Lectures on Tap - "Friendship Explored: From Being Besties to Crashing Out"
About this Event
📍 Location: Exact address given in confirmation email
🧠 Lecture: "Friendship Explored: From Being Besties to Crashing Out"
🎤 Speaker: Dr. Megan Dowd
Friendship shapes our lives as much as romance or family—but without the clear scripts, labels, or rules. What happens when expectations shift, boundaries blur, or someone wants “more” while the other doesn’t? And what about when friends add sex to the mix and call it “no big deal”?
In this engaging talk, communication scholar Dr. Megan Dowd examines friendship through the lens of how we actually talk, text, and interact every day. Using friends-with-benefits relationships as a central case study, she explores what happens when the usual rules of friendship are stretched by sex, ambiguity, and mixed feelings—and why “keeping it casual” is often anything but simple.
Dr. Dowd spent over a decade as a college professor teaching Interpersonal Communication, The Dark Side of Communication, and Family Communication at Hamilton College, the University of Rhode Island, and Ohio University. Her research dives into secrecy, deception, jealousy, infidelity, and how everyday communication shapes our closest bonds.
Come grab a drink, get curious, and rethink what you thought you knew about being “just friends” 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.
Where is it happening?
USD 38.58
