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Women & Learning Series Features Gerda Lerner
Women's history pioneer to speak Nov. 14
Posted 10/18/2001
MADISON, Wis.--Gerda Lerner, a pioneer in the study of
women's history, caps off the Women &
Learning lecture series at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday,
Nov. 14. The lectures, sponsored by the Friends
of the UW-Madison Libraries, sample women's
scholarship in literature, science, and history.
Lerner, the Robinson Edwards professor of history emerita, will present the final lecture in the series, "Biography and Autobiography: Challenges and Contradictions." This is the first time she will discuss her autobiography, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography, which will be published in 2002.
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.
Lerner's 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.
