Born in Vietnam, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer and composer. She is a Professor of Women's Studies, Film Studies and Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley. A screening of her new film, Night Passage, will take place in the Chosky theater at 4pm before her lecture.

Her works include: the films “The Fourth Dimension” (87 mins, 2001), “A Tale of Love” (108 mins, 1995), an experimental narrative, “Shoot for the Contents” (102 mins, 1991), a film on culture, art and politics in China, “Surname Viet Given Name Nam” (108 mins, 1989), a film on identity and culture through the struggle of Vietnamese women, “Naked Spaces: Living is Round” (135 mins, 1985), “Reassemblage” (40 mins, 1982); Her books include: Framer and the Framed (Routledge: 1992); When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics. New York: Routledge, 1991; Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1989.