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<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints Northern Virginia</a> presents: “Dune and Messiahs,”
 on word of saviors in religion and science fiction, with Peter Herman, 
former lecturer in theology and religious studies at Marymount 
University and scholar of religious and social themes in sci fi.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Dune: Part Three is scheduled for release in December, and trailers for the epic space opera film have fans of the Dune
 franchise longing for it like visitors to its desert planet Arrakis 
long for water. Based on the second volume of renowned science fiction 
novelist Frank Herbert's Dune saga, the movie depicts the 
internal and external conflicts of protagonist Paul Atreides, an emperor
 treated by others as a messiah while being depicted as an antihero.
The film will raise intriguing questions related to the presence of 
redeeming figures, or messiahs, throughout both science fiction and 
religious texts. Among them: What exactly do we mean by the term 
“messiah”? Why have many religious traditions looked for a redeemer to 
emerge? What happens if the messiah gets it all wrong?&nbsp;
Explore such questions—and prepare yourself to enjoy the upcoming Dune
 film at a much deeper level—with Dr. Peter Herman, who has given 
several excellent, thought-provoking Profs and Pints talks on the Dune franchise.
To center Dune in the discussion, we’ll look at the 
character of Paul Atriedes as a ruler who has launched a jihad across 
known space to reconquer it. His prescient visions show him that 
although the spread of religious war is not optimal, neither is it the 
worst potential future for humanity, and he allows excess and violence 
to continue in his name out of a conviction that it’s for the greater 
good. Throughout the book on which the upcoming film is based, Atriedes 
struggles with his followers' desire to view him as a divine figure.
Dr. Herman, a trained theologian, will set such themes in the broader
 context of religious studies by discussing messianic figures across 
various religious traditions. Among them, Christianity names Jesus of 
Nazareth as the messiah, but he is hardly the first person in the 
canonical Bible given that title. Mainstream Judaism does not anticipate
 any similar, deified figure descending from heaven, but messianic 
strains of Judaism have looked for the arrival of a political liberator.
 Islam, from which Frank Herbert borrowed terms applied to Paul 
Atriedes, contains reference to someone serving not as a redeemer but as
 a heavenly guide. All branches of Buddhism situate within each new age 
of their cyclical cosmology a Buddha-yet-to-come.
We’ll look at the human tendency in confusing times to seek out 
direct, uncomplicated answers and to embrace messianism as part of 
apocalypticism, which foretells a straightforward sorting process in 
which believers, as good people, see reward while their enemies, as bad 
people, see punishment.&nbsp;
Dune fans will feel rewarded for coming to this talk. 
(<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/northern-virginia-dune-messiahs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17,
 or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 
minutes later.)
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Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: Dune and Messiahs

Profs and Pints Northern Virginia presents: “Dune and Messiahs,”
 on word of saviors in religion and science fiction, with...

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints Northern Virginia</a> presents: “Folktales of Summer Forests,” with
 Brittany Warman, former instructor at Ohio State University and 
co-founder of the Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic.
Unique folklore emerges from the summer months, when the sun burns 
hot and nature bursts with full, lush beauty. Some of this lore is 
strange, some of it tragic, and some as beautiful as sunlight through 
branches.
Wander deep into the folklore of summer with Brittany Warman of the 
Carterhaugh School, an extraordinary educational organization which has 
earned a large and loyal following among Profs and Pints fans with its 
captivating talks on folktales, fairy tales, legends, and myths.
We’ll look at why the forest stands as the perfect setting for 
enchantment and mystery. It’s by turns a place of shade and rest and a 
place of uncertainty and fear. It can be dangerous, bountiful, tame, or 
wild. It shelters witches, fairies, monsters, and more under its 
branches.
From the forest come the legends of the illusive Green Man, the king 
of the woods. Also told are stories of sacred trees, hidden dances, and 
fairies who engage in midsummer abductions. Fairy tales like “The Witch 
in the Woods” and “The White Deer” tell of hidden doorways, magic rings,
 and cursed princesses.
Let Dr. Warman guide you through magical forests and you’ll emerge 
seeing the wonder in every leaf, stream, and wildflower. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nv-summer-forests" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 
with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes 
later.)&nbsp;&nbsp;
Image: "Fairies in a Bird's Nest," an 1860 painting by John Anster Fitzgerald.

