has been the object of awe, worship, investigation, and analysis across every era of civilization. In La lune est un roman, astronomer Fatoumata Kebe tells us the story of the moon. The moon’s story, we learn, is also the story of the humans looking at, studying, rhapsodizing, and loving it. We have always looked at the same moon. Kebe demonstrates that our ways of looking at it, and writing about it, have not changed all that drastically, either.
About the speaker:
Fatoumata Kébé is a doctor of astronomy at Sorbonne Université. She researches the impact of space activities on astronomical observations, and how such activities contribute to pollution around the Earth. She is also working on “Connected Eco,” an entrepreneurial project for water preservation in the farming sector, and is the founder of the Éphémérides organization, which promotes the practice and teaching of astronomy among the public.
Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Kébé 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.
This event requires advance registration.
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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Bookworms Book Club: "The Crossover" (ages 8–12)
2023-04-29 11:00 - 12:00 | The American Library in Paris
Discuss the Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse The Crossover by Kwame Alexander and then try your hand at your own piece of poetry.

Each participant should read the book The Crossover before attending this book club activity. Copies are available in the Library’s collections.

Children between the ages 8–12 may participate in Library programs on their own, while their chaperone remains inside the Library.
Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

George Monbiot, Sébastien Treyer, and Emma Heiling on Feeding the World
2023-04-27 19:00 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
While half of the world’s habitable land is used to produce our food, fertilizers, sewage, and pesticides contaminate large swathes of the rest. How to feed the world, we might ask, without destroying the planet?
The Library’s contribution to this joint program is supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Arts and Culture.
Please note the special start time of this event.
About the speakers:
George Monbiot, author of Regenesis:Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet, is a columnist, filmmaker, and essayist.
Sébastien Treyer is Executive Director of IDDRI, a think tank which facilitates the transition towards sustainable development.
Emma Heiling is the Founder & CEO of ClimaTalk, a youth-led non-profit organisation demystifying climate policy and empowering young people in the fight for climate action.
Important information: The 2023 series will unfold over six sessions, from 26 January to 29 June. Conversations will begin at 19h00 CET and run for ninety minutes. Conversations will be hybrid, taking place both in person at the American Library in Paris and online. Though participants are encouraged to join all six sessions for a holistic overview, the discrete and diverse nature of topics will allow audience members to attend based on interest. Alice McCrum, head of cultural programming at the American Library in Paris, will begin each conversation with brief opening remarks, before guiding an in-depth group discussion.

This event requires advance registration.
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.

