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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Satanic Panics
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Satanic Panics\,” a look at waves of fear of demonic activity as an American tradition\, with Luxx Mishou\, cultural historian and former instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy and area community colleges. \nThe 1980s found the United States gripped by fear of Satanic cults targeting children. They were believed to be corrupting young ones in daycare centers and tempting teens through subliminal messages on heavy metal albums or through the quiet inclusion of demonic rituals in role-playing games. Satanic serial killers supposedly stalked the suburbs. Doctors helped patients uncover what were claimed to be repressed memories of ritualistic satanic abuse. \nParents\, police\, and politicians were urged to protect impressionable youths from both moral and physical danger. With Satanic cults deemed to be a real and material threat\, it was a frightening time for everyone\, including those who suddenly came under suspicion for doing evil deeds. \nThen\, suddenly\, it all faded from public consciousness\, just as surely as did eighties fads such mullet haircuts\, leg warmers\, and Cabbage Patch Kids. \nWhy did it all start? Why did it stop? And has this happened before or since? \nHear such questions tackled by Luxx Mishou\, a cultural historian and media specialist who has long researched the devious and villainous in cultural artifacts. She’ll discuss moral panics as a longstanding cultural tradition\, with each new one stemming from fear of cultural shifts and shaped by the time and place where it occurred. Among the panics we’ll look into are the Red Scare of the 1950s and the public response to the gruesome 1969 murders committed by the Manson Family. \nDelving into the 1980s panic\, Mishou will describe how it began with the 1980 publication of psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder’s memoir Michelle Remembers\, detailing the suppressed memories of ritualistic abuse reportedly suffered by a patient. As that book quickly became a best seller\, its ideas saturated American culture. A California daycare center became the focus of a three-year investigation\, followed by three years of trials\, based on allegations that its owner had engaged in secret ritualistic abuse of the children in its care. \nMishou will lead you through the media that convinced the public that devil worshipers were among them\, and she’ll talk about how reactions to imagined threats can have very real social costs. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3:30 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.) \nImage by Canva.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-satanic-panics/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: How AI Alters Thinking
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “How AI Alters Thinking\,” on dealing with artificial intelligence’s capacity to change and undermine our thought processes\, with Eli Alshanetsky\, assistant professor of philosophy at Temple University\, principle investigator at its Cognitive Integrity Lab\, and author of an upcoming book on AI and freedom of thought. \nDoctors who give bad advice can be sued for malpractice. Teachers belong to a profession with set standards. When artificial intelligence guides you\, however\, that guidance comes with a disclaimer: Use at your own risk. \nEvery day millions of people take that risk\, and usually AI seems genuinely helpful. But even if AI gives us good answers\, might its use over time do bad things to how we think? \nExplore the relationship between AI and our own minds with Eli Alshanetsky\, whose Cognitive Integrity Lab studies how artificial intelligence changes how we think\, learn\, and build trust. Author of Articulating a Thought and the upcoming book Freedom of Thought in the Age of AI\, he’s on the cutting edge of efforts to answer AI-related questions such as: How can we tell when work is truly our own? How can technology support rather than replace authorship and reflection? What does trust mean when AI mediates our relationships with others and with our own thoughts? \nTo set up his discussion of potential consequences of AI\, he’ll describe how social media’s impact on society serves as a preview. \nSocial media didn’t just give people what they wanted to click on\, it actually changed what they regarded as click-worthy. It broke attention spans and fueled radicalization across millions of very different people. It left us with people who doom-scroll for hours\, who can’t focus\, who don’t know what to trust anymore. \nIf you’d shown people this version of themselves ten years ago\, would they have chosen it? \nArtificial intelligence is making a similar deal with us\, but the stakes are higher. It isn’t chasing clicks. It’s optimized for giving you the most satisfying response to whatever is on your mind right now. \nThe risk over time isn’t just that you’ll get lazy. More profoundly\, even when you think hard\, your sense of what counts as good thinking—as well as what sounds like you—will shift to match what AI has been feeding you. \nWe’ll consider what kind of person this produces and whether this is someone we want to be or want children to become. Professor Alshanetsky will lay out a practical framework\, which he calls “the interaction layer\,” for using AI without letting it replace the thinking it’s supposed to support. He’ll also talk about what AI-related concerns should be the focus of parents and educators. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 2:30 pm. Talk starts at 3:30.) \nImage: Illustration by David S. Soriano / Creative Commons.
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Sex with Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Sex with Shakespeare\,” a surprising look at how the Bard thought about gender and sexuality and how it influenced his works\, with Abdulhamit Arvas\, scholar and historian of sexuality and assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. \nBefore “gender” became a culture-war keyword\, London audiences watched William Shakespeare’s plays with an open secret: Because women were barred from the public stage\, every Juliet\, Desdemona\, and Rosalind was played by a boy actor. \nWhat did that theatrical reality do to ideas of masculinity\, femininity\, desire—and to the plays themselves? \nHear such questions tackled in a talk that will use Shakespeare’s work as a vivid guide to a world whose assumptions about bodies\, desire\, and intimacy will seem both recognizable and surprisingly alien. \nWith sharp\, accessible examples from Shakespeare’s plays and the histories around them\, Dr. Arvas will trace how modern assumptions about gender and sexuality\, as well as love\, emerged over time. He’ll invite us to read Shakespeare not as a mirror of the present\, but as a window to see how our thoughts about the body—and the meanings we attach to our body and its intimacies—all have a history. \nInstead of treating Shakespeare as timeless\, this talk will ask what his plays reveal about the historical ideas that once organized everyday life. It will discuss how bodies were classified\, how difference was explained\, what counted as normal\, sinful\, healthy\, or “natural\,” and why categories we take for granted today did not always exist in the same form. \nWe’ll look at whether Shakespeare’s world recognized anything like “sexual orientation” and whether the gender binary was as stable—or as important—then as it seems now. We’ll explore how religion\, medicine\, and law shape what people believed about sex and desire. \nYou’ll be invited to consider: What changed between then and now and why do those changes matter for how we read Shakespeare today? What was love back then? What is it today? (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Guests are welcome to arrive any time after 5:30. Talk starts at 6:30.) \nImage by Canva
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-sex-with-shakespeare/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: The Dark Side of Fairy-Tale Romance
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “The Dark Side of Fairy-Tale Romance\,” on the nightmarish elements of the tales we’ve repackaged as the stuff of lovers’ dreams\, with Linda Lee\, lecturer in folklore and fairy tales at the University of Pennsylvania. \nFrom romcoms to reality TV shows to wedding venues to Valentine’s Day\, we’re inundated with messages idealizing the idea of a “fairy-tale romance.” But the fairy tales underlying all the hype about charming princes\, grand balls\, true love’s kiss\, and the happily-ever-after actually can be profoundly unsettling and full of reasons to run like hell. \nGain an appreciation of how modern society glosses over the darker elements of fairy tales with Linda Lee\, who previously has given excellent Profs and Pints talks on witches and on Christmas folklore. \nShe’ll begin by discussing how much the idea of fairy-tale romance pervades mainstream media and popular culture\, giving her audience a brief tour of fairy-tale romance tropes across genres and in movies\, television\, advertising\, video games\, and elsewhere. \nIt’s understandable that people might swoon over canonical fairy tales’ fancy dresses\, crowded ballrooms\, expansive libraries\, and magical enchantments. But the romances at the core of the actual fairy tales often can be quite problematic\, and we’ll also look at those. \n“Cinderella\,” for example\, depicts women competing for male attention in ways that involve extreme measures like self-harm. Dead mothers\, abusive stepparents\, and family pressure to marry factor in as well. \nIn “Beauty and the Beast” a younger daughter is expected to sacrifice her future to rectify her father’s mistake. Other beastly elements of the tale: dubious consent\, arranged marriages\, anger management issues\, monstrous love interests\, isolation\, manipulation\, and possibly Stockholm syndrome. \nIn “Snow White” a young girl’s seemingly dead body is an object of desire\, and we’re told of pedophilia\, the threat of violence\, cannibalism\, necrophilia\, and consent violation. “Sleeping Beauty” features a prince who believes he’s entitled to sexual access to a sleeping princess\, as well as adultery\, cannibalism\, and abandonment. \nYou’ll come away with a deeper appreciation of the tales themselves and reason to roll your eyes at those who try to sell you on fairy-tale romance as an ideal. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Guests are welcome to arrive any time after 5:30. Talk starts at 6:30.) \nImage: A Jennie Harbour illustration of “Sleeping Beauty” from My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales\, published in 1921. (Public domain.)
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-the-dark-side-of-fairy-tale-romance/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: The Happiness Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “The Happiness Workshop\,” a look at what recent research and centuries of wisdom tell us about bringing more joy and contentment to our lives\, with Eric Zillmer\, professor of psychology and the director of the Happiness Lab at Drexel University. \nAre you happy? If not\, how do you get there? \nGain insights into happiness with Eric Zillmer\, an award-winning teacher who leads a creative think tank that investigates the ingredients for happiness among individual people and communities. \nYou’ll learn how the study of happiness is a growing\, evidence-based field known as positive psychology\, which aims to find solutions to happiness challenges that can bring positive change to our lives and environments. \nDr. Zillmer will discuss the meaning of happiness and its place in our lives and society. He’ll draw from recent science and great thinkers in discussing how we can increase our own happiness and well-being\, throwing out a few practical tips as well. \nHe’ll talk about whether happiness can be measured and where in our brain happiness is located. We’ll look at the influence of socializing and social media on our happiness and about the roles that music\, humor\, adversity\, and regret have in happiness research. \nDr. Zillmer will discuss what we learn about happiness from competitive sports\, and he’ll suggest ten actions that you can engage in that will make you happier. \nAmong the questions he’ll tackle: What is the happiest day of the week? Can a specific place make you happy? What can we learn about happiness from travelling the world? (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3:30 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.) \nImage: Happiness in the face of a Tibetan Buddhist monk. (Photo by Wonderlane / Wikimedia Commons.)
