Thursday, March 13, 2014
(Venue: Hamburg Museum, Holstenwall 24, Lecture Hall)
18.30 – 20.00 Keynote Address : Michael B. Miller, Miami, FL: Ports in the Global Ages
Throughout the twentieth century ports were the nodes and gateways in a global system of exchange. But momentous changes in maritime business and also in globalization in the last half of the century changed the space, hierarchies, and cultures of world ports. This talk will trace that evolution from ports in one global age to ports in another.
Friday, March 14, 2014
(Venue: University of Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, ESA West, R. 221)
9.00 – 9.30
Axel Schildt, Hamburg: Welcome; Christoph Strupp, Hamburg: Opening Remarks
9.30 – 10.50
Panel 1 – The Changing Relationship of Ports and Port Cities I
Alice A. Mah, Coventry: Reconstructing Port Identities: The Political Economy of Waterfront Development (Liverpool, Marseilles and New Orleans)
Sven Alexander Schottmann, Melbourne: Marketing a Maritime Gateway: The Port of Singapore and its Role in the Management of the National Brand
Chair/Comment: Dirk Schubert, Hamburg
11.10 – 12.30
Panel 2 – The Changing Relationship of Ports and Port Cities II
Grzegorz Skrukwa, Poznań: The Image of the Odessa Seaport and the Transformation of Post-Soviet Ukraine
Janine Schemmer, Udine/Hamburg: Silent Revolution. Individual Memories and Official Representations of the Transformation of Dock Work in the Port of Hamburg
Chair/Comment: Carola Hein, Bryn Mawr, PA
13.00 – 15.00
Boat Tour of the Port of Hamburg, sponsored by the Hamburg Port Authority [participation limited to active conference participants]
15.30 – 17.00
Panel 3 – Ports and External Political and Economic Influences I
Christoph Strupp, Hamburg: “Victim No. 2 of the Cold War?” Port and Politics in Hamburg in the 1950s and 1960s
Dirk M. Koppenol, Rotterdam: Resisting Port Expansion. The Case of the Port of Rotterdam (1980s-2000s)
Chair/Comment: Dorothee Wierling, Hamburg/London
17.30 – 18.15
Panel 4 – Presentation of the Vilport Research Project
Béatrice Touchelay, Lille / Pierre Tilly, Louvain: Vilport - a Project and its Results: A New Configuration of Relations between Port and Hinterland in the North West of Europe since the 1950s (Project with Jean-François Eck, Lille)
Chair/Comment: Christiane Reinecke, Hamburg
Saturday, March 15, 2014
(Venue: University of Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, ESA West, R. 221)
9.30 – 10.50
Panel 5 – Ports and External Political and Economic Influences II
Ingo Heidbrink, Norfolk, VA: The Cod Wars and Related Changes in Major Fishing Ports (1885-2000)
Jiyoung Park, Buffalo, NY: The Impact of the Widening of the Panama Canal Expansion on U.S. Ports (Paper with Harry W. Richardson, Los Angeles, CA)
Chair/Comment: Alexander Nützenadel, Berlin
11.10 – 12.30
Panel 6 – Ports and Transportation: The Rise of a „Dangerous Box“
Catarina Caetano da Rosa, Darmstadt: Revolution, Change, or Setback? The Seaport of Lisbon and the Introduction of the Container
Daniel Castillo Hidalgo, Gran Canaria / Miguel Suárez Bosa, Gran Canaria: Container Traffics and Changes on the Labour Organization at the Port of Las Palmas (1960-2007)
Chair/Comment: Niels Wiecker, Hamburg
14.15 – 16.15
Panel 7 – Asia: Ports and the Challenges of a Global Economy
Hemalata C. Dandekar, San Luis Obispo, CA / Sulakshana Mahajan, Mumbai: Mumbai Port and Mumbai City. A Relationship in Transition in the Global Economy
Megan M. Campbell, Leipzig: The Changing Roles of Mumbai Ports in Light of State Rescaling and Special Economic Zone Projects
Chi-Kong Lai, Brisbane: Managerial Problems of Wharfs in a Modern Seaport: A Case Study of Kin Lee Yuen Dock in Modern Shanghai
Chair/Comment: Martina Heßler, Hamburg
16.30 – 17.00
Concluding discussion