2022
The Arctic and the High North
Date: 10 November 2022
Organizer: The Baltic Defence College
Speakers: Dr. Andreas Østhagen – Senior Researcher, Fridtjof Nansen Institute & Wilson Center
Commodore (R) Hans Christian Helseth, Royal Norwegian Navy – Senior Mentor, Baltic Defence College
Major Sébastien Bouchard, Royal Canadian Engineers – JCGSC Student, Baltic Defence College
Wider Black Sea & Caucasus in the heart of Euro-Atlantic Security
Date: 05 October 2022
Organiser: The Baltic Defence College
Speakers: Amb. Shota Gvineria - Lecturer at the Baltic Defense College
Caucasus Major-General Constantin-Adrian Ciolponea - Deputy Commander Multinational Corps South-East (DCOM MNC-SE)
Amb. Dr. Batu Kutelia - Vice-president of the Atlantic Council Georgia
Dr. Dumitru Mirzarari - Lecturer at the Baltic Defense College
Sixth Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies
Date: 12-14 June 2022
Organiser: the Centre for Eurasian and Russian Studies (CEURUS) at the University of Tartu
Contribution:
- Brief titled “Private military companies' role in contemporary conflicts” in a panel: “Russia as a Eurasian security actor” by Dr Zdzislaw Sliwa,
- Roundtable: “War at the doorstep: Current and future security challenges in the Baltic Sea Region”
Moderator: Louis John Wierenga
Speakers: Asta Maskaliūnaitė, Zdzislaw Sliwa
Ukraine and NATO: Today’s lessons for Tomorrow
Date: 15 March 2022
Organiser: LATO and Faculty of
Social Sciences, University of Latvia
Contribution: AMB Shota
Gvineria (speaker) and Dr Sandis Šraders (moderator).
China rising.
Date: 8th of February 2022
Organised by: The Baltic Defence College
Speakers: Dr Roberta Haar, COL Doh
and Dr Una Aleksandra Berzina-Cerenkova, moderated by Mr Louis Wierenga
from BALTDEFCOL
2021
Wroclaw Security Forum 2021. - 2nd International Science Conference NATO
and the EU – strategic partnership and cooperation within Euro-Atlantic
security area
Date: 14 - 16 December 2021
Organised by: University of Wrocław and Institute of
International Studies
Contribution: Speaker: Amb. Shota
Gvineria; Col. (Ret.) Dr hab. Eugeniusz Cieślak;
Moderator of a panel: Col. (Ret.) Dr hab. Zdzisław Śliwa
Seminar: Hybrid Threats as New Challenges During COVID-19
Date: 15 December 2021
Organised by: Estonian Academy of Security Sciences
(EASS)
Contribution: Speaker: Col. (Ret.)
Dr hab. Zdzisław Śliwa
4th Annual International Research Conference GlobState 2021. Security
Environment in the (Post) Pandemic World and Its Implications for the
Conduct of Military Operations
Date: 30 November - 02 December 2021
Organised by: Doctrine and Training Centre of the Polish
Armed Forces, Bydgoszcz
Contribution: Speakers: Col (res.)
Ronald Ti; SGM Peeter Einbaum; Moderator of a panel: Col.
(Ret.) Dr hab. Zdzisław Śliwa
Lecture by Professor Anthony King ‘The urban battlespace: 21st century
warfare and return of the siege’
Date: 22 November 2021
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Lecture by Col Millet ‘NATO Concepts and Joint Warfare Centre’
Date: 1 November 2021
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Russian Military mindset & action. Russian Militocracy
Date: 22 October 2021
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Speakers: Mr Daivis Petraitis
Rethinking Military Professionalism
Date: 15 March 2021
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Speakers: Dr Vanessa Brown (the Canadian Force College) and
Dr Tamir Libel (the University of Bamberg)
2020
Overview on Resistance Operating Concept
Date: 19 November 2020
Organised by: NATO SOF HQ and Department of Military
Studies
Speakers: LTC Michael Dvorak (BALTDEFCOL) and Dr Byron
Harper (NATO SOF HQ)
Date: 20 October 2020
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Date: 16 September 2020
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Date: 6 February 2020
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Date: 30 January 2020
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
2019
Workshop on Cyber Defence: How to incorporate cyber in planning our
defence and security
Date: 9 December 2019
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
2018
Air Defence Seminar
Date: 20 November 2018
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Speakers: Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper,Mr Meelis
Oidsalu, Mr Uģis Norītis, Mr Edgars Slišāns and Lieutenant Colonel Rolandas
Greibus
ADL Workshop
Date: 20 November 2018
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Speaker: Ms. Anna Beitane, University of Tartu
Cyber Aspects in Contemporary Operations
Date: 15 October 2018
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Speakers: Colonel Jaak Tarien, Director of NATO Cooperative
Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
NATO Summit results: Implications for the Baltic region
Date: 19 September 2018
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Speaker: Brigadier General Gintautas Zenkevičius,Commander
of Training and Doctrine Command in Lithuania
Date: 10-12 June 2018
Organised by: Centre for EU-Russia Studies at the
