Episode Topic: Pilgrimage in the Global Middles Ages: Hospitality and Encounter

Join the Medieval Institute and the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion for the first in our series on pilgrimage. Why did medieval people go on pilgrimage, how did they travel, and what resources did they need while on the road? Pilgrimage in the Global Middle Ages: Hospitality and Encounter will examine medieval social institutions that supported pilgrims in the Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Chinese Buddhist traditions. Panelists will include Notre Dame Professors Robin Jensen (Theology), Mun'im Sirry (Theology) and Alexander Hsu (Keough School). They will compare different cultural provisions for hospitality, pilgrims’ experience of encounter along the way, and the sacred art of shrines and holy places. This session will be the first in a series of spring-semester events exploring the practice of pilgrimage, both historically across faith traditions and in present-day work for social justice.

Featured Speakers:

• Annie Killian, OP, Ph.D. is a Dominican Sister of Peace and the Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame
• Alexander Hsu serves as assistant teaching professor for the Ansari Institute and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame
• Robin Jensen is the Patrick O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame
• Mun’im Sirry is assistant professor of theology with additional responsibilities for the Contending Modernities research project

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/ac5938.

This podcast is a part of the ThinkND Series titled Pilgrimage for Healing and Liberation. 

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