Women’s history pioneer to speak Nov. 14

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, 976 Memorial Library, 728 State St.

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

Lerner, the Robinson Edwards Professor of History Emerita, will present “Biography and Autobiography: Challenges and Contradictions.”

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 will published an autobiography, “Fireweed: A Political Autobiography,” in 2002.

For information: (608) 265-2505.