Dueling's Not Dead: How Honor Culture Shapes Our Everyday Life

Join us for an engaging evening where makers, trailblazers, practitioners, and obsessive deep‑dive thinkers share their most captivating stories at your local bar in Houston!

Hosted by Curiosity Brews.

🗓️ Date: February 10, 2026

🕡 Time: 6:30 PM

📍 Location: The exact location of the event will be announced at least 1 week prior to the event. An email will be sent to the email provided at the time of purchase.

📚 Talk: "Dueling's Not Dead: How Honor Culture Shapes Our Everyday Life"

🎤 Speaker: Aaron L. Pomerantz, Ph.D., a social psychologist and the Assistant Director of Research and Evaluation at Rice University’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders

When you hear "honor," you might picture duels at dawn, powdered wigs, or a scene from Hamilton. But the urge to defend your name and never back down is not just history. It is alive in bar arguments, family blowups, Twitter fights, and politics.

In this talk, Rice University social psychologist Aaron Pomerantz reveals how honor quietly cuts across class, education, politics, religion, and geography to shape our everyday lives in surprising and powerful ways.

Through real stories and surprising studies, he will explore:

• What honor looks like today and why so many people recognize themselves in its norms, beliefs, and values.
• How honor travels far beyond its regional roots to shape communities across the country.
• Why honor drives everything from arguments and homicide to vaccine hesitancy, mental health stigma, risk-taking, police brutality, and political leadership.

Even if the idea of a duel makes you cringe, exploring honor will help you see the hidden rules shaping how people argue, react, lead, and live. And it might even reveal more about yourself than you expect.

Grab a drink, meet curious minds, and explore interesting ideas at Curiosity Brews!

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 – Talk 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

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