International Conference
„Castle. Archaeology. Museum. The 100th Birthday of Archaeologist Jānis Graudonis”
organized in cooperation with the Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia

on 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
                               Riikka 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
                              Aleks Pluskowski, Dr.hist. (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., 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
16.30 – 17.00 –  Collective picture in the Turaida castle yard
19.00 – 19.45 – Visit to the Castle of Livonian Order

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

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