Ports and port cities have stood out over time as important categories of historical analysis. The study of port systems and the internal dynamics of European ports, side by side with navigation circuits and international commerce has generated a vast literature.
In the contexts of the first and the second globalization processes it is essential to develop crossing studies to place ports within globally articulated networks. The relationships between European, African and American Atlantic seaports are fundamental to the understanding of overall dynamics related to the economy, population, policy and culture.
A wide European historiography confirms the importance of the seaport spaces and dynamics. This tends to be reinforced with innovative contributions, focused for the last decades upon port systems analysis. They stress the existence of intercontinental traffic networks that unite ports in an active trade system. This point of view based on a theoretical and functional conception of the existence of hierarchies and seaport complementarities – defined and redefined in articulations with particular conjunctures – has resulted in renowned historiographical productions. Inter-port communications axes, the portuary networks and the interactions between ports had also been taken into account. This approach is up to be applied to analyses that go from medieval period to today’s containerization.
Ports themselves are seen as economic and logistic enterprises that require the mobilization of industries and economic activities. Their impact reaches far beyond the port cities and the surrounding areas. Through institutionalized policies and regulated and formal activities, but also through informal networks and activities, seaports become the epicenter of leading economic dynamics: industry, commerce, services, finances, naval logistics, and maritime transport, are just some of the areas that boost research around port areas.
Because ports are platforms of articulation with extended hinterlands and forelands and because their economy requires manpower and labor force, it is important that this strictly economical dimension should be linked with the agents and with the human networks that sustained them. Transcontinental
emigration circuits, emigrants transportation, slave trade and forced labor, legal and illegal migrations, as well as migration policies and their local implementation are also topics that will be debated in this meeting, allowing us to connect the economic dynamism of seaports with its social and political agents.
Program
8th SEPTEMBER 2014
9h-10h Reception & Registration
Opening Remarks from the Scientific Committee
10h-13h
EUROPEAN PORTS 1
- Gérard LE BOUEDEC, Université de Bretagne-Sud, Les Trajectoires Portuaires en Bretagne du XVéme au XXéme siécle
- Guy SAUPIN, Université de Nantes, L’impact de la proto-mondialisation sur la hiérarchie portuaire. Une comparaison entre l’Espagne la France et le Royaume-Uni de Grande Bretagne, vers 1600 – vers 1850
- Bernard MICHON, Université de Nantes, Les « Aires Portuaires » françaises au XVIIIéme siècle, approche comparative
Discussion
EUROPEAN PORTS 2
- Michael LIMBERGER, Universiteit Gent, From Calicut to Cracovia. Trade and Trading Networks in Antwerp. Around 1500
- Luis María BILBAO and Ramón LANZA GARCIA, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Bilbao en el comércio español de mediados del siglo XVI
- Juan GELABERT, Universidad de Cantabria, Inglaterra, las Provincias Unidas y los mercados ibéricos (1585-1609)
Discussion
15h-17h30
EUROPEAN PORTS 3
- Ofelia REY CASTELAO, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, La superposición Jurisdicional en los puertos de Galícia en el tránsito de la Edad Moderna a la Contemporánea
- Amândio BARROS, Universidade do Porto, A fortuna de um porto atlântico: Porto, Brasil e as Américas no século XVI
EUROPEAN PORTS 4
- Sara PINTO, Universidade do Porto, Servir e conectar espaços económicos: o lugar dos portos numa rede de negócios no século XVI
- António DE ABREU XAVIER, Universidad Central de Venezuela, O 101: O porto de Lisboa aberto à América. 1827
Discussion
9th SEPTEMBER 2014
10h-13h
ISLAND PORTS
- José Damião RODRIGUES, Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada (São Miguel, Açores): cidade portuária e agrotown
- Catarina GARCIA, Universidade dos Açores, Angra e Funchal, dois portos atlânticos no contexto do império marítimo português. Análise comparativa sobre dinâmicas e estruturas
- Sérgio REZENDES, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Dinâmicas históricas no centro geo-estratégico do Atlântico-Norte: a defesa dos portos açorianos
Discussion
BRAZILIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN PORTS 1
- Thiago MANTUANO and Cézar HONORATO, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brasil), A Economia da Região Portuária do Rio de Janeiro (1870-1900)
- Laila BRICHTA, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, O Porto Fluvial de Ilhéus entre 1920 e 1942: assoreamento, economia e política
- Flávio GONÇALVES DOS SANTOS, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Baía do Pontal - Ilhéus: o porto, a legislação e a administração - 1911/1942
Discussion
15h-18h30
BRAZILIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN PORTS 2
- Ângela DOMINGUES, Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Contactos nas periferias imperiais. Salvador na Literatura de viagens de setecentos
- Catalina BANKO, Universidad Central de Venezuela, La Dinâmica del comércio exterior Venezolano (siglo XIX)
Discussion
BRAZILIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN PORTS 3
- Nora SIEGRIST, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET, Buenos Aires), Puertos, barcos, objectivos y puertos de conexión. Consanguinidad y parentesco político en el ámbito de sus proprietários. Cádiz-Buenos Aires y el Litoral Mesopotâmico. Siglos XVIII-XIX
- Miguel Ángel DE MARCO, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET, Buenos Aires), La "Ciudad Puerto" como fundamento identitario de los actores del desarrollo institucional y económico regional frente las grandes crisis internacionales. El caso de Rosario (Argentina)
Discussion
Plenary Session La Governanza de los Puertos Atlanticos
10th SEPTEMBER 2014
10h-13h
MIGRATIONS AND PORT LABOUR
- Torsten FEYS, Universiteit Gent, The Dual Role of Port Cities as Hubs for Global Migration and Bastons of Migration Control. New York versus San Francisco. 1870s-1920s
- Yvette SANTOS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portos e emigração transatlântica: a gestão adminstrativa das saídas pela Junta Nacional de Emigração no pós-II Guerra Mundial
- Daniel CASTILLO HIDALGO and Miguel SUÁREZ BOSA, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canarias, The Evolution of Port Labour in Las Palmas during the "Container Age", 1960-2007
Discussion
PORT POLICIES AND STRATEGIES
- Ana PRATA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quanto custaram os portos portugueses? O investimento público no sector portuário entre 1910 e 1930
- António Carlos ALMEIDA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, O porto de Sines: da ideia abstracta à exploração do terminal petroleiro
- Margarida SCHIAPPA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, A Plataforma E80 e o programa Marco Polo. Objectivo europeu de introdução da intermodalidade
15h-16h30
PORTS’ NEW ECONOMIC USES AND ROLES
- André FERNANDES and José PICAS DO VALE, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Estratégias de Valorização do Património Portuário: considerações sobre o caso do Porto de Lisboa
- Rosana LOPES, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, A Carpintaria Naval como um bem cultural de Cajaíba, Camamu – Bahia
Discussion
Closing Remarks from the Scientific Committee
Coordination
- Amélia POLÓNIA (Universidade do Porto),
- Ana PRATA (Universidade Nova de Lisboa),
- André FERNANDES (Universidade Nova de Lisboa),
- João FIGUEIRA DE SOUSA (Universidade Nova de Lisboa),
- Maria Fernanda ROLLO (Universidade Nova de Lisboa),
- Marta GARCÍA GARRALÓN (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)
Organisation
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa, “La Gobernanza de los puertos Atlánticos. Siglos XIV-XXI” International Research Group,
- École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez)
Coll.: Porto de Lisboa, Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia
Venue location
Gare Marítima Rocha Conde d'Óbidos
Port of Lisbon
Cais da Rocha, Alcântara
Lisbon - Portugal