Speaking
Diana Garvin gives lectures at museums and universities and provides interviews for radio and podcasts.
Areas of expertise include:
• far-right politics
• reproductive health care
• Italian food history
• coffee and caffè culture
(On right): What Can a Tea Set tell us about Politics?” lecture for the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
"Noi siam le canterine antifasciste: Voicing Resistance in Song and Testimony"
Keynote for the Italian Graduate Society “Voices” conference at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ (2019).
“La Cucina Futurista”
invited lecture for the Food for Thought seminar series at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy (2018).
“From Local Ecology to National Biology”
invited lecture for the Food and Sustainability Program at the Umbra Institute, Perugia, Italy (2018).
“Fighting for Flavor: Female Field Workers and the Battle for Taste”
invited lecture for the University of Gastronomic Sciences (Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche), Pollenzo, Italy (2018).
“Working Class Gender History”
invited lecture for the Italian Studies Colloquium at Brown University, Providence, RI (2017).
“Bird Egg, Work Song, Wild Cat Strike: Women’s Anti-Fascist Resistance”
invited lecture for the History of Food and Drink in Modern Europe Invitational Workshop at University of Saint Andrews, Scotland (2017).
“Black Milk: Colonial Foodways and Intimate Imperialism”
invited lecture for the “Feminism + the Senses” speaker series at the Center for the Study of Women, University of California at Los Angeles, CA (2017).
“Autarchic by Design: Aesthetics and Politics of Kitchenware”
plenary speaker for the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery at Oxford University, Oxford, England (2015).
“Food Studies Approaches to the Historical Archive”
invited lecture for the Center for Food Studies at the American University of Rome, Italy (2015).
“A Fine Linea: How Italian Food Advertisements Reflected and Affected Gender Division”
invited lecture for the Gastronomy Lecture Series at Boston University, Boston, MA (2013).