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, religion and politics, and the intersections between material culture, narratives and performance.

Camilla Brudin Borg: “Pilgrimage in time and space at the Camino Norte in Spain”

A pilgrim that choses to walk the northern, costal path to Santiago de Compostela passes several places in the Basque country where the evolutionary history of earth is laid in the open, exposed to be read as a book, thanks to the geological phenomena called the “flysch”. The pilgrim who walks the winding way over the cliffs walks the same landscape as the medieval pilgrim’s but also our first ancestors. Camilla Brudin Borg, who studies literary pilgrim’s narratives from the Camino will present a pilgrim’s reflections on walking in deep time and wide space.

Camilla Brudin Borg is researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She carries out research on Narratives on the trail, which focuses on interdisciplinary, material methods on walking and narratives in the field. She is one of the initiators of the walking resarch network One by walking.

The seminar is address to members of the One by Walking Network.

Photo by Hannah K. Lunde (2019).