Introducing BOTTLE TALKS, our brand new LECTURE SERIES featuring some of the most interesting academics in the city presenting their work in a good old fashion dive bar.

Our second lineup covers everything from Clueless to Galileo - we'll be answering your questions about the vastness of the universe, and shine an academic light on one of cinema's most juvenile genre's!

Carles Badenes - Pitt Professor

"How Big is the Universe? A Historical Perspective"

A historical overview of how humankind has tried to tackle this very big question, from the first attempts to the modern version of the answer (warning: this is incredibly broad and insanely ambitious)

Jacqueline Johnson - Pitt Professor

"Teen Film"

This course will look at a type of film that has been prominent in Hollywood and international cinema since 1955: the youth film or teen film or teenpic. The teenpic has been variously defined as films targeted at a teenage market and as films about teenagers (and sometimes both). In considering the teenpic as a genre, we will attempt to break it down into subgenres such as the juvenile delinquent film, the teen musical, the teen horror film, nostalgic teen films, postmodern youth cult films, African American teen films, “girl” teenpics, and LGBTQIA+ teenpics.

And open Q&As with both after!

PLUS! 100% of the ticket sales from this event will be donated back to the speakers research departments to help support their ongoing work!