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-the-happiness-workshop/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Fake News and War of the Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Fake News and War of the Worlds\,” a look at an infamous Orson Welles broadcast as an early lesson on mass media’s dangers\, with Daniel H. Foster\, associate professor and chair of liberal arts at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute. \nOn the evening of October 30th\, 1938\, somewhere between 6 and 12 million Americans tuned in the radio version of New York City’s experimental Mercury Theater. It was a decision that some\, no doubt\, came to regret. What they heard was an all-male chorus of talking heads—scientists\, journalists\, politicians\, and military experts—repeatedly telling them that New Jersey was being invaded by Martians. \nThe ensuing hours were alarming ones for those who did not realize they were listening to Mercury Theater on the Air’s adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells science fiction novel War of the Worlds. The performance\, directed by and starring Orson Welles\, pushed the still young medium of radio drama further than many had pushed it before. Its masterful use of music\, sound effects\, and especially silence showed how radio could ignite the imagination and make listeners fear the worst. \nRevisit that classic moment in media history\, and learn what lessons it holds for us today\, with Professor Daniel Foster\, who over the years has taught the “War of the Worlds” broadcast as part of courses in radio\, theater\, and sound studies at several universities. \nHis talk will go beyond the trivia and urban legends surrounding the broadcast and focus on the broadcast itself\, to reveal what really happened and why it mattered. He’ll look at the broadcast not just as a moment of public panic\, but a daring work of art. \nAired during a period of rapid modern change\, marked by the rise of dictators in Europe to the recent fiery destruction of the Hindenburg\, the “War of the Worlds” broadcast tapped into widespread anxiety about new technologies and invading forces. Often labeled as an early case of “fake news\,” it exposed deep questions about the institutions listeners trusted: education\, the media\, government\, and the military. \nTo emphasize the mischief radio can bring to the world\, Orson Welles\, at the end of the broadcast and in person\, compared the radio to a jack-o-lantern and warned us to beware this “invader of the living room.” \nAnswering questions about the performance\, its historical context\, and radio as a medium—new\, blind\, and global— isn’t merely an academic exercise. It can help us better understand how fake news works today and how to detect such lies before they cause irreparable harm. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3:30 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.) \nImage: A Henrique Alvim Corrêa illustration from a 1906 edition of War of the Worlds (Wikimedia Commons).
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-fake-news-and-war-of-the-worlds/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: What Awaits the Naughty
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “What Awaits the Naughty\,” a guide to supernatural beings around the world who keep kids in line and Christmas weird\, with Linda Lee\, lecturer in folklore and fairy tales at the University of Pennsylvania. \nThe song says “Santa Claus is coming to town\,” not “Santa Claus is coming specifically to your house.” In many parts of the world\, children who misbehave expect visitors of an entirely different sort\, in the form of unwelcome bringers of punishment and fear. \nCome to Fishtown’s Black Squirrel Club to get the lowdown on strange beings that prowl the long nights during the Christmas and Yule season. Linda Lee\, a scholar of folklore and fairy tales who has taught at Penn and other universities throughout the region\, will discuss a host of entities who appear at this time of year to make the naughty rethink their ways. \nHigh on her list will be Krampus\, the goat-like\, devilish being from Central and Eastern Europe who carries chains and punishes naughty children with a birch rod. \nLooking to Iceland\, Lee will tell us about that nation’s Yule trolls and its monstrous Yule Cat\, Jólakötturinn\, known to devour those who don’t receive new clothes to wear on Christmas Eve. \nWe’ll also get to know La Befana\, an Italian witch who rides a broomstick and visits homes on Epiphany. Turning her attention closer to home\, Lee will discuss the origins and ways of Pennsylvania-famous Belsnickel\, a sketchy-looking import from southwest Germany who prowls these parts handing out candy or coal. \nWe’ll learn about the traditions associated with each of these figures and how each one fits into celebrations of Christmas\, Yule\, or the winter seasons. Among the questions we’ll consider: Why do so many of them enforce good behavior? Should we be worried? \nLee’s audience has loved this talk when she gave it in the past. You’ll be glad you have survived Krampus long enough to be on hand for Lee’s return to discuss him. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Guests are welcome to arrive any time after 5:30. Talk starts at 6:30.) \nImage by Canva.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-what-awaits-the-naughty-2/
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Tolkien’s Fight Against Futurism
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Tolkien’s Fight Against Futurism\,” a look at a beloved fantasy author as fundamentally engaged in a battle to preserve beauty\, with Graham McAleer\, professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland and teacher of a course on the morals and politics of Lord of the Rings. \nAs a young man in the early 20th century J.R.R. Tolkien watched an avant-garde art form known as Futurism become all the rage. Shaped by industrialization and by admiration for new machinery\, Futurism celebrated speed\, acceleration\, and the whirl of technical innovation\, earning it another name\, Vorticism\, in Tolkien’s England. \nAlthough remembered mainly as a writer\, Tolkien also was an accomplished pen-and-ink artist who kept abreast of the art movements of his time. He developed a distaste for Futurism and what it signified that only grew stronger as he experienced the horrors of modern warfare as a soldier at the 1916 Battle of the Somme. He regarded what Futurism celebrated as “the Machine\,” representing fascist politics and apocalyptic war\, and his opposition to it deeply influenced not just his art but his written works. \nGain insights into how Tolkien’s sensibilities as a visual artist shaped his worldview and writing with Graham McAleer\, a scholar of philosophy who has closely studied Tolkien’s work. \nProfessor McAleer will look at how Tolkien’s lore can be seen as one long meditation on beauty and its problematic twin\, vanity\, with what separated them most in Tolkien’s mind being their respective approaches to time: Beauty is patient\, vanity is not. \nWe’ll look at Tolkien’s argument that that impatience mars beauty and corrupts our standing in a cosmos\, and we’ll consider his characterization of his own work as “cosmogonical drama” dealing with the universe’s origins. You’ll learn how his tales of Dark Lords squaring off against elven queens and genial Hobbits reflect his view that war is always a dispute about beauty. \nYou’ll come to see Tolkien as having grappled with a profound philosophical question that dates back to Plato\, and you’ll emerge from the talk with a much deeper understanding and appreciation of Tolkien’s works. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3:30 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.) \nImage: A bust of Tolkien at Oxford. From a photo by Julian Nyča / Wikimedia Commons.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-tolkiens-fight-against-futurism/
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: A Guide to Witches