(Hybrid) Changing our Approach to Change with Adam Phillips
2023-04-26 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
Please note that in-person reservations for this event are now closed. We invite you to sign up to attend online by clicking the RSVP button.
Can people truly change? When one is unhappy or unwell, is it possible to get better? Adam Phillips, the UK’s foremost literary psychoanalyst, thinks that these may not be the right questions to ask. Rather, we should consider what we mean by the terms ‘change’ and ‘get better’, and how transformation and self-betterment have been mythologized. In bestselling works On Wanting to Change and On Getting Better, Phillips encourages us to rethink the ways we talk about mental health and the lives we lead. By redefining the terms of the conversation surrounding change, we may learn to think more clearly about ourselves. At the Library, Phillips will discuss the human mind and the tools we have to understand it.
About the speaker:
Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practicing psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of various works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently The Cure For Psychoanalysis, On Getting Better, On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, and In Writing. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature, and a contributor to the London Review of Books.
Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Phillips 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.
This event requires advance registration.
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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Story Hour: Our Planet Earth (ages 3–5)
2023-04-26 14:30 - 15:30 | The American Library in Paris
For this Story Hour, we’ll read stories all about the planet, and how to take care of it. Each Story Hour program features short picture books such as Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years by Stacy McAnulty, as well as songs and rhymes.
This Story Hour will be hosted by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads and Library Volunteer Mary Wessels. They will read books and lead you and your little one in songs and hand-rhymes during a live, interactive session. This participatory program is intended to encourage children to actively engage with stories. Plan to join in, sing along, and move around, and model movement and listening for your little one. We ask that all caregivers put away their phones and other electronic devices for the duration of this program. Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) Nina Gelbart on the Forgotten Women of the Enlightenment
2023-04-25 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
The most frequently-cited version of the Enlightenment is that of a group of brilliant men whose contributions to science and the humanities defined the contours of the centuries to come. These men’s names now decorate Parisian streets and metro stops, cementing their legacy as founders of modern France. Historian Nina Gelbart proposes we expand this vision of the eighteenth century. In Minerva’s French Sisters, Gelbart reveals the forgotten stories of six women whose contributions to science rival their most famous male peers. Gelbart breaks with traditional ways of writing history, offering a biography equal parts rigorous and imaginative. Join her to discuss new approaches to old narratives and the hidden women of the Enlightenment.
About the speaker:
Nina Rattner Gelbart is Professor of History and Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women’s Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her research on female journalists, midwives, scientists and revolutionaries of 18th century France has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and most recently by the Guggenheim Foundation.
Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Gelbart 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.
This event requires advance registration.
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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Entre Nous: Enter Ghost with Isabella Hammad and Yasmine Seale
2023-04-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Reid Hall, 4 Rue de Chevreuse, Paris, Paris, 75006, France
After years away from her family’s homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. While Haneen made a life here commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London to focus on her acting career and now dissolute marriage. On her return, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.
When Sonia meets the charismatic and candid Mariam, a local director, she joins a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon, Sonia is rehearsing Gertrude’s lines in classical Arabic with a dedicated group of men who, in spite of competing egos and priorities, all want to bring Shakespeare to that side of the wall. As opening night draws closer and the warring intensifies, it becomes clear just how many obstacles stand before the troupe. Amidst it all, the life Sonia once knew starts to give way to the daunting, exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.
Timely, thoughtful, and passionate, Isabella Hammad’s highly anticipated second novel is an exquisite story of the connection to be found in family and shared resistance.
About the speakers:
Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian and her second novel, Enter Ghost, is forthcoming in 2023. She won a 2019 National Book Award “5 Under 35” and received the 2020 Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, MacDowell, the Santa Maddalena Foundation, and the Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation, and has taught creative writing in the graduate programs at New York University and Brown University.
Yasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer and translator. Her poetry, essays, visual art, and translations from Arabic and French have appeared widely. She is the author, with Robin Moger, of Agitated Air: Poems after Ibn Arabi (Tenement Press, 2022). Other work includes Aladdin: a New Translation (2018) and The Annotated Arabian Nights(2021), both out from W. W. Norton. She has received a PEN America Literary Grant and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry.
The Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and the American Library in Paris.
Important information: This event will take place in person at Reid Hall | Columbia Global Centers at 4 rue de Chevreuse.
Access to this event requires registration through Columbia Global Centers | Paris. Click on the button below to reserve your place.

2023 Read-A-Thon
2023-04-24 - 2023-04-30 | The American Library in Paris
The American Library in Paris and Message Paris are organizing a Read-A-Thon to encourage vacation reading, and to raise funds for the Library! This event is open to children and teens who are members of Message Paris or The American Library in Paris. Over a 1-week period, participants are encouraged to read as much as possible and collect donations based on the number of minutes that they read!

WHY READ FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS?
Donations will be used to support the American Library in Paris, a non-profit English language Library founded in 1920, and the largest English-language lending library on the European continent! It is a place where people gather to explore ideas, build community and connect with other English speakers. As a non-profit, we count on your donations to continue to provide programs, books and services for the English-language community. All participants who turn in a completed Read-a-Thon pack and a donation from at least one sponsor will be entered into a prize drawing. Prizes will be awarded for top readers in each of the following categories: ages 0–3, ages 4–8, ages 9–12, and ages 12–18.

ABOUT MESSAGE PARIS:
Message Paris is the largest association for English-speaking parents and parents-to-be in France! It is an entirely volunteer-run, independent, non-profit association that provides a social and support network to expectant women, new mothers and fathers, and parents of children of all ages. Message Paris is proud to bring you this Read-A-Thon in conjunction with the American Library in Paris! Learn more at www.messageparis.org.

How to participate:

Register for the 2023 Read-a-Thon! Register using the link below.

