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Judith Tucker	Inside Out: Drawing the Domestic Uncanny
Sociology/ History
Conway, Rebecca	Encountering the Freak Show on Blackpool’s Central Beach, 1932-1935
Fahey, Carolyn	The Paradox of the Coastal Environments in terms of Building
Darke, Jane	The Wrecking Season
Barrento, Antonio	Refuge and Utopian Space: the Beach in Republican China
Literary/Theory
Fox, John	Weather Station
De Stacpoole, Marina	‘The Blue Lagoon’
Keay, Cathrine	Beach Architecture
Abray, Tom	Peering into the Depths
Duarte, Joana	Along the looking glass: on beach and the unaccomplished experience of the being
Gender
Thomas, Maria	Gendered Sand: Laurent Cantent’s Vers Le Sud and the Beach as a Contested Site of Pleasure
Macleod, Mark	Writing against the Tide
Brown, Irene	Sands of Time
Devienne, Elsa	The Best and the Strongest: An Anatomy of Muscle Beach and its controversies (1932-1958)
Plenary Session
Vernissage	Exhibition ‘Revisiting the Beach’
Dinner