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: What the Midterms Mean
Graduate Charlottesville, 1309 W Main St, Charlottesville, VA, USProfs and Pints Charlottesville presents: “What the Midterms Mean,” an examination of the upcoming Congressional elections in historical context, with Robert Strong, emeritus professor of politics at Washington and Lee University, nonresident faculty senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, and author of several books on the presidency and foreign policy.
[All tickets must be purchased online with sales tax and processing fees added at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/charlottesville-midterms .]
In a democracy, elections always matter. Will the 2026 midterm elections matter more than most? And what can—or can’t—history tell us about their likely outcome and long-term impact?
Hear such questions tackled by Robert Strong, a scholar of politics and the presidency who has worked with presidential oral history projects at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center since Jimmy Carter’s term.
In weighing the prospects for Democrats and Republicans in the coming contest, we’ll look at what we can learn from midterms over the past 80 years and whether this might be an election cycle when established patterns get broken.
We’ll consider how the elections might be influenced by the fact that we live in a period of deep political divisions, intense partisanship, and electoral volatility amidst dramatic changes in technology, economics and information distribution. Dr. Strong will examine a very similar period with similar rough-and-tumble politics, during the late nineteenth century, and consider the possibility that our current time might end in a similar political realignment that leaves one party with a firm grip on power for decades to come.
No matter what your party affiliation, this talk will give you a more sophisticated understanding of the political forces at work and a better sense of what to expect. (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.)
Image: The U.S. Capitol before a storm. (Photo by Mish Sukharev / Creative Commons.)
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