Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture at our museum – tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Absinthe
Doors open at 6:30pm and lecture starts at 7pm
The historian Nina S. Studer presents her new book “The Hour of Absinthe”, which offers a critical look at absinthe’s fascinating and scandalous history: Why is there so much mystery about who initially invented the drink? Was it really used as a form of medicine in France’s colonial wars? What was absinthism and why was the drink seen as so dangerous that it had to be banned? The author will focus on the role of absinthe in France’s colonial empire, tracing both its popularity and its eventual demonisation. The book can be bought at the event.
Nina S. Studer is a historian of colonial medicine and psychiatry, and currently an associate researcher at the Institut Éthique Histoire Humanités at the University of Geneva, where she is part of a project investigating the medical history of wet dreams. She is particularly interested in the medicalisation of drinking habits in the colonial Maghreb and has written a series of articles and chapters on tea, coffee, wine, champagne, soft drinks and absinthe. Her book “The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France’s Most Notorious Drink” was published in September 2024 by McGill-Queen’s University Press as part of their “Intoxicating Histories” series.
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Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today.
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