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “A Guide to Witches\,” on the figure of the witch in history\, legend\, folklore\, and fairy tales\, with Linda Lee\, lecturer in folklore and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. \nGet ready for something spellbinding: A look at various depictions of witches as reflections of ideas about female sexuality\, independence\, agency\, and power. \nOffering up this pre-Halloween treat will be folklorist Linda Lee\, who earned rave reviews in giving this talk at the Black Squirrel Club a year ago and has captivated audiences at this Fishtown venue with her past discussions of dark Christmas folklore and the goddess Persephone. \nWe’ll start with an introduction to witches from European folklore\, fairy tales\, and legends. You’ll learn how they’re generally portrayed as powerful\, solitary\, and defiant figures who can be either helpful or harmful. They may appear as mothers\, helpers who aid heroes on quests\, or monsters to be vanquished. They can represent a threat to the community by snatching children or by pilfering cows’ milk. \nIndividual witches who will be conjured up include the child-eating witch from Grimms’ “Hansel and Gretel” and Baba Yaga\, the ambiguous witch of Slavic folklore who lives in a hut on chicken legs and flies around inside a giant mortar while clutching a big pestle. Lee contrasts such fictional depictions with the ideas about witches and witchcraft espoused by Christian demonological thought. \nYou’ll learn how witches are described by early modern sources like Malleus Maleficarum\, the 15th-century treatise on witchcraft which also served as a witch hunters’ manual. Such texts presented witches as entirely malevolent figures who gain magical powers through a pact with the Devil (usually signed with menstrual blood). They depicted witches as using a special ointment that empowers them to fly to a Witches’ Sabbath to dance and perform demonic rituals. \nYou’ll see how such ideas were visually reinforced through engravings\, woodcuts\, and drawings\, by artists like Albrecht Dürer\, that depicted naked women riding broomsticks and dancing with devils. \nYou’ll come away with a better understanding of why witches are among the most versatile\, notorious\, and enduring figures from fairy tales and legends and remain an iconic part of contemporary Halloween traditions. Feel free to dress witchy if you wish. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3:30 pm. Talk starts at 4:30. ) \nImage: From “Preparation for the Witches’ Sabbath\,” by 17th Century Flemish artist David Teniers the Younger.
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LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Kafka and Prague
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Kafka and Prague\,” on how a great author and his works were shaped by the history\, culture\, and landscape of a city\, with Cynthia Paces\, professor of history at The College of New Jersey\, teacher of courses on European history and Holocaust studies\, and author of two books on Prague. \nWhere we’re from can profoundly shape how we think\, what we create\, and what we end up doing with our lives. Gain a much deeper understanding of Franz Kafka\, the acclaimed and influential author whose prophetic work anticipated European totalitarianism and still shapes dystopian visions\, through a talk examining Kafka’s relationship with the city of Prague and those who lived there. \nYour guide on this scholarly journey\, Professor Cynthia Paces\, has lived and worked in Prague and is the author of Prague: The Heart of Europe and Prague Panoramas: National Memory and Sacred Space in the Twentieth Century. She has extensively researched how Kafka\, a German-Jewish writer\, came to symbolize the capital of the Czech Republic. \nWe’ll start by looking at how Kafka’s worldview was influenced by his childhood in Prague’s Old Town during a time when the city was rapidly expanding and industrializing and shifting from being a primarily German-speaking place to being the center of Czech nationalism and culture. Born in 1883 only steps away from the city’s former Jewish Ghetto\, as a boy Kafka watched the destruction of the Jewish Quarter during an urban sanitation project. The event profoundly affected him\, prompting him to later remark: “We walk through the broad streets of the newly built town” but “inside we tremble just as before in the ancient streets of our misery.” \nProfessor Paces will discuss Kafka’s relationship to Prague’s rich Jewish heritage\, considering how he was influenced by the legacy of the Talmudic scholar Rabbi Loew and by folklore telling of the Golem of Prague\, a terrifying monster that Loew was said to have shaped from clay and given life. She’ll describe Kafka’s love for the Yiddish Theater and his involvement with the Prague Circle\, a group of German-Jewish intellectuals including Albert Einstein and the author Max Brod. \nWe’ll explore the tensions between Kafka’s creative endeavors and his work as a bureaucrat during Prague’s rapid modernization in the early twentieth century. You’ll learn about the Prague homes where he resided and cafés where he socialized. \nAlthough Prague place names appear in only one Kafka story\, the city shaped his fiction. The claustrophobic or ominous settings of works like The Metamorphosis and The Castle recall Prague’s labyrinthine streets\, modern office buildings\, and looming castle. We’ll listen for echoes of Prague’s landscape and landmarks in Kafka’s writings and end by exploring Kafka’s afterlife as a cultural icon of post-Communist Prague. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Guests are welcome to arrive any time after 5:30. Talk starts at 6:30.) \nImage by Canva.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-kafka-and-prague/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: The Grim(m) and Glorious Story of Children's Lit
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “The Grim(m) and Glorious Story of Children’s Lit\,” on the history of tales that stick with us well into adulthood\, with Melissa Jensen\, award-winning lecturer in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania and scholar of Children’s Literature\, the Gothic\, and adolescence in media and society. \nJust about every single one of us can quickly invoke a favorite or personally influential children’s book. We can finish nursery rhyme lines and almost instinctively sing along with songs from countless Disney films. But what do we really know about the body of literature that played such a profound role in shaping our young minds? \nJoin Children’s Literature scholar and author Melissa Jensen for a talk that will have you thinking about the beloved books of your formative years in an entirely new way. \nShe will explore the evolution and convolution of Children’s Literature from the 17th to 21st centuries\, discussing the beloved\, the famous\, and the just plain odd. She’ll help you understand why these books are not just an integral part of the developmental fabric of our youth\, but also have critical literary\, scholarly\, and cultural importance. \nHer talk will lean into more than three centuries of grim(m) messaging in books for children\, with takeaways from “Do good or get dead” to “Do bad and get dead” to “Do good and get dead anyway.” She’ll discuss whether plunking death front and center in the literature makes perfect sense or is counterintuitive. \nWe’ll discuss beginnings\, endings\, and countless other elements that determine the value of “kidlit.” We’ll look at how far Disney’s Ariel is from Andersen’s original Little Mermaid\, and how that difference turns a whole new lens on the meaning of “happily ever after.” \nAmong the questions we’ll tackle: Is there a value in contemporary kids knowing centuries-old nursery rhymes involving babies falling out of trees? Why does it work that Jensen’s all-time favorite novel—not just children’s novel\, but novel of any sort—begins with “Where’s Papa going with that ax?” (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Guests are welcome to arrive any time after 5:30. Talk starts at 6:30.) \nImage: From an Arthur Rackham illustration of the Brothers Grimm’s “Hansel and Gretel” as published by Dutton and Company in 1920 (New York Public Library / The Internet Archive).
