TAKING THE LONG VIEW IN PILGRIMAGE STUDIES

(material culture, gender, responses to place and landscape)

Humanities Research Centre, University of York

July 17    10.30 - 17.30

10.00  onwards            Coffee and registration

10.30 -11.30                  'Current directions in Anthropology'

                                      Simon Coleman (University of Toronto)

                                      'Developments in religious history'

                                      Alana Harris (Lincoln College, Oxford)

11.30 - 11.45                 Break

11.45 - 12.45                 'Tactile piety and the experience of place in Christian pilgrimage'

                                      Dee Dyas (University of York)

                                      'Embodied and gendered experience of pilgrimage landscape'

                                      Avril Maddrell (University of the West of England)

12.45 - 13.45                 Lunch

13.45 -14.45                  ‘Archaeology and sacred space’

                                      Kate Giles (University of York)

                                     ‘Life as a pilgrimage in the Celtic monastic tradition’

                                      Jonathan Wooding (University of Wales, Trinity, St David)

                                      'Space and Place in the making of Roman Catholicism as a world        religion c.1500-1700'

                                      Simon Ditchfield (University of York)        

14.45- 15.45                  'The Hajj'  

                                      Venetia Porter, Curator of the British Museum exhibition

                                      'Migration, Diaspora and Religious Pilgrimage in Comparative                                                  Perspective: Sacred Geographies and Ethical Landscapes'

                                      Pnina Werbner (Keele University)

15.45 - 16.15                 Tea

16.15 - 17.30                 Where is pilgrimage research going? General discussion

There is no charge for the conference and lunch will be provided but places are limited. Those interested should register by emailing Dr Dee Dyas ([log in to unmask]) as soon as possible.