Wednesday 28th May
9.00
Registration and coffee
​19:30 - 22:00
Conference welcome dinner at the Sands Hotel Margate for delegates and speakers staying overnight before the event.
10.10
Keynote address - Professor Brian Wheeller Professor of Tourism: NHTV, Breda. The Netherlands: Art at the seaside? You must be joking.
​9.30
Welcome - COaST team
Programme
Tuesday 27th May
Seascapes: The Cultural Life of Seaside Towns
9.50
Conference Introduction - Professor Robert Maitland
9.40
Opening address - Victoria Pomery, Director Turner Contemporary
11.20
Dr Kate Bedford, University of Kent: Bingo and the Seaside Edge
Professor Owen Evans and Tristi Brownett, Edgehill University and Canterbury Christ Church University: The Whitstable Biennale: Immersing Town and Community in Art and Culture
Dr Anya Chapman and Dr Duncan Light, Bournemouth University: Working with the carnivalesque in seaside resorts: An employee perspective
12.50
Lunch
1.50
Dr David Jarratt, University of Central Lancashire: Seaside heritage and sense of place: the case of Morecambe
Dr Ziene Mottier, Dr Bernadette Quinn and Dr Theresa Ryan, Dublin Institute of Technology: Examining cooperation in the development of cultural seaside towns in the West of Ireland
Professor Peter Vujaković and Dr Alex Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University: A Sense of Plaice? Visitor maps, heritage and place branding in the coastal towns of the Transmanche region.
3.20
Tea and coffee
3.40
Nick Ewbank and Sally-Ann Lycett: The De La Warr Pavilion and Bexhill-on-Sea: a Case Study of Culture and Social Capital
Professor Phil Hubbard, University of Kent: Retail gentrification and the futures of Margate
Peter Vlachos, Director, London Centre for Events, Management, University of Greenwich: The trickle down effect of creative culture in Ontario
5.00
Conference finish and drinks in the gallery
​10.50
Tea, coffee and networking