12.30-13.15
Doors open and registration
13.15-13.30
Introduction and welcome
13.30-15.00
Waterscapes Session
North of the Baltic? Faring the Bothnian Sea in a Viking World
Charlotta Hillerdal, Aberdeen University, Scotland
A land of extremes – Natural preconditions of the north as guiding factors for human interaction during the Late Iron Age (c. 800–1300 AD)
Jari-Matti Kuusela, The Regional Museum of Lapland, Finland
Transitions in dynamic northern Norwegian multiethnic maritime environments from the Late Iron Age to medieval period
Stephen Wickler, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
15.00-15.30
Coffee
15.30-17.00
Travel and Connectivity Poster Session
Witnessing demographic movement through palynology
Petter I. Larsson, University of Helsinki
On the Way: The development of the Societies within the Baltic Sea Islands of Rosalalandet and Hitis from the Late Iron Age to the Early Medieval Period
Yann Irissou, University of Helsinki
Maritime zones of interaction - The Finnish archipelago in the Middle Ages and early modern period
Riikka Tevali, University of Helsinki and Kulturbyrån, Ålands Landskapsregering
Seasonal transitions in the Early Modern Period maritime Southeast Asia
Wesa Perttola, University of Helsinki
Viabundus Finland 1350-1650
Jenni Lares & Tapio Salminen, Tampere University
Mapping Routes and Roads: Digital Approaches to Overland Travel in Finland
HISCOM Project Team, University of Helsinki
10.00-10.15
Start and welcome
10.15-11.30
Keynote presentation: Lived Religion in the Medieval Landscape: Agency, Materiality and Cosmology
Roberta Gilchrist, University of Reading
11.30-13.00
Lunch
13.00-14.30
Landscapes Session 1
Salt, glass, ceramics, and art: Late-medieval and early modern coastal connections between Southern Finland and Tallinn
Elina Räsänen & Tuuli Heinonen, University of Helsinki
Unveiling ritual dynamics: local practices or specialist rites in Åland’s Late Iron Age
Kristin Ilves, University of Helsinki
Rituals on the road? Pilgrimages as lived religion in medieval Finland
Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, University of Turku
14.30-15.00
Coffee
15.00-17.00
Landscapes Session 2 and closing words
Landscape as experience: forest and lived religion in Early Modern Finland
Raisa Maria Toivo, Tampere University
Reflections on the religious landscape in the Meditationes vitae Christi
Päivi Salmesvuori, Åbo Akademi University
The Lake of Subiaco and Medieval Monastic Perceptions of Water
Teemu Immonen, University of Turku
After the symposium participants are invited to join in an informal gathering for drinks.