About this Event
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🧠Lecture: "Gender, Performed: The Social Construction of Identity"
🎤 Speaker: Alexandra Stamson
Join us for a thought-provoking evening as philosopher and public intellectual Alexandra Stamson unpacks how our identities—especially gender—are shaped, ritualized, and performed. Drawing on theories of social constructionism central to 21st-century feminist thought, this lecture explores some of today’s most pressing questions: What does it really mean to “have” a gender? What counts as an authentic self if so much of our world is socially constructed? And how do these constructions shape, support, or undermine human rights?
Using accessible examples and current debates, Alexandra will illuminate how environments, institutions, and media shape our understanding of ourselves and others, and how social, political, and technological pressures can both expand and limit our capacity for genuine understanding. She will also examine how identity representation in media and popular fiction feeds back into our social world.
Alexandra Stamson is a lecturer and PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, a lecturer at SUNY Purchase, and a resident lecturer at Lectures on Tap in NYC, with advanced degrees in both Philosophy and Gender Studies.
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Agenda
6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
6:55 PM – Host introduction
7:00 PM – Lecture begins
7:45 PM – Audience Q&A
8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
8:30 PM – Wrap up.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lower East Side, Address found in email confirmation, New York, United States
USD 41.32
