Beyond the Sea* * Reviewing the manifold dimensions of water as barrier and bridge

Saturday, 22 September 2012 General Information We are happy to welcome you to our conference SESSION 5: POLITICAL IMAGINATION OF THE SEA „Beyond the sea – Reviewing the manifold dimensions of 9.00 – 1 0.30 water as barrier and bridge”. The conference is Chair: Alexander Drost (University of ) organized by doctoral students from the universities of Discussant: tba Lund, Tartu and Greifswald and is kindly supported by the International Research Training Group “Baltic Marta Grzechnik (University of Greifswald/ Borderlands” and the German Research Foundation. University of Gdansk): From Moat to Connecting Link – the Image of the in in the Twentieth Century Vsevolod Samakhvalov (University of Cambridge): The Conference venue Holy Grail and the Promised Land: Black Sea as a Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald Source of the Russian Exceptionality in the Soviet and Martin-Luther-Straße 1 4 Post-Soviet Discourse D-1 7489 Greifswald Dan Tamir (University of Zurich): Mare Nostrum, Ha- Jam Ha-Gadol: The Centrality of the Mediterranean in Revisionist Zionist Thought and its Political Benefits Thursday, 20 September 2012 Today Contact IRTG 1 540 Baltic Borderlands SESSION 6: WEALTH, DANGER, MYSTERY – WATER Department of History IN ART AND LITERATURE University of Greifswald 11 .00 – 1 2.30 Rubenowstr. 2 Chair: Olga Sasunkevich (University of Greifswald) D-1 7487 Greifswald Discussant: Alexander Wöll (University of Greifswald) [email protected] Boris Dunsch (): “Why do we violate strange seas and sacred waters?” Readings of the Sea in Greek and Roman Poetry Bildnachweis: Katharina Scherer (pixelio.de) Alexander Filyushkin (St. Petersburg State University): Layout: [email protected] Image of Seas and Rivers as a Frontier between the different Worlds in Russian Medieval Chronicles Lehti Mairike Keelmann (University of Michigan): Amber Rosaries, Baltic Furs & Persian Carpets: The Tallinn “Mary Altarpiece” as an Object of Hanseatic Conspicuous Consumption? Funded by the German Research Foundation Conference programme

Conference aims Friday, 21 September 2012 From the beginning of mankind water has played an essential role by dividing and connecting different SESSION 1 : WILD AND VIOLENT? CULTURAL Jan-Henrik Nilsson (): landscapes, peoples, cultures and identities. Although MEANINGS OF WATER The Fourth Logistic Revolution: Implications for Territorial water has been the object of research in studies on 9.00 – 1 0.30 Change in the Baltic Sea Area maritime borders, dimensions of inclusion and exclusion Chair: Marta Grzechnik (University of Greifswald) Luis Lobo-Guerrero (Royal Holloway, University of that go beyond the mere physical character of water Discussant: Ines Dombrowsky (GDI, Bonn) London): have often been neglected. This interdisciplinary Connectivity as the Strategization of Water Space: The conference intends to approach water beyond its Peter Borschberg (National University of Singapore): Case of the Port of immanent quality as a physical boundary and focuses on Water spaces in South-East Asia: Straits and Rivers Ole Sparenberg ( University): the character of water as a means of social, cultural, Tobias Ide (/Potsdam Institute for Mining for Manganese Nodules: The Deep Sea as a political or economic division and connection. The aim of Climate Impact Research): Contested Space (1960s-1980s) the conference is to discuss the different roles and Scarce Water Resources as a Source of Violence? functions ascribed to water and what we can learn about Three Analytical Perspectives and the Missing SESSION 4: MILITARIZATION AND social and mental boundaries through engaging with it. Discursive Link COMMERCIALIZATION OF THE SEA – DIVISION OR Mathias Niendorf (University of Greifswald): UNITY? Water and Swamps – Eastern ’s “Wunderwaffe”? 1 6.00 – 1 7.30 Thursday, 20 September 2012 Chair: Heta Hurskainen (University of Greifswald) SESSION 2: GOVERNANCE OF MARITIME SPACES Discussant: Peter Borschberg (National University of 11 .00 – 1 2.30 Singapore) Welcome, registration and conference folders Chair: Stefanie Otte (University of Greifswald) 1 6.00 Discussant: Christer Pursiainen (University of Helsinki) Jens E. Olesen (University of Greifswald): Danish-Swedish Warship-Battles in the Baltic and the Welcome address Stefan Ewert (University of Greifswald) Central Role of the Island of Bornholm during the Seven 1 7.00 Multilevel Governance in the Baltic Sea Region – some Years War (1563-1570) Michael North, Speaker of IRTG 1 540 Baltic Considerations on an Unspecific Term Tilman Plath (University of Greifswald): Borderlands Daria Gritsenko (University of Helsinki) and Naval Strength and Mercantile Weakness. Russia and Alexander Wöll, Dean of the of Tim-Ake Pentz (University of ): the Struggle for Participation in the Baltic Navigation Maritime Governance in the Baltic Sea Region: The EU’s during the 18th century Success Story? Magnus Ressel (University of Bochum): OPENING LECTURE Magdalena Schönweitz (Humboldt University, ): The First German Dream of the Ocean. The Project of 1 8.00 - 1 9.30 Cross-border Cooperation of Urban Areas – between the “Reichs-Admiralität” 1570/71 Dr. Ines Dombrowsky Utopia and Reality (German Development Institute, Bonn): Conflict and Cooperation on International Rivers SESSION 3: SEAS AS CONTESTED LEGAL AND KEYNOTE LECTURE 2 ECONOMIC SPACES 1 8.00 - 1 9.30 Reception at Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Christer Pursiainen (University of Helsinki): 1 9.30 1 4.00 – 1 5.30 Chair and Discussant: tba From Cooperation to Integration: Mission Impossible?