2 February 2026, 16:15-17:45 (in person)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FU Berlin, FMI, Room A336, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Historians usually describe the development of cities in socialist Eastern Europe as shaped by internal or intra-systemic factors, such as the planned economy and socialist ideology. Yet, some cities were clearly impacted by their global embeddedness. This is the case of Rijeka, which became Yugoslavia\u2019s most important port. Brigitte Le Normand shows how Yugoslavia\u2019s ambitious maritime policy and develop shipping between the port and the rest of the world resulted in the rapid growth of the port and merchant navy. She then explores two ways in which this trajectory impacted life at the local scale \u2013 in the creation of global imaginaries that connected citizens to the world, and in urban development that ultimately alienated citizens from the sea and the urban space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n