Program

Pilgrimage in Motion: Exploring Affects, Meanings, and Transformations

Venue: Arcanum building (Arcanuminkuja 1, Turku)

Thursday, 31 October 2024

9.00 -10.15 Registration

10.15-11.30 Opening words and 1st plenary (A112)

Sari Katajala-Peltomaa: Pilgrimages as ritual and emotional space in later medieval Europe

11.30-13.00 Lunch

13.00-14.30 Session 1: Experiencing Nordic Saints at Medieval Pilgrimage Sites (B243)

Anni Hella: Holiness nearby – Local saints, feast days and the pilgrimage in medieval Turku
Sofia Lahti: Gilded, carved and embroidered – Materials and craftsmanship expressing the sacred in Birgittine reliquaries
Marika Räsänen: Soundscape at the altars dedicated to St. Birgitta

14.30-15.00 Tuija Alihaanperä: Pilgrimage and the City of Turku

15.00-15.30 Coffee

15.30-17.30 Excursion to Turku Cathedral

18.00 Seminar dinner

Friday, 1 November 2024

9.00-10.30 Session 2: Pilgrimage and Faith in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (A112)

Georg Haggren & Jussi Kinnunen: Patron Saints in Swedish Dioceses in the Middle of the 16th Century
Hanna Mazheika: A Forced Pilgrimage? The Reformed Parish of Kojdanów during the Muscovite Occupation, 1655-1661
Laura Hellsten & Lotta Petronella: Holy Woman, Mad Woman – Movements of Pilgrimage

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-12.00 2nd plenary (A112)

Avril Maddrell: Feminist perspectives on pilgrimage, environment, experience and meanings

12.00-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.00 Session 3: ”Something Old, Something New…”: Contemporary Pilgrimage in Motion (B243)

Matti Koponen: Sacralization of Motion in the European Pilgrimage Tradition in the 00’s
Tuija Hovi: Goals and experiences – today’s Finnish pilgrims near and far
Minna Opas: Tracing the Journey: The Changing Landscapes of Finnish Pilgrimage

15.00-15.30 Closing words and coffee