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06/12/2018 | Campus-Meldung

Food can be art - Impressions from the 4th Italy Day

"Taste Matters - Food and Politics in Italy" was the theme of the 4th Italy Day at the University of Kassel. In addition to more than 60 visitors, the Italian Consul General Maurizio Canfora (Frankfurt) was also a guest.

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Prof. Dr. Angela Schrott (l.), Prof. Dr. Nikola Roßbach and the Italian Consul General Maurizio Canfora.

This time, the Network Italy at the University of Kassel illuminated the significance of food in Italy - from a cultural, historical, political, and art historical perspective. Nicola Perullo, professor at the Università di Sciencze Gatronomiche di Pollenzo, spoke on the question of whether food can be art (yes, under certain circumstances), and the former "Feinschmecker" author Sabine Knappe spoke on the Italianization of taste.

Other lectures dealt with literary and cinematic meals (Christine Ott) and the representation of food in early Renaissance Italian painting (Prof. Dr. Martina Sitt).

The "Italy Network" - "rete italiana" - is an initiative of scholars at the University of Kassel. Its goal is to bundle and strengthen the existing contacts to Italy at the University of Kassel.