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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, 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 [email protected].
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See all- Profs & Pints Richmond: The Ghosts of Christmas PastTriple Crossing Beer - Fulton, Richmond, VA
Profs and Pints Richmond presents: “The Ghosts of Christmas Past,” on the Victorian tradition of telling chilling tales over the holidays, 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://profsandpints.ticketleap.com/chilling/ .]
In Victorian England, sharing ghost stories was as much a part of the Christmas season as caroling or gift-giving. Sometimes published in periodicals, but often simply passed along by word of mouth, they infused the warmth of the holidays with supernatural thrills and were beloved as a means of passing the season’s long nights.
Come to Richmond’s Triple Crossing-Fulton taproom to hear this old tradition summoned to life by Joshua Barton, who in October earned rave reviews for a talk here on horror as commentary on society.
You’ll learn how Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was just one of many tales that mixed visions of ghosts with moral insights. Ghost stories enabled Victorian audiences to take up social and moral questions in a memorable way, evoking all that frightening about industrialization, class tensions, and the mysteries of life and death.
You’ll become familiar with the haunting works of authors such as MR James and Algernon Blackwood and gain an appreciation of how much anonymous authors shaped the genre.
We'll also examine how Victorian Christmas ghost stories continue to inspire modern books, films, and television, looking at adaptations that bring the tradition into our own time.
The talk will end with a reading and discussion of a tale that might leave you hiding beneath the covers upon your return home. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later.)
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