Du Châtelet biography topic of upcoming Historical Perspectives Lecture Series

GREEN BAY — The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has added another presenter to the spring lineup of its Historical Perspectives Lecture Series.

Prof. Judith P. Zinsser, a professor of history at Miami University of Ohio, will speak about latest book, Emilie Du Châtelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment. The free discussion is scheduled for 11:40 a.m. Friday, April 3, in the University Union’s Christie Theatre, 2420 Nicolet Drive.

The book is a biography of the “eighteenth-century aristocrat who balanced the exacting demands of her society with a daring life of the mind.”

In her short life, Du Châtelet worked with the philosopher Voltaire, wrote her own philosophical works and translated Newton’s Principia.

“Today’s women will find much that is familiar in Du Châtelet’s multitasking lifestyle, which Zinsser… describes with understandable and infectious appreciation,” the New York Times Book Review wrote about Zinsser’s book.

Zinsser also co-wrote A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present.

For more information about Zinsser, visit her website.

To learn more about the UW-Green Bay Center for History and Social Change Historical Perspectives Lecture Series, contact Prof. Craig Lockard or Prof. Harvey J. Kaye at (920) 465-2355.

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