Download your Read-a-Thon materials. Download your reading log once it is sent to the email address provided.
Find sponsors (like family and friends) who will pledge (or promise!) a certain amount of money for every reading challenge that you complete (for example: 1€ per hour).
Write your sponsors on your pledge sheet. Add each sponsor’s name, address, and pledge amount to your pledge sheet.
24 April–30 April: Read! Keep a log of your reading! The more you read the more you raise for the Library!
Collect your pledges.
Tell your friends and family how much you read, and collect your pledges (promised donations).
Submit your pledge sheet at the Library or by email by Saturday 20 May at 14h00.
Turn in donations online or in-person at the Library by Saturday 20 May at 14h00.
Attend our finale celebration on Saturday 20 May (the Library’s 103rd birthday!) at 14h00 to find out the top readers, and raffle winners, to meet other bookworms, and collect your certificate of participation!

Important information:
This event is for Library members and members of Message Paris, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

Saturday Series: Upcycled Crafts (ages 6–12)
2023-04-22 11:00 - 12:00 | The American Library in Paris
In celebration of Earth Day (22 April), discuss what we can do to recycle and upcyle everyday items, and learn about ways to take care of the planet. Participants will create cool new crafts using only recycled items. Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste will host this event with the help of Library volunteers.

Children between the ages 6–12 may participate in Library programs on their own, while their chaperone remains inside the Library.
Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

Capture the Flag (ages 12–18)
2023-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 | The American Library in Paris
Join us for a game of capture the flag on the Champ de Mars (weather permitting). We’ll meet at the Library to divide into teams and go over the rules of the game, then we’ll set out as a group to the Champ de Mars to play the game outdoors. We’ll be playing in two teams. Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads, and Master Shot Film Club host Clarence Tokley will each lead a team.
In the case of light rain, we’ll go ahead and play. In the event of heavy rain or storms, we’ll move the event inside to play board games. You are welcome to call the Children’s and Teens’ Services Desk directly for an update before the event. Parents/guardians can pick up participating teens at the Library at 21h00. Important information:
This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. All visitors are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. After-hours events for teens, such as Teen Nights, require a signed permission slip, which can be downloaded here. One permission slip is needed per academic year (September–July).
Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

History Tour at the Library
2023-04-21 11:00 - 12:00 | The American Library in Paris
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:

Our origin story, when our Library warehoused a collection of books donated to the Doughboys fighting alongside Allied troops in WWI
The establishment of the American Library in Paris as a private library
The famous writers of the Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, and more) who explored our stacks during their time in Paris
The Paris Library School, which brought American innovations to French libraries in the 1920s
The true stories of the brave librarians who kept the Library open during the Occupation of WWII
How the Library has evolved over its 103-year history into the largest English-language lending library on the European continent

All tours are on Fridays at 11h00, last one hour, and take place in person at the American Library in Paris.
Tours are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is required.
This initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture.
Please email tours@americanlibraryinparis.org with any questions.
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.

Critical Conversations Meeting Six: Leisure
2023-04-20 19:00 - 21:00 | The American Library in Paris
The terms free time and leisure are often used interchangeably. But are they the same? For the Ancient Greeks, leisure was scola (the origin of our word for school), which meant, more than recreation or relaxation, the pursuit of knowledge.
For Marx, leisure stood in opposition to the industrial worker’s alienation from the value of their own labor and represented time spent away from addressing the necessities of life.
German philosopher Byung-Chul Han speaks of the vita contemplativa being privileged over the vita activa well into the Middle Ages and that the overemphasis today on constant activity is engendering a “new barbarism” (ASR1, p. 83).
In this seminar, we will ask what defines leisure today: is it something greater than entertainment and relaxation? Do digital tools bring us more or less leisure? Do we feel as individuals that we have sufficient leisure in our lives? If not, what stands in the way, and what does the pursuit of true leisure teach us?
In partnership with Analog Sea, an offline publisher of printed books, we’re delighted to announce the fourth season of Critical Conversations, an expert-led discussion series that allows Library members to ponder the most important issues of our time. This season, we will reflect on how to lead a contemplative, vital, and unmediated life in an ever-faster digital world. We will discuss questions such as: What do we gain from disconnecting, and how can we do it? How can we sharpen our senses and redirect our attention in order to change our thoughts and actions? And most of all, how can we live in contemporary society with nuance and intention?
Some details: The 2022–23 series will unfold over nine sessions, from November 2022 to July 2023. Conversations will begin at 19h00 CET and run for two hours, in person, at the Library; technology of all description is happily forbidden. Each participant will receive copies of all four Analog Sea Review volumes published so far. Course reading and discussion will, for the most part, be based on work published in The Analog Sea Review. Jonathan Simons, founding editor of Analog Sea, will begin each meeting with some opening remarks, before guiding a group discussion.
About Critical Conversations: Whether in France or America, debate is central to healthy democracy. Critical Conversations encourages both disagreement and agreement through thinking, talking, reading, and actively participating in community. Since the series’ inception in 2020, we have tackled race in America, the climate crisis, and migration. Across seasons, participants have challenged themselves, their peers, and the world in which we live. Please write to Emilie Biggs at biggs@americanlibraryinparis.org with any questions.
About the Critical Conversations 2022-23 leader:
Jonathan Simons is the founding editor of offline publishing house Analog Sea and its literary journal, The Analog Sea Review. As a poet and essayist, he has written for publications including The London Magazine, PN Review, El País, subTerrain Magazine, and The Analog Sea Review. His work has been covered by, among others, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post and La Vanguardia. He researched Buddhist poetics at Naropa University and McGill University and was formerly a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Humans and Machines, in Berlin.
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.

