Dear Sir or Madam,
We cordially invite you to the second meeting of the Terra Baltica Seminar. This will take place on Friday, 15 May 2026, at the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw.
The venue is located at 26/28 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street and the meeting will take place in Room 210 at 12:00. The meeting is expected to run from 12:00 to 17:00, including time set aside for discussions and a break.
The programme includes five presentations on recent discoveries and current research into the Migration Period in the Baltic region:
12.00 opening of the seminar
12.10 associate prof. dr Audronė Bliujienė (Klaipėda University, Institute of Baltic Region History and Archaeology), The Migration Period in Lithuania: Exploring Discoveries and Creating Ideas
12.50 prof. dr hab. Felix Biermann (Uniwersytet Szczeciński, Instytut Historyczny), Light into the Dark centuries – the late Migration Period between the Elbe and Oder rivers (North-eastern Germany)
13.30 discussion
13.50 break
14.10 dr Agata Wiśniewska (Muzeum Starożytnego Hutnictwa Mazowieckiego w Pruszkowie), Cultural syncretism in the West Balt Circle: the Masurian-Natangian borderland during the Migration Period
14.40 mgr Damian Swat (Archeoskop Damian Swat), dr Magdalena Przymorska-Sztuczka (Muzeum Archeologiczne w Biskupinie), A weaving workshop and a new settlement of the Olsztyn Group found in Masuria
15.10 mgr Jan Gryz (badacz niezależny), Burial customs at the Vendel Period cemetery of Trullhalsar (Anga parish, Gotland, Sweden)
15.40 discussion
PROGRAMME
We look forward to an inspiring discussion. The seminar organisers
Anna Juga-Szymańska, Paweł Szymański, Tomasz Nowakiewicz
(Wydział Archeologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego)
Agata Chilińska-Früboes
(Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego)
Aleksandra Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz
(Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk)