
Cat says the things.

San Francisco
Benefit for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. At the Masonic with Gary Clark Jr., Grace Potter, and Gabrielle Zevin. https://www.notesandwords.org/
Santa Cruz
Bookshop Santa Cruz! Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. More here: https://bookshopsantacruz.com/cat-bohannon
Menlo Park
Kepler’s Books. On stage with Angie Coiro. https://www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/tin-cat-bohannon
St. Louis
St. Louis Public Library. On stage with Becky Vollmer for the Gale Medical Arts Series. https://www.slcl.org/events/cat-bohannon
Freethought Humanist Conference
Come my nerdlings! It’s a Humanist convention. I’ll be establishing the highly scientific reasons boobs are not butts (because some in the evo psych community are still a bit confused about that—it’s cool, we’ll get past it). www.freeflo.org

Harvard
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. https://www.harvard.com/event/cat-bohannon

Baltimore
Educator night! How the heck should we use Eve in the classroom for 8-12th graders? With Debbie Levy. Sponsored by Charm City Books and the Baltimore County Public Library. Friends School of Baltimore's Forbush Auditorium, 5114 N. Charles St. (ample and free parking). Get tickets here: ccb-educatorsnight.eventbrite.com

Johns Hopkins
On Stage at Johns Hopkins University! We’ll be connecting the story of female evolution to the crisis in modern women’s healthcare and why it matters—so damn much—that we keep funding basic research into the biology of sex differences. Let’s keep gathering while they still let us. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/events/2025/03/11/an-evolutionary-journey-into-modern-womens-health-medicine

D.C.
Politics & Prose! What is there to say in DC now about the body? What will we be allowed to say, then? Still, we gather—come join. https://politics-prose.com/cat-bohannon If not in DC, then here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp3_hvppUMU&ab_channel=PoliticsandProse

Columbia
On Stage w/ Eleanor Johnson, author of the upcoming Scream with Me, a baller book about women and horror! We’re gonna talk about why female reproductive organs should be called “contraceptive organs” — vagina dentata got nuthin’ on what really goes on down there. (Also a PSA for why IUDs actually work, why the history of contraception is actually just the history of female health care—kind of forever—and some good laughs.) Register here: https://www.ircpl.columbia.edu/calendar/cat-bohannon

eCornell (virtual event)
Livestream for eCornell with Kate Manne! Register here: https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K030625/

Cornell
Is Fat Female? Live @ Cornell with Kate Manne! We'll be talking about the evolution of the female body, especially adipose tissue (fat!) and what we should think about all that in 2025 (of all the freakin’ years to be an American female). And yes, we'll totally talk about Ozempic... you can bet your long-evolved fat ass we will. 132 Goldwin Smith Hall. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/02/bohannon-manne-event-focuses-female-body-image-evolution

Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Arts Council: We’re cooking up something special for you, Pittsburgh. Time to revisit the story of what women are and where we come from—right in time for Women’s History Month! https://pittsburghlectures.org/lectures/cat-bohannon/ , https://pittsburghlectures.org/programs/ten-evenings/

Peculiar Bookclub
Virtual event! Peculiar Bookclub with Brandy Schillace. They’re going to have an apple-laced themed cocktail, naturally… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebhi1CN7MKo&ab_channel=BrandySchillace

Seattle
Third Place Books Ravenna! Launching the YA edition of Eve just in time for women’s history month—let’s tell it while they still let us, ladies… On stage with Katie Campbell, host of the KUOW book club. And guess what: cake and wine! Courtesy of PNW Booksellers, who were kind enough to give Eve one of their yearly awards. https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/cat-bohannon
Singapore
Singapore Writers Festival! Details TK. https://www.singaporewritersfestival.com/


London!
Royal Society Trivedi Prize Gala: Cat will join the rest of the shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Prize. (No, we don’t know the winner, but just being on the list is winning, y’all.)

Seattle Art Source
Seattle Art Source: In celebration of SAS’s new gallery exhibit about the female body, Cat will talk about the science of sex differences in perception, its place in the history of art (including the paleolithic, y’all!) and that time Cat was an art model in college.
MIT
Moms on Mars! Cat Bohannon roped Kelly Weinersmith into a comedy-science-fashion show. No, really. It’s gonna be bonkers. There’ll be dancers. A heavily pregnant actress in a gas mask. Vibrators from Lelo. Cat filed an actual patent for a Mars bra. And a bevy of badass feminist artists created amazing wearables and art objects to help astronauts get knocked up on Mars and maybe not die trying. Trust us: if you miss this, you’re gonna be really sad for a long time.

JLF Seattle
Jaipur Literary Festival, Seattle: JLF’s new Seattle festival! Happy to be onstage at Town Hall talking with Sonora Jha and Namita Gokhale about women, bodies, and changing the story. https://jlflitfest.org/seattle/speaker/cat-bohannon

Oakland, CA
Dinner for Primates @ Responsive Conference: I’m creating a dinner experience around the science of sexed perception! Collaborating with a local woman chef, I’ma do my science & comedy thing while diners figure out when & where it might matter that their noses and mouths and olfactory bulbs are biologically sexed (and the surprising places it actually doesn’t). Inebriation will be involved. An ad hoc scientific experiment is gonna happen. No IRB approval for this one, people—it’s gonna be fun. https://www.responsiveconference.com/

Washington, D.C.
MDIC (Medical Device Innovation Consortium): Keynote & Fireside Chat. Open to the public! Going to talk about why studying female bodies isn’t just a great thing for improving the health of women and girls—it’s gonna break open our understanding of how bodies even work. https://mdic.org/apf-2024-agenda-overview/

Eliot Bay, Seattle
Natalie Lampert at Eliot Bay Books: Come listen to Cat talk with Natalie about her new book, The Big Freeze, about egg freezing, IVF, and what it all really means (or doesn’t mean!) for women.

Royal Institute, London
Royal Institute, Faraday Lecture! Oh London, we’re gonna have fun… details to come. More here: https://www.rigb.org/whats-on

Nottingham for Eve!
Nottingham, I’m coming to you! I’ll bring the funny, you bring the questions. All proceeds from this event will benefit the Eve Appeal charity (yay!), working hard to increasing research and public awareness of gynecological cancers. More details here: https://tinyurl.com/5h22fa3a

Waterstones Bristol
In conversation with Kate Boyer. More here: https://www.waterstones.com/events/search/shop/bristol-galleries

Bath
Cat will be in Bath to talk about she-things, do come down! https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/cat-bohannon-for-eve-how-the-female-body-drove-200-million-years-of-human-evolution-2024/

Hay Festival
Hay Festival! Gonna have a bit too much fun with Adam Rutherford. More here: https://www.hayfestival.com/p-21938-cat-bohannon-talks-to-adam-rutherford.aspx

Foyles Bookstore, London
Foyles Bookstore, London. More details here: https://www.foyles.co.uk/events/eve-cat-bohannon-in-converation

Toppings Edinburgh
Gonna hold it down with Dr. Kate Womersley at Toppings! Bring all your questions, Scotland… More here: https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinburgh/cat-bohannon-kate-womersley-2024/

Bloom Festival Copenhagen
Bloom Festival of Science, Copenhagen, DK. Two events here! First, an amazing pairing with the brilliant Lisa Feldman Barrett to wrestle with a surprisingly difficult question: “What is love?” (Oh god, we’re gonna try!) And then, the next day, I’ll do a solo set and bring the laughs. More here: https://www.bloom.ooo/english , https://www.bloom.ooo/program/what-is-love , https://www.bloom.ooo/program/cat-bohannon-eve-the-evolution-of-the-female-body