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Talk with Trinity

Brewing the Past: A Journey into History Through Beer and Film
Talk with Trinity | 26 March 2025

Yesterday, we were delighted to present Drunk? Adventures in Sixteenth-Century Brewing as part of Trinity College Dublin’s Talk with Trinity public series at Unit18. This session brought together community members for a special screening of our short film exploring our journey towards recreating historical beer and brewing processes.

The film forms part of FoodCult’s broader mission to uncover the role of food and drink in shaping society, culture, and politics. After the screening, we enjoyed a lively Q&A and discussion with a fantastic and engaged audience.

A huge thanks to everyone who came along—and to Trinity’s Community Engagement team for hosting!

Susan Flavin2025-03-27T13:39:22+00:0027 March 2025|Conferences and talks, Events, News|

Discovering the Past Through Beer: A Special Film Screening and Discussion

As part of the Glasnevin Cemetery Spring Lecture Series, a screening of Drunk? will take place on March 19th at 7:30 PM.

Venue: Milestone Gallery, Glasnevin Cemetery, Finglas Road, Dublin D11 XA32

Admission is free but booking is recommended: booking@dctrust.ie or info@dctrust.ie. Or 01 882 6550

Susan Flavin2025-03-19T10:21:47+00:0019 March 2025|Conferences and talks, Events, News|

Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies (USIHS)

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.

Details and Booking

Susan Flavin2025-01-23T16:27:25+00:0023 January 2025|blogs, Conferences and talks, Events, News, Results|

International Society for Gastronomic Sciences (ISGSS Congress)

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.

• See here for more information

Susan Flavin2024-09-27T11:47:43+00:0026 September 2024|Conferences and talks, News|

Affective Artefacts

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).

Susan Flavin2024-04-19T12:51:48+00:0019 April 2024|Conferences and talks|

Beoirfest Podcast

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.

Listen here

Susan Flavin2023-11-29T18:55:31+00:0029 November 2023|Conferences and talks, Podcasts|

Film Screening at Newlin Grist Mill, Pennsylvania

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.

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Susan Flavin2023-11-14T14:10:57+00:0014 November 2023|Conferences and talks, Events|

Food Systems and Practices: Past, Present and Future

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.

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Susan Flavin2023-07-07T13:48:51+00:007 July 2023|Conferences and talks, Results|

Posthumus Conference Keynote

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.

Susan Flavin2023-05-28T12:29:53+00:0028 May 2023|Conferences and talks, Events|

Brussels Institute of Advanced Studies Workshop: Keynote

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.

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Susan Flavin2023-07-07T14:01:12+00:0018 April 2023|Conferences and talks, News, Results|