Lunch seminar on Pilgrimage's Landscapes

Lunch seminar on Pilgrimage's Landscapes with Hannah K. Lunde, University of Oslo, Norway, and Camilla Brudin Borg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Hannah K. Lunde: “Pilgrimage across sea and land: emergent pilgrimage landscapes and practices in Norway”

The presentation outlines some main features of emergent pilgrimage landscapes and seascapes at the Camino-inspired network of St Olav Ways to Nidaros Cathedral in Norway. Particular attention is paid to how the notion about pilgrimage practices as slow-paced journeys on foot, inspired by historical pilgrimages as well as by “Caminioisation”, currently is expanded through seagoing pilgrimages – a development that also leads to contestations about what contemporary pilgrimage entails as practice and placemaking.

Hannah Kristine Lunde is a PhD research fellow in Cultural History at the University of Oslo. In 2022 she defended her thesis Pilgrimage Matters: Administrative and Semiotic Landscapes of Contemporary Pilgrimage Realisations in Norway. Her academic interests centre around cultural heritage,…