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Call for Papers – 8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food – deadline 15 January 2025
On 5 and 6 June 2025, the 8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food will take place at Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam. This year’s topic is: Food and the City. This year’s symposium will mark a special edition because it takes place in the 750th anniversary year of the city of Amsterdam.
The 2025 symposium aims to showcase and further extend these developments. It seeks to highlight the transformative power of cities within the history of food, and the crucial role of urban foodways in shaping the historical trajectory of urban environments. It invites new perspectives on the environmental, logistical, social, and cultural challenges posed by food production, retail, consumption, and promotion in cities. Particularly encouraged are submissions of papers that build connections between food history and related fields and that expand the methodological, thematic, chronological, and geographic diversity of food history.
Abstracts for papers may address any topic related to the study of food and the city and should be submitted ultimately 15 January 2025; guidelines are to be found in the full call.
