4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

PRO TORPEDO
ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION
OF THE RIJEKA INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

www.protorpedo-rijeka.org

The Primorsko-goranska County, the City of Rijeka, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the University of Rijeka (the Faculty of Maritime Affairs, the Faculty of Philosophy, the Faculty of Civil Engineering), the Rijeka Chamber of Commerce and the Rijeka Tourist Bord

are pleased to announce and invite you to take an active part in the

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

thematically related to

THE CITY OF RIJEKA AND ITS SHIPBUILDING HERITAGE
yesterday – today – tomorrow

to be held at the Maritime and Historical Museum of the Croatian Littoral,
Rijeka, Croatia,
from 22nd to 23rd April 2010

The Conference offers to world-famous experts in shipbuilding heritage to gather together and present their papers and exchange ideas on the always topical issues regarding the shipbuilding industry and its logistics, since participants coming from all over the world offer great opportunities for talks on the past, the present moment and the further development of problems, trends, technologies and legislation, as well as on the challenges that the shipbuilding industry is yet going to face.

The discussion proposed has been induced by the world economic crisis that we are facing with for months now, causing a great strain - not only on the shipbuilding industry - but will, at the same time, give world-famous experts a unique opportunity to consider new tactics and strategies to enable the shipbuilding industry to survive in such unstable circumstances.

Therefore, we are giving a warm welcome and invite experts and friends of the PRO TORPEDO association, members of any academic, industrial, museum or other international organization to take part at the 4th International Conference on Industrial Heritage thematically related to The City of Rijeka and Its Shipbuilding Heritage, Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow, and to present their conceptual, practical and theoretical research papers on the proposed subjects that cover widely the shipbuilding industry, its environment and its logistics.

All participants will have the opportunity to explore the City of Rijeka and its historical and industrial monuments that remind us of the power and of the shipbuilding entrepreneurship of the early 18th and 19th century that has slowly developed from small-size shipyards where wooden ships were built into great shipyards designed for the building of large ocean-going ships, tankers, cruisers and floating hotels, thus becoming a part of the international community.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Chairman
:
Professor Pero Lučin, Ph.D., rector of the University of Rijeka
Members:
Jasen Mesić, M.A., Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb
Professor Aleksandra Deluka-Tibljaš, Ph. D., Faculty of Civil Engineering, Rijeka
Professor Pavao Komadina, Ph.D. Faculty of Maritime Affairs, Rijeka
Robert Mohović, Ph.D., Faculty of Maritime Affairs, Rijeka
Professor Velimir Salamon, Ph.D., Faculty of Graphic Arts, Zagreb
Professor Dinko Zorović, Ph.D. Faculty of Maritime Affairs, Rijeka

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chairwoman:

Daina Glavočić, M.A., PRO TORPEDO, Rijeka
Members:
Velid Đekić, M.A., PRO TORPEDO, Rijeka
Jakov Karmelić, captain, PRO TORPEDO, Rijeka
Julija Lozzi-Barković, Ph.D., PRO TORPEDO, Rijeka
Nana Palinić, Ph.D., PRO TORPEDO, Rijeka
Jasna Rotim Malvić, M.A., PRO TORPEDO, Rijeka
Miljenko Smokvina, dipl.oecc., PRO TORPEDO, Rijeka

Main Conference Topic
THE CITY OF RIJEKA AND ITS SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY:
Yesterday - Today - Tommorrow

Subtopics
  • Ships as to the type of their propulsion: sailing ships, steam ships, motor ships…
  • Ships as to their structure: made of wood, iron, …
  • Ships as to their design/purpose: training ships, merchant ships, cargo ships, submarines, warships,fishing ships, tourist-tour ships,…
  • Shipbuilding tools
  • Shipbuilding terminology
  • Shipbuilding innovations and innovators
  • Shipyards: location, style of designing, typology,…
  • Submarine area: sunken ships
  • Ship-model building
  • Shipbuilders' training
  • Maritime museums, Shipbuilding museums
  • Shipbuilding industry / Ships in arts

GENERAL TOPICS on the industrial heritage

Information to authors

Dead lines for applications / submitting papers:

  • 24th December 2009 deadline for submitting summaries
  • 30th January 2010 summary accepted notice
  • 1st March 2010 deadline for submitting papers
  • 1st April 2010 deadline for registration fee payment
  • 22nd April 2010 deadline for submitting PP presentations
  • 22nd - 23rd april 2010 Conference (handing out conference material)

Information on conference papers:

  • Summary: up to 1000 words (up to 6 key words)
  • Topic presentation (with or without screening): 15 minutes maximum
  • Paper made in a written form to be published in the conference proceedings: 16 typewritten double-spaced pages = 5,000 words
  • Supplements: 10 maximum
    (figures, drafts, graphs,…)
  • Official language: Croatian / English (simultaneous translation)

Publications (printed / e-mail); Croatian / English):

  • Call for papers
  • Conference programme
  • Summaries folder
  • Conference proceedings

Conference fee for all participants:
50 Eu (until March 1st 2010)
70 Eu (until April 1st 2010)

Information:
daina.glavocic@ri.t-com.hr
info@protorpedo-rijeka.org