University of Tartu, the Global Europe Centre at the University of Kent,
and the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala
University
Speaker: Dr hab. Zdzislaw Sliwa, Baltic Defence College
Table Top Exercise (TTX)
Date: 7 June 2018
Organised by: Swedish Defence University in cooperation
with the US National Defense University
Speaker: Dr hab. Zdzislaw Sliwa, Baltic Defence College
Security Policy and Strategic Thinking Workshop
Date: 29-31 May 2018
Organised by: Swedish Defence University in cooperation
with Latvian Ministry of Defence
Speakers: Dr hab. Zdzislaw Sliwa; Col Tarmo Ränisoo,
Baltic Defence College
Date: 12 of April 2018
Participants:Staff and Students of the Natolin Campus of
the College of Europe
Speakers: Dr Asta Maskaliunaite; Dr Viljar Veebel; Dr Matus
Halas and LTC (ret) Ugis Romanovs, Baltic Defence College
Academic Alliance Conference and TTX 2018
Date: 15-16 March 2018
Participant: COL Dalius Polekauskas, Baltic Defence College
Date: 6-7 April 2018
Speaker: Dr hab. Zdzislaw Sliwa, Baltic Defence College
Date: 15 February 2018
Organised by: Polish Naval Academy in cooperation with
Baltic Defence College
Agenda
Date: 5 February 2018
Speakers: Dr Matthias Maass
2017
Date: 20 November 2017
Speakers: Col Josh Major, Professor Christian Leuprecht, Mr
Hasit Thankey
Date: 14 November 2017
Speakers: LTC Franz Lantenhammer, MAJ Ivars Erčums,CPT Uko
Valtenberg, Mr Tanel Sepp, Mr. Gert Auväärt, Mr. Dāvis Baumanis
Effective Security Strategy Models: Lessons from U.S. and Small States for
the Baltics
Date: 18 October 2017
Speakers: Mr Olevs Nikers, Mr Otto Tabuns, Mr Paul Goble
ZAPAD–2017 – Implications for European Security
Date: 5-7 October 2017
Organised by: Estonian Ministry of Defence and the Potomac
Foundation
Zapad-2017: Lessons Learned and the Way Ahead for NATO-Russian Relations
Date: 4 October 2017
Speaker: Mr Mark Voyger
Date: 19 September 2017
Speakers: Professor Vello Pettai; Lecturer Thomas
Linsemaier, the Skytte Institute of the University of Tartu
Baltic Region Security
Date: 15 September 2017
Participants: Faculty members of the Department of
Leadership and Warfighting Faculty, United States Air War College
Speakers: Dr Asta Maskaliunaite; Dr Matus Halas; and Mr
Mark Opgenorth, Baltic Defence College
Date: 8 May 2017
Speakers: Dr Stefano Braghiroli, University of Tartu and Dr
Viljar Veebel; Mr James Rogers, Baltic Defence College
2016
Date:21 November 2016
Speakers: Col (ret) Dr Charles Parker, Institute for the
Study of Strategy and Politics in Washington
Date:16 November 2016
Speakers:Dr Rebecca L. Schiff, U.S. Naval War College
Date: 9 June 2016
Speakers: Mr Kalle Palling, Estonian Parliament and Dr
Ashley Roden-Bow; Mr James Rogers, Baltic Defence College
Porcupine Defence
Date:7 April 2016
Speaker:Col William Nemeth, United States Navy (Sixth
Fleet)
Transatlantic Cooperation and the Security Environment
Date: 7 March 2016
Speaker: H.E. Ambassador Mr Renatas Norkus, Lithuanian
Ministry of National Defence
Brains-based Approach to Strategy
Date: 12 January 2016
Speaker: Dr
Harlan Ullman, Senior Adviser, Atlantic Council
2015
Baltic states’ energy security: from dependence on Russia to
interdependence within the European Union
Date: 9 November 2015
Speaker: Mr Emmet Tuohy, Research Fellow, International
Centre for Defence and Security
After the Newport Summit: Assurance in Light of Ukraine
Date: 26 October 2015
Speakers: Mr James Rogers, LtCol (ret) Ugis Romanovs; Dr
Andriy Tyushka, Baltic Defence College
Cyber in International Relations
Date: 19 October 2015
Speaker: Mr Hannes Möllits, Baltic Defence College
2014
Military activity in the Baltic Sea: A ‘game changer’ for the region?
Date: 8 December 2014
Speaker: Lt Col Mathias Jarvare; Mr James Rogers and Lt Col
(ret) Ugis Romanovs, Baltic Defence College
Date: 24 November 2014
Speaker: Dr Nerijus Maliukevicius, International Relations
and Political Science, University of Vilnius
After the NATO Summit in Wales: Assurance for the Baltic states?
Date: 20 October 2014
Speakers: Dr Asta Maskaliunaite; Mr Henrik Praks and Mr
James Rogers, Baltic Defence College
The Russian Annexation of Crimea: Eastern Europe in Geopolitical Flux?
Date: 24 March 2014
Speakers: Dr Augustine Meaher; Mr Henrik Praks and Mr James
Rogers, Baltic Defence College
2013
Date: 9 December 2013
Speaker: Prof Sven Biscop, Director of ‘Europe in the
World’ Programme, Egmont Institute
Date: 4 September 2013
Speaker: LTG Jurgen Bornemann, Former Director-General,
NATO International Military Staff
Date: 8 April 2013
Speaker: AMB (ret) Michael Sahin, Former Swedish Ambassador
to Norway and Turkey
Date: 5 March 2013
Speaker: Dr Vaidotas Urbelis, Directorof the Department of
Atlantic Cooperation, Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Date: 14 February 2013
Speaker: Mr Eerik Marmei, Director of Division of the
Political Department, Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2012
Date: 6 December 2012
Speaker: Mr Andzejs Vilumsons, Director, Security Policy,
Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