Toddler Time (ages 1–3)
2023-04-20 11:00 - 11:30 | The American Library in Paris
Stories featured during our Toddler Time programs include short picture books and board books, such as Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr., illustrated by Eric Carle, which will be included in this 20 April event.
Our Toddler Time is for children ages 1–3 and their caregivers, and lasts 30 minutes. This session will be hosted by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads. Each child must be accompanied by an adult chaperone, and chaperones are required to remain with their children for the duration of the program. Parents and caregivers are expected to sit with their children beside them, or in their laps, and participate in the program. Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) Voices of Migration with Violaine Schwartz and Christine Gutman
2023-04-19 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
In Papers, author Violaine Schwartz gathers the numerous and varied experiences of those seeking asylum in France. Having survived arduous and often life-threatening journeys from their home countries, the voices of this collection arrived in France only to learn that their odyssey had not yet ended. This is the story of the second half of their travels: through impenetrable bureaucratic systems, senseless administrative demands, and time itself as their wait for official government recognition draws on. A modern epic of human movement and a critique of violence in all its forms, the work is a damning portrait of the conditions of contemporary immigration: the reduction of community to arbitrary borders, shared humanity to anonymous policy, and life to pieces of paper.
About the speakers:
Violaine Schwartz is a French novelist, playwright, singer, and stage actor. Her novel Le Vent dans la bouche was awarded the 2013 Prix Eugène Dabit du Roman Populiste. In addition to writing and performing, she leads writing workshops in a variety of settings. Papers is her first book to be published in English.
Christine Gutman is a French-to-English translator with a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Papers, by Violaine Schwartz (Fern Books, 2022), is her first book-length literary translation. Other translations of hers have appeared in The Georgia Review, 3:AM and Samovar.
Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Schwartz and Gutman 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.
This event requires advance registration.
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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Story Hour: Manners Matter (ages 3–5)
2023-04-19 14:30 - 15:30 | The American Library in Paris
For this Story Hour, we’ll read stories all about etiquette—good manners and bad manners. Each Story Hour program features short picture books such as Don’t Hug Doug: He Doesn’t Like It by Carrie Finison, illustrated by Daniel Wiseman.
This Story Hour will be hosted by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads and Library Volunteer Mary Wessels. They will read books and lead you and your little one in songs and hand-rhymes during a live, interactive session. This participatory program is intended to encourage children to actively engage with stories. Plan to join in, sing along, and move around, and model movement and listening for your little one. We ask that all caregivers put away their phones and other electronic devices for the duration of this program. Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Hybrid) Memoir As Medicine with Diane Shader Smith
2023-04-18 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
At the age of twenty-five, Diane Shader Smith’s daughter Mallory passed away following a lifelong struggle with cystic fibrosis. A passionate advocate for the cystic fibrosis community and an eloquent writer, Mallory recorded her intimate experiences for the final ten years of her life with the intent to have them published posthumously, thus rendering invisible illness visible. The result is Salt in My Soul, a celebration of an inspiring young life, a meditation upon health, and a document of sickness in the twenty-first century. The groundbreaking work offers a personal perspective on chronic illness, recentering medical discourse around the voice of the patient. Shader Smith, who has gone on to give more than 250 talks worldwide about Mallory’s story and developed the book into a documentary, will speak at the Library about medicine, memoir, and the power of storytelling.
About the speaker:
Diane Shader Smith has had a vibrant career as a writer, speaker, publicist, and fundraiser with an extensive roster of clients during her multi-decade career. When Diane’s daughter Mallory died at the age of 25, she brought Mallory’s memoir to publication as Salt in My Soul (Random House 2019), which led to the documentary of the same name (3Arts Entertainment) and has given 250+ talks worldwide about patient insights, the global health crisis called AMR, and phage therapy–everything Mallory wrote about and stood for.
Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Shader Smith 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.
This event requires advance registration.
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.
Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

