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Tue Dec 13 2016

Science and Art at JRC Seville

Sonia Massari, Director of GLi International – Gustolab International Institute for Food Studies joins Emiliano Bruno, JRC Graphic Designer and Angela Cardinali, JRC Art and Science (SciArt project) for a challenging debate to show how to successfully combine science with design and art to illustrate scientific themes with an artistic twist at the European Commission Joint...Read More

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Wed Nov 02 2016

Real food films pop up event

GLi organizes a Real food films pop up event entitled ‘Discovering traditions through food’ for the students in the Food and Culture Course of the Hobart and William Smith Study Abroad in Rome Fall 2016 Program.

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Tue Oct 18 2016

Aperitivo with HWS students

GLi is organizing an aperitivo for our HWS students as part of their study abroad program activities in Rome. During the aperitivo, the HWS students will meet Italian students who study in Rome. Students will first meet at Via Giulia 130 and then head over to the aperitivo. The aperitivo will be from 17 to...Read More

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Tue Sep 20 2016

GLi at EU Design Days

Dr. Massari speaks at the 2016 EU Design Days organized by the Errin (European Regions Research & Innovation Network). She also spoke about a workshop about food scenarios in which our students (from Hobart and William Smith Colleges) participated together with students from ISIA di Pordenone. EU Design Days, organised by ERRIN’s Design and Creativity Working Group, has become an...Read More

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Tue Sep 20 2016

Talks at GLi with Sarah Meyer

Sustainability in the Finger Lakes area, Terra Madre and Food Culture in Italy. Guest speaker: Sarah Meyer Round table with Professor Walter Bowyer (Fall Program Director), Dr. Pier Alberto Merli (HWS Rome Resident Director), and Dr. Sonia Massari (GLi Director)

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Thu Sep 08 2016
Mon Aug 29 2016

GLi at SciArt

Dr. Massari attends the SciArt Summer School organized by the EU Science Hub – Joint Research Centreat Ispra. The summer school will bring together policy-makers, museum curators working on the border between art and science, scientists and artists active in the field in a series of round table discussions, workshops and meetings. Together with the Directorates-General...Read More

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Thu Jul 14 2016

SU2016 Internship Symposium

Gustolab International Institute for Food Studies is happy to invite you to the Summer 2016 Internship Program Symposium, where the students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will present their experiences collaborating with our partners in the food field. A Q&A and a brief networking session will follow.   

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Tue Jul 12 2016

GLi at Escuela Internacional de Verano

GLi Director Dr. Sonia Massari was one of the 17 international experts invited to speak at the second version of the Escuela Internacional de Verano ‘Conectando a los mejores para la Educación’ , International Summer School: “Building Education with an Interdisciplinary Focus,” in Bogotá   Her speech title was “Food Studies and Intercultural Education: Design Thinking, Video Storytelling...Read More

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Wed Jun 22 2016

GLi at the ASFS/AFHVS/CAFS annual meeting

GLi attended ‘Scarborough Fare: Global Foodways and Local Foods in a Transnational City’, the Joint 2016 Annual Meetings and Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society; the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society; and the Canadian Association for Food Studies hosted by the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) this year. During the...Read More

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Sat Jun 11 2016

GLi at Cerealia Festival 2016

GLi presented two short films on the theme of Food and Interculturalism at the 2016 Cerealia Festival. The films entited Connecting Cultures: Food inclusion in Italy and Where does the food go? (Dove finisce il cibo?) were produced by the students of the Food and Media Course of the UIUC Spring 2016 Food and Culture Program in Rome at...Read More

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Sat Jun 11 2016

GLi at Perugia Food Conference 2016

GLi Director Dr. Sonia Massari presents with the talk ‘Design Thinking and Food Innovation: The Dynamic Use of Design Thinking Applied to Food Studies’ during the New Food Landscapes and Communities  panel at the Perugia Food Conference 2016.

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