Lectures on Tap - "From Aristotle to Disney: How Stories Build Worlds"

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🧠 Lecture: "From Aristotle to Disney: How Stories Build Worlds"

🎤 Speaker: Dr. Timothy Betts

Join us for a fascinating evening as Dr. Timothy Betts reveals how stories do far more than entertain us—they organize the way we work, collaborate, and live together. Drawing on narrative theory and Aristotle’s poetics, Dr. Betts will show how tools first developed to analyze drama can clarify everyday conflicts and collaborations in business, organizations, and social life.

Through engaging examples from Survivor, Disney, and Dungeons & Dragons, this lecture will uncover how narrative helps construct our economies, institutions, and communities—and how “restorying” them might open new paths to change and resilience.

Dr. Timothy Betts (Ph.D., University of South Florida) is an assistant professor and director of the Schieffer Media Insights Lab in the Bob Schieffer College of Communication at Texas Christian University. His research uses organizational communication theory to examine and reimagine how people organize economies through narrative, connecting economic communication with resilience, online organizing, policymaking, and narrative and computational methods.

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.