Every month, PortCityFutures hosts its monthly hybrid meeting: 'PCF Talks', where all members come together. The gatherings consist of a public lecture, given by a member or PCF or guest speaker. This is followed by a community engagement session, where PhD, Postdoc or non-PCF members are invited to present their findings. Finally, 'PortCityFuture Lighthouse and New Opportunities' gives all members the chance to present journal calls, new publications, conferences and other news. All upcoming and past PCF Talks are shown below.
PCF Talks - Monthly Meetings
PCF Talks 2025
PCF Talks 2024
PCF Talks 2023
PCF Talks 2023
January - Harry den Hartog “Tensions and opportunities at Shanghai’s waterfronts: Laboratories for institutional strategies toward sustainable urban planning and delta design transitions"
February - Maria Elena Buslacchi ''The Project of a European Capital of the Sea - Using a label to improve the well-being of port cities? Case Study: Marseille''
March - Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway ''Global Production Networks in Creative Industries: CICERONE''
April - Amira Ghennaï ''Global palimpsestic Petroleumscape Skikda''
May - Eirini Sideri and Aimilia Nteka ''Hermopolis in the 19th Century & The Rebetiko Musical Trajectory''
June - Carola Hein ''Port City Atlas Soft Launch''
September - Ingrid Mulder ''Transdisciplinary spaces and worldmaking practices for alternative futures.''
September - Amin Maghsoudi ''Investigating the effects of maritime transport developments on territorial landscape of Hormozgan, case study: Bandar-e Abbas''
October - Alex Giuliano Vailati "Image as an infrastructural axis. Contact and exposure of the port of Suape"
November - Arba Bekteshi and Martin Jan Månsson "Coast of Durrës & Global Trade, Travel and industry in mid 1800s"
December - Lia Fedele "Exploring Land-Sea Interactions: Topics and Research"
PCF Talks 2022
January - Stephan Hauser "The Oil is Dying? Long live its "Heritage"!"
February - Hilde Sennema "Motives & Myths in Port City Transitions: the Case of Jan Backx & Thomsen’s Havenbedrijf"
March - Fazzi, D. (Dario) "Blue Humanities"
April - Vincent Baptist "Pleasure near the Port: Spaces and Legacies of Notorious Entertainment Culture in 20th-Century Rotterdam"
May - Stephen Snelders "Dutch port cities as nodes in twentieth-century drug trafficking"
June - Helene Perfors "The human factor: Seafarers in the Port of Rotterdam"
September - Ida S. G. Lange and Marieke van Hulst Pedersen "A comparative study on Danish port-city relations"
November - Paolo DeMartino & John Hannah: "Adaptive Strategies: Methodology, Scenario Thinking and Design Fiction. Naples and Beirut"
December - Carlien Ewusiwah Donkor , Costanza Franceschini and Koffi Nomedji "Port City Challenges in Togo & Ghana"