Conference “The Economic and Social Development of the Port-Cities of the Southern Black Sea Coast, Late 18th – Beginning of the 20th century” (Istanbul, 23 - 26 October 2014)

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Members of Research Institute of Urban History Victoria Konstantinova and Igor Lyman took part in the Third Conference of the Black Sea Project “The Economic and Social Development of the Port-Cities of the Southern Black Sea Coast, Late 18th – Beginning of the 20th century” (Istanbul, 23 - 26 October 2014).

The conference was hosted by the History Department of Boğaziçi University.

Researchers from Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Romania, Norway, Georgia, United Kingdom and United States gave presentations at the conference.

Papers of the conference were related to the subject of the project “The Black Sea and its port-cities from the 18th to the 20th century. Development, convergence and linkages with the global economy” along the following six axes:
1. The Black Sea as a unit of research. Marine environment and six port systems.
2. Six maritime regions. Economic and social development of twenty port-cities.
3. Patterns of urban structure. City-planning and architecture.
4. Macro-analysis. Formation of macro-economic statistical series. Comparison to world economy.
5. Micro-analysis. Entrepreneurial elites and major Greek business families.
6. Networks linking to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.

Web-page of the conference: http://blacksea.gr/en/conferences

Also see here: http://ri-urbanhistory.org.ua/en/projects-en/264-third-conference-of-the-black-sea-project-the-economic-and-social-development-of-the-port-cities-of-the-southern-black-sea-coast-late-18th-beginning-of-the-20th-century-istanbul-23-26-october-2014