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Women & Learning Series Features Three UW-Madison Scholars

Friends Fall Lecture Series begins Oct. 10

Posted 10/1/2001

Women & Learning MADISON--Women & Learning, a lecture series by three nationally known UW-Madison scholars, begins Wednesday, Oct. 10. The lectures, sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, sample women’s scholarship in literature, science, and history.

4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 10
The opening lecture, "Renée Lang: A 'Little Lady's' Labor of Love," will be given by Biruté Ciplijauskaité, Bascom Professor of Spanish emerita. Her talk features insight into the life and literary achievements of Renée Lang. Lang is professor emerita of Comparative Literature at Marquette University and was the first chair of the Marquette University Women’s Studies program. At home in Switzerland, France, Italy, and the United States, Lang writes and publishes in four languages. The talk by Ciplijauskaité will be in the Department of Special Collections, 976 Memorial Library, 728 State St. An exhibit in Special Collections from the Renée Lang Collection will complement the lecture.

4:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 1
Deborah Blum, a journalism and mass communications professor, will present the second lecture, "The Nature of Love." Blum won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for her newspaper series on primate research that inspired her book, The Monkey Wars. In 1997 she wrote Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women. She is now writing a biography of Harry Harlow, the pioneering psychologist and founder of the UW-Madison’s Primate Center. Harlow helped drive a revolution in psychology that forced science to confront the nature of affection and relationships. Her lecture will be in room 126 Memorial Library, 728 State St.

4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 14
The final lecture in the series, "Biography and Autobiography: Challenges and Contradictions," will feature Gerda Lerner, the Robinson Edwards Professor of History emerita. Lerner developed a new discipline of academic study when she established the country’s first graduate program in women’s history at Sarah Lawrence College. She later founded the doctoral program at the UW-Madison. Born to a Jewish family in Vienna and imprisoned when the Nazis came to power, Lerner has said it was this experience that influenced her interest in history. She began taking history courses at age 38 to research a book. Within three years after earning a bachelor’s degree, she earned her master’s and doctorate in history. Her autobiography, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography, will be published in 2002. Her lecture will be in the Department of Special Collections, 976 Memorial Library, 728 State St.

For more information about the lecture series, contact the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries at (608) 265-2505 or e-mail: friends@library.wisc.edu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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