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LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education/Lecture
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: America's Erotic Past
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “America’s Erotic Past\,” a journey back through surprisingly queer and kinky centuries\, with Rebecca Davis\, professor of history and of women and gender studies at the University of Delaware and author of the acclaimed book Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality. \nWhen Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring the existence of two biological sexes\, he not only was putting his stamp on scientific errors\, he also was contravening four centuries of American history. \nWe might assume that we live with a “puritan” legacy of repression. But America’s sexual history is full of gender-bending rebels\, passionate queer lovers\, and convention-defying radicals. \nJoin Dr. Rebecca Davis\, the award-winning author of a definitive new history of sexuality in America\, for a look at our nation’s complex sexual past and realities that get in the way of the Trump administration’s calls to delete any mention of “gender\,” “queer\,” and “transgender” from federal websites and historical markers. \nShe’ll bring to light the fascinating people\, surprising intimacies\, and iconic moments that illuminate this country’s erotic past\, showing that the history that the administration wants to erase is too unpredictable—and its legacy too durable—to be undone by any executive order. \nAmong the things you’ll learn: What happened when a gender nonconforming servant shared a bed with an unmarried woman in the Virginia colony in the 1620s. How nineteenth-century Americans responded to same-sex intimacies. And what\, exactly\, was going on in Betty Dodson’s living room during her all-nude “Bodysex” workshops in the 1970s. \nPrepare to be surprised by what happened behind the bedroom doors of yesteryear. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3:30 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.)
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-americas-erotic-past/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Philadelphia and the Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Philadelphia and the Underground Railroad\,” with Andrew Diemer\, professor of history at Towson University and author of Vigilance: The Life of William Still\, Father of the Underground Railroad. \nThe Underground Railroad has long been cloaked in legend\, with that legend only growing over time as filmmakers and novelists have provided their own takes on it and old houses have been claimed to have concealed areas that hid fugitive slaves. Local historians eagerly trace out the tracks of this railroad\, identifying its “stations” and “stationmasters” and “conductors\,” but other professional historians remain skeptical of such claims. \nHear Underground Railroad fact sorted from fiction\, and learn about Philadelphia’s pivotal role as a center of efforts to free people from bondage\, when historian Andrew Diemer comes to the Black Squirrel Club in Philadelphia’s Fishtown. \nDrawing heavily from his biography of William Still\, the leader of Philadelphia abolitionist group who helped well over 600 enslaved people reach freedom\, Professor Diemer will discuss the origins and operations of the Underground Railroad. He’ll talk about how people escaped from slavery\, who helped them\, and how Underground Railroad activists dealt with a political and legal system that favored slavecatchers. You’ll learn about the relationship that Black activists like Still and his ally Harriet Tubman had with white conspirators\, many of them Quakers. \nDiemer will discuss the life of Still\, a free-born son of parents who had escaped from slavery\, and how he came to become a pivotal figure in Philadelphia’s organized defense of fugitive slaves\, the Vigilance Committee. You’ll learn how Still kept meticulous records of his efforts to aid fugitive slaves and then drew from those records in writing his monumental 1872 history The Underground Railroad\, which brought to life the stories of hundreds of fugitives who had fled to Philadelphia and described how the fugitives themselves were the Underground Railroad’s engine. \nIt’s a talk that will bring to life a chapter of history that too many have sought to bury or obscure. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3:30 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.) \nImage: “Resurrection of Henry Box Brown\,” an illustration from William Still’s 1872 book The Underground Railroad. (New York Public Library Schomberg Center.)
