Thursday April 14, Maritime Museum
14.00-14.10 Welcome: Frits Lomeijer, director Maritime Museum
14.10-14.30 Introduction: Ben Wubs (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Rivers and Innovation in International Comparative Perspective
14.30-15.30 Keynote 1: Leonard Blussé (Leiden University)
Rhine and Yangzi Deltas: an Explorative Comparison
16.00- 17.30 Session 1: Comparison of two river economies: Rhine und Yangtze
Catia Antunes (Leiden University), River Societies: A Transnational Comparative Project
Zhang Xiaohong (Fudan University Shanghai), An overview of historical geographic studies on the Jiangnan delta society and its peculiarities
Comments: Peer Vries (University of Vienna)
Friday April 15, World Port Center
9.30-11.00 Session 2: Export Relations and Institutional Change in Early Modern Times
Magnus Ressel (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main/München), Organization, Change and Volume of Transalpine Transport between Germany and Italy in the 18th Century
Andrea Serles (University of Vienna), Trade and Transport in the Upper Danube Region: The Age of Mercantilism
Comments: Eva Roelevink (Ruhr University Bochum)
11.30-12.30 Keynote 2: Nil Disco (University of Twente)
The Rhine, a river of innovations
13.30-15.00 Session 3: Changes of Economic Relations and Industrial Structures in the 19th Century
Margrit Schulte Beerbühl (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Rise and decline of the Rhenish chocolate industry between Emmerich and Bonn (ca 1850-1970)
Hein Klemann (Erasmus University Rotterdam), West-German-Dutch Trade Relations, 1830-1860
Comments: Christian Marx (University of Trier)
Saturday April 16, Maritime Museum
9.30-11.00 Session 4 River Regulation in Comparative Persective: Rhine und Danube
Joep Schenk & Constantin Ardeleanu (Utrecht University), River regulation on the Rhine and the Danube: a comparison between two river regimes (1815-1914)
Antoine Beyer (IFSTTAR- UR Splott / Paris-Sorbonne), The Strasbourg Port Institution and Infrastructure in the Long Twentieth Century
Comments: Guido Thiemeyer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
11.30-13.00 Session 5: Technological Development and Knowledge Regimes
Jean-Francois Eck (University of Lille 3), Innovations and Rhine shipping after the Second World War
Nils Bennemann (University of Duisburg/Essen), River Maps, Tolls and Navigability: On the Role, Exchanges and Standardization of Cartographic Knowledge in the Central Commission for Rhine Navigation, 1817-1880
Comments: Marten Boon (Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim)
13.00-14.00 End of the conference