INVITATION: WAR AND SOCIETY IN THE BALTIC REGION (I HALF OF THE XX CENTURY) COLLOQUIUM 4.11.2022

History Colloquium hosted by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Oulu, the Faculty of History of the University of Vilnius, and Donelaitis Society, in cooperation with the Lithuanian Embassy to Finland and the Finnish Embassy to Lithuania
Date: Friday 4 November 2022 (09.00–16.15)
Venue: Helsinki, Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6, Room 505

Online participation:

09.00–12.00 https://oulu.zoom.us/j/64008106443
12.45–16.15 https://oulu.zoom.us/j/66614163586

WAR AND SOCIETY IN THE BALTIC REGION (I HALF OF THE XX CENTURY) COLLOQUIUM OF OULU UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND VILNIUS UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF HISTORY

PROGRAMME
09.00–09.15 Opening session
Minister Counsellor, Deputy Chief of Mission Irena Vedrickaitė
Prof. dr. Kari Alenius, Assoc. Prof. dr. Saulius Kaubrys
Publication of the book “100 Years of Diplomatic Relations between Lithuania and Finland”

09.15–10.15 Session I
09.15–09.45 Teodoras Žukas (Vilnius University), At the Front Line of the Approaching Battle: Reaction to the Outbreak of the Great War in Lithuania under the Russian Empire

09.45–10.15 Prof. dr. Vasilijus Safronovas (Klaipėda University), The War is not Over? On the Continuity and Discontinuity between the Great War and the War of Independence as Experienced by the Lithuanian Soldiers

10.15–10.30 Coffee break

10.30–12.00 Session II
10.30–11.00 Prof. dr. Kari Alenius (University of Oulu), Commemoration of the Lithuanian War of Independence in Finland in the Interwar Period

11.00–11.30 Dr. Kęstutis Kilinskas (Vilnius University), Relations between Lithuanian and Finnish Defense and Security Institutions in Assessing (or Analyzing) the Communist Threat in the 1920’s

11.30–12.00 Assoc. Prof. dr. Saulius Kaubrys (Vilnius University), Waiting for War? Fears and Expectations of Lithuania‘s Society (July–August), 1939

12.00–12.45 Lunch break

12.45–14.15 Session III
12.45–13.15 Dr. Timo Ylimaunu (University of Oulu), Conflicted Experience and Material Memory in Finland during the First Half of the 20th Century

13.15–13.45 Dr. Inga Zakšauskienė (Vilnius University), Western Political Warfare in the Baltic States during the First Years of the Cold War

13.45–14.15 Prof. dr. Tiina Kinnunen (University of Oulu) & Adj. Prof. dr. Marianne Junila (University of Oulu), The Revisited Narrative of the Finnish Winter War 1939

14.15–14.30 Coffee break

14.30–16.00 Session IV
14.30–15.00 Dr. Vilma Bukaitė (Vilnius University), The Efforts of the Baltic States to obtain the support of France for defense against the Germans and Soviets in 1918-1919

15.00–15.30 Dr. Outi Kähäri (University of Oulu), Between Voluntary and Forced Displacements – Intergenerational Reminiscence of Population Transfers in Ingrian Families

15.30–16.00 Dr. Pekka Iivari (University of Lapland), A Trauma That Was Suffocated: The Soviet Partisan Raids in Finland in 1941-1944

16.00–16.15 Closing session