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Women's History Month Panel - The Role of Reflection in Memoir Writing
- May 21, 2017
- 1 min read
Join us for a special Women’s History Month panel on the role of reflection in memoir writing, featuring Herstory’s founder and artistic director Erika Duncan and Gloria Jacobs, former editor of MS Magazine and past publisher of the Feminist Press, moderated by Hofstra’s Professor Ethna D. Lay. As our panelists reach out to a new generation of students, we catch a glimpse of Herstory’s roots in the early articulation of Feminist theories and the way it has played out over the decades to make Herstory what it is today. To watch the video, which followed six reading by Hofstra’s Herstory facilitators in training and community writers, watch below.
Introductions to the Women's History Month Panel
Watch the Panel here
We thank the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts
for the support that made this program possible.
The program is sponsored by the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
the Department of Writing Studies and Composition, the Hofstra Cultural Center, and
the Center for Civic Engagement.
To see our Youth Writing for Justice, College and High School Program videos, click here.
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