Brown is hosting the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2012 Annual Meeting March 29 to April 1. President Ruth J. Simmons will deliver the welcome address on March 29. Events will take place throughout the Brown campus, and several faculty members, including Chinua Achebe, C.D. Wright, and Forrest Gander, will be participating in round-table discussions. The four-day event is expected to bring 1,900 people to Providence and Brown. The American Comparative Literature Association, founded in 1960, is the principal learned society in the United States for scholars whose work involves several literatures and cultures as well as the premises of cross-cultural literary study itself.