Cultural Lectures at Munkkiniemi Service Centre

Cultures of the Danube

The lecture series examines the history, art, and nature of the Danube - a river landscape that inspired Johann Strauss's famous waltz - in two parts:

7.10. The Danube and its surroundings in antiquity and Byzantium
21.10. The Danube under the Habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire

Lecturer: Dr. Hanna-Riitta Toivanen-Kola.

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Historical Pirate States of North Africa

North African pirates once struck fear from the western Mediterranean to Iceland and the British Isles. The lecture series covers their attacks, plunder, and victims in two parts:

18.11. Pirates, corsairs, and their attacks
2.12. Pirate plunder and victims

Lecturer: Dr. Ari Saastamoinen. Free admission.