El objetivo del coloquio es estudiar los puertos desde un punto de vista holístico. Por un lado, se pretende analizar los puertos en tanto que materia de estudio con entidad propia y factor de modernización cultural, socioeconómica, política y tecnológica del área donde se insertan. Por otro, se propone abordar las conexiones entre los puertos atlánticos, los cuales han facilitado los intercambios de mercancías, personas, agentes biológicos o corrientes culturales a través del Océano.

Argument

The main goal of this Colloquium is to study the ports from a holistic point of view. Thus, the aim is to explore ports as own entity which acted as cultural, economic, technological and institutional modernization drivers. On the other hand, we expect to analyze the seaborne connections between the Atlantic ports which encouraged and permitted the exchange of goods, people, biological agents or cultural trends through the sea. We encourage the participation of researchers from different geographical areas in order to consolidate comparative analysis that must permit us to find some theoretical answers on the contemporary conception of ports. This approach implies the notion of ports as regional development agents.

Chronologies: centuries XIV-XXI Main topics proposed

1)      Factors of port development

1.1.Ports and investments on infrastructures

1.2.  Port communities: stakeholders, institutions, workers

1.3.  Ports, technology and innovation

2)      Port development dynamics

2.1.  Ports and Atlantic expansion

2.2.  Ports and colonial extraction

2.3.  Industrial and entrepreneurial clusters

2.4.  Ports and hinterlands: connections

3)      Impact of port development

3.1.  Environment and marine ecology

3.2.  Migrations

3.3.  Social Inclusion-Exclusion

3.4.  Cultural Interactions

Author´s instructions

Proposals must incorporate a title and an abstract with a maximum length of 300 words. Authors must identify the topic, the research goals, the proposed methodology and the main expected outputs. Proposals must include five keywords. The proposal must be introduced in one of the 11 topics proposed. Proposals must be completed with the name and academic affiliation of the authors and a little biographical review (max 5 lines).

Proposals in Spanish, French, Portuguese and English will be considered.

Proposals must be submitted to:

gobernanza@geo.uned.es

The deadline for the submission of proposals will be

the 14 April 2017. 

The organizers will contact authors to confirm the correct reception of proposals.

By 15 May 2017, the organizers will inform authors about the acceptance or rejection of their proposals.

Those proposals which not respect these basic instructions will be rejected by the Scientific Committee.

Please, contact us if you have any comment, question or suggestion:

• Miguel Suárez Bosa (miguel.suarezbosa@ulpgc.es)
• Daniel Castillo Hidalgo (daniel.castillohidalgo@ulpgc.es) 

Organizers

• Daniel Castillo Hidalgo, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Miguel Suárez Bosa, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Organization Committee

• Juan José Díaz Hernández, Universidad de La Laguna
• Alejandro González Morales, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Roberto J. González Zalacaín, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
• José Ángel Hernández Luis, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Antonio Ramón Ojeda, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Ana María Rivera Medina, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
• Germán Santana Pérez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Sergio Solbes Ferri, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Scientific Committee

• Luis G. Cabrera Armas, Universidad de La Laguna
• Daniel Castillo Hidalgo, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Cezar Honorato Teixeira, Universidad Federal Fluminense Sylviane Llinares, Universidad de Bretagne-Sud
• Ayodeji Olukoju, Universidad de Lagos
• Amèlia Polonia, Universidad de Oporto
• Ofelia Rey Castelao, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
• Ana María Rivera Medina, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
• Miguel Suárez Bosa, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Beatriz Tovar de la Fe, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Honorary Committee

• Eduardo Aznar Vallejo, Universidad de La Laguna
• Michel Bochaca, Université de La Rochelle
• Guy Saupin, Université de Nantes