Insatiable City launch event! Theresa McCulla in conversation with Mireya Loza, Bold Fork Books, Washington, DC, 7 pm, June 5, 2024
The Core of An Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food, Mark Kurlansky in conversation with Theresa McCulla, Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC, November 12, 2023
“Last Call: Women, Beer, and Climate Change,” event organizer and moderator, Food History Weekend, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, November 3, 2023
“Brewing History is American History—and San Antonio History, Too,” invited lecture, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, July 28, 2023
“Wiki Focus: Black Women in Food and Drink History,” event host and interviewer, Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum and National Museum of American History (Zoom), February 1, 2023
“Patsy Young–American Brewer, Fugitive from Slavery,” research talk, Beer Culture Summit, Chicago, IL (Zoom), November 10, 2022
“Last Call: ¡Salud! to American Latinos in Beer,” event organizer, Smithsonian Food History Weekend, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, October 14, 2022
“Beer: A Taste of American History,” lecture and guided tasting, Smithsonian Associates, Washington, DC (Zoom), June 9, 2022
“American Brewing History Initiative: Collecting Beer History at the Smithsonian,” invited talk, Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware, April 6, 2022
“Patsy Young–American Brewer, Fugitive from Slavery,” invited talk, Federally Employed Women, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC (Zoom), March 2, 2022
“Behind-the-Scenes: Twenty Years of Julia Child’s Kitchen,” interviewer, National Museum of American History, YouTube, December 15, 2021
“That Beer Tastes Like Smithsonian Terroir: Growing, Brewing, and Drinking Smithsonian Hops,” research talk, Beer Culture Summit, Chicago Brewseum, Chicago, IL (Zoom), November 5, 2021
“Last Call: Beer Histories, Now,” event organizer and moderator, Smithsonian Food History Weekend, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC (Zoom), October 22, 2021
“Collecting Craft Beer History at the Smithsonian,” research talk, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg (Zoom), June 16, 2021
“Let’s Talk Gardens! Beer in the Garden,” research talk and conversation, Smithsonian Gardens, Washington, DC (Zoom), April 8, 2021
“Beer History is Women’s History,” lecture, Women’s International Beer Summit, Sacramento, CA (Zoom), April 24, 2021
“Making Her Mark Spotlight: Temperance and Suffrage,” lecture, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (Zoom), January 27, 2021
“Collecting American Brewing History at the Smithsonian,” research talk, Food Literacy Project, Harvard University Dining Services, Cambridge, MA (Zoom), December 2, 2020
“Baltimore’s Brewing Industry: Past, Present, and Future,” lecture, Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore, MD (Zoom), September 24, 2020
“Voices of Beer: Highlights from Smithsonian Oral Histories,” research talk, Beer Culture Summit, Chicago Brewseum, Chicago, IL (Zoom), November 14, 2020
“Last Call: Beer Futures,” event organizer, Smithsonian Food History Weekend, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC (Zoom), October 16, 2020
“History of the Craft Beer Revolution in Virginia,” lecture, Commonwealth Classroom: Thirsty Thursdays with Richmond Beeristoric, Richmond, VA (Zoom), May 28, 2020
“Dr. Theresa McCulla on Research,” recorded conversation about archival research practices for online video archive, “Beer Research Guide: Scholar Interviews,” Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (Zoom), May 14, 2020
“Women in Craft Beer,” discussant, Brewers Association media event, New York City, NY, March 5, 2020
“Alewives, Brewsters, and Gruits: A History of Women in Beer,” discussant, Heurich House Museum, Washington, DC, February 5, 2020
“Women in Brewing History,” lecture, DC Brau Brewing, Washington, DC, January 31, 2020
“Brewing a Revolution: A Conversation with the Founders of Craft Beer,” event organizer and moderator, Smithsonian Food History Weekend, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, November 8, 2019
“Looking at History Through the Pint Glass,” discussant, Chicago Humanities Festival and Beer Culture Summit, Chicago, IL, October 26, 2019
“Archiving Craft: Collecting American Beer’s Recent Past and Present,” keynote lecture, and “Minnesota Brewing: Past and Present,” moderator, Premodern Food Studies Conference, Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 19, 2019
“Saving the Story of Craft: Curating Brewing History at the Smithsonian,” invited talk, Presidential Leadership Academy, Pennsylvania State University, Washington, DC, September 27, 2019
“Curating Craft Beer’s History at the Smithsonian,” lecture, Fall 2019 Distinguished Speaker Series, Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, September 13, 2019
“German Heritage in American Brewing History,” lecture, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, April 26, 2019
“What’s in Store for Beer History?” moderator, Beer Culture Summit, Chicago, IL, October 25, 2019
“Regions in American Brewing Culture,” event organizer and moderator, Smithsonian Food History Weekend, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, November 3, 2018
“A Historian Walks into a Bar: Building a Brewing History Collection at the Smithsonian,” lecture, History Workshop, Department of History, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, October 2, 2018
“Women in Beer History,” moderator, Beers With(out) Beards Craft Beer Festival, New York, NY, August 8, 2018
“Beer and Transformations at the Smithsonian,” discussant, Smithsonian Stories series, Smithsonian Institution Staff Picnic, Washington, DC, July 2, 2018
“American Brewing History Initiative: Preserving American Brewing History at the Smithsonian,” lecture, U.S. House of Representatives Small Brewers Caucus, Washington, DC, June 20, 2018
Drinks, Crime, and Prohibition, commentator, Smithsonian Channel documentary film, premier June 11, 2018
“American Brewing History: From Prohibition to Craft,” lecture, Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA, June 3, 2018
“The American Spirits: A Tasting and History Round Table,” discussant, New York Times Subscriber Events, Washington, DC, May 16, 2018
“Building a Brewing History Archive at the Smithsonian,” research talk, Craft Brewers Conference, Nashville, TN, May 3, 2018
“Future of Beer,” discussant, Future Con, Washington, DC, March 31, 2018
“Prohibition and American Brewing History,” research talk, American Homebrewers Association, Zymurgy Live (webinar), Washington, DC, March 8, 2018
“Material Matters: Cultural Narratives of Food and Drink,” lecture, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, April 19, 2018
“Last Call? Prohibition and American Brewing History,” lecture, New Hampshire Craft Beer Week and University of New Hampshire Beer Lecture Series, University of New Hampshire, April 6, 2018
“The American Brewing History Initiative,” research talk, Library of Congress Cooking Club, Washington, DC, January 11, 2018
“Seattle Brewing: Craft, Culture, and History,” event organizer and moderator, American History After Hours, Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA, December 8, 2017
“American Brewing History: In Your Glass and at the Smithsonian,” lecture and guided tasting, Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC, November 15, 2017
“Brewing in Motion: Histories of Beer and Migration in America,” event organizer and moderator, American History After Hours, Food History Weekend, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, October 28, 2017