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Profs and Pints Northern Virginia presents: “Folktales of Summer Forests,” with
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Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: Folktales of Summer Forests

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<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “Maintain Your Brain,” a
 research-based guide to nurturing your brain and staying sharp as you 
age, with Dr. Majid Fotuhi, adjunct professor of neuroscience at Johns 
Hopkins University’s Mind/Brain Institute and author of The Invincible Brain.
Most people assume memory loss is inevitable with age, but that’s not
 the case. Dramatic leaps forward in brain research over the past decade
 have produced a host of both surprising and actionable findings related
 to brain health and resilience.
If you are concerned about your brain’s long-term health or looking 
after aging parents, you won’t want to miss this upcoming Profs and 
Pints talk. The speaker, Dr. Majid Fotuhi, is a neurologist and 
neuroscientist who has spent four decades studying Alzheimer's disease, 
memory, and the science of brain resilience. He developed a 12-week 
clinical program that has helped hundreds of patients improve on 
objective cognitive tests and experience MRI-confirmed increases in the 
volume of their hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for 
memory and learning.
You’ll learn how the brain has a remarkable ability to grow new 
connections, increase in volume, and recover from years of neglect—a 
property called neuroplasticity. At the same time, even a single night 
of poor sleep causes a measurable buildup in the brain of amyloid, the 
protein linked to Alzheimer's.
Dr. Fotuhi will describe how our understanding of neuroplasticity has
 greatly increased since ten years ago, when the prevailing view in 
medicine was that the adult brain is essentially fixed, a finished 
product that could only decline with age. Thanks to subsequent clinical 
trial data we now know that what we eat, how we sleep, whether we 
exercise, how we manage stress, and how much cognitive simulation we 
experience all directly reshape brain structure and function. Efforts to
 tend to these areas can improve memory scores and reverse early 
cognitive decline in people who were already showing Alzheimer’s 
symptoms.&nbsp;
These are not small effects seen in obscure journals. Many of these 
findings come from institutions like Harvard, the Mayo Clinic, and the 
National Institutes of Health, and they are reshaping how neurologists 
think about prevention and treatment.
Among the questions Dr. Fotuhi will tackle: Is Alzheimer's disease 
really preventable? Can you reverse early memory loss with lifestyle 
changes alone? Why does chronic stress quietly damage your brain even 
when you feel fine? (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/dc-maintain-your-brain" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax and 
processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is 
for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
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Profs & Pints DC: Maintain Your Brain

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Maintain Your Brain,” a
 research-based guide to nurturing your brain and staying sharp as you...

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints Northern Virginia</a> presents: “Those Who Gave Rise to Our Navy,”
 on the men who set sail for the American Revolution and their fates, 
with Abby Mullen, assistant professor of history at the United States 
Naval Academy and author of To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800-1805.
Their ranks were Black as well as White and included the young and 
the old, the offspring of incredibly wealthy merchant families as well 
as the all-but-destitute. The British government called them pirates and
 charged them with treason. Even George Washington referred to some of 
them as rascals. Yet all were willing to take to sea and take great 
risks as sailors in the fight against Great Britain.
Why did they do it?
As we celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday, join Professor Abby 
Mullen, who teaches Annapolis midshipmen classes on naval history, to 
become familiar with the kinds of people who joined our Navy at the 
outset, at great risk.
We’ll look at where American Revolutionary sailors came from, what 
motivated them to go to sea, and what happened to them during their 
service. We’ll examine the many ways they could serve as part of the 
Continental Navy, as part of state navies, or as privateers.
Finally, we’ll look at what happened to them in the long run, and how
 some ended up imprisoned by the British after being captured while 
others were discharged from their ship after the war as the Continental 
Navy got sold off bit by bit. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nv-navy-rise" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax 
and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time 
is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: A 1779 naval battle involving American and British ships as 
painted by Richard Paton in 1780 (Royal Academy / Public Domain).

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Profs and Pints Northern Virginia presents: “Those Who Gave Rise to Our Navy,”
 on the men who set sail for the American...

Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: Those Who Gave Rise to Our Navy

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “NASA’s New Quest to See the Unseen,” a
 look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its mission to expand
 our understanding of dark matter, dark energy, and the Milky Way, with 
Bear Witherspoon, payload systems engineer for the Roman telescope at 
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.&nbsp;
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to be launched into space in late
 summer or early fall, and what it sees out there is likely to leave us 
spellbound.&nbsp;
Its to-do list includes performing a demographic census of planetary 
systems in the Milky Way, testing out a new camera that directly images 
exoplanets to help us find habitable worlds, and shedding light on the 
universe's most mysterious features—dark energy and dark matter.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Come get an insider’s perspective on that mission from Bear 
Witherspoon, who has overseen the assembly of the telescope and will be 
part of its launch team.&nbsp;
He’ll walk you through the design of the telescope and how it was 
built and tested. You’ll learn how it has a field of view 200 times that
 of the Hubble telescope as well as infrared vision that will help 
astronomers peer far across space and deep into the universe’s dustiest 
regions. It was subjected to rigorous vibration and sound tests to 
ensure it could survive launch as well as extreme cold in a vacuum to 
ensure it can function in space.&nbsp;
We’ll look at how the Roman space telescope will work with those that
 preceded it into the space, the Hubble and Webb space telescopes, by 
taking a much broader view and pinpointing worthy subjects of 
investigation for the more-focused instruments.&nbsp;
You’ll learn how the Roman telescope will help us investigate the 
roughly 95 percent of energy and matter called “dark” because we’ve been
 unable to observe it and how it works. Witherspoon will walk you 
through how it’s surmised that dark energy and matter provide the 
infrastructure for visible matter in the universe, and how the Roman 
telescope will try to identify the presence and effects of dark matter 
by observing visible matter on an incredibly large scale.&nbsp;
The talk promises to leave you in a state of wonder and excited about
 all we’ll be learning out there. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales 
tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed 
time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: A NASA illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

