Interdisciplinary meeting in Helsinki: The 18th Century Baltic - Seafaring, Technology and Interaction

23.11.2012 Helsinki, university

Interdisciplinary meeting in maritime history and maritime archaeology at the University of Helsinki. THE 18th CENTURY BALTIC: SEAFARING, TECHNOLOGY AND INTERACTION

Friday, 23rd of November, 2012. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. University of Helsinki, Porhania, PII, 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.

11.15 Break

11.50 Associate Professor Alexei Kraikovsky, University of 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.

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.

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).

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