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Programme
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).


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"
The Institution of Cultural Research, Archaeology
P.O. Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38 F)
00014 University of Helsinki
FINLAND
Tel. (09) 191 22191 Fax. (09) 191 23520 Email. fishery-info@helsinki.fi