Dr Milan Balaban

Scientific Researcher - Historian

Tomas Bata University in Zlin

Participates in 3 items

Milan Balaban was born on 03.07.1981, in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He finished his bachelor studies at University of Banja Luka and his master and doctoral studies at the Masaryk University in Czech Republic, where he defended his dissertation project with the topic” Yugoslav-Czechoslovak Economic Relations between 1918-1938 year”. He had worked at Department of History in Banja Luka and since 2015 has worked as scientific researcher-historian at the Bata Information Centre at Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. His main research areas are history of the Bata Company and Czechoslovak-Yugoslav economic relations. M. Balaban is author of numerous articles published in Czech and foreign scientific journals and he recently published monograph: The Bata Company in Yugoslavia (Zlín 2018, ISBN: 978-80-7454-800-0).

Documents

MILAN_BALABAN_CV-ENG- SHORT.docx (19.54KB)

Sessions in which Dr Milan Balaban participates

Thursday 1 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00 AM

Challenges and urban heritage of the Bata's company towns in the 21st century

1 hour 30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Regular session

RNDr. Pavel Bednar PhD., Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Moderator)

Dr Milan Balaban, Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Moderator)

The Bata Company, which evolved from a small workshop in Zlin in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, today being part of the Czech Republic, at ...

9:30 AM

The Bata company towns - building, development, changes, continuity?

20 minutes, 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

Part of: Challenges and urban heritage of the Bata's company towns in the 21st century

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Paper

Dr Milan Balaban, Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Speaker)

In our paper, we will try to outline the comparative development of the Bata company towns in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. The Company be...

11:00 AM

Challenges and urban heritage of the Bata's company towns in the 21st century II

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Regular session

RNDr. Pavel Bednar PhD., Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Moderator)

Dr Milan Balaban, Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Moderator)

The Bata Company, which evolved from a small workshop in Zlin in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, today being part of the Czech Republic, at ...

Sessions in which Dr Milan Balaban attends

Sunday 28 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

5:00 PM

Opening ceremony

2 hours, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Signup required

UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec

Cocktail

Patrick Dieudonné, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Institut de Géoarchitecture, France (Other Participant)

Lucie K. Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of th...

Tuesday 30 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

5:30 PM

Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?

1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Speaker)

Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...

Wednesday 31 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

7:00 AM

Early bird tour: L'Écomusée du fier monde, musée d'histoire et musée citoyen

1 hour 30 minutes, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

René Binette, Écomusée du fier monde (Presenter)

Visit of the permanent exhibition : À cœur de jour, grandeurs et misères d'un quartier populaire, which traces the history of one of the oldest ...

5:30 PM

Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism

1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Speaker)

In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-w...

Thursday 1 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:00 AM

Big-data geospatial heritage infrastructures and industrial heritage

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R910 (access from the metro floor)

Workshop

Daniel Trepal, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)

Don Lafreniere, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)

Sarah F Scarlett, Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program (Moderator)

Timothy Scarlett, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)

The use of industrial heritage is a profoundly important factor in the process of creating a sustainable economic, social, and political future ...

1:30 PM

Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Stefan Berger (Speaker)

This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world ar...

Friday 2 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

7:00 AM

Early bird tour: Walking the Postindustrial Lachine Canal (postponed to Friday)

1 hour 30 minutes, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Presenter)

Walkers will meet at the entrance (there is only one) of Lionel Groulx Metro and from there walk along the canal to t...

3:30 PM

Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate

1 hour 30 minutes, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Cathy Stanton, Tufts University (Speaker)

In the refusal of people in communities abandoned by industrial capital to abandon their own places, we can read an implicit critique of the mob...

Saturday 3 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

2:00 PM

Tour: The Angus shops and Rosemont with Heritage Montreal

2 hours, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Signup required

Tour

Gracia Dorel-Ferré, APIC (Keynote speaker)

Uncover the vestiges of the Canadian Pacifie Railway tracks and the former Angus Shops, which played integral raies in the industrial and reside...