Berkeley historian Thomas Laqueur will give the talk “‘Animals in the History of Crimes Against Humanity” at 7 p.m. Monday, April 2, at Bates College followed by a reception in Pettengill Hall, Room G52, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). A professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, Laqueur specializes in the cultural history of the body, and in the history of humanitarianism and of popular religion and literacy. Free, but tickets required and are available at bit.ly/bates-laqueur. FMI: 207-786-6400.