University of Helsinki
Friday, 23rd of November, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
University of Helsinki, Porthania, P II, Yliopistonkatu 3, Free admission, no registration
Programme
10.00 Opening. Professor, Head of Department, Hannes Saarinen, University of Helsinki
10.20 Professor Jari Ojala, University of Jyväskylä and BA Lauri Karvonen: Assessing the Reliability of the Sound Toll Accounts: Comparing the Data to the Swedish and Portuguese Sources
10.40 Researcher Riikka Alvik, Vrouw Maria Underwater -project: The Cargoes of Dutch Merchant Ships in the 18th Century Baltic: Case studies St. Michel and Vrouw Maria
11.00 Discussion
11.15 Break
11.50 Associate Professor Alexei Kraikovsky, European University at St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg and the Gulf of Finland – mechanisms of interaction
12. 30 Researcher Minna Leino, National Board of Antiquities: Maritime Sveaborg, remains in the Underwater Landscape – The diffusion of innovations and mechanism of interaction in the Baltic and Shipwrecks as historical source material
12.50 Discussion
13.10 Break
14.40 Dr James Davey, National Maritime Museum: The Advancement of Nautical Knowledge: The Royal Navy and the Charting of the Baltic Sea 1795-1815
15.20 Professor emeritus Yrjö Kaukiainen, University of Helsinki: Between the Devil and the Shallow Dark Sea: 18th-century hazards of navigation in the Gulf of Finland
15.40 Discussion
16.00 Break
16.30 PhD Marcus Hjulhammar, Statens Maritima Museer / Swedish National Maritime Museums: Stockholm från sjösidan / Stockholm seen by the sea
17.00 Docent Mikko Huhtamies, University of Helsinki: Shipwrecks and salvage companies in the Gulf of Finland (1700-1800)17.20
Discussion