Ionian University in Corfu (Greece) in cooperation with the Branch of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture and the State Archive of the Odessa region organizes the International Conference “The economic and social development of the port-cities of the northern Black Sea Coast, late 18th – beginning of the 20th century” on September 22-25, 2013.
The conference is part of the “Thalis” Action of the operational program “Education and Life Long Learning” which is co-sponsored by the E.U. and the Greek Ministry of Education. The aim of the conference is to collect the first results of the research in the project and to present papers related to its themes. The project seeks the identification, analysis and synthesis of the economic and social develοpment of 20 port-cities of the Black Sea that formed an integrated market that became the larger grain-exporting area in the world in the nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth century. By placing at the centre of attention the sea and its ports, the analysis penetrates in the economic activities of the port-cities, the coastal area and the hinterland, the integration of markets and their interlinkages with the global economy, beyond political boundaries and divisions.
Subjects of the project are:
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) The shape of the cities. City-planning and architecture
4) Macro-analysis. Formation of macro-economic statistical series. Comparison with world economy
5) Micro-analysis. Entrepreneurial elites and major Greek business families
6) Linkages with the Mediterranean and the Atlantic
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