Join Michell Chresfield (Cornell), Katharina Motyl (Mannheim), Oussema Othmeni (Sousse), Myka Tucker-Abramson (Warwick), and author Elsa Devienne (Northumbria) in conversation about her recent, award-winning book Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. We’ll be talking, among other things, about what the iconic and much filmed shoreline of a coastal metropolis can tell us about the urban past, present, and future.

Chaired by Yosra Amraoui (Carthage) and John Munro (Birmingham), this event is hosted by the Tunisian Association for American Cultural Studies and the University of Birmingham’s Centre for the Study of North America.