Saturday Series: Mythical Beasts (ages 6–12)
2023-04-15 11:00 - 12:00 | The American Library in Paris
Explore tales and legends of mythical beasts as a group, and then great your own magical, mythical creature and a story to go with it!

Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads will host this event with the help of Library volunteers. Children between the ages 6–12 may participate in Library programs on their own, while their chaperone remains inside the Library.
Important information: This event is for Library members, and advance registration is required. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with the Library Policy for Children and the Rules and Code of Conduct so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. Questions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(In Person at the University of Chicago Center in Paris) Art Hiding in Paris
2023-04-14 19:00 - 20:00 | The University of Chicago Center in Paris, 6 rue Thomas Mann, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75003, France
Join the University of Chicago Center in Paris, in partnership with the American Library in Paris, for a Chicago Book Salon. Lori Zimmer and illustrator Maria Krasinski will present their new book, Art Hiding in Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the Secret Masterpieces of the City of Light published by Running Press, alongside the Louvre’s Cyrille Gouyette, author of A street history of art (Gallimard 2021), and stencil artist Logan Hicks, whose first monograph of photography, Still New York, was published in late 2022.
The great artworks of Paris are not limited to museum walls. Art Hiding in Paris takes readers out of the gallery and into the city to discover the creative legacy all around us, from Art Nouveau remnants to artist enclaves to iconic works of public art. In this book salon, Zimmer and Krasinski will be in conversation with Gouyette, whose most recent book discusses the relationship between contemporary street art and art history, and stencil artist Logan Hicks, whose murals can be found in Paris, to discuss how bridging classical masterpieces with modern masters of urban art can make art history more accessible, inclusive — and fun.
About the speakers:
Lori Zimmer is a New York-based writer and author of four books including the recently published Art Hiding in Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the Secret Masterpieces of the City of Light, which Forbes Magazine has called “The Perfect Companion for Exploring the City of Light.” Published by Running Press at the end of 2022, the book is the follow up to Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City’s Secret Masterpieces, a love letter to the magic of art history in Zimmer’s home city that was published in 2020. Before focusing as a writer full time, Zimmer spent 12 years in the New York art world as an independent curator, critic, and advocate for artists’ rights. She has been a consultant and artist liaison for copyright infringement cases with the New York law firm Kushnirsky Gerber PLLC since 2015. Zimmer currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the Historic Districts Council of New York City.
Maria Krasinski is a Paris-based artist, educator, and the illustrator of the Art Hiding book series. Her creative work — described as “charming,” “whimsical,” and “playful” — has appeared in the Chicago Public Library, Muhammad Ali Center, The Onion A.V. Club, and the Oriental Institute Museum. Inspired by cultural exchange and storytelling, she’s worked in public diplomacy, digital arts, and museums and currently runs a nonprofit news platform for youth. She studied public policy, international relations, psychology, and visual art at the University of Chicago, and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tbilisi, Georgia. More recently, she came in second on Jeopardy.
Art historian, author and exhibition curator, Cyrille Gouyette works in particular at the Louvre Museum where he has developed numerous educational programs for school children, students, and the disabled. Passionate about street art, he has extended his research to the relationship between street art and classical heritage. Author of two books, Under street art, the Louvre (Gallimard, 2018) and A street history of art (Gallimard 2021), he shows the legacy of the old masters among street artists. Curator of various exhibitions bringing street art to the museum, “Veni, Vidi, Vinci — Urban art facing genius,” “Wild Incursions,” at the Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris, he founded the association M.U.R. Bastille to exhibit urban artists from diverse backgrounds and show a panorama of this planetary art.
Logan Hicks is a New York-based stencil artist and photographer, known for his photorealistic multi-layered stencil paintings and murals. With an old master’s approach to light, Hicks’ paintings are dimensional explorations that seek to find the soul of architectural scenes around the world. His murals can be found in prominent places such as Baltimore’s Camden Yards and Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. He is most known for “Story of my Life,” his 2016 piece for the famed Bowery Wall, and for painting the world’s largest stencil mural, which used 19,000 square feet of stencils, in New York City’s East Harlem. His next large-scale mural will be painted in Paris in early April 2023, along the Seine in front of Fluctuart. Hicks’ photographs continue to examine his fascination with desolation in dense urban areas. He has shown his photographs in galleries in New York, Paris, Miami and Brussels. Still New York (published 11/22) is the first publication of Hicks’ photographs.
Important information: This event will take place in person at the University of Chicago University of Chicago Center in Paris at 6 rue Thomas Mann, Paris 75013.
Advanced registration required.
To RSVP for in-person attendance, email Arnaud Coulombel at acoulomb@uchicago.edu.
To attend on Zoom, click on this link to register.

