{"id":33626,"date":"2022-10-28T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?p=33626"},"modified":"2022-10-28T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T16:27:46","slug":"reads-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/reads-together\/33626\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Reads “Together”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cWithout community, we struggle. It\u2019s as if we didn\u2019t have oxygen to breathe.\u201d\u00a0 These words, spoken by sociologist Parker J. Palmer<\/a> and quoted by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy<\/a> in his book Together<\/a><\/em>, will resonate for many MIT community members. This fall MIT Reads<\/a> selection explores the themes of loneliness and connection. What causes isolation and how can we overcome it?\u00a0 What strengths and resources do we have? How can we best care for ourselves and support each other?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve designed this semester\u2019s activities to bring these big, global themes to life at a very personal, local level. On a panel<\/a> of MIT students, staff, and faculty will share their perspectives on the joys and challenges of forming authentic connections at MIT. Share your own experiences at one of two discussion events, with a choice of in person (Nov. 17)<\/a> or on Zoom (Nov. 15)<\/a>. And we\u2019ll wrap up the week with a students-only event<\/a> combining the themes of community and loneliness with food construction, to be followed by cake consumption.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll find registration for all these events, plus information on the book and how to get a copy, on the MIT Reads website<\/a>.\u00a0 We hope to see you in November!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWithout community, we struggle. It\u2019s as if we didn\u2019t have oxygen to breathe.\u201d\u00a0 These words, spoken by sociologist Parker J. Palmer and quoted by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in his book Together, will resonate for many MIT community members. This fall MIT Reads selection explores the themes of loneliness and connection. What causes isolation and how can we overcome it?\u00a0 What strengths and resources do we have? How can we best care for ourselves and support each other? We\u2019ve designed this semester\u2019s activities to bring these big, global themes to life at a very personal, local level. On a panel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"subtitle":"Finding and creating connection at MIT","is_event":false,"calendar_url":"","calendar_id":"","calendar_image":"","pauthor":"","urgent":false,"notes":"","featuredListImg":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/Together-Cover-NYT-Bestseller-002-scaled_657x256_acf_cropped.jpg","homeImg":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/MITReads_hmpg_111x206_acf_cropped_111x206_acf_cropped_111x206_acf_cropped_111x206_acf_cropped_111x206_acf_cropped.jpg","listImg":false,"homepage_post_title":"MIT Reads \"Together\"","featuredArticle":"false"},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}