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
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Profs & Pints Richmond: How We Scare Each Other
Triple Crossing Beer - Fulton, 5203 Hatcher St, Richmond, VA, USProfs and Pints Richmond presents: “How We Scare Each Other,” an exploration of the enduring tradition of telling terrifying tales, with Joshua Barton, lecturer in English at Virginia Commonwealth University and scholar of horror.
[Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Available at https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/richmond-scary-stories .]
They’ve long emerged from the darkness around campfires. They pop up at kids’ slumber parties and come at us through our computer screens. We probably could escape them, but where’s the fun in that?
Gear up for Halloween by learning about the oral telling of scary stories and how this ancient tradition flourishes in new forms in the digital age.
Joshua Barton, whose excellent talks on horror have earned him a big following among Profs and Pints audiences, will take us back into time to witness the rise of the scary story in folklore and myth.He’ll discuss indigenous trickster narratives, the centuries-old European cautionary tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, and other unnerving lore. We’ll consider how such stories functioned as both entertainment and social instruction, and also how they reflected broader anxieties and the core human impulse to narrate fear, mystery, and the unknown.
We’ll look at how these storytelling traditions have persisted and been adapted across media, venturing into the realm of urban legends circulated through spoken word, print, and mass media. You'll get to know “the vanishing hitchhiker,” “the Hookman,” and “Bloody Mary.”
We’ll also explore how with the rise of the internet these forms of modern folklore were reimagined for digital spaces. We’ll analyze the emergence of “creepypasta,” a genre of short-form horror shared across forums and early social media, focusing on examples such as “Slender Man,” “Candle Cove,” and “Ben Drowned.”
Finally, we'll examine analog horror, a contemporary digital subgenre that leverages retro aesthetics and found-footage techniques in works such as “Local 58” and “The Mandela Catalogue.”
It will be a night full of frights you’ll be eager to pass on to others. ( Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
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