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-philadelphia-and-the-underground-railroad/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250422T180000
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: The Life of Barbie
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “The Life of Barbie\,” on a plastic icon and her cultural legacy\, with Emily Aguiló-Pérez\, an associate professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania who has extensively researched Barbie as a scholar of childhood\, media\, and popular culture. \nFew toys have shaped culture quite like Barbie has. From her debut in 1959 to the billion-dollar success of the 2023 film bearing her name\, Barbie has been a mirror of society\, a lightning rod for controversy\, and a symbol of transformation. She often has found herself at the center of society’s evolving conversations about gender\, race\, consumerism\, and identity. \nGet to know Barbie like you never did before with the help of Emily Aguiló-Pérez\, the author of An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie\, Girlhood\, and Colonialism at Play and the forthcoming books Barbie in the Media and Barbie and Social Media. \nDrawing from more than a decade of scholarly research on Barbie’s significance in global contexts\, Professor Aguiló-Pérez will discuss Barbie’s evolution from fashion model to feminist (and anti-feminist) flashpoint. While Barbie wasn’t originally designed as a feminist toy\, she would emerge as an emblem of female empowerment\, with the first astronaut Barbie\, produced in 1965\, exploring space before Neil Armstrong visited the Moon. At the same time\, she would continue to face criticism for reinforcing restrictive beauty norms\, with her measurements remaining unrealistic even in the “body diverse” versions of the doll—curvy\, petite and tall. \nWe’ll explore Barbie’s shifting cultural impact—her role in shaping beauty standards\, gender expectations\, and consumer culture. You’ll learn about Barbie’s global influence and how she continues to spark conversations about identity\, inclusivity\, and play. \nWhether you loved Barbie\, loathed her\, or rediscovered her through Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster Barbie movie\, you’ll find this talk to be a fascinating journey through the life of the world’s most famous doll\, and you’ll learn a lot about what she reveals about us. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Guests are welcome to arrive any time after 5:30. Talk starts at 6:30.) \nImage: A Barbie doll as photographed by Tracheotomy Bob / Creative Commons.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-the-life-of-barbie/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: An Introduction to Irish
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “An Introduction to Irish\,” on a resurgent language and the basics of using it\, with Mike Malloy\, Irish Language instructor at Villanova University. \nGear up for Saint Patrick’s Day by taking a whirlwind tour of the Irish language and how to use it with Mike Malloy\, an instructor for Irish at Villanova University and a regular teacher for the Irish language organization Daltaí na Gaeilge. \nHe’ll talk about where the Irish language comes from\, whether it is properly called “Gaelic\,” and how to pronounce Irish words and names. You’ll learn some basic Irish words and phrases and how to read Irish road signs. \nYou’ll also gain a knowledge of the language’s place in Ireland’s history and society. You’ll learn how it has been revived and has changed in the process\, and how it compares to other languages\, including Latin and Yiddish\, once thought to be “dead” or in decline. \nIn the 1840s\, on the eve of the Great Famine\, there were between three and four million speakers of the Irish language in Ireland. Today\, that number is closer to 70\,000\, but Irish has gone from being a language with few books\, low literacy\, and low social status to becoming a recognized and supported language in Ireland\, the United Kingdom\, and the European Union. It has its own television channels\, radio stations\, and newspapers\, as well as a vast literature of original works and translations\, and schools that use the Irish language to teach students are experiencing meteoric growth. \nWe’ll examine what makes Irish unusual among western European languages\, and you might end up unusual among other celebrants of Saint Patrick’s Day in terms of how easily choice Irish words roll off your tongue. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Guests are welcome to arrive any time after 5:30. Talk starts at 6:30.) \nImage: A road sign in Ireland. Photo by Ian Rob / Creative Commons.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-an-introduction-to-irish/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: What Awaits the Naughty
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “What Awaits the Naughty\,” a guide to supernatural beings around the world who keep kids in line and Christmas weird\, with Linda Lee\, lecturer in folklore and fairy tales at the University of Pennsylvania. \nThe song says “Santa Claus is coming to town\,” not “Santa Claus is coming specifically to your house.” In many parts of the world\, children who misbehave expect entirely different visitors\, unwelcome bringers of punishment and fear. \nCome to Fishtown’s Black Squirrel Club to get the lowdown on strange beings that prowl the long nights during the Christmas and Yule season. Linda Lee\, a scholar of folklore and fairy tales who has taught at Penn and other universities throughout the region\, will discuss a host of entities who appear at this time of year to make the naughty rethink their ways. \nHigh on her list will be Krampus\, the goat-like\, devilish being from Central and Eastern Europe who carries chains and punishes naughty children with a birch rod. \nLooking to Iceland\, Lee will tell us about that nation’s Yule trolls and its monstrous Yule Cat\, Jólakötturinn\, known to devour those who don’t receive new clothes to wear on Christmas Eve. \nWe’ll also get to know La Befana\, an Italian witch who rides a broomstick and visits homes on Epiphany. Turning her attention closer to home\, Lee will discuss the origins and ways of Pennsylvania-famous Belsnickel\, a sketchy-looking import from southwest Germany who prowls these parts handing out candy or coal. \nWe’ll learn about the traditions associated with each of these figures and how each one fits into celebrations of Christmas\, Yule\, or the winter seasons. Among the questions we’ll consider: Why do so many of them enforce good behavior? Should we be worried? \nLee’s audience loved this talk when she gave it last year. You’ll be glad you have survived Krampus long enough to be on hand for Lee’s return to discuss him. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 4 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.) \nImage of Krampus in Philadelphia generated by Canva AI.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-what-awaits-the-naughty/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: A Nation That Almost Wasn't
