Socialist Ports in a Global Perspective

Socialist Ports in a Global Perspective

Veranstalter
Ulf Brunnbauer, IOS Regensburg; Brigitte Le Normand, University of British Columbia; Sarah Lemmen, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Vjeran Pavlaković, University of Rijeka
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University of Rijeka
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Rijeka
Land
Croatia
Vom - Bis
31.05.2019 - 01.06.2019
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Sarah Lemmen

Ports hold a special position in economic, social and political aspects of modern societies; ports in socialist countries possibly even more so. In a political system that preferred closed borders, ports symbolized the “gates to the world”; in an economic system that was thoroughly planned, ports became the main contact point for global trade outside of a planned economy. In many ways, socialist ports were places of exception: heightened contact with the rest of the world went hand in hand with heightened control; the relative permeability of ports as border regions allowed for intensified smuggling, black marketeering or defection. Because of their permeable nature, ports – as well as shipyards – may be considered places of increased potential for political protest and dissent.

This workshop aims to discuss the functions, specifics and regional embeddedness of socialist ports throughout the 20th century in a global perspective. We focus on the locality (socialist ports as specific economic, political or social locations, as part of a port city, as part of an international network), on the agents (e.g. national and local authorities, workers and sailors within a highly international working environment), on networks (between ports both socialist and non-socialist, as well as the interface between ports and other entities, such as railways) and on changes and continuities during (economic, political, social) transformations. Finally, we inquire into the general concept of a “socialist port”.

Programm

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)

Kontakt

Sarah Lemmen
Departamento de Historia Moderna e Historia Contemporánea
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

slemmen@ucm.es


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