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Beyond a Boundary: Christian Campbell and Claire Tancons on Black Movement
A conversation with Christian Campbell and Claire Tancons at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 27/06/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Christian Campbell is an acclaimed poet and author of poetry collection Running the Dusk. While completing his Visiting Fellowship at the Library, Campbell is working on several projects, including work-in-progress on the late Sidney Poitier, the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
On June 27, Campbell appeared in conversation with Paris-based curator and scholar Claire Tancons, who was the artistic director of Nuit Blanche 2024. Using the concept of Trinidadian intellectual C.L.R. James’s memoir Beyond a Boundary as a point of departure, they consider the poetics and politics of movement in the Black Diaspora through language, gesture, and migration.
About the speakers:
Christian Campbell is the author of the acclaimed poetry collection Running the Dusk (2010), which won the UK’s Aldeburgh Prize, among other awards. Campbell studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and his work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, the Guardian, Small Axe, the Financial Times and elsewhere. He has received awards and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Arvon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and elsewhere, and delivered the annual Derek Walcott Lecture for the Nobel Laureate Festival in St. Lucia. Also a critic, he has written extensively about Jean-Michel Basquiat for major exhibits on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Barbican Centre, and recently edited a collection of Derek Walcott’s essays. He won the Art Writing Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries for his work on Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Claire Tancons is a curator and scholar invested in discursive and curatorial investigations of the postcolonial, including the exhibition and book “En Mas’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean” (with Krista Thompson, 2015). A graduate in art history and museum studies from the École du Louvre and The Courtauld Institute of Art and a former fellow of the Curatorial Studies program of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Tancons is the recipient of many grants and awards, including from the Warhol, Creative Capital, Emily Hall Tremaine, and Ford Foundations. Born in Guadeloupe, Tancons is currently based in Paris, where she is at work on “Van Lévé: Sovereign Visions from the Creole and Maroon Americas and Amazonia”, a transhistorical project centered on the relationship between artistic emergence and political sovereignty in the French Caribbean. She was the artistic director of Nuit Blanche 2024 and is the founder of EXTEMPORA, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to the practice of diaspora.
The Visiting Fellowship is supported by The de Groot Foundation.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
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Improvisations: Adam Shatz and Jake Lamar on Jazz
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A conversation with Adam Shatz and Jake Lamar at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 26/06/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. Throughout the 20th century, Paris became a favored destination for Black American musicians, offering an alternative to the racial discrimination faced at home and a more welcoming environment to experiment artistically. Spring 2024 Visiting Fell...
In Focus: An Evening with Claire Denis and Adam Shatz
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A conversation with Claire Denis and Adam Shatz at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 25/06/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. Claire Denis, a visionary filmmaker, is known for her evocative and thought-provoking films that explore complex themes of human experience, identity, and social dynamics. Her work has received critical acclaim for its narrative depth and visual...
Art and Diaspora: Christian Campbell and Cornelius Tulloch in Conversation
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A conversation with Christian Campbell, Cornelius Tulloch, and Patrick Banks at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 19/06/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. On June 19, we hosted a multidisciplinary discussion featuring artist Cornelius Tulloch and 2023-24 Visiting Fellow and poet Christian Campbell. Tulloch will present his exhibition "Elements of Being," which debuted ...
On Reading with Joanna Biggs and Lauren Oyler
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A conversation with Joanna Biggs and Lauren Oyler at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 18/06/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. In A Life of One’s Own: None Women Writers Begin Again, author Joanna Biggs’s divorce catalyzes a fascination with women across history whose artistic innovations emerged out of conflict with gender expectations. Considering the likes of Mary ...
The Shakespeare Industry with Elizabeth Winkler
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A conversation with Elizabeth Winker at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 12/06/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. Elizabeth Winker discussed one of the greatest enigmas in literary history. Shakespeare’s personal biography has mystified academics, armchair fans, and experts for centuries. So what happens when a scholar, an actor, or any authority, suggests that perhap...
Roundtable: Women and Art in Interwar France
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A roundtable discussion on women and art in Interwar France at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 11/06/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. The newly published anthology Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France studies contributions of various women artists and writers who lived in Paris from 1920 through 1940. As scholar Sylvie Blum-Reid writes i...
A Personal History of Protest with Jen Silverman