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “A Nation That Almost Wasn’t\,” on how colonialists’ formation of the United States was anything but a foregone conclusion but happened anyway\, with Jessica Choppin Roney\, associate professor of history at Temple University\, director of the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia\, and author of Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia. \nAt a time of deep political polarization and disagreement over the fundamental nature and direction of our nation\, it’s worthwhile to revisit the early history of the United States to see how it resolved the big questions faced in the course of its formation. \nWe forget now—but Americans back then then were fully aware—that the shape and composition of the still lower-case “united states” was once very much unresolved. The American Revolution played out as both a crisis of empire and a crisis of democracy\, and once the thirteen colonies declared independence from Britain it was not at all clear whether the English-speaking people in North America were now one nation\, thirteen\, or many more. \nIn essence\, early Americans grappled with a question that we ourselves still struggle to answer: What makes us “one people\,” as the Declaration of Independence asserted we are? \nAs settlers moved farther west\, it was unclear what was to keep them from breaking away entirely and forming their own states that they could control. Was Vermont going to be a state? Kentucky? Ohio? Who got to decide? \nMany of the people in those places declared themselves to be outside the control of eastern state capitals and able to use the same principle of self-determination in the Declaration to say\, “We\, too\, can declare our independence.” Whether that was true\, why or why not\, and what either conclusion meant for the future of a democratic republic was at the heart of the constitutional crisis of the 1780s. \nThis talk frames the origins of the US Constitution as a response to the revolution “out of bounds.” Professor Roney will discuss how the founding generation resolved the tension between the right to self-determination and the desire to create one\, large\, unified nation. She’ll look at work that the Constitution did to meet this end and how did it fell short. And she’ll talk about what the choices made by the founders then mean for us now. \nThe mechanisms the founders used to foster unity across time and space matter as we think about bridging divisions today. This talk will leave you thinking at a more profound level about what it means to be a citizen of the United States. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Guests are welcome to arrive any time after 5:30. Talk starts at 6:30.) \nImage: A map of the Thirteen Colonies and nearby colonial areas just before the Revolutionary War. From the 1923 book Historical Atlas\, by William R. Shepherd.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-a-nation-that-almost-wasnt/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: A Guide to Witches
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “A Guide to Witches\,” on the figure of the witch in history\, legend\, folklore\, and fairy tales\, with Linda Lee\, lecturer in folklore and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. \nGet ready for something spellbinding: A look at various depictions of witches as reflections of ideas about female sexuality\, independence\, agency\, and power. \nOffering up this pre-Halloween treat will be folklorist Linda Lee\, who previously has given excellent talks at the Black Squirrel Club in Philadelphia’s Fishtown on dark Christmas folklore and the goddess Persephone. \nWe’ll start with an introduction to witches from European folklore\, fairy tales\, and legends. You’ll learn how they’re generally portrayed as powerful\, solitary\, and defiant figures who can be either helpful or harmful. They may appear as mothers\, helpers who aid a hero on a quest\, or monsters to be vanquished. They can represent a threat to the community by snatching children or pilfering cows’ milk. \nIndividual witches who will be conjured up include the child-eating witch from Grimms’ “Hansel and Gretel” and Baba Yaga\, the ambiguous witch of Slavic folklore who lives in a hut on chicken legs and flies around with a mortar and pestle. \nLee will then contrast such fictional depictions with the ideas about witches and witchcraft espoused by Christian demonological thought. \nYou’ll learn how witches are described by early modern sources like Malleus Maleficarum\, the 15th-century treatise on witchcraft which also served as a witch hunters’ manual. Such texts present witches as entirely malevolent figures who gain magical powers through a pact with the Devil (usually signed with menstrual blood). The witches in them are believed to use a special ointment that allowed them to fly to a Witches’ Sabbath\, where they dance and perform demonic rituals. \nYou’ll see how such ideas were visually reinforced through engravings\, woodcuts\, and drawings\, by artists like Albrecht Dürer\, that depicted naked women riding broomsticks and dancing with devils. \nYou’ll come away with a better understanding of why witches are among the most versatile\, notorious\, and enduring figures from fairy tales and legends and remain an iconic part of contemporary Halloween traditions. Feel free to dress witchy if you wish. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3 pm. Talk starts at 3:30.) \nImage: From “Preparation for the Witches’ Sabbath\,” by 17th Century Flemish artist David Teniers the Younger.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-a-guide-to-witches/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Lecture,Native Plants,Nature & Community Science,Nature Walks,Seasonal,Workshops,Workshops & Seminars
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Finding the Cosmic Puzzle's Missing Pieces
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Finding the Cosmic Puzzle’s Missing Pieces\,” a look at how the fields of astronomy and subatomic physics are working in tandem to shed light on the darkest parts of the universe\, with Mark Trodden\, professor of physics\, co-director of the Center for Particle Cosmology\, and associate dean for the natural sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. \nFor most of the last century\, physicists pushed our understanding of the microscopic world down to ever-smaller sizes\, splitting the atom to reveal its inner workings and enable astonishing new discoveries\, including\, most recently\, the Higgs particle. \nAt the same time\, other scientists—astronomers—have continued to look to the skies for “the big picture” of the universe\, peering far beyond our galaxy and looking back to the beginning of time. They have discovered that the universe contains the mysterious entities of dark matter and dark energy\, and that the Big Bang may have arisen through cosmic inflation\, a dramatic expansion of space about which we’ve gained crucial new knowledge just in recent years. \nLearn how modern cosmology is weaving together these seemingly distinct strands of knowledge\, turning our telescopes into microscopes and allowing us to read the hitherto unknown dark side of the universe\, in a fascinating talk being given at the Black Squirrel Club in Philadelphia’s Fishtown. \nThe speaker\, theoretical physicist Mark Trodden\, conducts research that has contributed to a broad range of topics in particle physics\, gravity and cosmology. He focuses on some of the most pressing problems in fundamental physics found at the interfaces between these fields. His talk promises to be mind-blowing\, and it will make you see the universe in entirely new ways. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Guests are welcome to arrive any time after 5:30. Talk starts at 6:30.) \nImage: From a 2012 dark matter map by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-finding-the-cosmic-puzzles-missing-pieces/
