PCF Presentations

Every month, PortCityFutures hosts its monthly meeting where all members come together. Each time a member or guest speaker will present their research. All upcoming and past presentations are listed below. 

Schedule: Upcoming Presentations 2023 - 2024

  • September: 15.09.23 --- 14:00 - 17:00
  • October: 20.10.23 --- 14:00 - 17:00
  • November: 24.11.23 --- 9:00 - 12:00
  • December: 15.12.23 --- 14:00 - 17:00
  • January: 19.01.24 --- 14:00 - 17:00
  • February: 23.02.24 --- 9:00 - 12:00
  • March: 27.03.24 --- 9:00 - 12:00
  • April: 19.04.24 --- 9:00 - 12:00
  • May: 24.05.24 --- 9:00 - 12:00
  • June: 21.06.24 --- 14:00 - 17:00

Presentations 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"

October - Matteo D'Agostino "For the good of the city", Martin Tomov  "Resilient Times: Ethnographic accounts of citizenship, energy ethics, and the temporal aspects in the Resilient Bospolder/Tussendijken 2028 project " & Babette van Velzen "The Port is a Mirror of Society"

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"