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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 ������Ƶ’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 ������Ƶ 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 ������Ƶ 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.