Full Title: Material, Discursive and Linguistic Transfers in the Field of Tea From 1856 to the Present Day
Short Title: Tea Talks

Date: 19-Jun-2025 - 20-Jun-2025
Location: Lyon, France
Contact Person: Pierre-Yves Modicom
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://minimamodica.wordpress.com/tea/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Documentation; Lexicography; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

Lyon, June 19-20, 2025

Venue: Manufacture des Tabacs (1 av. des Frères Lumière, 69008)
Co-organization: Pierre-Yves Modicom / Cléa Patin
Laboratories: Centre d’Études Linguistiques (CEL) / Institut d’Asie Orientale (IAO)
Working languages: French and English

Scope and Periodization:

This conference aims to explore the place of tea in our societies, in a transversal and international perspective, for the modern and contemporary period. It addresses linguistic and discourse-related aspects (evolution of terminologies, discourse around tea), cultural dimensions (insertion of tea into our daily lives via drinking and eating practices, related material culture), as well as economic aspects (agricultural practices, trade), and political aspects (particularly in the context of decolonization). The conference will pay particular attention to the links between these different fields. We will consider the period running from 1855-1858 to the present day.

From the mid-19th century onwards, there was a break in the history of commercial and cultural flows around tea, with the end of the Opium Wars (1856) and the Crimean War (1853-1856), the forced opening of Japan to foreign trade (Kanagawa Convention, March 1854), and the Sepoy Mutiny (1857), which precipitated the proclamation of the Indian Empire. The modern and contemporary period is therefore an ideal time to reflect on tea as a vector of cultural identity and/or material and linguistic transfer.

Call for Papers:

Working languages: French and English

Abstracts (1 page) should be sent to pierre-yves.modicom (at) univ-lyon3.fr and clea.patin (at) univ-lyon3.fr by January 15th.
The full call can be found under: https://minimamodica.wordpress.com/tea/
or: https://cel.univ-lyon3.fr/cel-colloque-transferts-materiels-discursifs-et-linguistiques-dans-le-domaine-du-the-de-1856-a-nos-jours