Stefan Krebs, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg
December 10, 2020
Welcome and introduction of participants (9.00–10.15h)
Panel 1: Micro-Meso-Macro: Changing the Scales of Analysis (10.30–12.00h)
Chair: Valérie Schafer
Romain Bonnet (University of Padua): A Missionary From Fascist Italy in the Industrial City of Esch (Luxembourg): Don Flavio Settin and His Itinerary in Europe Before and After 1914 (new proposal with related topic will be sent soon)
Mara Marginean (Romanian Academy, Cluj): Young Workers, Housing and Local Bureaucratic Compromises in the 1970s Romania: A Glimpse of the Industrial Neighborhoods of Cluj
Salvatore Romeo (free researcher/University of Verona): Taranto: Rise and Fall of an Industrial City in Southern Italy
(Offline) Lunch Break (12.00–13.30h)
Panel 2: Coping with the Decline of Industrial Cities (13.30–15.00h)
Chair: Denis Scuto
Théo Georget (University of Lorraine, CRULH, Nancy-Metz): Le monde ouvrier du bassin de Longwy face aux restructurations de l’industrie sidérurgique (dernier quart du vingtième siècle)
Julia Wambach (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin): The End of Solidarity?: Deindustrialization in Lens (F) and Gelsenkirchen (D)
Sara Thieme (University of Münster): Interpreting and Coping with De-Industrialization: Churches as Urban Actors in Manchester, 1970–90s
Panel 3: Transformations of (Post-) Industrial Cities (15.15–16.45h)
Chair: Christoph Brüll
Federico Camerin (University of Valladolid): The Decline and Legacy of Spanish Industrial Cities: A Comparison Between the Urban Regeneration Processes of Barcelona and Bilbao
Chris Corker (University of York) & James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University): Memory, Heritage and the Post-Steel City: The Transformation of Sheffield Since 1990
Carole O‘Reilly (Salford School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology): The Classic Slum?: Civic Identities, Cultural Dissonance and the Remaking of Salford
Breakout sessions (17.00–17.30h)
December 11, 2020
Panel 4: Lifestories, Memories and Identities (9.00–11.00h)
Chair: Karin Priem
Almut Leh & Dennis Möbus (University of Hagen): Digital unter Tage: (Data) Mining Lifestories and Social Culture in the Ruhr Area
João Pedro Santos (NOVA University Lisbon): Between the Factory and the City: Contributions to a Cultural History of Work in the Setúbal Region
Matt Beebee (University of Exeter): Navigating Industrial Change in England Since 1960: Place, Mobility, and the Politics of Belonging
Nicole Horakova (University of Ostrava): Working Biographies, Transformation and Structural Changes: Mobility as a Survival Strategy. Miners in the Ostrava Coal Basin After 1989
Breakout sessions (11.15–12.00h)
(Offline) Lunch Break (12.00–13.00h)
Panel 5: Industrial heritage, arts and media (13.00–14.00h)
Chair: Werner Tschacher
Nadège Mariotti (University of Lorraine, CRULH, Nancy-Metz): Genèse d’une valorisation des archives industrielles lorraines : le projet mémoires d’images de l’association Image’Est
Irene Díaz (University of Oviedo): Working-Class Memories and Legacies of Deindustrialization Through Cultural Creation in Asturias (Spain)
Commentary by Sebastian Haumann (University of Darmstadt) & Closing Remarks(14.00–15.00h)