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A conversation with Jen Silverman at the American Library in Paris. Recorded on 04/06/2024 with a live audience on Zoom. In There’s Going to Be Trouble, a young teacher seeking new beginnings arrives in Paris as the Gilet Jaune protests are gaining momentum. Drawn into a love affair and the political turmoil simultaneously, she struggles to distinguish between the overlapping passions of her ne...
The Forgotten Soldiers of D-Day with Linda Hervieux and Raymond Kemp
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A conversation with Linda Hervieux and Commissioner Raymond Kemp at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 21/05/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. African Americans served with bravery and distinction in every conflict since the American Revolution. Yet the stories of these heroes have been consistently omitted from our collective memory. From the now-famed Tuskegee airmen...
Warming Up with Madeleine Orr
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A conversation with Madeleine Orr and Gustavo Merino at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 15/05/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. We have all seen the headlines. At the Australian Tennis Open in early 2020, heat and smoke from bushfires caused players to collapse. Skiers across Europe have canceled trips to mountain resorts due to an unsettling dearth of snow. And ext...
The Art of Biography with Stacy Schiff and Elaine Sciolino
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A conversation with Stacy Schiff and Elaine Sciolino at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 14/05/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and one of the leading non-fiction life writers of our time. Schiff’s biographies animate the lives and legacies of time-hallowed historical figures such as Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin...
The Examined Life with Scott Hershovitz and Sarah Bakewell
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A conversation with Scott Hershovitz and Sarah Bakewell at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 09/05/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. In Nasty, Brutish, and Short, Scott Hershovitz, co-writing with his two young children, uses the child’s sense of curiosity and simplicity as a starting point from which to investigate ethics, existence, religion, identity, and justice f...
Annie Ernaux & Photography: An Evening with Lou Stoppard and Lauren Collins
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A conversation with Lou Stoppard and Lauren Collins at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 30/04/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. On the occasion of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie exhibition “Exteriors-Annie Ernaux & Photography,” and the release of the accompanying printed volume with London-based publisher MACK, the Library is delighted to welcome curator a...
Lunar Horizons: To the Moon with NASA Experts Christine Shupla and Ryan Zeigler
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A conversation with Ryan Zeigler and Christine Shupla at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 25/04/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. NASA's upcoming crewed mission to the Moon, Artemis III, is currently scheduled for 2026, marking humanity's first return to the lunar surface in over 50 years and the first-ever visit to the lunar South Pole. During this mission, two crew...
Opéra Comique presents Archipel(s)
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A conversation with Adrien Borne, Ewan Jones, and James Bonas at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 17/04/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the Opéra Comique's show Archipel(s). Commissioned by their youth theater troupe La Maîtrise Populaire de L’Opéra Comique, this production combines singing, acting, and dance. The story, inspired by ...
The US Presidential Elections: Journalists Look at What’s Ahead
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The US Presidential Elections: Journalists Look at What’s Ahead
Looking to Art, At Home and Abroad with Benjamin Moser
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Looking to Art, At Home and Abroad with Benjamin Moser
Heroines and Historical Fiction with Katherine J. Chen
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Heroines and Historical Fiction with Katherine J. Chen
Charles Trueheart presents Diplomats at War
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Charles Trueheart presents Diplomats at War
The International Library: Brown Diaspora with Moon Charania
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The International Library: Brown Diaspora with Moon Charania
Plant-Based Paris: The Future of Vegan Cuisine with Amanda Bankert and David Lebovitz
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Plant-Based Paris: The Future of Vegan Cuisine with Amanda Bankert and David Lebovitz
Writing Now: A Conversation with Patricia Lockwood
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Writing Now: A Conversation with Patricia Lockwood
Seminar: In Three Lines (or less) with Patricia Lockwood
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Seminar: In Three Lines (or less) with Patricia Lockwood
The Female Khoros with Selby Wynn Schwartz
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The Female Khoros with Selby Wynn Schwartz
Roundtable: The State of the Arts with Missy Mazzoli, Royce Vavrek, and Nia Franklin
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Roundtable: The State of the Arts with Missy Mazzoli, Royce Vavrek, and Nia Franklin
Strange Dreams: An Evening of Music with Cultural Fellows Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek
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Strange Dreams: An Evening of Music with Cultural Fellows Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek
Safe Haven: A Performance by Composer-in-Residence Nia Franklin
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Safe Haven: A Performance by Composer-in-Residence Nia Franklin
Magazine Launch: Journal
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Magazine Launch: Journal
Journeys in Sound and Sight with Dimitris Lyacos and Vanessa Onwuemezi
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Journeys in Sound and Sight with Dimitris Lyacos and Vanessa Onwuemezi
Writing tips for young authors from Paris-based writer
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Writing tips for young authors from Paris-based writer

