About us
Profs and Pints brings professors and other college instructors into bars, cafes, and other venues to give fascinating talks or to conduct instructive workshops. They cover a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, popular culture, horticulture, literature, creative writing, and personal finance. Anyone interested in learning and in meeting people with similar interests should join. Lectures are structured to allow at least a half hour for questions and an additional hour for audience members to meet each other. Admission to Profs and Pints events requires the purchase of tickets, either in advance (through the link provided in event descriptions) or at the door to the venue. Many events sell out in advance.
Although Profs and Pints has a social mission--expanding access to higher learning while offering college instructors a new income source--it is NOT a 501c3. It was established as a for-profit company in hopes that, by developing a profitable business model, it would be able to spread to other communities much more quickly than a nonprofit dependent on philanthropic support. That said, it is welcoming partners and collaborators as it seeks to build up audiences and spread to new cities. For more information email profsandpints@hotmail.com.
Thank you for your interest in Profs and Pints.
Regards,
Peter Schmidt, Founder, Profs and Pints
Upcoming events
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Profs & Pints Charlottesville: The Vampire as “Other”
Graduate by Hilton Charlottesville, 1309 W Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA, Charlottesville, VA, USProfs and Pints Charlottesville presents: “The Vampire as ‘Other,’” on a dreaded centuries-old creature as stand-in for those living in the margins, with Stanley Joseph Stepanic, who teaches a course on Dracula and vampire folklore as an assistant professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Virginia.
[All tickets must be purchased online with sales tax and processing fees added at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/charlotteville-vampire-as-other .]
The vampire has long been a malleable symbol of everything from repressed sexual desire to dreaded disease. From its beginnings, however, it has represented few things more than “otherness,” or the condition of having outsider status for whatever reason.
Explore the vampire as a symbol of otherness—and the many ways in which it has shape-shifted to fill this role—with Professor Stanley Stepanic, who has given several excellent Profs and Pints talks in the past.
He’ll start by digging up some of the oldest references to vampires in Slavic folklore and culture, such as the 1726 case of suspected Serbian vampire Arnold Paole and the subsequent panic it caused.
From there we’ll look at the rise of vampires in literature and film and how they have come to embody cultural anxieties related to race, ethnicity, gender, and other traits.
You’ll become familiar with Bela Lugosi, a Hungarian refugee whose thick accent stood in the way of his dreams of becoming an actor until play and film producers went looking for the perfect Dracula.
We’ll look at themes related to marginalization in the film Blacula, the Blade comics and film, the recent hit movie Sinners, and the video game The Blood of Dawnwalker.
You’ll emerge with a greater appreciation of why the vampire character resonates with anyone who has felt oppressed or relegated to the sidelines. (Advance tickets: $13.50. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open for talk attendees at 4:30 pm and the talk starts at 6 pm.)
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