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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, 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.
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See all- Profs & Pints Annapolis: Thomas Paine on TrialGraduate Annapolis, Annapolis, MD
Profs and Pints Annapolis presents: “Thomas Paine on Trial,” an evening devoted to passing judgment on one of American history’s most complicated figures, with Matthew Dziennik, associate professor of British imperial history at the United States Naval Academy.
[Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Available at https://profsandpints.ticketleap.com/painetrial/ .]
Tom Paine was the most significant political writer of his, or arguably any, age. The author of some of the most important books of the American and French revolutions, including Common Sense and The Rights of Man, he was equally celebrated and reviled.
To his supporters, he was the man who made democratic rights and representative government a real possibility. Thomas Edison once said there had never been a “sounder intelligence in this republic.”
To his enemies, Paine was a malcontent who encouraged disruption and revolution and who helped establish the conditions that led thousands to a fateful meeting with Madame Guillotine.
Was Paine a hero, or was he a villain? Come decide for yourself at a talk that will put him on trial. Professor Matthew Dziennik will make the cases for both the prosecution and defense, allowing you to make your own determination.
On behalf of the prosecution, he’ll argue that Paine betrayed his early potential with vicious attacks on former supporters and on Christianity.
For the defense, Professor Dziennik will argue that the man that gave us Common Sense only ever argued for freedom and justice for all.Whatever side you fall on, you’ll be able to understand how people on both once believed that they lived in the “Age of Paine,” and you’ll be better able to recognize Paine’s influence on the institutions we cherish today. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 4 pm and talk starts at 5:30 pm.)
Image: Thomas Paine’s death mask as made by his friend John Wesley Jarvis and later photographed by Ben Ledbetter (Wikimedia).