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  • @annedebthune3084
    @annedebthune3084 16 годин тому

    Wundervar❤

  • @giorgiofanfani7883
    @giorgiofanfani7883 19 днів тому

    Where we could reach this PowerPoint? Could we download it?

  • @ahartify
    @ahartify 19 днів тому

    'Swann's Way' doesn't necessarily suggest the 'higher road to wisdom.' It can also mean the way that Swan took (the wrong way) or the road near Swann's place. 'The Way by Swann's' is certainly clunky and almost unintelligible and Proust surely would have hated it. The translation by Lydia Davis is truly awful, having extracted all the euphonious poetry from the original text, so let's stop kidding ourselves about that. Certainly 'Remembrance of Things Past' is wrong.

  • @NeighborhoodArts
    @NeighborhoodArts 21 день тому

    god, it's profoundly difficult to hear someone like adam phillips talk about covid as if it's over. it is still a mass disabling event, people are still dying at alarming rates, & the data on the harms of unmitigated transmission & reinfections is coming fast & hard.

  • @michaellan9726
    @michaellan9726 22 дні тому

    עצוב

  • @late_privktorian_era
    @late_privktorian_era 24 дні тому

    Poor de Botton catching so many strays here

  • @guruofendtimes819
    @guruofendtimes819 26 днів тому

    Excellent insight into the high-tech monkey behavior

  • @grreeeeee
    @grreeeeee 29 днів тому

    i just love this interviewer

  • @marklee1960
    @marklee1960 29 днів тому

    Couldn't get the sound right, huh?

  • @loriscunado3607
    @loriscunado3607 Місяць тому

    Thank you and thankyou.

  • @susanpower-q5q
    @susanpower-q5q Місяць тому

    Belated Condolences on passing of Robert Fisk aged only 74 four years ago in 2020 Neither Wiki nor Irish TV Announcement give cause of death at only 74 in Dublin Alain Delon recent passing at 88 last month and my own mother is 96 You paid a very moving tribute that brought tears to my eyes

  • @Kabethe
    @Kabethe Місяць тому

    I'm starting a Master in Material and Visual Culture at UCL London and How Forests Think is the first awakening surprise book I read! Congrats to you both, such a great conversation about the book.

  • @JayBirdsChannel
    @JayBirdsChannel Місяць тому

    The guy was a national treasure. A true one of a kind.

  • @fairdose
    @fairdose Місяць тому

    Salinger is a classic case of a narcissist and Maynard was his narcissitic supply and emotional co-dependant. He did all the classic narc moves, like love-bombing Maynard in the beginning, mirroring her to make her think they were two sides of the same coin, isolating her from her friends and family, building her up and then tearing her down in order to cause a trauma bond between them, the way he took up free real estate in her mind for decades, and then the final discard. Whatta guy.

  • @grreeeeee
    @grreeeeee 2 місяці тому

    hell yeah for having good audio+video people!