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Profs & Pints DC: NASA’s New Quest to See the...

Profs and Pints DC presents: “NASA’s New Quest to See the Unseen,” a
 look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its...

Profs & Pints DC: NASA’s New Quest to See the Unseen

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “Designing Belonging,”
 on the messages sent by various institutional environments and how they
 can be made more welcoming, with Martha Kakooza, research associate in 
the department of higher education and student affairs at Morgan State 
University, where she teaches courses on gender, sexuality, and 
narrative and qualitative research.
Why do some rooms make people relax while others make them stiffen? 
Why do certain workplaces, schools, restaurants, churches, airports, and
 waiting rooms seem to say, “you are welcome here,” while others quietly
 signal “this was not built with you in mind”?
Explore how ordinary spaces shape belonging at a talk that will offer
 guidance to those seeking to create inclusive environments for 
students, clients, and customers. Being on hand will help anyone out 
there sort out why some environments have felt so welcoming while others
 left them focused on exits.
You’ll learn how a room's layout, lighting, seating, signage, sound, 
artwork, security presence, and history all affect whether people feel 
at ease or on edge, powerful or invisible, cared for or merely 
processed. People read these cues almost instantly, usually before they 
can explain why a place feels welcoming or alienating.
Dr. Martha Kakooza, a scholar whose research has focused space, 
identity, and institutional environments, will discuss why the same 
environment can feel like home to one person and like a closed door to 
another. She’ll describe how experiences of race, culture, class, 
gender, age, disability, and migration all shape how we read a space. 
We’ll look at how no space is truly neutral, because each one carries 
social messages and histories.
Drawing on research on students navigating higher-education 
institutions built without them in mind, Dr. Kakooza will discuss three 
distinct things spaces do to us: Some leave us drifting and unanchored. 
Some put us on display and grant only a conditional, watched kind of 
welcome. And some we manage to come to see as genuinely ours. She calls 
these different effects, respectively, “Drift,” “Quota,” or “Turn.”
Among the questions Dr. Kakooza will answer: What makes a place feel 
welcoming? How do buildings and rooms communicate power? What would it 
take to design schools, workplaces, and public spaces with belonging 
built in? (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. 
Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk
 starts 30 minutes later.)
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Profs & Pints DC: Designing Belonging

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Designing Belonging,”
 on the messages sent by various institutional environments and how they
...

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “The Stories in Our Bones,” an
 introduction to the field of bioarchaeology and what it tells us about 
life and death in the past, with Jordan Wilson, bioarchaeologist, 
skeletal biologist, and postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Georgetown 
University.
Gather among the living to learn how lessons are taught by the dead.
Join Dr. Jordan Wilson of Georgetown University to dig into the field
 of bioarchaeology, a science that combines knowledge of human skeletal 
anatomy with that of past cultures and treatment of the body after 
death.
Covering bioarchaeology’s history, she’ll describe how researchers 
first realized that skeletons could be every bit as important to our 
understanding of the past as artifacts displayed in museums. She’ll also
 discuss how early research on human skeletal remains unfortunately 
became intertwined with research in eugenics.
She also will give you an understanding of bioarchaeologists’ 
methods, teaching you how they determine the age, biological sex, and 
ancestry of the deceased from their bones. You’ll learn how they 
identify various traumatic injuries, from broken arms to scimitar cuts, 
as well as evidence of repetitive actions to gain insight into daily 
activities. Past health problems are identifiable from the scars left on
 bones by illnesses such as rickets, scurvy, tuberculosis, and anemia.
We’ll examine some famous bioarchaeology cases and look at what 
movies get wrong about mummies and the field of archaeology in general. 
We’ll also look at how human remains research is used for good, by 
identifying the missing, solving cold cases, and supporting tribal 
sovereignty.&nbsp;
Among the questions she’ll tackle: What’s the oldest murder mystery 
ever solved? (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/dc-stories-in-bones" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing 
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The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: Part of a skeleton in a bioarchaeology lab. (Photo by Andreacise / Wikimedia Commons.)

