Seminars
2nd Seminar: Constantine Ardeleanu, "Technology Transfer, Transnational Bureaucracy, and the Making of a Security Regime in the Danube Delta (19th-20th Centuries)"
30-10-2017
Speaker:
Ardeleanu Constantine (University of Galati & New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest)
Comment:
Dimitris Kontogeorgis (Hellenic Open University, Ionian University)
Abstract
This paper focuses on the development of Danubian trade and shipping after the establishment of the European Commission of the Danube in 1856, by the decision of the Treaty of Paris. This international institution underwent an impressive technical and administrative program that contributed to the transformation of the Lower Danube into a secure and prosperous transportation corridor. The Greek seafarers were the most important actors of Danubian navigation. On the basis of the archives of the Danube Commission, this paper aims to refer to the fields in which navigation was modernized, using statistical data to exemplify the transition from sail to steam and how the engineers coped with the ever-larger tonnage of the vessels plying on the Lower Danube.
The seminar is co-organised in collaboration with the Postgraduate Studies Programme in Modern History, Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University. The Seminar will be held in English.
Time and place: Monday 30.10.2017, 16:00-19:00, National Hellenic Research Foundation (48, Vas. Konstantinou av., Athens, groundfloor), metro "Evangelismos" or bus station "NHRF".
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