One big idea. Thoughtful conversation. An intimate evening for intellectually curious people.About this Event
About Ideas After Hours
Ideas After Hours is an intimate conversation series presented by Sip and Scholar and Book Bar. Each month, we explore one big idea. Hear from an author, researcher, or expert before joining a guided discussion with a room full of intellectually curious people. With limited seating, these evenings are designed for thoughtful dialogue, fresh perspectives, and conversations that continue long after the event ends.
About This Month's Idea
What does our complicated relationship with our body hair reveal about human survival, sex, status and identity?
We're a pretty hairy species. And yet, we spend an extraordinary amount of time, money and effort trying to control it.
We grow it, shave it, wax it, style it, hide it, and sometimes spend a small fortune trying to get it back.
At our next Ideas After Hours, we're joined by author Dr. Judy Wearing for a fascinating conversation inspired by her book Anxious and Hairy, exploring the surprising science, history and culture of human hair.
From the evolutionary reasons we have hair to the role it plays in attraction, social status and identity, we'll uncover what our complicated relationship with hair reveals about being human.
Why is hair celebrated in some places and considered unacceptable in others? How did something so ordinary become so deeply tied to beauty, gender and belonging? And how much of what we do with our hair is really our own choice?
Join us for an evening of curious ideas, great conversation and a few hairy questions. 😂 So come bald, come hairy, come curious.
Doors open 7pm, Lecture starts 730pm
Agenda
🕑: 07:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Arrive, Mingle, Sip
🕑: 07:30 PM - 08:15 PM
Lecture
🕑: 08:15 PM - 09:00 PM
Group Discussion / Q&A
Event venue
Book Bar, 600 Markham Street, Toronto, Canada
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