Monday 08:30 REGISTRATION and Coffee at entrance hall of Publicum 10:00 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE 10:15 Invited Speaker Title open by Aleksandr Saksa, RUSSIA including 15 min discussion 11:15 Heritage Politics 11:45 Cultural heritage and conflicting values Arsons and arson attempts in the Evangelical Lutheran church and chapel buildings in Finland between years 1990 and 2010 by Heidi Wirilander, FINLAND Traditional craft skills as a source to historical knowledge Reconstruction in the ashes of the medieval wooden church Södra Råda by Gunnar Almevik, Niklas Alexandersson, Göran Andersson, Anna Johansson, Christina Persson, Karl- Magnus Melin and Börje Samuelsson, SWEDEN 12:15 Burials & Early Christianity In the Eastern Neighbourhood: Monastic Practices and Parish Customs in Burial Archaeology of Medieval Novgorod and its Hinterland by Aleksandr Musin, RUSSIA 12:45 Lunch at Educarium 13:45 14:15 PUB 4: Saints and Relics PUB 5: Burials & Early Christianity Churches and Pilgrimage in the Baltic Region: assumptions and sources by Christian Krötzl, FINLAND New Spring for an Old Saint the Late Medieval Surge of the Cult of St Olav in Northern Europe by Øystein Ekroll, NORWAY Early Christian burials at Saaremaa churchyards: combination of practices and power relations by Marika Mägi, Medieval bestiary as a source of Liv Zoomorphic Pendants interpretation. Smolensk-type example by Roberts Spir is, LATVIA 14:45 The presence of saint Francis of Assisi in the medieval churches of the diocese of Turku by Marika Räsänen, FINLAND Warrior s burials in the Polish lands in early medieval period by Alina Wilczy ska, POLAND 15:15 Coffee at entrance hall Sivu 1
15:45 16:15 PUB 4: Saints and Relics PUB 5: Church and its surroundings Project 'Relics of Turku Cathedral' by Jussi-Pekka Taavitsainen, FINLAND A Dress of a Saint? A Medieval Textile Find in Turku Cathedral by Heini Kirjavainen, FINLAND 16:45 The Medieval Scull Relic in Turku Cathedral by Aki Arponen, FINLAND 17:15 Discussion Discussion 18:00 19.00 Excursion to the Turku Cathedral 20:00 Welcoming Dinner, Hus Lindman (Piispankatu 15) Continuity or change? Selecting the sites for early churches Finland by Ville Laakso, FINLAND Medieval and early modern market places sites of contacts, trade and religious activities by Georg Haggrén, Timo Ylimaunu, Risto Nurmi, Paul R. Mullins, FINLAND, USA Guest houses in church yards by Christian Lovén, SWEDEN Sivu 2
Tuesday 8:30 Registration desk open 09:00 Invited Speaker 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 Danish Church Archaeology Coffee at the entrance hall Fortified, Travelling and Extinct Crusader memories medieval round churches in Scandinavia by Jes Wienberg, SWEDEN including 15 min discussion Danish church archaeology the potential of redundant churches by Nils Engberg, DENMARK Archaeological studies of churchyards in continuous use as burial places Methods, priorities and results by Henriette Rensbro, DENMARK The fortified churches in Estonia as a refuge. Myth or reality? by Kaur Alttoa, The travelling church of the Klaip da Town in historical and topographical context by Raimonda Nabažait, LITHUANIA The older Holy Trinity church in Uppsala, Sweden, now extinct and with uncertain localization by Gunilla Malm, SWEDEN 13:00 Lunch at Educarium 14:00 PUB 4: Monasteries and Convents PUB 5: Churches, Magic and Artefacts Cistercian and Praemonstratensian Monasteries and their Churches in Cispomerania from an Archaeological Point of View by Felix Biermann, GERMANY Church for priests and church for witches a church as a place for inofficial/magical rituals by Tõnno Jonuks and Kristiina Johanson, 14:30 15:00 Earliest building remains in the monastery of Padise by Villu Kadakas, Holy Cross Church at Risti: chapel of Cistercian monastery by Kaire Tooming, Lost, sacrificed or buried? A story of coins found under the church floor by Frida Ehrnsten, FINLAND Frogs in miniature coffins and other puzzling finds from churches in Finland by Sonja Hukantaival, FINLAND Sivu 3
15:30 Coffee at the entrance hall 16:00 The church of the Bridgettine convent Naantali / Nådendal in 15th century archaeological studies in years 1996 2013 by Kari Uotila, FINLAND Underground literature Archaeological remnants of books from Finnish parish churches by Janne Harjula, FINLAND 16:30 From Fragments to Spatial Logic Reconstructing the Plan of the Dominican Convent in Turku by Visa Immonen, FINLAND Church Art in the Late Middle Ages and its influence on everyday items illustrated with an example of clay figurines from Silesia (Poland) by Ewelina Kowalczyk, POLAND 17:00 Discussion Figurine of a Crowned Madonna and Child found in Turku by Virva Lompolo, FINLAND 17:30 Discussion Discussion 18:00 19:30 Excursion to the ruins of the Holy Ghost Church 20:30 Time for a pint or two: History Class reserved for us in the Brewery-Restaurant Koulu (Eerikinkatu 18). Possibility to have dinner. Sivu 4
Wednesday 08:30 Registration desk open 09:00 Invited Speaker 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 Coffee at the entrance hall PUB 4: Art PUB 5: Village Churches PUB 4: Art PUB 5: Burials Title by Markus Hiekkanen, FINLAND including 15 min discussion (Art) Replication in Middle Ages by Natasha Bulatovic Trygg, FINLAND Rose window a dream or reality? by Anneli Randla, Bones versus paintings: comparing domestic animals in medieval wallpaintings in Finnish churches with zooarchaeological data by Auli Bläuer, FINLAND Written sources about medieval church building in villages and small towns in Prussia by Christofer Herrmann, POLAND From poor village church to prestige project by Thomas Bertelsen, DENMARK Reading the church: Communicative approach for understanding of Dubingiai parish community at XV-XVIII centuries by Rimvydas Laužikas, LITHUANIA 12:00 Plants of the Bible in Hattula church wall paintings. A comparison with medieval archaeobotanical material in Finland by Mia Lempiäinen-Avci, FINLAND Preliminary Results of the Rescue Excavation in St Mary s Churchyard, Tartu by Martin Malve, 12:30 13:00 Lunch at Educarium Hammarlunda church by Petter Jansson, SWEDEN Burials of the St. John s Church in Klaip da by Gintautas Zabiela, LITHUANIA 14:00 PUB 4: Early Masonry Structures PUB 5: After the Catholic period The oldest church in Scandinavia? by Stefan Borgehammar, SWEDEN Mission impossible? Writing the 16th century history of Rauma churches on the bases of written sources by Tuula Hockman, FINLAND 14:30 Natural scientific dating of Dalby church by Heikki Ranta et al., SWEDEN The Easternmost Cathedral of the Swedish Empire The late medieval and early modern Cathedral of Vyborg in the light of archaeological data and written records by Panu Savolainen & Aleksandr Saksa Sivu 5
15:00 At the Dawn of Masonry Architecture Structures at the Medieval Episcopal See of Koroinen by Tanja Ratilainen, FINLAND 15:30 Discussion Discussion Sparkling + cake and 15:45 coffee Conference summary and panel 16:15 discussion 17:15 Waking up the tradition The political issue of stone churches in the late 18th century in Finland by Ella Viitaniemi, FINLAND Sivu 6