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25feb4:30 pmWinter Igloos at the Watergate Hotel4:30 pm The Watergate Hotel

25feb6:00 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: (African) American Revolution6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Church Hall

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Profs and Pints presents: “(African) American Revolution,” a look at the roles African Americans played in the nation’s fight for independence, with Richard Bell, associate professor of history at the University of Maryland.

As schoolchildren we’re taught that the American Revolution was about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But what did those words mean to black people caught up in that war? Just how revolutionary was the American Revolution for people of color, who faced oppression by whites on both sides of the conflict?

For many, it was the British who offered independence, promising freedom to black slaves who might be willing to desert their rebel masters and join the King’s regiments. Others, however, took up the American patriots’ cause, throwing themselves into the war effort with more enthusiasm and more on the line than many white colonists.

Come learn the stories of those on both sides. You’ll become deeply familiar with Crispus Attucks, who was slain in a hail of redcoat gunfire during the Boston Massacre, and hear about Harry Washington, the runaway slave from George Washington’s Mount Vernon who fled to British lines, served with a British artillery unit, and then sailed with the retreating redcoat army to Canada before heading off to Sierra Leone.

Such stories ask us to think about the states of the American Revolution from the black perspective. They also draw attention to the war’s mixed outcome for African Americans, as the patriot victory spurred the rise of the anti-slavery movement in northern states while helping to preserve plantation slavery in the south for generations to come.

Richard Bell, a scholar of the history and culture of the United States from 1750 to 1877 and a dedicated public historian, will captivate you in discussing this complex chapter of the nation’s history. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)

Time

(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

Church Hall

1070 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20007

Cost

Advance tickets: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID.

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27feb6:00 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: The Electric Brain6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Social Circle Bistro at the Cambria Hotel - Washington DC Convention Center

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Profs and Pints presents, “The Electric Brain,” with R. Douglas Fields, professor in the University of Maryland’s Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program and author of Electric Brain: How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better.

Research on brainwaves is transforming how neuroscientists believe the brain works and revolutionizing our future by linking the human mind to computers. Yet few members of the public understand brain waves, which have been mysterious and controversial since their discovery, in the 1920s, by a reclusive German who measured electromagnetic energy radiating out of the brains of his patients in a mental hospital.

Come gain a thorough understanding of the electric currents in our heads and the potential they hold with the help of R. Douglas Fields, a world-renowned neuroscientist and author of the books Electric Brain, The Other Brain, and Why We Snap. He’ll discuss both the history, and future, of manipulating brainwaves.

You’ll learn how these bioelectric broadcasts expose our conscious and unconscious mental activity, emotions, innate cognitive abilities, and psychological and neurological disorders. Cognitive performance, mood, mental and neurological health all can be improved by manipulating brainwaves. The methods for doing so include neurofeedback or the beaming electrical or magnetic stimulation through the scalp and or via electrodes implanted in the brain.

We’ll also look at how brainwaves can transmit information directly between two brains. They also can control machines such as prosthetic limbs and fighter drones, offering the potential to enable both tremendous good and great harm. You’ll find the whole discussion electrifying. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)

Time

(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

Social Circle Bistro at the Cambria Hotel - Washington DC Convention Center

899 O Street NW, Washington DC 20001

Cost

Advance tickets; $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID.

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