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