Thursday, September 5th
Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm
(We will continue to start at 8pm throughout the summer months)
Free!
Green Jeans

Event info here!

Join us for Nerd Nite ABQ #7!

Nerd Nite is a monthly lecture-in-a-bar series that takes place in 100+ cities around the world. And now we’ve got our very own Albuquerque chapter!

Join us the first Thursday of every month to learn, laugh, and drink. Our next event is on Thursday, September 5th, at 8:00pm at the Green Jeans Food Hall.

Title: Albuquerque’s Wild Past

Blurb: Albuquerque has a weird and whacky past, from the governor lying about it being founded in 1706 to a later mayor getting the word “ain’t” in the dictionary, and all the buffoonery in between. Joe Hall-Patton recounts several of these stories that lend the city its unique character.

Speaker: Joseph Hall-Patton is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico and a public historian. He specializes in southwestern American violence during the frontier period, having written a dissertation called “‘Great Excitement’: Violent Incorporations of the American Southwest.” He runs the Cynical Historian, which is most prominent on YouTube, where he publishes regular video essays about historical topics.

Title: Deep in your Genes

Blurb: Intergenerational trauma. What is it? How does it affect you, without your even knowing? How can you understand and overcome it, and how can you become a cycle breaker?

Speaker: Rebecca Sonnenberg is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the state of New Mexico. Rebecca has a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and a Minor in Psychology. She also obtained a Masters Degree in Social Work. Rebecca is certified in trauma focused therapy as well as various other certifications. Rebecca owns Waves Behavioral Health and has a non profit The Lotus Affect. She also co-produces the podcast What in the Actual Mental Health.

Title: From 💩 to 🍆: The Secret Lives of Emoji

Blurb: Whether we’re dropping a 😂, a 💀, or a 🤔, we use emoji every day. But do you really know where these little “picture characters” come from? Spoiler alert: it’s much weirder than you think! 🌍✨ Join us on a wild ride through the cultural quirks, historical twists, and oddly technical committee debates that brought us the emojiverse. Discover the eyebrow-raising origins of your favorite emoji (looking at you, 🕴️ MAN IN SUIT LEVITATING 🕴️ ), the hours-long meetings that decided the fate of 💩 ANGRY PILE OF POO 💩, and one determined woman’s quest to give the world the 🥟 DUMPLING 🥟 emoji. We’ll end with a call to action: how we can get the 🎈 HOT AIR BALLOON 🎈 emoji we so sorely need here in Albuquerque.

Speaker: By night, Nat Baca is a co-boss of Nerd Nite Albuquerque, but by day, he works as a director of engineering for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind Wikipedia. In addition to being a current delegate to the Unicode Consortium (the standards body that governs emoji), Nat was an engineer on the team at Apple that introduced the emoji keyboard. He enjoys internet lore, learning languages, and gratuitous emoji tableaux.

Come join us for a drink, learn something new, and meet fellow nerds. Tell your friends, and help us spread the word about Nerd Nite Albuquerque at Green Jeans!

And if you’re interested in giving a talk of your own, hit us up at https://tiny.cc/nnabq-speaker !