  • @Yasmina-1979at
    @Yasmina-1979at 2 місяці тому

    Thank you! A very enrichening conversation

  • @davidbrownjr.6487
    @davidbrownjr.6487 2 місяці тому

    LONG LIVE ROSA PARKS✊🏿

  • @heavyweight5852
    @heavyweight5852 2 місяці тому

    What a great discussion! I learned so much

  • @bastianconrad2550
    @bastianconrad2550 2 місяці тому

    Why does a global intelligence seem to know so little about those LINKs offering a compilation of some 1000 !! essential arguments in 100 Videos for MARLOWE? www.youtube.com/@bastianconrad2550/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=1

  • @bastianconrad2550
    @bastianconrad2550 2 місяці тому

    What is the favorite candidate of Elisabeth? My latest reflections ( as a Marlowian) ua-cam.com/video/l4dmC98xrL8/v-deo.htmlsi=k1vaN0m9F-pbEEVK

  • @brutusalwaysminded
    @brutusalwaysminded 2 місяці тому

    No, there is plenty of evidence that Shakespeare was a vital and active member of The Lord Chamberlain’s Men and, later, The King’s Men. I wish pointless presentations like this didn’t pop up in my Shakespeare searches.

    • @andy-the-gardener
      @andy-the-gardener 2 місяці тому

      sounds like you need them. theres no evidence the man from stratford, will SHAKSPER, the illiterate glovers son, wrote anything at all. he is by far the worst candidate of all the candidates.

    • @tulyar57
      @tulyar57 15 днів тому

      There may well be evidence that he was an active member of these companies ( as were many, many others). However, there is almost no evidence that he, his parents or children could write, let alone pen arguably the greatest body of work in English literature. If you bothered to read this book you may recognise yourself in it.

    • @patricksullivan4329
      @patricksullivan4329 8 днів тому

      There were numerous 'vital and active members of The Lord Chamberlain's Men' who were not playwrights. Will Shaksper's role in the company, by the evidence, is a financial one. I.e., what Broadway calls 'an angel' and Hollywood calls 'a money guy.'

  • @nathalieHobbs-Martin
    @nathalieHobbs-Martin 2 місяці тому

    excellent talk. Elizabeth Winkler is witty and informative!

  • @youniverse-
    @youniverse- 3 місяці тому

    CEO of Evil Corp talking about Retrograde Ejaculation... what alternate timeline did I stumble into? Did Whiterose's project work? 😅

  • @adira-o6n
    @adira-o6n 3 місяці тому

    I love him so much 😭 his work with lispector has changed my life

  • @adira-o6n
    @adira-o6n 3 місяці тому

    This was such a lovely talk, thank you for sharing

  • @johnhealy8186
    @johnhealy8186 3 місяці тому

    I have just finished this book,and really enjoyed it. Very well written: honest, revealing and informative.well done mr Chisholm.

  • @davidherz9968
    @davidherz9968 3 місяці тому

    Eloquent and listenable, for those of you wishing to work on diction, this is a good specimen!

  • @sgwinenoob2115
    @sgwinenoob2115 3 місяці тому

    its quite funny to plot the arc of Sciolino's abrasive attempts at camaraderie by making all these sarcastic jokes which fall flat and watch Schiff get more and more annoyed and curt with each one

  • @pepegrillo665
    @pepegrillo665 3 місяці тому

    Quite useless and poor use of our attention resources...unless you came after reading the boom it makes little sense and the title and description is terribly misleading

  • @vivianbobka5239
    @vivianbobka5239 4 місяці тому

    thanks. i needed to hear this.

  • @sidequestsally
    @sidequestsally 4 місяці тому

    Fantastic! I was also a part of a Society of the Birds in my own right and we were and are indeed a little skittish when you stare at us directly. I'm off to grab as many copies of this as I can afford to distribute to the group. Our current concerns are that of survival in the barest sense as we are all atomized by Capital. I was delighted by the fracking analogy put forth here. It is exactly what has been on our collective minds. We are also wrestling on how to maneuver in what might become a post labor economy into the attention economy without contributing to the Attention problem ourselves. This book should be an excellent meditation. Cheers!

  • @uplbdevcom
    @uplbdevcom 4 місяці тому

    Quite confusing presentation for a general audience who has not read the book

  • @KulchurKat
    @KulchurKat 4 місяці тому

    Ah, this is wonderful. Thank you both. Great Q&A at the end too. I could listen to Patricia forever. (Which incidentally reminds me to subscribe to the LRB!)

