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Workshop: Mighty Ocean - Inland Sea. Connections and Comparisons between the Atlantic and the Baltic, c. 1450-1850
Mighty Ocean – Inland Sea Connections and Comparisons between the Atlantic and the Baltic, c. 1450-1850
A workshop to be held at the University of Greifswald 25-27 September 2025
Thursday, 25 September
18:00 Welcoming Remarks
Keynote
Klaus Weber (Frankfurt/Oder): The Baltic and the Mediterranean: ‘Marginal Seas’ as Regions of Origin and Engines of the Atlantic Economies?
Reception
Friday, 26 September
9:30 Arrivals
10:00 John Freeman (Warsaw) and Sünne Juterczenka (Greifswald): Introduction to the workshop theme
10:30 Hiram Kümper (Mannheim): Lost at Sea? Reconsidering the Decline of the Hanseatic League in the Age of Atlantic Expansion
Discussion
11:00 Break
11:10 Esther Mijers (Edinburgh): Porous and Connected: Conceptions of the North-West Atlantic through a Scottish-Dutch Lens
Bart Holtermann (Lübeck): International Trade Networks of North Atlantic Island Communities in the Early Modern Period: The Baltic Connection
Discussion
--- Lunch break ---
1:30 Adam Grimshaw (Helsinki): Codependent Empires: England and Sweden in the Seventeenth Century
Nere Intxaustegi (Bilbao): Trade and Translation between Bilbao and the Baltic Sea
Discussion
2:20 Break
2:30 Kelly K. Chaves (Oklahoma City): Inland Seas, Connected Worlds: Indigenous Knowledge, the Baltic, and change on Turtle Island, 1555-1725
Oliver Walton (London): Seeing the Indigenous Wood for the British Trees: The Royal Navy, the Baltic and Indigenous North America 1630-1750
Discussion
3:20 Break
3:30 Plenary discussion
--- Transfer and walk on the beach in Wieck ---
7:00 Conference dinner at “Il Ponte”
Saturday, 27 September
9:30 David Gagie (York): English Baltic & Levantine Merchant Commercial Practices (1680-1740)
John Freeman (Warsaw): The Familiar and the Unfamiliar: The Role of Baltic Networks in Atlantic Courland, 1645-1699
Discussion
10:20 Break
10:30 Simon Franzen (Tromsø): Mapping the Skagerrak – Cartographic Narratives of a Maritime Corridor, c. 1580–1720
Feliks Gornischeff (Tallinn): Adam Johann von Krusenstern and the Atlantic Ocean
Discussion
11:20 Break
11:30 Wrap-up and departure around 12:00