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 Denver: Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Woodie Fisher Kitchen & Bar, 1999 Chestnut Pl #100, Denver, CO 80202, USA, Denver, CO, USProfs and Pints Denver presents: “Frankie Goes to Hollywood,” on Frankenstein and the 200-year-old history of a monster that just keeps finding new bodies, with Andrew Scahill, an associate professor of film and media at the University of Colorado Denver whose research focuses on horror, monstrosity, and adaptation.
[Doors open at 5 pm and the talk begins at 6:30. Advance tickets $13.50 plus processing fees. Available at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/denver-frankie ]
Frankenstein, like the monster it depicts, is a story that seems designed for recombination. Time and time again it has absorbed another tale into itself and produced viable offspring.
Consider Edward Scissorhands. That’s Frankenstein plus Pinocchio. Or Weird Science. That’s Frankenstein plus Pygmalion. You can think of The Iron Giant as a mashup of Frankenstein and E.T., or The Incredible Hulk as Frankenstein infused with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The creature changes with every new donor text.
What makes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein such an unusually fertile subject of adaptation? What parts of her story have to survive for us still to recognize the offspring as Frankensteinian, and what parts are fair game to be discarded, replaced, or radically transformed?
Hear such questions tackled by Dr. Andrew Scahill, who long has taught a university course on Frankenstein and its cinematic offspring.
He’ll trace how filmmakers have dismantled and rebuilt Shelley’s story across horror, science fiction, comedy, superhero movies, children’s films, musicals, and queer cult cinema.
He’ll argue that those efforts followed in her footsteps and, rather than treating adaptation as the process of making a faithful copy, achieved a feat remarkably like Frankenstein’s experiment. They dismantled old parts, joined them with unfamiliar ones, and shocked them into new life. ( Doors: $17, or $15 with student ID.)
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