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1 International Workshop ERC World Seastems International Workshop ERC World Seastems 1 JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2 International Workshop ERC World Seastems JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED International Workshop ERC World Seastems 3 PROGRAMME, PRACTICAL INFORMATION & ABSTRACTS Paris, 16-18 June 2014 JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 4 International Workshop ERC World Seastems TABLE OF CONTENTS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 PRACTICAL INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 WORKSHOP PROGRAMME ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 ABSTRACTS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 WHO’S WHO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 69 PARTICIPANTS’ CONTACT EMAILS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 85 WORLD SEASTEMS PROJECT OUTLINE & KEY FACTS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 88 JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED International Workshop ERC World Seastems 5 More than 80% of world trade volumes occur by sea nowadays. Despite this enormous importance, little is known about the precise distribution and configuration of maritime flows. This international workshop on maritime flows and networks wishes to gather worldwide scholars and experts from all scientific and disciplinary backgrounds to introduce and discuss their researches on various related issues. This is a multi-disciplinary event which will investigate how maritime flows and networks of any kind can be analysed in order to answer major industry and wider societal challenges. Contributions will deal with themes such as: ancient and contemporary shipping routes and corridors; regionalisation and globalisation dynamics in world maritime trade; global production networks and logistics/supply/value/commodity chains; multimodal transportation, hinterlands and the land-sea interface; port systems, centrality, hubs, maritime ranges and forelands; port-city relationships, merchants and intermediaries, urban systems, global cities; network security, congestion, disruption, vulnerability, and optimisation; network design and routing, port choice and shipping line competition; technological change in shipping and port operations, time and cost factors; climate change, bio-invasions and environmental sustainability; mobility, migrations, cultural exchanges, knowledge diffusion, tourism, voyages and discoveries. JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 6 International Workshop ERC World Seastems The originality of the workshop is to put a strong emphasis on the methodological aspects across a wide spectrum: theories, concepts, models applicable to transport networks; database building from historical and other documents (AIS, schedules, movements...); network analysis from graph theory to complex systems; visualization and modelling of flow matrices; spatial analysis and statistics, cartography, Geographical Information Systems (GIS); simulation, agent-based models, forecast. It is intended that this workshop will lead to a book publication, based on a selection of best papers following the workshop itself. Young scholars as well as confirmed experts are all welcome, from both social and natural sciences (i.e. archaeology, history, geography, economics, engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, geomatics...). JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED International Workshop ERC World Seastems 7 JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 8 International Workshop ERC World Seastems WORKSHOP VENUE : ISC-PIF (Institut des Systèmes Complexes, Paris-Île de France) 113 rue Nationale, 75013 Paris / Metro : line 6 (Nationale) or 14 (Olympiades). USEFULL PHONE NUMBERS : In case of any problem, please contact organisers : - César Ducruet: +0033(0)628.196.048 (mobile phone); - Sébastien Haule: +0033(0)674.581.315 (mobile phone); - Kamel Ait-Mohand: +0033(0)628.344.274 (mobile phone) ; - Martine Laborde (UMR Géographie-cités secretary): +0033(0)140.464.000 (office phone). JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED International Workshop ERC World Seastems 9 ACCOMMODATION: 5TH ARRONDISSEMENT Hôtel Beauvoir 43 avenue Georges Bernanos, 75005 Paris Phone: +0033(0)143.255.710 RER: line B (Port-Royal) Hôtel Libertel Austerlitz Jardin des Plantes 12-14 boulevard de L'hôpital, 75005 Paris Phone: +0033(0)143.376.080 