Following last year's lecture series on “Waves,” the University of Bremen's research focus on marine, polar, and climate research is continuing its interdisciplinary examination of coastal areas. Under the title “Coast – Beaches – Shores,” the new lecture series in the 2024/26 winter semester will focus on the diverse geographical transition zones and cultural dimensions. The focus is on littoral zones as contact and border areas where nature, culture, and society meet. These areas are not only ecological transition zones, but also symbolic and social interfaces that are understood and researched differently in various disciplines. The lecture series aims to show how perspectives from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities can open up new insights into the dynamics of coastal areas through the exchange of methods, concepts, and findings. It will answer the question of what happens when different cultures, people, living beings, elements, materials, forces, influences, etc. encounter each other.

Organized by Prof. Dr. Ursula Kluwick and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf (Department 10), the series offers a forum for interdisciplinary exchange every Wednesday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Cartesium (blue rotunda, Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5). Each event combines a lecture from the natural sciences and one from the social sciences or humanities to promote dialogue on methods, perspectives, and issues relating to the coastal region.

Program:

3.12.  

Nils Moosdorf (ZMT): Zwei Wässer unter dem Strand: Ein Blick in das subterrane Ästuar and

Sonja Kerth (FB 10): ‚von dem wilden sande‘. Kontaktzonen von Meer und Land als Orte der Begegnung in vormoderner Literatur

10.12.

Cornelia Spiegel-Behnke (FB 05): Unterm Eis - eine Reise durch Zeit und Raum entlang der westantarktischen Küste and

Ursula Kluwick/Arne Peters/Karen Struve (FB 10): Entre terre et mer // Between Land and Sea: Trialog zur diskursiven Konstruktion von Küsten

7.1.   

Nora Diehl (FB 2, MARUM): Karge Küsten? Ein Einblick in die arktischen Gezeitenzonen and

Mark Schürch (FB 08): Naturally stronger - The role of healthy ecosystems in coastal adaptation to climate change

28.1.  

Heike Glade und Johannes Kiefer (FB 04): Meerwasserentsalzung – Trinkwassergewinnung und mehr and

Raimund Bleischwitz (ZMT): Towards a Maritime Circular Economy

Transforming coastal areas and ports with sustainable circular and blue innovations in Bremen and at international scales