Empire’s Fruit: Colonial Ecologies, Food Systems, and Imperial Power
Call For Papers
Saturday 20th March 2027 - University of Warwick, UK
Keynote Address: Professor Candice Goucher ( Washington State University)
Speakers: Professor Sasha Turner ( Johns Hopkins University) & Dr Peggy Brunache (University of Glasgow)
Please submit:
• Papers: 250-word abstract
• Research Posters: 200-word proposal outlining research focus and visual format
•Object/ExhibitionContributions: 250-word description including proposed materials and display requirements
Submissions are due 13 November 2026. Accepted presenters will be notified by January 2027
For submissions or queries email Empirefruits27 at gmail dot com
Empire’s Fruit: Colonial Ecologies, Food Systems, and Imperial Power is a one-day interdisciplinary conference that will critically examine the central role of food, plants, and agricultural knowledge in the formation and maintenance of colonial and imperial systems from the early modern period to the present. By positioning food as both a material infrastructure and a cultural instrument of empire, the conference will bring together scholars from history, environmental humanities, food studies, anthropology, geography, postcolonial studies, and material culture to generate new interdisciplinary approaches to colonial power, ecological transformation, and global inequality.
Kindly funded by Humanities Research Centre and in affiliation with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
