Detail from “Venezia Riparte” by Gianmarco Toma, 2020

Next Friday, May 28, I’m delighted to be presenting my research as part of the Environmental Humanities Seminar and Lecture Series - V hosted by the Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Eating is one of the most direct ways humans interact with environments by literally digesting them. Food history, thus, reveals how everyday eating practices not only reproduce cultural imaginations of landscapes but also shape actual environments. Narrowing in on seafood, this seminar asks: how do human appetites transform, harm, but also perhaps heal watery worlds? It aims to serve examples of the kinds of stories that food can tell. Spotlighting both Venice and Venice-in-the-world, it assembles a cast of fish and shellfish to consider the relationship between food and place, between ritual and cliché, and between cuisine and climate.

Find more details and the registration instructions here.