Suomen Sotahistorian Komissio järjestää kansainvälisen seminaarin “Strategy in the Northern Baltic Sea from the World War I to the Cold War”.
Seminaari pidetään keskiviikkona 15.11.2017 klo 10-17 Tieteiden talolla (Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki), salissa 104.
Tarkempi ohjelma päivitetään Suomen Sotahistorian Komission sivuille (www.sotahistoriankomissio.fi).
Seminaariin osallistuminen on maksutonta.
Osallistujia pyydetään ilmoittamaan ennalta sihteeri Seppo Vepsäläiselle seppo.vepsalainen@helsinki.fi, tai 040 753 1335.
Wednesday 15th November 2017
Tieteiden Talo (House of Science and Letters), Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki.
Program:
10.00 Opening. Chairman of the Commission Juho Kotakallio
Lasse Laaksonen: Commission’s International Relations: XLIIIrd International Congress of Military
History, Douala, Cameroon 2 – 8 Sep 2017
Aleksanteri Suvioja: Strategic Aspects of the German Naval Historiography on the Baltic Theatre of
the First World War 1918 – 1945
Kaarel Piirimäe: The Myth of the Independence War, Laidoner’s “Active Defence”, and the Estonian
military capabilities in the 1930s
Lunch break
13.00 Pavel Petrov: Plans for the war of the Soviet Navy on the Baltic Sea in 1935 – 1941: Projects and
Reality
Pekka Visuri: Strategic aspects of operations in the Northern Baltic Sea area 1941 – 1944
Henrik Tala: French aid to Finland during the Winter War
Coffee break
15.00 Gunnar Åselius: Finland as a forward defence zone in Swedish strategic thinking, 1917 – 1991
Seppo Vepsäläinen: From “Ostrich Policy” to Involvement in the Second World War: Neutrality,
Changing Alliances and International Aid
General discussion: Lecturers’ Reflections and Questions by Audience
No participation fee.
Preliminary registration of audience is desired by 13 November 2017.
Registration and Information: Secretary of the Commission Seppo Vepsäläinen
seppo.vepsalainen@helsinki.fi
+358 40 753 1335