  • @BennettP1824
    @BennettP1824 4 місяці тому

    So what does the ending “tion” literally mean?

  • @KristineAnderson-go8kj
    @KristineAnderson-go8kj 4 місяці тому

    Such an important conversation--thank you. And such an important and highly readable book Linda Hervieux has written.

  • @patriciadelley7746
    @patriciadelley7746 4 місяці тому

    Fabulous Raymond, well said 👌👌

  • @SharronGaskins-hk2rz
    @SharronGaskins-hk2rz 4 місяці тому

    Outstanding!!!!!!

  • @rosawilson1430
    @rosawilson1430 4 місяці тому

    HOOYAH, Navy!

  • @rosawilson1430
    @rosawilson1430 4 місяці тому

    Outstanding, Ray❤

  • @rooruffneck
    @rooruffneck 4 місяці тому

    Wonderful book! Try The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara.

  • @thomasfranche6770
    @thomasfranche6770 4 місяці тому

    Having been interested in Saint Domingue and Haiti for several years, I just recenltly read Jeremy Popkin's book that collects several eye-witness accounts of what happened during the slave insurrection in France's wealthiest colony Saint Domingue (now called the Haitian Revolution). I listened to another presentation and what was very interesting was the content that Mr. Popkin shared, but also in the hostile reaction of the largley black audience, who are obviously miffed and made uncomfortable by the facts that Popkin explains (in good faith). Yes, Popkin is a typical leftist academic, who walks on eggeshells around blacks and other non-whites regarding these prickly subjects, but when the black audience members, who upon realizing that they have no serious justification for their viewpoints, fall back on the old "oral tradition" bit (which cannot be verified and holds no academic nor legal weight), it shows that they are bankrupt intellectually and cannot justify their anger and general anti white attitude. Yes, slavery was bad, yes whites were the first to abolish it, yes, the French were better than the English and Spanish regarding Amerindians and blacks, yes the salves massacred all of the Fench (meaning the white inhabitants of Saint Domingue), yes the gens de couleur libres were largely responsible for this (at the source, with the French Revolution in the background, because they, as mixed race, were probably completely rootless and were were quite upset about their "inbetween" status, caught between two worlds). I would say to black audiences to calm down, take a good long hard look at themselves in the mirror and try to be more balanced and less hysterical/hostile when coming to an academic conference with historians who actually have documentation to back up what they say and are not just making up stories that "oral tradition" told them.

  • @monicaaparecidaoliveira8063
    @monicaaparecidaoliveira8063 4 місяці тому

    It is important to remember that before the abolitionists there were the enslaved Black people from Africa who fought fiercely (Zumbi dos Palmares, evolta dos Males, Brasil) against this horrible system created by the European.

  • @janettamaclean6317
    @janettamaclean6317 4 місяці тому

    5 minutes in and I'm asking myself how long this video will take? Great subject. Smart people, probably a fun interesting book. I've been fracked so I won't be thinking about it for too long....

  • @jackkomisar458
    @jackkomisar458 4 місяці тому

    The discussion is fairly interesting but the volume is very low.

  • @probablyadog
    @probablyadog 4 місяці тому

    i wish there were more writers like lockwood

  • @probablyadog
    @probablyadog 4 місяці тому

    thank you!!!!

  • @InFellowShip
    @InFellowShip 4 місяці тому

    This woman is completely sociopathic

    • @Sellaliz
      @Sellaliz 2 місяці тому

      She is definitely not. On the contrary. She denounces the absurdity of the so called “culture appropriation” that provides the extreme right the tools to growth. She promotes the universalism anti racism against the identity antiracism. Read her book and you may understand….maybe.

  • @Owl350
    @Owl350 5 місяців тому

    Black Military Officers are a dangerous racist that's what's wrong .

  • @Albdentist
    @Albdentist 5 місяців тому

    “The other side of Paris “ is an amazing book, possibly one of the best…

  • @christopherhalliday2900
    @christopherhalliday2900 5 місяців тому

    Of course I wish Jimmy was still here, but man, I'm sure glad he was here when he was. A gentleman and true performer, entertainer, and story teller! Love and miss you Bubba