Ingria – land, people, culture: Ingrian and Finnish traces in Narva and Ida-Viru County

PROGRAMME

2 – 2.10pm Opening

2.10 – 2.40pm Enn Küng (University of Tartu) “View of the Swedish Crown to Ingria in the 17th century”

2.40 – 3.10pm Hannele Valkeeniemi (Directore of the Finnish Institute) “Narva and Finns”

3.10 – 3.40pm Igor Kopõtin (Estonian Military Academy) “Forgotten soldiers of the Estonian War of Independence: history of the Ingria Battalion 1919-1920”

3.45 – 4pm Samuel Golomb (member of ERDF) “What Ingrian and Karelian post stamps reveal”

Cultural break, stretching

4.30 – 4.55pm Madis Tuuder (Chief Inspector of Narva Heritage Protection) “Lost periphery of Estonia. Estonian Ingria”

4.55 – 5.25 Riina Reinvelt (Chief Treasurer of the Estonian National Museum) “Common themes of Ingrian personal histories”

17.25 – 17.55 Maire Petrova (Chair of Ida-Viru Ingrian Finnish Society) “Ingrian Finns of Narva and Ida-Viru County and finding one’s place in the new homeland”

GATHERING

REGISTRATION

Bus to the conference on 16 October leaves for Narva from Tallinn from in front of Mere (former Russian) Culture Centre at 10.30am and returns from Narva from in front of Narva College at 9pm.

Registration for the bus here