Eyal Press ’92, author of Beautiful Souls, is 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, 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.
The First Readings book in 2013 was Beautiful Souls. This critically acclaimed book tried to understand why the 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.
The author, Eyal Press, is an award-winning journalist as well as a graduate of Brown.
First Readings Lecture
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Salomon Center (Main Green)
Contact: Mark Baumer | 401-863-3642