Recorded Friday, September 29th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023.

In September 2021, after several years of preparation, the FoodCult team recreated a beer last brewed in the sixteenth century. In Ireland and across early modern Europe, beer was central to social life and a vital source of nutrition. But up to now, we have had little sense of what that beer was like, how strong it really was, and how much energy it provided. By reconstructing the recipes, equipment, and techniques used at Dublin Castle four hundred years ago, the team set out to answer these important questions.

Undertaking this project was an immense interdisciplinary effort, bringing together historians, archaeologists, scientists, craftspeople, and also storytellers and creative audiovisual artists. Each step of the journey was documented by a film crew who followed the adventure through archives, fields, kitchens and laboratories, capturing the rich atmospheric sound and visuals sights of the experiment.

Drunk? Adventures in Sixteenth-Century Brewing, was followed by a discussion with renowned food and drinks historian, Marc Meltonville, and Prof Susan Flavin, the FoodCult project leader. The event is also features an opportunity to hear from Maurice Deasy, a brewer who is working to bring heritage skills and ingredients to the modern brewing industry, and to taste some of the beers produced by Canvas Brewery using heritage Irish grains. Chaired by Prof Ruth Burton, School of Creative Arts.

This film is an output of the FoodCult Project (Grant Agreement 803486), funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. For more information, visit: https://foodcult.eu/

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Recorded Wednesday, September 27th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023.

Securing Human Rights in the Anthropocene: the Role of Religion, with Trinity’s Professor of Ecumenics, Linda Hogan.

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Recorded Friday, September 29th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023.

Pádraic Whyte (English) joins other experts for a panel discussion on exciting new research directions.

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Recorded Thursday, September 28th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023.

James Joyce and Nora Barnacle are visited by ghosts in Trieste in this new chamber opera, a first-time collaboration between Irish National Opera and ANU. Screening and discussion with composer Evangelia Rigaki (Music) and librettist Marina Carr, chaired by Melissa Sihra (Drama).

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Recorded Friday, September 29th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023.

Balazs Apor (European Studies), co-ordinator of Trinity’s Centre for Resistance Studies, on the cultic veneration of leaders in Eastern Europe, and John Murray (Russian & Slavonic Studies) on ‘The Soviet Gaze’, images in the USSR’s print media.

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Recorded Friday, September 29th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023.

Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History (1762), shares new work on this topical subject from the perspective of the early modern period.

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Recorded Tuesday, September 26th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023.

Fascists at the Gate: The Strange Tale of Coriolanus in Irish

Trinity’s 1867 Professor of English Andrew Murphy on Shakespeare translated.

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Recorded Thursday, September 28th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023.

Trinity Professor of German (1776) Jürgen Barkhoff talks to his predecessor, scholar and memoirist Professor Eda Sagarra.

Recorded Monday, September 25th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023.

Chris Morash, Trinity’s Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, on Technology, Landscape and Irish Modernity.

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Recorded Monday, September 25th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023.

Cross-disciplinarians Amelia McConville and Autumn Brown join tech festival founder Aisling Murray to talk about art, science and tech events both in and beyond the university.

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