Vision and Taste
CULINARY HISTORY IN ART AND LITERATURE
Vision and Taste is a symposium presented by the School of Fine Art and Music and the School of Languages and Literatures. The three talks by University of Guelph Professor Mary DeCoste and by Luisa Del Giudice, founder and Director of the Italian Oral History Institute in Los Angeles, offer an insight into Italian archival and oral food history across the centuries and look at the single-minded creative work of Sabato Rodia, an Italian immigrant who over three decades "created one of the most mysterious landmarks of Los Angeles" (Donna Gabaccia, Professor of History, University of Minnesota).
Wednesday October 22nd 2014
3:00 ~ 8:00pm Reception to follow
Drinks and Refreshments Provided
For Further infromation please contact Timothy Chandler
Mary DeCoste
Gluttons, Gourmands, and Guilt:
Eating in the Italian Renaissance and Today
3:00pm
Mary-Michelle DeCoste is an associate professor of Italian studies at the University of Guelph, and in 2010 she held a Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellowship at Villa I Tatti, Harvard University’s Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy. Her publications include Hopeless Love: Boiardo, Ariosto, and Narratives of Queer Female Desire (Universtiy of Toronto Press, 2009). Her current areas of research are Agricultural poetry in Renaissance Italy and Botanical gastronomy in 16th century Italy.
Luisa Del Giudice
Mountains of Cheese, Rivers of Wine:
Paesi di Cuccagna and Other Gastronomic Utopias
5:00pm
&
Sabato Rodia’s Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development
7:00pm
Luisa Del Giudice is an independent scholar, former university academic (University of California Los Angeles, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia), public sector educator (Founder- Director of the Italian Oral History Institute), and community activist. She has published and lectured widely on Italian and Italian American and Canadian folklife, ethnology, and oral history, and has produced many innovative public programs on Italian, Mediterranean, regional, and folk culture, and local history in Los Angeles. In 2008 she was named an honorary fellow of the American Folklore Society and knighted by the Italian Republic.