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Screening Ireland: A Life in Film with Lenny Abrahamson
James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street PrincetonVisiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Fintan O’Toole interviews Academy Award-winning Irish film and television director Lenny Abrahamson on his career in film. Abrahamson is director of the critically-acclaimed Room, starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay, nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. […]
An American Martyr in Persia
Princeton Public Library (Community Room) NJThe New York Times best-selling author of “Zealot” tells the story of Howard Baskerville, a student of Woodrow Wilson whose lectures on freedom as a missionary in Persia inspired an early 20th century movement for constitutional democracy. An overlooked figure of history, Baskerville is alternately viewed as “the American Lafayette”of Iran and as a naive […]
