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 ticket link provided in event descriptions) or at the door to the venue. Many events sell out in advance. Your indication on Meetup of your intent to attend an event constitutes neither a reservation nor payment for that event.
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 Nashville: The Devil You Know
Fait la Force Brewing, 1414 3rd Ave S St101, Nashville, TN 37210, USA, Nashville, TN, USProfs and Pints Nashville presents: “The Devil You Know,” on demonic figures in folklore, literature, and art, with Cory Thomas Hutcheson, folklorist, lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University, and author of New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic.
[Doors open at 6 pm. Talk starts at 7. Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Available https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nashville-devil-you-know ]
You don’t have to go down to Georgia to catch the Devil on tour this Spooky Season. Profs and Pints is bringing him to Nashville’s Fait La Force taproom for one hell of a night.
Cory Thomas Hutcheson, who previously has given several excellent Profs and Pints talks, won’t fiddle around as he introduces a figure who shows up in fairy tales, books, television, film, and music.
Hutcheson will show you the religious and mythological roots of demons and the origins of diabolical representation in art and literature.
He’ll tell of a young woman sneaking away for a night of dancing only to be swept off her feet by a mysterious stranger whose cloven hooves she noticed a bit too late. He’ll describe the roles of sooty figures in the tales of the Brothers Grimm and other European fairy tales describing trickery by the Devil and appearances by goblins and imps. He’ll summon the demons who helped King Solomon with remodeling projects, and also the sinister yellow bird that brought suspicion in the Salem witch trials.
You'll learn about the Devil’s origins, disguises, and favorite haunts, as well as the best way to beat him at his own games. You’ll leave with newfound understanding of this ageless source of fear and fascination. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)
Image: A devil mask at the workshop of Mexican artist Guillermo Lemus Muñiz. (Photo by Thelmadatter / Wikimedia Commons.)
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Profs & Pints Nashville: Houses that Haunt Us
Fait la Force Brewing, 1414 3rd Ave S St101, Nashville, TN 37210, USA, Nashville, TN, USProfs and Pints Nashville presents: “Houses that Haunt Us,” on dwellings portrayed as home to our worst fears, with Stephanie Graves, associate professor of English at Columbia State Community College and scholar of horror and the Gothic.
[Doors open at 6 pm. Talk starts at 7. Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Available at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nashville-houses-that-haunt ]
We typically associate houses with safety, privacy, family, and stability. But the horror genre flips them into something entirely different, transforming them into places of danger, secrecy, entrapment, and terror.
Get a grand tour of haunted houses—and explore what makes them so frightening—with Stephanie Graves, who has built a loyal following among Nashville’s Profs and Pints fans with her excellent past talks on various aspects of horror.
She’ll discuss how the power of haunted houses to unsettle us arises from a paradox: Houses are supposed to be places that shelter you from bad things, not the places where bad things dwell. If you can’t retreat to a house, where can you go?
We’ll explore the long literary and filmic history of the haunted house, tracing their connection to Gothic castles and nineteenth-century ghost stories, and how they’ve changed as a result of changing ideas about family, property, class, gender, and domestic life. We’ll consider why haunted houses, in their preoccupation with the past, culturally signify places full of buried secrets, unresolved violence, and histories that refuse to stay hidden.
Our tour of haunted real estate will take us to the dwellings in The Haunting of Hill House, The Amityville Horror, Poltergeist, The Shining, and The Haunted Mansion, as well as more recent horror films like Barbarian and Hell House, LLC.
The talk will leave you with plenty to think about after you’ve gone home. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)
Image by Canva.
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