Professor Susan Whitfield of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Art and Culture (SISJAC) will be giving a talk at Norwich Cathedral Hostry (also available online via Zoom) entitled Pilgrimage from Nara to Norwich: Commonalities Across Cultures and Religions
This talk will consider the medieval context and modern growth of pilgrimage, focussing on pilgrimages in Japan and England. How different are the motives for pilgrims — and for those promoting pilgrimage—now and in the past and between cultures and religions?
This talk is free, however in person places are limited, to book your in person place email sisjac@sainsbury-institute.org , or for online attendance via SISJAC’s event page.
About the Speaker
Susan Whitfield is Professor of Silk Road Studies at the Sainsbury Institute, currently working on the Nara to Norwich Project. She was previously curator of Silk Road manuscripts at the British Library and Director of the International Dunhuang Project, a collaboration between over 25 institutions worldwide to make archaeological artefacts from the Silk Roads freely accessible online.
In 2025 she walked the Walsingham Way and the Ise Honkaido with colleagues for preliminary research on the Nara to Norwich pilgrimage project.
