4 p.m. April 1 – Laura Brown, Ph.D., the John Wendell Anderson Professor of English at Cornell University, will discuss “Other-than-Humans in Species and Specie,” in the Benes Rooms of Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Brown studies women writers, slavery and imperialism, species and racial difference, the portrayal of animals and the imaginative force of “things.” Her most recent books are “Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination” and “Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century.” Learn more at http://english.cornell.edu/laura-brown. Brown’s presentation is the 2018-2019 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Lecture. During the event, Ohio Wesleyan will induct its new class of Phi Society (sophomore) members. Admission is free. Learn more at www.owu.edu/pbk.