Narrating and Constructing the Beach
June 14 - 16, 2018, Amerikahaus Munich
The beach confronts us with crucial issues of our times: migration, postcolonial relations and mass tourism, climate change and pollution as well as gender and burkini swimwear controversies are among the numerous conflicts, discourses, and practices that manifest within this liminal zone and that find their focal point there. The international and interdisciplinary conference examines how the experience of the beach and its complex imaginaries are constructed through art, society, and culture and goes on to ask if and how ‘the beach’ shapes poetics and aesthetics. It aims at a systematic analysis of the global varieties of the beach, viewed as a (border) phenomenon in its own right, at once in historical depth and in relation to contemporary debates.
Organisation:
Stefan Brückl, Dominik Pensel, Roxanne Phillips, Katharina Simon, Ines Ghalleb, Florian Telsnig, Tamara Fröhler, Carina Breidenbach, Jeannot Moukouri Ekobe & Martin Wittmann
In cooperation with the Bavarian American Academy and the Amerikahaus Munich
Sponsored by the GraduateCenterLMU and Brillen Schneider
Poster and flyer design: Barbara Biebl / www.einwerk.de
Publication:
Narrating and Constructing the Beach: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Hg. von Carina Breidenbach, Tamara Fröhler, Dominik Pensel, Katharina Simon, Florian Telsnig und Martin Wittmann
Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2020