Everybody's Business – Toilets as a Contested Space

Taking the twentieth anniversary of the World Toilet Organization and of World Toilet Day on 19 November 2021 as its occasion, this conference on “everybody’s business” - organized by Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke and Prof. Dr. Eva Boesenberg at Humboldt University Berlin - explored the cultural politics of toilets and the topic of restroom cultures in transdisciplinary, intercultural perspectives and features contributions from the fields of literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, and other pertinent disciplines.