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: Blood, Brass, and Ink
Fait la Force Brewing, 1414 3rd Ave S St101, Nashville, TN 37210, USA, Nashville, TN, USProfs and Pints Nashville presents: “Blood, Brass, and Ink,” on how Black military service served as an engine for Black liberation, with Marquita Reed-Wright, assistant professor of history at Tennessee State University and teacher of courses on the African American experience.
[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-blood-brass-ink ]
As our nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence it confronts a sharp paradox: Many of those who laid their bodies on the line for our Republic were Black service members whose humanity it had actively denied.
Learn how Black soldiers’ fights on battlefields intertwined with the Blacks struggle for basic civil rights at home from Dr. Marquita Reed-Wright, an advocate of public history who teaches employs material culture and deep storytelling in teaching it.
Her talk will take her audience through three distinct conflicts—the American Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II—using historical objects and literature. It will pair frontline veterans and their physical artifacts with revolutionary Black women writers who preserved what official archives tried to erase.
We’ll look at Revolutionary War patriot Prince Hall’s military record and freedom petitions and the anti-tyranny verse that Phillis Wheatley used to challenge the founding rhetoric of 1776.
We’ll examine a brass uniform button recovered from the Civil War and delve into the Civil War camp diaries of Susie King Taylor, a documenter of combat, literacy, and Reconstruction.The combat ribbon earned by Medgar Evers in fighting in Europe in World War II will set the stage for a discussion of how the postwar literature of Gwendolyn Brooks and Alice Childress captured the fury of those fighting Jim Crow.
Attendees will discover how Black service members transformed the tools of warfare into civil-rights campaigns. The talk will conclude by connecting these historic battles directly to modern debates over voting rights and public memory, showing how the generation-spanning struggle to hold America accountable to its founding promises remains vital today. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)
Image: Medgar Evers in uniform during World War II (U.S. Army photo/ public domain).
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