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.
PCF Talks - Monthly Meetings
Presentations 2024
Presentations 2023
Presentations 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"
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"
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"