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Climate Change 101
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Climate Change 101\,” a crash course on the science related to directional climate change and global warming\, with Sean O’Donnell\, professor in Drexel University’s Biodiversity\, Earth and Environmental Science program. \nWe hear and read a lot about climate change and global warming\, and it has become pretty hard to ignore the Philadelphia region’s wacky weather patterns with its recent freakily warm winters\, vanishing snow\, and late spring “heat domes.” \nMany of us\, however\, don’t have much of a grasp of the science explaining such developments and can’t answer questions such as: How do we really know that the climate is changing? If so\, why? Is Philadelphia’s strange local weather part of the bigger picture? \nGain an understanding of the basic science that helps us predict and understand climate change with the help of Sean O’Donnell\, an environmental ecologist and expert in animal responses to temperature conditions. \nHe’ll talk about how the Earth compares to the moon and other planets in terms of its atmosphere’s composition and function\, and he’ll discuss what drives dynamic climates that undergo changes in their normal range of variation. \nYou’ll learn about the scientific basis for how and why we expect the climate to change and how we know human activities are driving changes. You’ll get a clear understanding of the evidence for and against climate change and a sense of the validity of various claims made by climate-change skeptics. \nDr. O’Donnell’s research is heavily focused on how various animals deal with shifts in climate conditions and extremely high or low temperatures. You’ll walk away from his talk with a clearer understanding of what we can expect to deal with down the road. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.) \nImage: Texas’s Lake Ray Hubbard after a drought. Photo by Terry Shuck / Creative Commons
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-climate-change-101/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Climate Change 101
DESCRIPTION:[Profs and Pints Philadelphia](https://www.profsandpints.com/philadelphia) presents: **“Climate Change 101\,”** a crash course on the science related to directional climate change and global warming\, with Sean O’Donnell\, professor in Drexel University’s Biodiversity\, Earth and Environmental Science program. \n[Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Available at [https://profs-and-pints-black-squirrel.ticketleap.com/climatescience/](https://profs-and-pints-black-squirrel.ticketleap.com/climatescience/) .] \nWe hear and read a lot about climate change and global warming\, and it has become pretty hard to ignore the Philadelphia region’s wacky weather patterns with its recent freakily warm winters\, vanishing snow\, and late spring “heat domes.” \nMany of us\, however\, don’t have much of a grasp of the science explaining such developments and can’t answer questions such as: How do we really know that the climate is changing? If so\, why? Is Philadelphia’s strange local weather part of the bigger picture? \nGain an understanding of the basic science that helps us predict and understand climate change with the help of Sean O’Donnell\, an environmental ecologist and expert in animal responses to temperature conditions. \nHe’ll talk about how the Earth compares to the moon and other planets in terms of its atmosphere’s composition and function\, and he’ll discuss what drives dynamic climates that undergo changes in their normal range of variation. \nYou’ll learn about the scientific basis for how and why we expect the climate to change and how we know human activities are driving changes. You’ll get a clear understanding of the evidence for and against climate change and a sense of the validity of various claims made by climate-change skeptics. \nDr. O’Donnell’s research is heavily focused on how various animals deal with shifts in climate conditions and extremely high or low temperatures. You’ll walk away from his talk with a clearer understanding of what we can expect to deal with down the road. ( Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.) \nImage: Texas’s Lake Ray Hubbard after a drought. Photo by Terry Shuck / Creative Commons
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-climate-change-101-2/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: How We're Watched
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “How We’re Watched\,” on the long history and chilling future of the surveillance of faces and bodies\, with Sharrona Pearl\, associate professor of bioethics and history at Drexel University and author of Do I Know You? From Face Blindness to Superrecognition. \nMany of us associate facial recognition technology with sci fi depictions of a dystopian future. The reality\, however\, is that technology intended to track our faces and bodies has already been with us for a very long time. \nLearn about the fascinating and fraught history of biometric surveillance\, and where it might be headed\, with Professor Sharrona Pearl\, historian and theorist of the face and body whose other books include Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other and About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain. \nWe’ll look back at the analogue precursors to today’s digital surveillance tools. You’ll learn about physiognomy\, which involved “reading” facial features to learn about character\, as well about the development and use of fingerprinting. You’ll be introduced to figures such as Alphonse Bertillon\, the French police officer and biometric researcher who developed the first scientific system that used measurements of body parts to track criminals and later played a key role in standardizing the use of mug shots. You’ll learn how the chief East German border guard at Checkpoint Charlie\, the busiest border between East German and West Germany during the Cold War\, developed an analogue system of face recognition technology to prevent people from sneaking across the border. \nFocusing on the present\, Professor Pearl will talk about current facial recognition technology and how a dramatic decline in the number of false positives made through it should not be interpreted as meaning it has improved. She’ll discuss how we should be concerned about how much our privacy is being eroded as increasingly effective and accurate surveillance technology tracks people across time and space. You’ll learn about the deep biases embedded in the tracking of people by their physical features. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.) \nImage: From an illustration of a facial recognition system by Basem Assiri and Alamgir Hossain (Creative Commons).
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-how-were-watched/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Free,Gallery,Lecture
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