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Eyal Press \u201992, author of Beautiful Souls<\/em>,\u00a0is delivering this year’s First Readings<\/a> lecture. It will be held in Salomon Center at 4:30 p.m. If you can’t make it to campus, the lecture will be streaming on Brown’s LiveWebcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n First Readings is a summer reading project for all new Brown students. Now in its seventh year, the program provides first-year and transfer students with a common reading experience that introduces them to the pleasures and rigors of undergraduate academic life. As part of the tradition, the First Readings author comes to campus in the fall to deliver a lecture.<\/p>\n The First Readings book in 2013 was Beautiful<\/em> Souls<\/i>. This critically acclaimed book\u00a0tried to understand why\u00a0the boldest acts of dissent are often carried out not only by radicals seeking to overthrow the system but also by true believers who cling with unusual fierceness to their convictions.<\/p>\n The author, Eyal Press, is an award-winning journalist as well as a graduate of Brown.<\/p>\n First Readings Lecture Contact:<\/b>\u00a0Mark Baumer<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0 401-863-3642<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eyal Press \u201992, author of Beautiful Souls,\u00a0is delivering this year’s First Readings lecture. It will be held in Salomon Center at 4:30 p.m. If you can’t make it to campus, the lecture will be streaming on Brown’s LiveWebcast. First Readings is a summer reading project for all new Brown students. Now in its seventh year, … First Readings Lecture on September 17th<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTime:\u00a0<\/strong>4:30 p.m.
\nLocation:\u00a0<\/strong>Salomon Center<\/em> (Main Green)<\/p>\n