Conference: Futures in the History of Deindustrialisation, Bologna, October 13-15, 2022.
2-3pm Opening
Welcome by Eloisa Betti and the Organizing Team
3-4.30pm Panel 1: Long Shots of Post-Industrial Temporalities
Chair: Liliosa Azara
From Ploughs to Computers: Socialist Visions of a Post-Industrial Age
Martin Babička (University of Oxford)
Alternative Futures? Preliminary Ideas on the Italian Workers’ Movement between Deindustrialization and Environmentalism
Gilda Zazzara (University of Venice)
The Future of Deindustrialization – A Cultural Turn? The Future of Former Industrial Landscapes and Industrial Societies in Central Europe
Tibor Valuch (Ezterhazy Karoly University)
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5-6pm Presentation of “Il lavoro e la memoria” [Work and memory] and the collection of video-interviews on mines in Sulcis-Iglesiente
FRIDAY, 14 OCTOBER
10–12am Panel 2: Image Politics, Cultural Politics and Heritagization
Chair: Stefan Moitra
“The Ruhr – Heading For a New Future”: Pasts and Futures in Regional Image Politics
Helen Wagner (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Negotiating a Future for Coal: the RAG AG and the Creation of the Zollverein World Heritage Site
Gertjan Plets (Utrecht University) and Marin Kuijt (Leiden University)
Deindustrialization as Cultural Trauma: The Future of Mountain Industrial Ruins between Local and Global Imaginaries
Gianluca Lanfranchi (University of Bologna)
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12am–1pm Lunch break
1–3pm: Guided tour to the Museum of industrial heritage
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3–5pm Panel 3: Coming to Terms with Fears and Hopes
Chair: Francesca Sanna
(Not) Having a Future? Western Migration from a Former Industrial Center in Northern Hungary
Eszther Bartha (Eötvös Loránd University)
Middletown Revisited: Deindustrialization and Local Structures of Feeling in Muncie, Indiana
(USA)
Patrick Collier and James J. Connolly (Ball State University)
Dystopian Futures: Cultural Creation and Decline in Asturian Coalfields
Ruben Vega (University of Oviedo)
The Healing Power of Art: Future Strategies for Mending a Cleaved Ex-industrial Community
Lisa Taylor (Leeds Beckett University)
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5.15–6pm Presentation of Bologna metalmeccani@ and short film “Noi siamo la Minganti”
SATURDAY, 15 OCTOBER
10–12am Panel 4: Urban Planning and Local Strategies
Chair: Christian Wicke
Building the Post-Industrial Future in Urban Britain
Alistair Kefford (Leiden University)
Nowa Huta: Then, Now and in the Future
Melinda Harlov-Csortán (Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg)
Towards a Bright Future: Examining the Transition from Mining to Industry in a Soviet Uranium Mining Town
Nikolaos Olma (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)
The Factory Between Heritage and Production: Memories and Perspectives of an Incomplete Deindustrialization
Francesco Caiazzo (University of Bologna)
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12-12.30pm Closing Discussion
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12.30-1.30pm Lunch Break
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2–6pm Industrial heritage guided tour across Bologna area organized by the Museum of Industrial heritage