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): Pop Up Talk at Portland Art Museum for the 2022 Portland Book Festival
How to be a Boss under Fascism
"Feeding Fascism"
Pop-up for the Portland Book Festival at Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (2022).
“Fascist Appetites: The Politics of Food in Interwar Italy"
Lecture for "Just Good Food" Honors Colloquium at University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI (2022).
“Fascist Appetites: The Politics of Food in Interwar Italy"
Lecture for the History Department at University of Maine, virtual (2022).
“Feeding Fascism"
Lecture for the World Languages Center at Northeastern University in Boston, MA (2022).
“Feeding Fascism"
Lecture for the History Department at Scripps College in Claremont, CA (scheduled for 2023).
“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).
"New Directions in Fascism Studies"
Roundtable for the Institute of Historical Research at University of London, virtual (2022).
“La Cucina Futurista”
Lecture for the Food for Thought seminar series at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy (2018).
“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).
“Food Studies Approaches to the Historical Archive”
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”
Lecture for the Gastronomy Lecture Series at Boston University, Boston, MA (2013).
"Feeding Fascism"
Lecture for the De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2023).
"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).
"Feeding Fascism"
Lecture for the Romance Languages and Literatures Department of Boston College in Boston, MA (2022).
“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).
“Working Class Gender History”
Lecture for the Italian Studies Colloquium at Brown University, Providence, RI (2017).
“From Local Ecology to National Biology”
Lecture for the Food and Sustainability Program at the Umbra Institute, Perugia, Italy (2018).
“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).
“Autarchic by Design: Aesthetics and Politics of Kitchenware”
Plenary speaker for the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery at Oxford University, Oxford, England (2015).