Anthropologist Michael F. Brown will present a lecture on the New Age practice of channeling and its implications for American culture during an Oct. 22 lecture sponsored by Vanderbilt University's Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.

Brown, James N. Lambert Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Williams College, will present the center's annual Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture titled "Dilemmas of the Therapeutic Society: Dispatches from the New Age and Other Places of Higher Education" at 4:10 p.m. in 126 Wilson Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Brown's five-year examination and observation of channelers is the topic of his recently released book from Harvard University Press, "The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age." Channelers believe they can use themselves as conduits for communications from other worlds and dimensions.

For more information about the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, call 343-6060.