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January 26, 2012, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Humanities Faculty Fellow Lecture Series

KATE HANSON, Humanities Faculty Fellow

The Period Appetite: Culinary Culture in Early Moderna Parma and Piacenza

Respondent: Laurinda Dixon, Professor of Art History, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Art and Music Histories

Kate Hanson earned her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Southern California, where she specialized in early modern Italian visual culture. Her dissertation, "Visualizing Culinary Culture at the Medici and Farnese Courts," explored images of food and cooking in seventeenth-century still life painting, print, and manuscripts from Florence and Parma. At Syracuse University, she has taught Consuming Culture and Madness, Mystery, Genius? Examining Mythologies of the Artist for the CAS 100 program as well as the Literature of Art Criticism course for the Art and Music Histories department.

Thursday, January 26, 4:00 p.m.

Tolley Humanities Building, Room 115