Online lecture by Trondt Ole Tøllefsen: “The Vormsi/Ormsö Estonian Swedes”

The lecture that was previously cancelled due to COVID-19 will take place online on April 8 at 7pl. Follow the lecture here: https://youtu.be/va9OgwEVsYA

Liberation or salvation? The Vormsi/Ormsö Estonian Swedes between Swedish Evangelism and Russian Orthodoxy

Come and hear about the history of the Swedish-speaking farmers on the Estonian island of Vormsi/Ormsö from the Middle Ages to 1944. How the islanders became the subject of different cultural, religious and political battles between Sweden and Russia, Protestant revivals and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Trond Ove Tøllefsen teaches history at Uppsala University, Sweden, and is consulting professor in peace and conflict studies at the Free University of Catalunya (UOC).

Co-organised by Estonian Studies Centre/VEMU, Finnish Studies Programme (UofT), SWEA Toronto

Info: vemu@tartucollege.ca