Moving Up to C.P. (in partnership with AAWE) (for parents and caregivers)
2023-04-13 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
The Library is pleased to present this panel discussion in partnership with the Association of American Women in Europe (AAWE).
Within the French education system, the transition from maternelle (pre-school) to primaire (primary school) is an exciting step for most children. The Cours Préparatoire (or CP) is the first year of primary school (primaire), when children begin their formal education and learn to write and develop their reading skills. Our panel discussion with professionals and parents will cover: what to consider when making choices about the best C.P. options for your child; what is available in Paris in terms of private and public schools and how to apply to them; developmental insights into this age group; and practical advice for helping your children thrive during this crucial step in their education.
The speakers will include:
Elaine Bowman: mom to two bilingual boys who were both born in France. She is currently the Campus Director of the Bilingual Montessori School Paris in the American Church of Paris and member of the AAWE Education Committee.
Jessica Lament: a multi-certified teacher and coach specialized in integrating diverse learners and instruction that maximize student engagement. She is currently Vice President of SPRINT and co-founder of School Partner Consulting.
Michelle O’ Brien: is co-founder of A Good Start in France. She is a bi-national French/American born in Long Island N.Y who has lived and worked in many countries around the world and studied in both France and the US. She actively contributes to the social & educational Anglophone organizations in Paris helping new expatriates enjoy and benefit from their time in France.
Nancy Jochimek: began her career in New York, before moving to Paris where she is now a successful business woman. She is the mother of a bilingual son who has just moved up to C.P. She did a great deal of research into the best option for her son and will be sharing how she chose her son’s program, and why it was the best choice for him.
Susan Zeitouni: is an Italian/American, who was born and raised in Rome, Italy. She completed her university education in the U.S., and moved to Paris in 1981. She is married to a French national and raised her child in France. With her 26 years in the relocation industry she has extensive experience advising families from around the world on schooling choices for their children. She is the co-founder of A Good Start in Paris. Important information: This event is free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation). This event requires advance registration. Questions about collections and programs for children, teens and families can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.

(Online) Entre Nous: Data’s Human History with Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones
2023-04-12 19:30 - 20:30 | The American Library in Paris
The central question of the twenty-first century has become that of data. How is it gathered? How is it used? By whom and for whom? As society becomes increasingly digital, how can one opt out of the data machine, and in what ways are we all unwittingly opting in? Omnipresent and largely anonymous, data technology’s murky origins contribute to its near-mystical status. In new work How Data Happened, historians of science Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones combat this opacity, revealing the fascinating and deeply political history of data. Considering economic, social, and diplomatic factors, Wiggins and Jones situate data within a matrix of states, companies, and individuals all seeking to transform knowledge into power.
About the speakers:
Matthew L. Jones is James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization in the Department of History at Columbia University. A Guggenheim Fellow and a Mellon New Directions fellow, he has published two works on the history of science, is completing a book on state surveillance of communications and, with Chris Wiggins, has just published How Data Happened, a history of the science, politics, and power of data, statistics, and machine learning from the 1800s to the present (2023).
Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the Chief Data Scientist at the New York Times. At Columbia, he is a founding member of the executive committee of the Data Science Institute, and of the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics as well as the Department of Systems Biology, and is affiliated faculty in Statistics. He is a co-founder and co-organizer of hackNY, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and is a recipient of Columbia’s Avanessians Diversity Award.
The Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and the American Library in Paris.
Important information: This event is online. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Participants will be able to pose questions through the Zoom chat function.
This event requires advance registration.
