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
How to be a Boss under Fascism
"Feeding Fascism"
Lecture for the Jacques Pépin Series at Boston University, Boston, MA (2022).
“Cook the Books: Researching the Politics of Food in Fascist Italy"
Lecture for the.mat.ics seminar series at the Hollins University in Roanoke, VA (2022).
"Coffee under Fascism"
Lecture in partnership with Coffee Knowledge Hub for the Specialty Coffee Association in Boston, MA (2022).
"Model Fascist Kitchens: Architecture as Propaganda"
Lecture for the History Department of Hamilton College in Clinton, NY (2022).
"Feeding Fascism"
Lecture for the Center for European and Russian Studies, in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles, CA (2022).
"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”
Lecture for the Food for Thought seminar series at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy (2018).
“Fighting for Flavor: Female Field Workers and the Battle for Taste”
Lecture for the University of Gastronomic Sciences (Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche), Pollenzo, Italy (2018).
“From Local Ecology to National Biology”
Lecture for the Food and Sustainability Program at the Umbra Institute, Perugia, Italy (2018).
“Working Class Gender History”
Lecture for the Italian Studies Colloquium at Brown University, Providence, RI (2017).
“Bird Egg, Work Song, Wild Cat Strike: Women’s Anti-Fascist Resistance”
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”
Lecture for the “Feminism + the Senses” speaker series at the Center for the Study of Women, University of California at Los Angeles, CA (2017).
“Food Studies Approaches to the Historical Archive”
Lecture for the Center for Food Studies at the American University of Rome, Italy (2015).
“Autarchic by Design: Aesthetics and Politics of Kitchenware”
Plenary speaker for the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery at Oxford University, Oxford, England (2015).
“A Fine Linea: How Italian Food Advertisements Reflected and Affected Gender Division”
Lecture for the Gastronomy Lecture Series at Boston University, Boston, MA (2013).