What we’re about
Profs and Pints (https://www.profsandpints.com) 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, literature, law, economics, and philosophy. 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. 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
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Profs & Pints Richmond: Who Are the Houthis?Triple Crossing Beer - Fulton, Richmond, VA
Profs and Pints Richmond presents: “Who Are the Houthis?” a guide to understanding Yemen’s rebel group and their impact on world politics, with Elana DeLozier, an adjunct professor of international relations courses at University of Virginia and the executive director of The Sage Institute for Foreign Affairs.
[Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Available at https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/profsandpints/houthis .]
Join longtime Yemen expert Elana DeLozier for a talk that will give you a much greater understanding of that country’s Houthi rebels and how they grew from a local resistance movement into a group capable of reshaping global trade.
She’ll give you a crash course on a conflict you probably haven’t been following—Yemen’s long-running civil war—and discuss the role played in it by the Houthi movement that arose in the mountains of that country’s north.
From there you’ll learn how the Houthis emerged as a threat to global trade and came into direct conflict with the United States. We’ll look at the strategic importance of the Red Sea and why maritime chokepoints like those found there matter so much. We’ll also discuss the key players protecting the world’s trade routes and how geography still plays an outsized role in shaping global affairs.
You’ll walk away with both a better understanding of one of today’s most under-covered conflicts and a new appreciation for how the ripples from events in faraway waterways can reach our shores. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: A 2015 Houthi protest in response to a Saudi-led coalition’s airstrike on Yemen (Voice of America photo.)
- Profs & Pints Richmond: New Views of the UniverseTriple Crossing Beer - Fulton, Richmond, VA
Profs and Pints Richmond presents: “New Views of the Universe,” a look at the previously unseen realms and phenomena revealed by space telescopes, with Jack Singal, associate professor of physics at the University of Richmond and former researcher at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Stanford University.
[Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Available at https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/profsandpints/richmond-universe .]
The images being produced by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have reignited interest in the frontiers of astronomy. But its voyage is just the latest in a series of remarkable space telescope missions, dating back almost to the dawn of the space age, that have revolutionized our understanding of the universe and what happens in it.
Come to Richmond’s Triple Crossing-Fulton taproom for a look at how telescopes that see forms of light invisible to our eyes are showing us distant galaxies and amazing phenomena that we never knew existed before, and even letting us see things as they were far back in time.
Your guide on this journey, Dr. Jack Singal, is an astrophysicist whose career has involved studying the universe in all different kinds of light, including radio waves, microwaves, ultraviolet light, X-rays, and gamma rays.
Professor Singal will discuss the history of space telescope missions and how these instruments’ ability to detect different forms of light has yielded revelations that changed our views of the universe and our place in it. If you’ve ever wondered how we know, for example, that the universe is full of mysterious dark matter, or how we can see what things were like 14 billion years ago, then this talk will provide some answers.
You’ll walk out after the talk and look up at the night sky with a bigger sense of wonder. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: “Pillars of Creation,” an infrared image of a star-forming region captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. (Photo by NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI / Creative Commons.)
