Call for Papers /// EAHN2026 Architectural Objects of Colonial Consumption, 17-21 June 2026, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

EAHN2026 Architectural Objects of Colonial Consumption: The Material and Visual Worlds of Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, and Other Hot Beverages.

Together with Prof. Dr. Laura Hindelang, I invite proposals for this session at the 2026 conference of the European Architectural History Network hosted by Aarhus University.

The deadline to submit abstracts is 19 September 2025.

Sipping hot cocoa, grown in present-day Ghana, in 19th-century Poland from a porcelain cup decorated with a castle veduta. Stirring matcha in a ceramic chawan showing a landscape painting in 18th-century Japan. Savouring tea, traded in China against opium, served on a tray on which is painted the scene of an 18th-century English salon.

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.

Find the full call for papers and submission instructions on the conference website: https://lnkd.in/dQCWJ8-z

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