Politics and dining on the menu in Arts Festival’s First Thought Talks

Politics and food will be on the menu when the popular First Thought Talk series, organised by Galway International Arts Festival, returns to NUIG on Saturday, October 12.

Speakers for this one-day event will include politicians Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, political journalist Vincent Browne, food writers Bee Wilson and Catherine Cleary, political scientist David Runciman and historian Catriona Crowe.

Bee Wilson is a journalist and historian and the author of five books on food-related subjects, including First Bite: How We Learn to Eat (2016), and The Way We Eat Now. Strategies for eating in a world of change (2019). The chair of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, she will be in conversation with Irish Times food writer Catherine Cleary.

Their discussion is entitled Food – The Final Frontier and it will examine people’s relationship with food in a world where food has become centre-stage, exploring how we learn to eat, the evolving nature of our relationship with food and how we eat now.  That’s at 2.30pm.

Professor of Politics at Cambridge University, David Runciman has written seven books on political structures and democracy. His 2018 book, How Democracy Ends, was an international bestseller and he has just published Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers. Professor Runciman runs the popular podcast, Talking Politics.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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