Traditional cooking, food crops and cultural roots are all part of a complex and varied tangible and intangible heritage that more and more is proving to be a crucial resource in the definition and promotion of the identity and the sustainable development of specific geographical areas.
Anthropologists and cultural experts will discuss this topic during this day-long event organized by Fondazione Fitzcarraldo, the Piedmont Regional Authority, and the University of Gastronomic Sciences.
The all-Italian specialist panel participants will include Carlo Petrini, Piercarlo Grimaldi, Vito Teti, Gianluigi Bravo, and Marino Niola.
May 12 2009 will mark another milestone in the “Catalogazione, ricerca e gestione di beni DemoEtnoAntropologici (DEA)” (“cataloguing, fieldwork research, and management of the DemoEthnoAnthropological heritage, or DEA) project, which Fitzcarraldo and the Piedmont Regional Authority started in 2005. This meeting opportunity will also introduce all of the showcase projects already completed for the preservation of the tangible and intangible food and wine heritage.
The meeting is open to the public on a first-in basis, and is specifically directed to cultural experts, museum and ecomuseum directors, scholars and university instructors, students from the University of Gastronomic Sciences and the faculties of anthropology, history, sociology, as well as to experts and professionals working on projects for the protection of land and ethno-gastronomic traditions.
To participate, please use the online registration form available on the Fondazione Fitzcarraldo website, www.fitzcarraldo.it.
The meeting venue will be the Assembly Hall of the University of Gastronomic Sciences, 9 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, Pollenzo-Bra (Cuneo).
A FREE shuttle-bus service will operate between Turin and Pollenzo. Please note that only 40 seats are available on a first come, first served basis. To book your seat, please complete the registration form.
A program for the meeting and the relevant press release are attached for your reference.
Info:
Fondazione Fitzcarraldo – Simona Martini
Ph.+39 011 5099317
Fax +39 011 503361
E-mail: simona.martini@fitzcarraldo.it