Conferences and talks

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|

International Barley Hub Seminar

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.

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Susan Flavin2023-02-01T12:01:34+00:001 February 2023|Conferences and talks, Events, News|

Society for Historical Archaeology Conference 2023

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.

Susan Flavin2023-01-12T12:44:27+00:0012 January 2023|Conferences and talks, Events|

Ales Through the Ages

Marc Meltonville, FoodCult’s ‘Brewer in Chief’, will present a paper featuring our recent research at the ‘Ale Through the Ages’ Conference at Williamsburg VA. The paper, ‘Beer & Roses, building a Tudor brewery’ reflects on the process of recreating historic beers and the challenges of authenticity. The conference runs from 11-13th November.

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Susan Flavin2022-11-10T15:15:06+00:0010 November 2022|Conferences and talks, Events, News|

Nexus and FoodCult

On 16th October 2021, Susan presented some initial findings from the FoodCult Brewing Project at the National Monuments Service Nexus: People and Places Through Time Conference. The lecture is now available as an online podcast.

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Susan Flavin2021-10-26T09:50:41+00:0026 October 2021|Conferences and talks, Events, Media, Podcasts|

Two Conferences and a Publication

We are pleased to announce that we will be presenting preliminary results from the project at two forthcoming conferences.

27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists

The conference takes place online and in Kiel, Germany. Meriel will present a paper on the emerging evidence for plant remains in the Mapping Diet database. This will focus on cereals and fruits to highlight the challenges and benefits of an interdisciplinary approach, key gaps in knowledge, and how the FoodCult project is addressing these issues.

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Some of these preliminary results will also appear in a forthcoming publication:

McClatchie, Flavin and O’Carroll, “Unearthing a new food culture: fruits in early modern Ireland” in Valamoti et. al. eds. Cooking with Plants in Ancient Europe and Beyond: interdisciplinary approaches to the Archaeology of Plant Foods (Sidestone Press, forthcoming 2021)

4^th Annual National Monuments Service archaeology conference: “Nexus: People and Places Through Time”

On the 18th October, Susan will present the preliminary results from the Brewing project which is due to run from 1st-19th September. The paper will focus on the interdisciplinary methods used by the team to recreate sixteenth-century beer, our findings with regards to the brewing process, and the quality of the end product, in nutritional terms.

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Susan Flavin2021-08-22T11:58:04+00:0022 August 2021|Conferences and talks, Events, News, Publications|

Webinar – Food and Drink Cultures Through the Ages

On Tuesday March 23rd 2021, Susan will join food historians Allen J Grieco and Peter Scholliers in a panel discussion on ‘Food and Drink Cultures Through the Ages’. The discussion will be moderated by Beat Kümin, Professor of Early Modern European History and GRP thematic lead for ‘Food Cultures’ at the University of Warwick.

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Susan Flavin2021-02-26T16:53:42+00:0026 February 2021|Conferences and talks, Events|

FoodCult at The Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland

On January 8th, Dr Meriel McClatchie will discuss ‘Investigating ancient foodways through environmental archaeology’ with The Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland. Meriel’s paper will feature some interesting new findings in relation to fruit consumption in early modern Ireland, as revealed by the FoodCult database. It will also explore the benefits of interdisciplinary research for historians and archaeologists.

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Susan Flavin2021-01-27T16:16:21+00:0027 January 2021|Conferences and talks, Events, News|

FoodCult at UCD Research Day

On the 13th of December, Ellen presented her work on the ‘Mapping Diet’ database at the UCD School of Archaeology Research Day. The research day showcased the school’s diverse range of projects and was an opportunity for Ellen to share her experience of working on the project and to discuss the challenges and possibilities of working with a diverse and complex range of early modern archaeological data.

Susan Flavin2019-12-16T14:39:00+00:0016 December 2019|Conferences and talks, News|

FoodCult and Shape-ID

On 2nd and 3rd of December 2019, FoodCult joined the Shape-ID team at the Long Room Hub, TCD. Shape ID is an EU-funded project addressing the challenge of improving inter-and transdisciplinary cooperation between the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) and other Sciences. Susan was delighted to share the approaches and methods of the FoodCult project, as a model for History/Humanities led interdisciplinary research.

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Susan Flavin2019-12-03T18:11:58+00:003 December 2019|Conferences and talks, Events|