Profs & Pints Alameda: The Rise of Vampires

Faction Brewing 2501 Monarch St., Alameda

Profs and Pints Alameda presents: “The Rise of Vampires,” on the folkloric origins and literary evolution of today’s fanged fiends, with Sara Hackenberg, professor of English at San Francisco State University and scholar of Victorian literature and literature’s vampire tradition.

The Doctor and the Vampire: Fact, Folklore, and a Strange Investigation

Woodbridge Main Library 1 George Frederick Plaza, Woodbridge

In 1755, Dr. Gerard Van Swieten, a physician and scholar of medical history was sent to a small town in eastern Europe by Empress Maria Theresa of Hungary, to investigate a corpse. Apparently citizens believed sinister supernatural forces were at work.