2023
Connecting theory and practice: defence policy and strategy development
Date: 28 April 2023
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Speakers: General Martin Herem, the Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces
Lieutenant General Leonīds Kalniņš, the Commander of the Latvian National Armed Forces
Brigadier General Alvydas Šiuparis, the Commander of Lithuanian TRADOC
Moderated by Commodore (R) Hans Christian Helseth, Royal Norwegian Navy – Senior Mentor, Baltic Defence College
'Protecting civilians in high-intensity warfare: learning from Ukraine'
Date: 25 April 2023
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Speakers: Dr Karolina MacLachlan - Senior Adviser of Policy and Advocacy, CIVIC
Dr Kaleigh Heard - Lecturer, University College London
LTC (ret) Tom Sheperd - Senior Fellow, CIVIC
Mr Alexander Grif, Country Director Ukraine, CIVIC
“A black Swan” in the eve of Russian aggression in Ukraine
Date: 18 April 2023
Organised by: Baltic Defence College
Speakers: Mr Daivis Petraitis
2022
The Arctic and the High North
Date: 10 November 2022
Organised by: 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
Organised by: 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
Organised by: the Centre for
Eurasian and Russian Studies (CEURUS) at the University of Tartu
Contribution:
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Brief titled “Private military companies' role in contemporary
conflicts” in a panel: “Russia as a Eurasian security actor” by Dr
Zdzislaw Sliwa,
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Roundtable: “War at the doorstep: Current and future security
challenges in the Baltic Sea Region”
Moderator: Louis John
Wierenga
Speakers: Asta Maskaliunaite, Zdzislaw Sliwa
Ukraine and NATO: Today’s lessons for Tomorrow
Date: 15 March 2022
Organised by: 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: 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 Wroclaw and Institute of
International Studies
Contribution: Speaker: Amb. Shota
Gvineria; Col. (Ret.) Dr hab. Eugeniusz Cieslak;
Moderator of a panel: Col. (Ret.) Dr hab. Zdzislaw Sliwa
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. Zdzislaw Sliwa
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. Zdzislaw Sliwa
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 Ugis Noritis, Mr Edgars Slišans 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 Zenkevicius,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 Ercums,CPT Uko
Valtenberg, Mr Tanel Sepp, Mr. Gert Auväärt, Mr. Davis 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
