Liquid Modernity is a two-day event that seeks to draw together researchers interested in exploring the intersection of drink, space and place within contemporary culture, media and society.

The conference will be held at Bournemouth University 11-12th April 2019, hosted by the Centre for the Study of Journalism, Culture and Community, and supported by the Drinking Studies Network.

Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited on the following, though not exhaustive, list of topics:

• Drink and nation, globalisation, Brexit- Changing character of space and place within Daytime/night-time economies
• Coastal spaces as sites of abstinence/excess
• Drink and marginalised communities
• Pubs, bars and changing spaces of leisure (inc. gentrification, urban redevelopment, growth of microbreweries/micropubs, the ‘local’)
• Regionalism, drinking ‘scenes’/localised drinking cultures, brew-tours
• Nature, rurality, and the idea of naturalness, health or wellbeing in relation to drinking
• Drinking in transient spaces, heterotopias or as part of travel
• Place in relation to production (e.g. terroir) and/or consumption
• Public vs private drinking
• Policing space and alcohol consumption
• ‘dry’ and alcohol-free spaces
• Digital space and drinking (social media e.g. Untappd, Twitter, Facebook)