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UNDER THE AUSPICES OF HIS EXCELLENCY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC Mr. KAROLOS PAPOULIAS

Tobacco Roads:
Technology Transfer in the Tobacco Industry during the Early Twentieth Century

Kavala, Greece, 5-7 July 2013

Municipal Tobacco Warehouse-Tobacco Worker Square
(Dimotiki Kapnapothiki-Plateia Kapnergati)

Organizer:
Maria Rentetzi, Associate Professor, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Support team: Spyros Petrounakos, Georgia Markou, Spyridon Stelios, Dimitris Stergiopoulos

Contact: Maria Rentetzi, mrentetz@vt.edu

The conference marks the centenary anniversary of Kavala’s accession to the Greek state in July 1913. It is held under the auspices of His Excellency, the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Karolos Papoulias. It is also supported by the National Technical University of Athens, the Municipality of Kavala, ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA in Athens (the Commercial Section of the Austrian Embassy), the Austrian Embassy in Athens, the Embassy of Hungary in Greece, and the Swedish Institute at Athens.

Program
Friday 5 July 2013

9:00	Welcoming by the Mayor of the City and Maria Rentetzi
	Architecture as a Form of Technology
9:30-10:00	Aggeloudi, Sapfo. Democritus University of Thrace Zarkada, Ilektra. Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Historical, Typological, Morphological, and Constructional Approaches of Kavala’s Traditional Tobacco Warehouses

10:00-10:30	Lalenis Konstantinos. University of Thessaly Vyzikas, Ioannis. Institute of Social Movements of Kavala City Plans Drawn on Tobacco Leaves: the Evolution of the Urban Identity of Kavala

10:30-11:00	Sinamides, Jordan. Democritus University of Thrace The Tobacco Warehouses of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace: Urban Structural, Typological and Morphological Characteristics

11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:00	Theodoridou-Sotiriou, Lila. TEI of Serres Moustaka-Kampouri, Athena. University of Manchester The Tobacco Firms and Their Administration Offices in Cavalla During the First Half of the 20th Century: The Dissemination of the Austro-Hungarian and Swedish Architectural Style

12:00-12:30	Monioudi-Gavala, Dora. University of Western Greece The Tobacco Warehouses of Agrinio: Their Role in the Development of the City and its Urban Architecture

12:30-13:00	Coffee Break
	Tobacco Culture
13:00-13:30	Fellner, Sabine. Austria Tabak Collection Thiel, Georg. Austria Tabak Collection A Cultural History of Tobacco in 19th and 20th Century

13:30-14:00	Verderame, Nicola. Berlin Graduate School From Istanbul to Chicago and Back: Ottoman Tobaccos at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

14:00-18:30	Lunch Break
	Official opening of the Exhibition *Καπνος-Tabak* Archeological Museum of Kavala
18:30-20:00	Flevaris, Spiros. Architect Rentetzi, Maria. National Technical University of Athens
	Reception at the City Hall
20:00-23:00	Welcoming by the Mayor of Kavala Mr. Kostas Simitzis, the Austrian Ambassador Ms. Melitta Schubert, the Commercial Counselor of Austria Mr. Bruno Freytag, the associate professor of the National Technical University of Athens Maria Rentetzi

Saturday, 6 July 2013

	Technology Transfer
9:30-10:00	Betas, Thanasis. University of Thessaly From Tobacco-Shop to Cigarette Industry. Technological Changes in a Greek Cigarette Factory in the Early 20th Century.

10:00-10:30	Shechter, Relli. Ben-Gurion University The Egyptian Cigarette: Technology Transfer during the First Era of Modern Globalization

10:30-11:00	Balsoy, Gülhan. Işık University, İstanbul Comparative Visions to Gender and Labor: Tobacco Industries in Kavala and Istanbul in the Early Twentieth Century

11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:00	Chen, Han-Hsiu. Aberystwyth University Following the Transfer of Technology: the Story of the Social Connection Among People, Place, and Tobacco in Taiwan’s Tobacco Settlement

12:00-12:30	Schöggl-Ernst, Elisabeth. Provincial Archives of Styria. Greek Tobacco and the Austrian Tobacco Industry

12:30-13:00	Coffee Break
13:00-13:30	Aggeli, Maria. University of Ioannina Bakalis, Christos. University of Western Greece Tobacco Workers and Social Struggles in Interwar Greece: The Case of Agrinio

13:30-14:00	Polychronidis, Constantinos. Tobacco Entrepreneur, Kavala Museum of Tobacco Technology Transfer in Tobacco Industry: A First Hand Account

14:00-17:30	Lunch break
	Gender and Tobacco Industry
17:30-18:00	Nikolić Đerić, Tamara. Ethnographic Museum of Istria Tobacco Industry Changing Lives: Women Workers at the Beginning of 20th century

18:00-18:30	Tesinska,Emilie Institute of Contemporary History, Prague Tobacco and Mining Industry in Joachimsthal, Bohemia: Two Different Though Similar Histories

18:30-19:00	Plastas, Melinda. Bates College, USA. Then and Now: Memory, Tobacco, and Technology Transfer

20:00	Dinner ( Location to be announced)

Sunday, 7 July 2013

	Policies and Tobacco
9:30-10:00	Stergiopoulos, Dimitrios. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens The Cultivation and Trade of Tobacco in Kavala in relation to the Ottoman State Financial Policy: α Case of Financial Growth in the Late Ottoman Empire.

10:00-10:30	Gonsa, Christian. Independent Historian The Nile, The Greek Tobacco Account, and the War - or: the Presence of the 'Österreichische Tabakregie' in Greece during the 20th Century

10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:30	Vardagli, Tutku. Istanbul Aydın University Technology Transfer Policies of the Ottoman State and Its Influences over the Tobacco Sector at the turn of the Twentieth Century

11:30-12:00	Trakosopoulou-Tzimou, Kornilia. Democritus University of Thrace The Greek Tobacco Institute (1925-1960): Foundation and Architecture of a Tobacco Research Center

12:00-12:30	Coffee Break
	Tobacco Trade
12:30-13:00	Bakalis, Christos. University of Western Greece Tobacco Networks in the Aegean Islands

	Lunch Break

17:00-19:30	The Archival Record as Scientific Good*
	Moderator: Rentetzi, Maria. National Technical University of Athens Panelists: Agriantoni, Christina. University of Thessaly Avdela, Efi. University of Crete Karamanolakis, Evangelos. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Archives of Contemporary Social History (ASKI) Pappa, Amalia. General State Archives Pegiou, Efthimia. Writer, Former Tobacco Worker Sakellaropoulos, Tasos. Benaki Museum, Department of Historical Archives and Manuscripts Vyzikas, Ioannis. Institute of Social Movements of Kavala

19:30-20:00	Coffee Break
20:00-21:00	Varda, Christina. Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive, ELIA-MIET Τobacco Transport and Warehouses in Cavala and Xanthi, Through C. Ullmann's Photographs (1923-1930)