[H-verkko] Konferenssit ja seminaarit: Winter Symposia Sigtunastiftelsen March 2025 | Olaus Magnus travels to the North

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Winter Symposia Sigtunastiftelsen March 2025 | Olaus Magnus travels to the North

5.3.2025 -  Sigtuna, Sweden
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We warmly invite applications to our Study Circle “Praxis of Social Imaginaries” Winter Symposium in Sigtuna Sweden. This community operates within the Nordic Summer University and sets out to foster a platform for trans- and inter-disciplinary research. By bringing people from various disciplines and fields of artistic work together into shared laboratories of praxis, we aim to create a transformational learning environment. This winter, our praxis will centre on Olaus Magnus’s travels to the North, particularly his encounter with Sami peoples and Finns.

This study circle has visited texts dealing with the Mongol empire, Asia, Africa and Central America. We now turn our gaze towards the Indigenous homelands of the North. The text of this Winter Symposium was selected as it was written by a theologically schooled clergyman who later served as archdeacon and archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden: Olaus Magnus (1490-1553). He travelled in the Nordic region, and once he was exiled to Rome due to the Reformation by the Swedish King Gustav Wasa, he decided to write a book about his “home”. The Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555) is a compilation of 22 books dealing with everything from brewing beer and making cheese and descriptions of flora and fauna to reports of local culture. The text is still today a valuable repertory of much curious information about Scandinavian customs and folklore. It was translated into Dutch (1562), Italian (1565), German (1567), and English (1658). Abridgments appeared also at Antwerp (1558 and 1562), Paris (1561), Basel (1567), Amsterdam (1586), Frankfurt (1618) and Leiden (1652). The compendium’s popularity was increased due to its numerous woodcuts of people and their customs as well as the making of a map with vivid illustrations, which spread across all of Europe.

For this particular Symposium, we will be focusing on the sections on the Sami Indigenous people, their customs and cultural practices. Together with the artistic project Spirit Land created by Emma Göransson and Frank Berger and a dialogue led by Sami theologian Åsa Virdi Kroik, special sessions will give us material for discussing Sami cosmologies and the differences in social imaginaries between the past and the present. In addition, our focus in the reading sessions will be on sections dealing with music, games, play and ritual customs. Thus our invitation to participation goes out to anyone doing research or artistic practice within these themes and topics, but also practitioners in transdisciplinary research more generally.

In this symposium, we will be reading his Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus – A Description of the Northern Peoples, which Olaus Magnus wrote in 1555. Also, the Carta Marina created in 1538, will be featured in our sessions. The days will be organised in themes depending on the contributions and workshops suggested by the participants.
Read the webpage for more information about how to participate!


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Lisätietoja:
Laura Hellsten
praxis.social.imaginaries at gmail.com
https://scalar.usc.edu/works/praxis-of-social-imaginaries/winter-symposia-2025-on-olaus-magnus?t=1727284460522

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