Metro: lines 5 or 10 (Gare d’Austerlitz) or line 5 (Saint-Marcel); RER: line C (Gare d’Austerlitz) JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 10 International Workshop ERC World Seastems ACCOMMODATION: 6TH ARRONDISSEMENT Hôtel Perreyve 63 Rue Madame, 75006 Paris Phone: +0033(0)145.483.501 Metro: line 4 (Saint-Placide) Hotel Saint Andre Des Arts 66 Rue St Andre Des Arts, 75006 Paris Phone: +0033(0)143.269.616 Metro: lines 4 or 10 (Odéon) or line 4 (Saint- Michel) ; RER: line B or C (Saint-Michel-Notre- Dame) JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED International Workshop ERC World Seastems 11 ACCOMMODATION: 13TH ARRONDISSEMENT Hôtel Paris Massena Olympiades (Ex Bercy Rive Gauche) 82-84 rue Regnault, 75013 Paris Phone: + 33(0)145.857.070 Metro: line 7 (Porte d’Ivry) Timhotel Place d'Italie - butte aux cailles 22 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris Phone: +0033(0)145.806.767 Metro: line 6 (Corvisart) JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 12 International Workshop ERC World Seastems Hôtel Le Richemont 17 rue Jean Colly, 75013 Paris Phone: +0033(0)145. 828.484 Metro: line 14 (Olympiades) Grand Hôtel Des Gobelins 57 Boulevard St Marcel, 75013 Paris Phone: + 0033(0)143.317.989 Metro: line 7 (Les Gobelins) JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED International Workshop ERC World Seastems 13 GALA DINNER (SEINE RIVER CRUISE) / TUESDAY 17TH JUNE 2014 Marina de Paris - Port Solferino 23 Quai Anatole France, 75007 Paris RER: line C (Musée d’Orsay) JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 14 International Workshop ERC World Seastems JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED International Workshop ERC World Seastems 15 JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 16 International Workshop ERC World Seastems DAY 1 - Monday 16th June 2014 KEYNOTE SPEECHES Time slot Title Welcoming address 1 9h00-9h10 David CHAVALARIAS - Institute of Complex Systems Paris Ile-de-France (ISC-PIF) Welcoming address 2 9h10-9h20 Arnaud BANOS - CNRS & UMR 8504 Géographie-cités, Paris, France Workshop introduction 9h20-9h30 César DUCRUET - CNRS, Paris, France Shipping line networks 9h30-10h00 Antoine FREMONT - Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), Paris, France Merchant networks in the 'Asian Mediterranean' 10h00-10h30 François GIPOULOUX - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France 10h30-11h00 Coffee break Time slot Title City networks and transportation systems on the long-term period 11h00-11h30 Anne BRETAGNOLLE - University of Paris 1, France Spatial networks 11h30-12h00 Marc BARTHELEMY - Commissariat à l'énergie atomiques et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Paris, France 12h00-12h30 Round table (discussion) 12h30-14h00 Lunch break JUNE 2014 - UMR 8504 GÉOGRAPHIE-CITÉS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED International Workshop ERC World Seastems 17 SESSION 1: THE ANALYSIS OF HISTORICAL MARITIME NETWORKS [1] Time slot Title How technology and geography influence network dynamics Ray RIVERS - Imperial College London, United Kingdom 14h00-14h30 Carl KNAPPETT - University of Toronto, Canada Tim EVANS - Imperial College London, United Kingdom ORBIS: First of many worlds? Elijah MEEKS - Stanford University Libraries, USA 14h30-15h00 Karl GROSSNER - Stanford University Libraries, USA Walter SCHEIDEL - Stanford University Departments of Classics and History, USA Modeling Venice's maritime network - End 13th to Mid. 15th centuries Mélanie FOURNIER - Dalhousie University, Canada 15h00-15h30 Yannick ROCHAT & Frédéric KAPLAN - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Digital Humanities Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland 15h30-16h00 Coffee Break SESSION 2: THE ANALYSIS OF HISTORICAL MARITIME NETWORKS [2] Time slot Title Navigocorpus. A database for shipping and trade 16h00-16h30 Silvia MARZAGALLI - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis & Institut Universitaire de France Networks of oil and water: Pennsylvania’s global petroleum industry and its urban footprint in 16h30-17h00 Philadelphia (1860s-2014) Carola HEIN - Bryn Mawr College (Pennsylvania), Growth and Structure of Cities Department, USA ‘Knots’, port authorities and governance: comparing the governance of port connectivity in three major European ports 17h00-17h30 Luis Lobo-GUERRERO & Anna STOBBE - Chair Group on History and Theory of International Relations, University
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