International Conference. Organized in cooperation with the Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latviaon August 29, 2013. Turaida Museum Reserve

PROGRAMME

9.30 – 10.00 – Registration, coffee

10.00 – 10.30 – Opening of the conference

1st plenary session

10.30 – 11.00 Archaeological investigation and museum exhibitions

                        Anna Jurkāne, Director of the Turaida Museum Reserve

11.00 – 11.25  Archaeological excavations in the Turaida castle under guidance of  Jānis Graudonis

Guntis Zemītis, Dr. hist., Director of the Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia

11.25 – 11.50  Cooperation between two archaeologists in research of medieval castles

Zigrīda Apala, Dr. hist. h.c., Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia

11.50 – 12.00 Archaeologist Jānis Graudonis

Ēvalds Mugurēvičs, Dr. habil. hist.

12.15 – 13.15 – Lunch

2nd plenary session

13.15 – 13.40 – Excavate, conserve and display – from pit into cabinets

Rikka Saarinen, The Museum Centre of Turku (Finland)

13.40 – 14.05 – Making history matter: The world heritage potential of Nyborg Castle and city

Janus Moller Jensen, Nyborg Castle Museum  (Denmark)

14.05 – 14.30 – Castle Museum as a tool for heritage dissemination
                          Ugnius Budvydas and Tomas Petrauskas, Trakai History Museum (Lithuania)

14.30 – 14.55 – The role of castles in physical and conceptual landscape transformation in the

medieval eastern Baltic
            Dr.hist. Aleks Pluskowski (Great Britain)

14.55 – 15.15 – Coffee break

3rd plenary session

15.15 – 15.40 - Historic burial sites in Northern Courland. Ventspils museum. 

Armands Vijups, dr. hist., Faculty of History and Philosophy at the University of           Latvia, Ventspils museum

15.40 – 16.05 – Contribution of Jānis Graudonis to the research of Latvain protohistory
 Jānis Ciglis, National History Museum of Latvia

16.05 – 16.30 – Discussions

Working languages: English and Latvian.
Simultaneous interpreting will be provided.

Registration until 27th August, e-mail: turaida.muzejs@apollo.lv