EAHN26 Call for papers

Architectural Objects of Colonial Consumption: The Material and Visual Worlds of Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, and Other Hot Beverages

CHAIRS AND CONTACT DETAILS:

Laura Hindelang, University of Bern
laura.hindelang@unibe.ch

Anne Hultzsch, ETH Zurich
hultzsch@arch.ethz.ch

This session brings together three phenomena: ceramics featuring architectural motifs; the consumption of hot beverages, made from substances, including tea, coffee, and chocolate, which played a significant role in colonial trade and imperial networks; and their spatial environments. We invite papers that centre on a specific object or space and its agency as a prism through which to interrogate broader spatial histories in any geography; we focus on the period from ca. 1500 to 1900 but are also interested in examples outside this time span if they reflect on the above questions.

https://konferencer.au.dk/eahn26/call-for-papers-1/sessions

Deadline: 19 September 2025
Session in Aarhus: 17-21 June 2026