When: Monday, April 23, 2018 At 6:00 pm - Where: Istituto Italiano di Cultura Chicago - 500 N Michi - What: "ating Ideas, Educating the Senses through Images. The Magazine "La Gola" in 1980s Italy", A Lecture by Professor Margherita D'Ayala Valvais, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Presented on the occasion of the 2018 Year of Italian Food, as declared by The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies

Italy's society of the 1980s can be narrated through its food imagery: an ideal source for telling this story is the magazine La Gola (The Gourmet or The Glutton give controversial though not complete translations of its title). This monthly periodical, founded in Milan in 1982, was released throughout ten years, a crucial time for political and social changes in Italy, associated with the development of food activism through the set up of the Slow Food movement. The magazine hosted scholarly controversies involving ideological and aesthetical debates with interdisciplinary approaches and with a definite call to activism.