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 2024 - 2025

  • September: 20.09.24 --- 9:00 - 12:00
  • October: 25.10.24 --- 9:00 - 12:00
  • November: 22.11.24 --- 9:00 - 12:00
  • December: 13.12.24 --- 14:00 - 17:00
  • January: 17.01.25 --- 14:00 - 17:00
  • February: 21.02.25 --- 9:00 - 12:00
  • March: 21.03.25 --- 9:00 - 12:00
  • April: 25.04.25 --- 9:00 - 12:00
  • May: 23.05.25 --- 9:00 - 12:00
  • June: 20.06.25 --- 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"