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Profs & Pints DC: The Stories in Our Bones

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Stories in Our Bones,” an
 introduction to the field of bioarchaeology and what it tells us...

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National Mall

June 25 through July 10
A world-class exposition and modern-day World’s Fair celebrating the people, traditions, innovations, and spirit that make America the greatest nation on Earth. Featuring more than 150 exhibits from all 56 states and territories, businesses, innovators, and civic organizations, the Great American State Fair will showcase the very best of America through state pavilions, industry displays, family-friendly attractions, movie screenings, musical performances, military ensembles, spectacular flyovers, daily cultural programming, and an iconic Ferris wheel on the National Mall.&nbsp;
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<ul><li>General Public RSVP <a href="https://link.send.nucleuswire.com/click/e1570552/VaHR0cHM6Ly9ldmVudHMuZnJlZWRvbTI1MC5vcmcvZXZlbnRzL2dyZWF0LWFtZXJpY2FuLXN0YXRlLWZhaXI/Sc2VuZF9udWNsZXVzd2lyZV9jb20yNjA2MDc/LbmN3TTQzZkxlQg/gaiXMbA/scj5283e2d5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">HERE</a></li></ul>Daily Programming Themes
<ul><li>Thursday, June 25 — The American Canon: Opening Day</li><li>Friday, June 26 — Land &amp; Prosperity</li><li>Saturday, June 27 — The American Canvas</li><li>Sunday, June 28 — Military &amp; Veterans Appreciation Day</li><li>Monday, June 29 — Everyday Health and Well Being | MAHA Monday</li><li>Tuesday, June 30— Future of America | Innovation, Technology &amp; Progress</li><li>Wednesday, July 1 — Faith, Values, and Inspiration</li><li>Thursday, July 2 — Horsepower of America</li><li>Friday, July 3 — Wings of Freedom</li><li>Saturday, July 4 — Independence Day Celebration</li><li>Sunday, July 5 — Heritage &amp; Legacy</li><li>Monday, July 6 — Longevity, Innovation &amp; the Future of Health | MAHA Monday</li><li>Tuesday, July 7 — Future of America | Education and Opportunity</li><li>Wednesday, July 8 —Family Life and Community Support Celebrate</li><li>Thursday, July 9 —Engines of Enterprise</li><li>Friday, July 10 — The Next 250 | Innovation</li></ul>
Public Operating Dates &amp; Hours June 25–July 10, 2026 (daily)
<ul><li>Sunday–Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.</li><li>Thursday–Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.</li><li>July 4th: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m.</li></ul>
Event Location The Great American State Fair will take place on the National Mall in Washington, DC, between 14th Street and 4th Street.
Attendees can enter the fairgrounds at the following entry points:
<ul><li>12th Street at Jefferson Drive SW and Madison Drive NW</li><li>7th Street at Jefferson Drive SW and Madison Drive NW</li></ul>
Tickets &amp; Admission The Great American State Fair will be free and open to the public. Advance guest pre-registration will be encouraged; walk-ups are welcome. <a href="https://events.freedom250.org/events/great-american-state-fair" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Register here.</a>

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The Great American State Fair

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A world-class exposition and modern-day World’s Fair celebrating the people, traditions, innovations,...

DC Comedy Loft and Bier Baron Tavern

Tara Cannistraci is an Italian-American comedian, actress, and writer, hailing from the vibrant streets of the Bronx, New York. Tara’s talents have lit up the stage, television, film, and even centerfield as the scoreboard host for the New York Yankees.
She's kicked off her second national tour, The Boroughbred Tour, and is bringing unfiltered, witty New York energy to the nation’s capital. Prior to her first national tour in 2025, she opened for Josh Wolf, Joey Diaz &amp; Vic DiBitetto. In 2026, she will be opening for Jo Koy on select dates of the Just Being Koy Tour.

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Tara Cannistraci at DC Comedy Loft

Tara Cannistraci is an Italian-American comedian, actress, and writer, hailing from the vibrant streets of the Bronx, New York....

Looking for a sharp, reliable freelance videographer to team up with me for a few hours midday on July 2, 3, and 4.
<ul><li>The Mission: Capturing quick, energetic, man-on-the-street interviews with tourists right on the Washington DC Mall.</li><li>The Vibe: Fun, fast-paced, and public.</li><li>Rate: Reasonable freelance rates&mdash;let's talk!</li></ul>
If you've got the gear, the eye for framing quick public interviews, and want to capture some great energy leading up to and on the 4th of July, let's connect.
Contact: Matthew Lesko
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&#128231; Email: <a href="mailto:FreeLesko@gmail.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">FreeLesko@gmail.com</a>

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