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DIGITAL TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE |
To perpetuate more than two centuries of shared ideals and friendship; to build lasting, practical working ties; and to advance solutions to problems of shared concern. |
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You do not need a Zoom account to join. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event. You can find the full list of descriptions and recordings of our webinars on our website. |
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For members only
Title: "US Political Landscape & the State of Polling Ahead of the 2020 Presidential Election"
Date: Tonight, September 9 at 6:00 pm EST
Speakers: Carroll Doherty, Director of Political Research & Courtney Kennedy, Director of Survey Research, with expertise in research methodology
Moderator: Rickey Bevington, Internationally Recognized Journalist and Speaker and 2020 Young Leader
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Open to the public
Title: "Translation Prize Awards Ceremony"
Date: Thursday, September 10 at 1:00 pm EST
Speakers: Alyson Waters, Translator of “A King Alone” by Jean Giono, New York Review Books & Michael Loriaux and Jacob Levi, Co-translators of “Murderous Consent: on the Accommodation of Violent Death” by Marc Crépon, Fordham University Press
Moderator: Emily Nemens, Editor of the Paris Review
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Open to the public
Title: "What are the Biggest Challenges Facing Manhattan in 2020?"
Date: Tuesday, September 22 at 1:00 pm EST
Speaker: Gale Brewer, Manhattan Borough President
Moderator: Simon Tafoya, Managing Director at PayIt and 2018 Young Leader
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Information & updates about the Foundation and its programs |
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Private event
We are excited to offer a new virtual series exclusive to participants and alumni of the Young Leaders program. Whether you were named a Young Leader years ago or were just selected this year, all are welcome to connect, catch up, and learn something new.
The Young Leaders Café will take place on the last Thursday of every month over Zoom at 1pm EST, featuring the work or ideas of different Young Leader participants each time. Participants will be able to see and interact with each other on screen.
Our first Young Leaders Café will be the following:
Date: Thursday, September 24 at 1pm EST
Speakers: Alexander Slater (2016 Young Leader) & Olivier Kamanda ( 2017 Young Leader). Alexander and Olivier will compare the responses to the coronavirus pandemic from (respectively) India and Switzerland, and will ask you about your area's response.
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TRANSLATION PRIZE SPOTLIGHT: EMILY NEMENS |
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Interviews with members of our growing community of leaders and experts (Young Leaders, Transatlantic Forum members, Cyber security experts, Translation Prize winners, Immigration Journalism Fellows, and more) |
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Editor of the Paris Review
We have the pleasure of welcoming back Emily Nemens to moderate our Annual Translation Prize Ceremony tomorrow, September 10 at 1:00 pm EST.
The French-American Foundation hosted a webinar with Emily last spring to discuss her new book, The Cactus League. The event was moderated by Young Leader and author Karin Tanabe.
Receiving praise from a variety of reviews, Emily’s debut novel examines the sport of baseball and the relationships surrounding it:
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There are probably more good novels about baseball than any other sport. More bad ones, too. Emily Nemens’s “The Cactus League” definitely belongs in that first lineup, though it’s unusual in at least two respects. The book is less a novel, really, than a series of very cleverly interlinked short stories. (There are nine, naturally, all set in Phoenix during the spring training — or Cactus League — season of 2011.) And very little ball actually gets played in them. Nemens’s real subject here is less the game of baseball itself, though she’s quite good at describing it, than its infrastructure, all the lives that professional baseball embraces…” A Winning Baseball Novel by the Editor of The Paris Review, The New York Times.
The discussion between both authors explored the research for the novel, the inspiration behind its creation, Emily’s personal relationship to the sport, and more as she answered questions from Karin and the audience.
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BIOGRAPHY
In 2018 Nemens became the seventh editor of the Paris Review, the nation’s preeminent literary quarterly. Since her arrival, the magazine has seen record-high circulation, produced a second season of its acclaimed podcast, and won the 2020 National Magazine Award for Fiction, four Pushcart prizes, and a PEN/Robert J. Dau Best Debut Fiction prize. Read her full biography
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The State of Polling Ahead of the 2020 Presidential Election |
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"At the traditional, post-Labor Day start of the fall campaign, POLITICO is zeroing in on eight critical battlegrounds where the 2020 election will be won or lost: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. (...)"
"The most noteworthy aspect of national and state polling is their consistency. According to FiveThirtyEight’s national poll average, Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads by about 7½ points over President Trump. For months, no credible public poll has showed Trump winning. (...)"
"Following the party conventions and the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, there is evidence that the US presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has started to tighten in the all-important swing states. (...)"
"Many Americans felt the 2016 election discredited the whole business of electoral forecasting. But that’s not how some pollsters see it. (...)"
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