The US Embassy and the Malta-US Alumni Association are organising a free public talk by Fulbright Scholar Leslie Taubman on An Introduction to the Art and History of Cinema on Wednesday from 7.30 to 8.30pm in the University Students Council (KSU) Common Room at the University of Malta.
Dr Taubman, a Fulbright Scholar in Film Studies (Barbados, 2008-2009), developed the Film Studies programme at the University of the West Indies where she was also the president of the Barbados International Film Festival.
Dr Taubman has an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University and a PhD in Communications-Cinema from the University of Southern California.
In 2010, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University.