On Tuesday February 28, 36 students from nine Italian regions (Piedmont, Liguria, Val d’Aosta, Lombardy, Alto Adige, Lazio, Molise, Sicily and Sardinia) and five countries outside Italy (Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, Kenya and India) will graduate at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo.
Given the high number of new graduates, for the first time ever the degree ceremony will follow a special procedure and ritual. Students will wear caps and traditional tabards from the Langa district of Piedmont, the dean and professors will wear caps and gowns, and the members of the board of governors and Carlo Petrini. president of the UNISG, will wear tabards.
Theses will be discussed in the course of the morning in the Cascina Albertina complex, while in the afternoon students will don their caps and gowns in a solemn ceremony to mark the importance of the event and of their “rite of passage”.
At about 4pm, the graduate procession will walk to the parish church of San Vittore, where it will be met by the university teaching staff and two distinguished special guests — the politician and journalist Luciana Castellina and the legal scholar Stefano Rodotà — who will speak about their own personal degree ceremonies, lives and professional experiences. At 4.30pm, the degree ceremony will begin with the proclamation of the new graduates, which will be followed by music and singing from special guests.
The new graduates on the three-year degree course in Gastronomic Sciences are:
– From Piedmont:
Giulia Mirotti, from Pisano (Novara), with a thesis on “Planning a Tour Operating Business with a Gastronomic Trademark”. Supervisors Giovanni Perri and Erica Croce, lecturers in Geography and Tourism.
Matteo Marello, from Asti, with a thesis on “The Sacrality of Food, with special reference to South Korea”. Supervisor Piercarlo Grimaldi, dean of the UNISG and lecturer in Cultural Anthropology.
Giorgia Turco, from Cuneo, with a thesis on “The Stone Vineyard”. Supervisor Piercarlo Grimaldi, dean of the UNISG and lecturer in Cultural Anthropology.
Marco Astrua, from Turin, with a thesis on “Cattle Breeding in the North of the Province of Parma: history, state of the art, evolution”. Supervisor Silvio Greco, lecturer in Agricultural and Food Production.
Riccardo Boido, from Turin, with a thesis on “Luxury Food: a new export company”. Supervisor Danielle Borra, lecturer in Economics and Agricultural and Food Law.
Ludovico Roccatello, from San Mauro Torinese (Turin), with a thesis on “Human Ecology and Traditional Knowledge in the Rumanian Rom Communities of Turin”. Supervisor Andrea Pieroni, lecturer in Food Botany, Ethnobotany and Ethnobiology.
Alberto Furlan, from Vercelli, with a thesis on “The Archimagirus – The Steward – The Gastronome. Training the chef and the food manager”. Supervisor Antonio Montanari, lecturer in Catering Systems and Technologies.
Ruben Novello, from Turin, with a thesis on “Evaluation of satisfaction with school meal services in the city of Turin”. Supervisor Giuseppe Zeppa, lecturer in Enology and Food Technology Institutions.
– From Val d’Aosta
Elaine Lunghini, from Chatillon (Aosta), with a thesis on “The Revaluation of the Gastronomic Heritage of the Val d’Aosta. The importance of territoriality”. Supervisor Paolo Corvo, lecturer in Sociology.
– From Liguria
Silvia Cancellieri, from Cogorno (Genoa), with a thesis on “Biopolymers in Food Packaging: considerations on environmental, economic, social and sensory sustainability”. Supervisor Franco Fassio, lecturer in Systemic Event Planning and The Systemic Approach to Gastronomy.
– From Lombardy
Michele Crippa, from Muggiò (Milan), with a thesis on “The Little World of Massimo Spigaroli”. Supervisor Valter Cantino, lecturer in Farm and Food Company Management.
Isabella Carboncini, from Settala (Milan), with a thesis on “Oyster Farming: systems compared, product quality and environmental sustainability”. Supervisor Silvio Greco, lecturer in Agricultural and Food Production.
Anita Aldighieri, from Curtatone (Mantua), with a thesis on “Locanda delle Grazie 2.0”. Supervisor Danielle Borra, lecturer in Economics and Agricultural and Food Law.
Andrea Calvo, from Tribiano (Milan), with a thesis on “ The China-Russia agricultural and food export market”. Supervisor Danielle Borra, lecturer in Economics and Agricultural and Food Law.
Debora Arici, from Brione (Brescia) with a thesis on “The Design and Management of an Agroecosystem between scientific research and traditional knowledge for the protection of biodiversity: a case study on the La Ruer Verda farm”. Supervisor Paola Migliorini, lecturer in Plant Production.
Alessandro Gabriele Perricone, from Milan, with a thesis on “Promoting Tradition: the ‘Alciati model’”. Supervisor Nicola Perullo, lecturer in Aesthetics.
