PCF Talks - Monthly Meetings

Every month, PortCityFutures hosts its monthly hybrid meeting: 'PCF Talks', where all members come together. The gatherings consist of a public lecture, given by a member or PCF or guest speaker. This is followed by a community engagement session, where PhD, Postdoc or non-PCF members are invited to present their findings. Finally, 'PortCityFuture Lighthouse and New Opportunities' gives all members the chance to present journal calls, new publications, conferences and other news. All upcoming and past PCF Talks are shown below.

Interested in presenting during a future PCF Talks gathering? Feel free to contact us! Reach out to Costanza about this years schedule.

PCF Talks Calendar 2024-2025

PCF Talks 2022

January - Stephan Hauser "The Oil is Dying? Long live its "Heritage"!"

February - Hilde Sennema "Motives & Myths in Port City Transitions: the Case of Jan Backx & Thomsen’s Havenbedrijf"

March - Fazzi, D. (Dario) "Blue Humanities"

April - Vincent Baptist "Pleasure near the Port: Spaces and Legacies of Notorious Entertainment Culture in 20th-Century Rotterdam"

May - Stephen Snelders "Dutch port cities as nodes in twentieth-century drug trafficking"

June - Helene Perfors "The human factor: Seafarers in the Port of Rotterdam"

September - Ida S. G. Lange and Marieke van Hulst Pedersen "A comparative study on Danish port-city relations"

October - Matteo D'Agostino "For the good of the city", Martin Tomov  "Resilient Times: Ethnographic accounts of citizenship, energy ethics, and the temporal aspects in the Resilient Bospolder/Tussendijken 2028 project " & Babette van Velzen "The Port is a Mirror of Society"

November - Paolo DeMartino & John Hannah: "Adaptive Strategies: Methodology, Scenario Thinking and Design Fiction. Naples and Beirut"

December - Carlien Ewusiwah Donkor , Costanza Franceschini and Koffi Nomedji "Port City Challenges in Togo & Ghana"