Thursday 11th
- According to flight details, bus transportation leaves from downtown Helsinki in the morning to Tammisaari. Approximated time for travel is 2 hours.
- 10 am. Bus from Helsinki (railwaystation) to Tammisaari
- 10-12 am. Registration in Tammisaari, administering hotel rooms, settling in.
- 12 noon. Gathering to the conference room in Sydväst, opening speeches (appr.15 min/ each) from professor Mika Lavento, museum director Dan Lindholm, PhD Georg Haggrén and researcher Henrik Jansson. Practical matters sorted.
- 1 pm. Lunch.
- 2.30 pm. Session 1. Conference speeches (3 x 20 min + 5 min for questions)
- 3.45 pm. Coffee.
- 4 pm. Session 1. Conference speeches (2 x 20 min + 5 min for questions)
- 4.50 pm. Break.
- 6 pm. Wine and snacks at Tammisaari museum.
- 7 pm. City hall's evening reception.
Friday 12th
- 9 am. Session 2. Conference speeches (4 x 20 min + 5 min for questions)
- 10.35 am. Poster session, coffee.
- 11 am. Session 2. Conference speeches (3 x 20 min + 5 min)
- 12.15 pm. Lunch
- 1.30 pm. Session 3. Conference speeches (4 x 20 min + 5 min)
- 3.05 pm. Coffee.
- 3.20 pm. Session 3. Conference speeches (3 x 20 min + 5 min for questions)
- 4.35 pm. Concluding remarks.
- 5 pm. Break.
- 6.00/6.30 pm. Leave for cruise - separate payment.
- 7 pm. Dinner (onboard during the cruise)
Saturday 13th
- 9.00 am. Leave for excursions 1 or 2. - separate payment.
- 4 pm. Back from excursions, bus back to Helsinki (railway station).
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Papers:
History of the environment and human activities in the maritime landscape
- Peter Norman (keynote): "Farmers and fishermen: a study of colonization and resource use in the archipelago of Södermanland (Sweden) during the Viking and Middle Ages".
- Anna-Kaisa Puputti: "Sealing in northern Finnish coastal towns in the 17th and 18th centuries"
- Päivi Maaranen: "Mapping the Baltic Sea region - some notes concerning the oldest maps"
- Teija Alenius: "Reflection of environmental change and human impact on lake sediments in Western Uusimaa, Finland"
- Henrik Jansson & Georg Haggrèn: "Farming, fishing and hunting - subsistence strategies and settlements in the maritime landscapes in Southern Finland"
Human activities and connections over sea
- Yrjö Kaukiainen (keynote): "Fishery, trade and wrecks - livelihoods in the 18th-century eastern Gulf of Finland"
- Kristin Ilves: "Sea and Seafaring in the Chronicles - Navigation on the 12th and 13th centuries Baltic Sea on the evidence from the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia and The Older Rhymed Chronicle of Livonia"
- Ilse Frederiksen: "Henry Bolingbroke, medieval knight or renaissance merchant prince"
- Vladas Zulkus: "Dangerous and dreadful Curonians. Millenial tradition of piracy"
- Marika Mägi: "Piracy, control and politics - seafaring in early medieval Saaremaa"
- Mikko Meronen: "Privateering and Trade. Trade disputes between the castellan of Viborg and Reval (Tallinn) in the early 15th century"
- Pieterjan Deckers: "An island archaeological approach to the Viking colonisation of the North Atlantic"
Material culture in the coastal regions
- Marnix Pieters (keynote): "The material culture of medieval and later fishermen: fact or fabrication?"
- Ian Riddler: "The Whale and the Walrus in England and Ireland, AD 700-1200"
- Markus Hiekkanen: "The grave cairn in Panike and its cultural setting"
- Stefan Wessman: "A medieval shipwreck site at Egelskär"
- Christer Westerdahl: "Maritime folklore as an archaeological source?"
- Mindaugas Bertasius: "Some suggestions for 'maritime mythology'"
- Timo Ylimaunu: "Continuity between medieval market places and early modern towns on the coast of the Bothnian Gulf"
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