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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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WHAT ARE THE MAJOR CHANGES IN ARAB COUNTRIES OVER THE DECADE SINCE THE UPRISINGS OF 2011?
Public policy | Open to the public
Date: Wednesday, May 12 at 1:00 pm ET
Description: Our guest speaker will discuss the decade since the Arab Spring in 2011 and the trends that will shape this region and its relations with the United States and Europe.
Speaker: Michele Dunne, Director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.
Moderator: Jamil Musa, a National Defense Fellow assigned to the International Security Program at Harvard Kennedy School and 2013 Young Leader.
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RIGHT-WING POPULISM IN FRANCE AND THE US: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Public policy | Open to the public
Date: Wednesday, June 2 at 1:00 pm ET
Description: The rise of right-wing populism is one of the most significant political developments of the last decade. In Europe, right-wing populist parties such as the French Rassemblement National have gained traction in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and, most importantly, during the 2015 migration crisis. In the United States, populist themes and ideas have played an important role in Donald Trump’s election in 2016 and in his redefinition of the GOP.
Speaker: Gilles Ivaldi, a CNRS-affiliated researcher in politics at the CEVIPOF-Sciences-Po in Paris.
Moderator: Jordan Becker, Incoming Director of Research in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point and 2014 Young Leader.
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Information & updates about the Foundation and its programs |
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The French-American Foundation will host a virtual celebration of the 2021 Translation Prize winners on Thursday, June 3 at 1:00 pm ET.
The winners, joined with other notable literary professionals, will share thoughts on their work and take questions from interested members of the public. The event will feature a Q&A with special guest Cole Swensen, translator, editor, copywriter, professor, and 2020 Translation Prize finalist in the fiction category for her translation of Jean Frémon’s Now, Now, Louison. The moderator will be Tess Lewis, Essayist, translator, and Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review.
The Translation Prize winners in the fiction and nonfiction categories will be announced in May!
Since 1986, the French-American Foundation, with the longstanding support of the Florence Gould Foundation, has awarded an annual prize for the best translation from French to English in both fiction and nonfiction. The winners of the 2021 Prize will be announced shortly. Learn more about this year’s finalists.
Cole Swensen: "Cole Swensen is the author of seventeen collections of poetry, most recently On Walking On (Nightboat, 2017), Gave (Omnidawn, 2017), and Landscapes on a Train (Nightboat 2015), and a volume of critical essays. Her poetic collections turn around specific research projects, including ones on public parks, visual art, illuminated manuscripts, and ghosts. (...)"
Tess Lewis: "Her translations include works by Peter Handke, Walter Benjamin, Klaus Merz, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Christine Angot, Pascal Bruckner and Jean-Luc Benoziglio. She has been awarded grants from PEN USA, PEN UK, and the NEA, a Max Geilinger Translation Grant for her translation of Philippe Jaccottet, the ACFNY Translation Prize and the 2017 PEN Translation Prize for her translation of the novel Angel of Oblivion by the Austrian writer Maja Haderlap, and most recently a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. (...)"
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The American Families Plan |
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"The proposed American Families Plan would expand access to education and child care. It would be financed partly through higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans. (...)"
" President Biden on Wednesday will outline the American Families Plan, an ambitious package that would call for $1 trillion in new spending and $800 billion in new tax credits and aim to significantly expand access to preschool and community college, as well as child care and health care benefits. (...)"
"Pour fêter ses 100 jours à la Maison Blanche - ce vendredi, officiellement - Joe Biden a présenté un nouveau plan d'investissement. C'est en fait la deuxième partie du plan infrastructures , à vocation plus sociale. L'American Families Plan promet 1.800 milliards de dollars pour venir en aide aux populations les plus fragiles: 1.000 milliards de dollars sont de nouveaux investissements et 800 milliards des crédits d'impôts.Ces fonds viennent s'ajouter aux 2.300 milliards de dollars prévus pour le plan infrastructures. Un total de plus de 4.000 milliards qui constituerait l'effort public le plus important depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. «C'est un plan comme on en voit seulement un par génération», a fait savoir la Maison Blanche. (...)"
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Meeting: COVID-19 Disaster, Research and Prevention Symposium
Register today to join the Gulf Coast Center – Precision Environmental Health (GC-CPEH) and the Office for Science and Technology (OST) at the Embassy of France in the United States for the COVID-19 Disaster Research and Prevention Symposium on Wednesday, May 19, 2021, from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm EST.
How can the pandemic be monitored efficiently? How can we design vaccines that protect against variants? What is the "One Health" approach?
These and other topics will be addressed by renowned speakers from the US and France during this virtual symposium.
The latest version of the program agenda, with individual speeches and discussions, can be found here.
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