Women and Learning series features Blum

Women and Learning, a lecture series by three nationally known UW–Madison scholars, will feature Deborah Blum, a UW–Madison journalism and mass communications professor, Thursday, Nov. 1.

The lectures, sponsored by the Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries, sample women’s scholarship in literature, science, and history.

Blum’s lecture, second in the series, will present “The Nature of Love” at 4:30 p.m., 126 Memorial Library, 728 State St.

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.

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