Filmmaker to Discuss Algerian Novelist

Award-winning filmmaker and professor Elizabeth Morgan will present “Veiled Truth: Reading Assia Djebar from the Outside” 3:30 p.m. April 7 in Hieronymus Lounge in Westmont’s 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 “Beyond Beijing: Women and Economic Justice,” produced in 1997. She produced a follow-up film, “Beyond Beijing: Voices from the Girls' Summit,” also in 1997.

She is the author of “Aeroplane Mirrors: Personal and Political Reflexivity in Post-Colonial Women's Novels.”

Her presentation at Westmont 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 Westmont 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.