Carleton News: Carleton’s 2013 Lefler Lecture Highlights “Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris”

Anita Guerrini, a historian of the life sciences and medicine and a professor at Oregon State University, will deliver the Winter 2013 Herbert P. Lefler Lecture in History at Carleton College on Wednesday, Jan. 23. Guerrini’s talk, entitled “Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris,” will explore animals, anatomy and natural history during the reign of Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715). The lecture begins at 5 p.m. in room 305 of Leighton Hall, and it is free and open to the public.