Giulia Giolli, from Milan, with a thesis on “The Tools of Eating: hand, spoon, knife, fork”. Supervisor Antonio Montanari, lecturer in Catering Systems and Technologies.
Giacomo Hassan, from Milan, with a thesis on “ Logics of Reorganization of Commercial Catering in Lithuania”. Supervisor Antonio Montanari, lecturer in Catering Systems and Technologies.
Andrea Rosselli, from Milan, with a thesis on “The Companies in Expo 2015: transparency, education and promotion”. Supervisor Antonio Montanari, lecturer in Catering Systems and Technologies.
Ludovico Sironi, from Monza, with a thesis on “Indicators for the valuation of environmental sustainability on farms: a case study on P.A.S.M.”. Supervisor Paola Migliorini, lecturer in Plant Production.
– From Alto Adige
Ivo De Pellegrin, from Merano (Bolzano), with a thesis on “The processing of agricultural and food products as a means of enhancing local resources: Selected Food, a case in Alto Adige”. Supervisor Antonio Montanari, lecturer in Catering Systems and Technologies.
– From Lazio
Francesco Di Palma, from Sora (Frosinone), with a thesis on “When Artisanship Goes Daily. Strategies in the world of craft beer”. Supervisor Danielle Borra, lecturer in Economics and Agricultural and Food Law.
Giorgia Simeone, from Formia (Latina), with a thesis on “Gustatory Perception: the state of the art of a complex problem”. Supervisor Nicola Perullo, lecturer in Aesthetics.
– From Molise
Valeria Pistilli, Vinchiaturo (Campobasso), with a thesis on “Food Sales or Gastronomic Sales? Out of house consumption and new consumer trends”. Supervisor Danielle Borra, lecturer in Economics and Agricultural and Food Law.
– From Sicily
Riccardo Vitali, from Sant’Agata Li Battiati (Catania), with a thesis on “Project for the integration of street food along cultural tourist routes round Catania”. Supervisor Giovanni Perri, lecturer in Geography and Tourism.
– From Sardinia
Viola Capriola, from Capoterra (Cagliari), with a thesis on “The relationship between music and food in the systemic planning of sustainable cultural events”. Supervisor Franco Fassio, lecturer in Systemic Event Planning and the Systemic Approach to Gastronomy.
– From Switzerland
Valentina Tamborini, from Sonvico (Lugano), with a thesis on “A project to promote the Malcantone region and winegrowing in Ticino”. Supervisor Paolo Corvo, lecturer in Sociology.
– From Germany
Annelie Bernhart, from Erlenfurt (Germany) with a thesis on “The Impact of Globalization on Traditional Ecological Knowledge Systems of the Khasi Tribe in North-East India”. Supervisor Piercarlo Grimaldi, lecturer in Cultural Anthropology.
Florian Paul Minzlaff, from Berlin, with a thesis on “Sandbox Viticulture: a Cultural and Socio-economic Evaluation of Wine Production in Germany’s Brandenburg”. Supervisor Yann Grappe, lecturer in the History of Wine.
Elisabeth Paul, from Quedlingburg, with a thesis on “Modern Animal Welfare Standards in Traditional Breeding Systems – How Slow Food Can Make a Difference: The Case of Slow Food Presidia Meat Products in Italy”. Supervisor Silvio Greco, lecturer in Agricultural and Food Production.
Andrea Pommerenke, from Frankfurt, with a thesis on “Energy sustainability in farming: evaluation with qualitative and quantitative energy indicators of farms in the Milan South Agricultural Park”. Supervisor Paola Migliorini, lecturer in Plant Production.
– From the United Kingdom
Benedict Reade, from Edinburgh, with a thesis on “Biotechnology and Flavour Innovation in the New Nordic Cuisine”. Supervisor Gabriella Morini, lecturer in Molecular Sciences and Molecular Aspects of Taste.
– From India
Rahul Mark Antao, from Mumbai, with a thesis on “The Positive Aspects of Globalisation Bridging Networks in the State of Meghalaya, India”. Supervisor Piercarlo Grimaldi, lecturer in Cultural Anthropology.
– Dal Kenya
John Ngugi Njoroge, from Nakuru, with a thesis on “The Sustainability of the Thousand Gardens in Africa Project. A Case Study in Kenya”. Supervisor Paola Migliorini, lecturer in Plant Production.
The new graduates on the two-year course in Promotion and Management of the Gastronomic and Tourist Heritage are:
Anke Klitzing, from Berlin (Germany), with a thesis on “Gastronomy, a System of Communication – Study Finds: the Gastronomical Discourse in Newspapers”. Supervisor Giacomo Festi, lecturer at the Workshop of Writing and Analysis of Food Advertising.
Luca Michelotti, from Savona, with a thesis on “Television Chefs: how cooking reinterprets itself on television”. Supervisor Pierluigi Basso, lecturer in Communication.