On Thursday 6 February 2025 the USIHS will screen Drunk? Adventures in Sixteenth-Century Brewing. The screening will be followed by a facilitated discussion and reflection on historical recreation as a methodology, and its potential for radical cross disciplinary collaboration.
On 27th September, Shreepali Patel (University of the Arts London) will present a paper on the FoodCult film-making project at the ISGSS Congress (University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo). The paper, ‘Weaving complex historical food narratives through sonic and visual artistic practice’ will explore the potential for integrating film and practice-based history to engage diverse audiences. This will be published by the team in coming months.
Looking forward to discussing the FoodCult brewing project at the Affective Artefacts seminar at the University of Manchester next week. The seminar takes place at 4 pm on 24th April (Sam Alex, A112).
At 1 pm tomorrow 30th November Susan and Marc will talk live to Brian O’Connell at Beoirfest about the brewing project. The podcast will be available to listen to later on YouTube.
Newlin Grist Mill will host a special screening of our documentary Drunk? Adventures in Sixteenth-Century Brewing on 16th November at 6 pm. This will be followed by live Q&A with Marc Meltonville, FoodCult’s lead brewer.
On 28th June, the FoodCult Team presented a panel at the ‘Food Systems’ conference hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield. Through six integrated papers we showcased recent results from the project with a focus on a case study from Carrickmines Castle.
On 24th May, Susan gave a keynote lecture at the Posthumus Conference, hosted at the University of Antwerp. The conference theme was ‘food inequalities’ and the lecture focused on the the value of interdisciplinary research and practice based approaches to understanding diets in the past.
On 17th April 2023 Susan presented a keynote lecture at a BrIAS Workshop on
‘Dietary Dilemmas: Influences on Consumer ‘Choice’ in Preindustrial Societies’. The workshop was organised by Prof. Dr. Beat Kümin & Prof. Dr. ir. Frits Heinrich as part of a collaboration between Department of History & Food GRP, University of Warwick and the Brussels Institute of Advanced Studies. The paper focused on food and religion in early modern modern Ireland and presented findings from across the workpackages, exploring the significance of religious ideas and practices on consumption and social interaction in early modern Ireland.
On 2nd February, Susan will present a talk on ‘Bere and Brewing History’ at the IBH seminar. The seminar is focussed on working with heritage barley, and the talk will share the FoodCult teams’s experience of recreating sixteenth century beer with bere.
On 6th January 2023 the FoodCult team presented a panel of 7 papers at the SHA annual conference in Lisbon. These papers represented individual ongoing workpackages, but also our efforts to integrate our approaches towards developing a deeper understanding of diet and food culture in Ireland.