Conference participation
2024
What happened to domestication? Hierarchies, tensions and mutuality in domestic life and economy in post-welfare Southern and Eastern Europe, Panteion University, Athens, May
- Giorgos Poulimenakos will present, “The saint-Chinese is watching over us: the “domestication” of global supply chain labor in the privatized container port of Piraeus”
2nd Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists Greece (SKAE), Anthropology, Ethnography in/for uncertain times, Thessaloniki, May
- Giorgos Poulimenakos will present, “From epistemology to ethnography: The global/local dialectics as metaphors for class dispositions”
10th Nordic Geographers Meeting, Transitioning Geographies, Copenhagen, 24-27 June
- Elizabeth A. Sibilia will present, “‘Following the green corridor’: From the port spaces of Singapore to the uneven landscapes of Pilbara, Western Australia”
EASA2024, Doing and Undoing with Anthropology, University of Barcelona, 23-26 July
- PORTS Sessions: Waterfront speculation: doing and undoing maritime urban spaces
- Co-organizers: Giorgos Poulimenakos, with Luisa Piart (Max Planck) and Johanna Markkula (CEU)
- Chair: Hege Høyer Leivestad
- Discussants: Elisabeth Schober, Nikhil Anand (University of Pennsylvania), Brenda Chalfin (University of Florida), Jon Schubert (University of Basel).
- Giorgos Poulimenakos will present, “Rewriting Futures: Impacts of "western," "eastern," "bottom-up," and "top-down" agencies on COSCO’s new Masterplan for the Port of Piraeus
Containerisation and Dock Labour since the 1960s: Work, Security, and Intermodal Transport in an Uncertain Setting, Bielefeld, September
- Giorgos Poulimenakos will present, “Title: TBD”
2023
American Association of Geographers, Annual Meeting, 27 March- 2 April
- Co-organizer: Elizabeth Sibilia with, Tenn Joe Lim (Graduate Center, CUNY)
- The Urbanization of Ocean Space: in and beyond the Port City I- transforming work and Livelihoods
- The Urbanization of Ocean Space: in and beyond the Port City II- 'mega' projects and national ambitions
- The Urbanization of Ocean Space: in and beyond the Port City III- juridical and technical instruments of the sea
SIEF2023 16th Congress, Living in Uncertainty, Brno, Czech Republic, June
- Giorgos Poulimenakos presented the paper, “From the state to local faces: transformations of labor dependencies via China in the port of Piraeus”
2022
Divergent Temporalities: Capitalism and the Conquest of Space-Time An interdisciplinary approach to temporal changes in global peripheries (18th – 21st centuries), Panteion University, Athens May
- Giorgos Poulimenakos presented the paper, “With one foot in Greece and the other in China: flexible labor, enclaves and the local-global dialectics beyond the space-time compression thesis”
Royal Geographic Society Conference, Newcastle, August
- Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar presented the paper, “Sustainable Work in a Sustainable Port? Temporality, Ecology, and Labor in the Port of Rotterdam” on the panel “Environmental Labour Studies”
EASA2023, Belfast 26-29 July
- Logistical Transformations: Supply Chains and the Politics of Circulation
- Co-organizers: Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar and Hege Høyer Leivestad
- Discussants: Elizabeth A. Sibilia and Elisabeth Schober
Workshops
2024
Thematic Workshop and Discussion for “Contemporary Ports and the Politics of Being in Motion,” a Themed Issue for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 18 March
- Guest Editor: Elizabeth A. Sibilia
Paper Workshop for “Contemporary Ports and the Politics of Being in Motion,” a Themed Issue for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 10 June
- Guest Editor: Elizabeth A. Sibilia
2023
Waterfronts: Work transformations, environmental change, and urban development at the port-city nexus, Norwegian Institute at Athens, June
- Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar presented the paper, “The Port of the Future? Visualizing Port City Separation in the Port of Rotterdam”
- Giorgos Poulimenakos presented the paper, “Continuities and discontinuities in the in-corporation of the port/city dialectics: health, body and sensory receptors between livelihood and urbanity”
- Elizabeth Sibilia presented the paper, “Green shipping corridors, maritime fuels, and Singapore’s strategic development drive”
- Hege Høyer Leivestad presented the paper, “Concreted Futures: Port Expansion and Seafront Struggles in Algeciras (Spain)”
- Elisabeth Schober presented the paper, “Against the Tide. City vs. port contestations, touristic spectacles, and the vehicle of “the environment” in Hamburg”
PORTS meets Containerships Workshop, European Solidarity Center, Gdansk, Poland 15-17 December
- Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar presented a paper on the Port of Rotterdam
- Hege Høyer Leivestad presented a paper on the Port of Algeciras Bay
- Giorgos Poulimenakos presented a paper on the Port of Piraeus
Automation Research Workshop, University of Bergen, June
- Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar presented the paper, “The Weakest Link. Labour, Automation, and Supply Chain Logistics in the Port of Rotterdam”
Paper Workshop for “Logistical Waterfronts: Work transformations, urban development, and environmental change at the port-city nexus,” a Special Issue for Social Anthropology, December
- Guest Editors: Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar and Hege Høyer Leivestad.
2022
Sited Logistics Workshop Series, virtual, March
- Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar presented the paper, “Infrastructure and the Future of Work in the Port of Rotterdam”
Fluid Commons Workshop, University of Oslo, May
- Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar presented the paper, “Commoning for Coal. Labor and the Energy Transition in the Port of Rotterdam”
Law and Infrastructure of Global Commerce Workshop at the University of Amsterdam, July
- Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar presented the paper, “Infrastructure, Green Growth and Labor in the Port of Rotterdam”
Invited Lectures
2024
Winter Seminar in Human Geography: Infrastructure, University of Oslo, 5 March
- Elizabeth A. Sibilia, Keynote Lecture, “Researching regional infrastructures in the global maritime economy”
EASA Anthropology of the Seas, Webinar series, 15 March
- Hege Høyer Leivestad, presented ‘Cargo capitalism: The port revisited’ and conversation with Jatin Dua
Containerisation and Dock Labour since the 1960s: Work, Security, and Intermodal Transport in an Uncertain Setting, Bielefeld, September
- Hege Høyer Leivestad, Keynote lecture, “Containerization and Dock Labour: What can anthropology bring to the table?”
2023
University of Bergen, Department of Social Anthropology. Departmental seminar, February
- Hege Høyer Leivestad presented the paper ‘Container Economies at the Strait of Gibraltar’
Stockholm Anthropology Roundtable 26-27 October
- Hege Høyer Leivestad panelist and presented a paper on time, ruination, and seafront infrastructure