Fri, May 31 (Venue: Department of Cultural studies at Rijeka University, Seminar room 801)
10-10:30 Introduction by Brigitte Le Normand, Sarah Lemmen
Panel I: The Making and Maintaining of a Socialist Port
10:40-12:40
Joseph Stollenwerk (Toronto): A Socialist Port in the Cold War: The Building of the Overseas Port at Rostock
Sarah Lemmen (Madrid): The Czechoslovak Port in Hamburg as an unofficial Cold War Border Region
Petruta Teampau (Cluj): “It hurts my heart to see how it was destroyed”. Small towns in and out of socialism
Panel II: Socialist Ports in International Networks
14:30-15:50
Brigitte Le Normand (Regensburg): How does a socialist shipping line shape its home port? The case of Jugolinija in Rijeka, Yugoslavia
Rinna Kullaa (Vienna): The Soviet Union´s Global Ports: Histories of Madagascar´s Antsiranana and Yugoslavia´s Tivat in comparison
Panel III: Moving Goods and People: Following Commodity and Seafarers through the Ports
16:20-17:40
Anne Dietrich (Leipzig): Exploring Changes in Cuba’s Ports and Hinterlands: transition from US to socialist sugar markets
Lenka Krátká (Prague): Czechoslovak Seafarers’ Rememberings of Polish Ports as their “Second Home” during the State Socialism Period (1949–1989)
18:00
“Rijeka Port: Perspectives of its Future Architectural and Urbanistic Transformation“, an architectural guided tour through the port of Rijeka by Natasha Janković (Rijeka)
Sat. June 1 (Venue: Department of Philosophy at Rijeka University, Seminar room 401)
Panel IV: The workers’ experience: Everyday life and Protest at the Ports
9:00-10:20
Piotr Perkowski (Gdańsk): Gdańsk shipbuilders at the turn of the 1980s: Between solid and liquid experience of a socialist port
Andrew Hodges (Regensburg): The Uljanik Shipyard’s presence in the port city of Pula from the 1980s to the present day: work and leisure routines
10:40-11:30
Concluding Discussion
Discussant: Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg)