August 16 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Professors, experts, and storytellers giving thought-provoking lectures in LA bars.
📍 Location: Exact address given in confirmation email
🧠 Lecture: “The Genius of Eminem”
🎤 Speaker: Dr. Marcia Alesan Dawkins
This one’s for the real Slim Shady in all of us. What if the person with the most personas is actually the “realest” person in the room? For 30 years, Eminem has been that figure—the one troubling our assumptions about identity and reality.
In celebration of the 13th anniversary of her book The Real Slim Shady, Dr. Marcia Alesan Dawkins reveals what Marshall Mathers figured out long before AI made it everyone’s problem: that questioning what’s “real” is exactly what frees you to take risks, rewrite your story, and find new ways to be yourself in a world of chaos and change.
This talk isn’t about who Eminem is. It’s about what he means. Together, we’ll play a little “name that tune,” dig into lyrics, and let the music do what it’s always done: tell the truth. Come for the nostalgia, stay for the strategy. Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? Maybe it’s you.
Learn more about Dr. Dawkins at www.MarciaDawkins.com.
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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. Attendees are welcome to come as early as 6:00 PM.
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.
