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: Meet the Vikings
Woodie Fisher Kitchen & Bar, 1999 Chestnut Pl #100, Denver, CO, USProfs and Pints Denver presents: “Meet the Vikings,” a scholarly encounter with a legendary seafaring people, with Daniel F. Melleno, associate professor of medieval history at the University of Denver and author of Franks and Northmen: From Strangers to Neighbors.
[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-vikings ]Most of us have a mental image of Vikings derived from their depiction in hit movies, their use as mascots by sports teams, or references to them in political extremists’ symbols and manifestos. But who were the Vikings really?
Become deeply familiar with Vikings without traveling through time or risking seasickness with the help of Dr. Daniel Melleno, a historian of pre-modern Europe. He’ll unpack the realities of the Vikings and their exploits in a talk rich with references to Old Norse sagas, Latin laments, and unburied grave goods.
We’ll look at what the Vikings’ world was like and explore why they sailed so far from home to raid, invade, and settle in places as far flung as Canada and Türkiye. You’ll get taken on a tour of the expansive Norse diaspora and learn how the Norse people we commonly call Vikings were more than just vicious raiders and marauders.
Dr. Melleno will discuss the complex and multi-faceted relationships between the Northmen (and women) and the wider world, unpacking the reasons why there was a “Viking Age.” He’ll examine both the realities of Viking activity and the fantasies that these activities generated, tackling questions such as: Did the Vikings actually wear horned helmets? Why do we still know the names of their gods?
You’ll come to understand why the Vikings, above almost any other medieval people, continue to hold such a dominant place in the modern imagination. (Doors: $17, or $15 with student ID.)
Image: A Viking helmet (Museum of Cultural History of the University of Oslo / Wikimedia Commons).
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