Lectures on Tap - "Neuroscientist Explains: How to Change a Memory"

Join us for an engaging evening where professors, experts, and storytellers bring their thought-provoking lectures to your favorite bar in the Lower East Side, Manhattan!

Hosted by the Lectures on Tap team.

🗓️ Date: October 21st, 2025

🕡 Time: 6:30 PM

📍 Location: Lower East Side, Manhattan (exact address given in confirmation email)

📚 Lecture: Neuroscientist Explains: How to Change a Memory

🎤 Speaker: Professor Steve Ramirez

As a graduate student at MIT, Professor Steve Ramirez made headlines by successfully implanting false memories in mice, demonstrating the remarkable malleability of memory. Now a neuroscientist at Boston University, he explores how we can harness this ability to not only understand memory but to enhance mental health.

In this captivating talk, Professor Ramirez will share his personal journey, intertwined with significant scientific discoveries, and discuss how memories can be activated, edited, and even created from scratch. While changing memories may seem like the stuff of science fiction, every act of remembering reshapes our past.

From dealing with PTSD to addressing Alzheimer’s and depression, we’ll examine the ethics and potential of memory manipulation in improving lives. Along the way, we’ll ponder how memory shapes our identities and what it means if we can alter the threads that unify our sense of self.

Don’t miss this opportunity to delve into the science and intrigue of memory with Professor Steve Ramirez!

Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌

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