Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of Industrial Cities

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Workshop "Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of Industrial Cities"

Veranstalter
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
Veranstaltungsort
online
Gefördert durch
Esch2022 asbl.
PLZ
4366
Ort
Esch-Belval
Land
Luxembourg
Vom - Bis
10.12.2020 - 11.12.2020
Website
https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/events/rethinking-histories-and-legacies-industrial-cities
Von
Stefan Krebs, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg

Online workshop organized by the 'Remixing the Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age' team.

Workshop "Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of Industrial Cities"

The history of (European) industrial cities is often told as a tragic tale of rise and decline: from rapid industrialisation in the late 19th century and economic prosperity during the Trente Glorieuses to the structural changes of the late 1970s and the subsequent deindustrialisation of the 1980s and 1990s. In the 1980s and ‘90s, most mines and iron and steel works closed down, unemployment rates went up, new social problems emerged, workers’ identities seemed to erode, and once prosperous urban centres were faced with a shrinking population and empty stores on their main shopping streets. Finally, since the 2000s, the former steel towns have tried to reinvent themselves as creative and cultural centres. But if we take a closer look, we can see that the transitions were more complex than the simple rise-and-decline narrative suggests. The workshop aims to zoom in on the history of industrial towns in Western and Eastern Europe to improve our understanding of how the people who lived in these industrial territories made sense of the developments outlined above. We are interested in the manifold narratives and counter-narratives of these industrial towns and cities.

Online Workshop (Webex); If you would like to participate please send an email to vanessa.napolitano@ext.uni.lu.

Programm

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)

Kontakt

Werner Tschacher, werner.tschacher@uni.lu

https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/events/rethinking-histories-and-legacies-industrial-cities