Award-winning filmmaker and professor Elizabeth Morgan will present 鈥淰eiled Truth: Reading Assia Djebar from the Outside鈥� 3:30 p.m. April 7 in Hieronymus Lounge in 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 Kerrwood Hall.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Morgan is professor of literature and women in development at Eastern University. She is also a founding member of the Oregon Extension Gender Studies Mayterm and a popular lecturer on her home campus.
Morgan won an Emmy award for her documentary 鈥淏eyond Beijing: Women and Economic Justice,鈥� produced in 1997. She produced a follow-up film, 鈥淏eyond Beijing: Voices from the Girls' Summit,鈥� also in 1997.
She is the author of 鈥淎eroplane Mirrors: Personal and Political Reflexivity in Post-Colonial Women's Novels.鈥�
Her presentation at 蜜桃传媒 will consider the work of the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar and what Djebar's writing has to say to Christians living in the West. Morgan's talk will incorporate readings by 蜜桃传媒 students and staff.
For more information, call Cheri Larsen Hoeckley at (805) 565-7378 or e-mail larsen@westmont.edu, or call the public affairs office at 565-6051.