April, 12th | Villa San Remigio, Verbania Lake Maggiore
2.00-2.30 pm
Opening greetings and introduction to the School
2.30-4.15 pm
Methodological and interpretative tools | lecture
Stefania Cerutti, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Giacomo Zanolin, Università di Genova
Exploring research methods at food festivals: questionnaires, participant observations, and interviews | lecture
Giulia Rossetti, Oxford Brookes University
Allan Jepson, University of Hertfordshire
Valentina Albanese, Università dell'Insubria
4.15-4.30 pm coffee break
4.30-6.00 pm
Soft power: food in Mediterranean diplomatic relations | lecture
Abdessamad El Jaouzi, Mediterranean Academy of Culture, Technologies and Trade, Malta
April, 13th | Villa San Remigio, Verbania Lake Maggiore
9.00-10.45 am
Building typicity through food. The place of typical food products, between local development and hyperspecialization | lecture
Giacomo Pettenati, Università del Piemonte Orientale
10.45-11.00 am coffee break
11.00 am-1.00 pm
What is a typical product? Deconstructing narratives on food typicity | workshop
Giacomo Pettenati, Università del Piemonte Orientale
1.00-2.00 pm light lunch
2.00-3.45 pm
Material and symbolical foodscapes. Food, Identity, places and lifestyles | lecture
Veronica Allegretti - Riccardo Giovanni Bruno - Egidio Dansero - Carlo Genova - Giacomo Pettenati, Università di Torino and Università del Piemonte Orientale
3.45-4.00 pm coffee break
4.00-5.45 pm
Thinking and mapping our foodscape | workshop
Veronica Allegretti - Riccardo Giovanni Bruno - Egidio Dansero - Carlo Genova - Giacomo Pettenati, Università di Torino and Università del Piemonte Orientale
6.00-6.30 pm
Conclusions
Valentina Albanese, Università dell’Insubria
April, 14th | Field Lesson and Visit in Ossola Valley (Part I)
9.00 am Leaving bus transfer from Verbania to Crodo (Ossola Valley)
10.00-12.15 am
Visit to production sites and activities related to food, events and tourism at Istituto Fobelli, Crodo (to be confirmed)
12.30-1.30 pm Lunch at Istituto Fobelli Canteen
1.45-2.15 am
The Ossola food festivals | lecture
Alessandra Tomà - UNPLI VCO
2.15-2.45 pm
Valorization of local foods: the case of hunted wild game meat in the Verbano- Cusio-Ossola Province | lecture
Eugenio Demartini – Dip DIVAS, Università di Milano e Filiera Eco Alimentare
3.00 pm Back bus transfer to Verbania
April, 14th | Centro Sant’Anna, Verbania Lake Maggiore (Part II)
6.00-7.30 pm
Opening of the GEONIGHT 2023 TASTE THE PLACE
Stefania Cerutti, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Giacomo Zanolin, Università di Genova
Relationships between Place and Wellbeing at food festivals | seminar
Valentina Albanese, Università dell’Insubria
Giulia Rossetti, Oxford Brookes University
Allan Jepson, University of Hertfordshire
Presentation of the participants’ final works
Conclusions