guest talk illustrated with photographs // Q&A and conversation // invitation to write: ‘encounter your immediate landscape’

Speaker: Margaréta Hanna Pintér (PhD Fellow; School of Archaeology, Centre for Sustainable Futures, Copenhagen University)

As the northernmost island of the Orkney archipelago (Scotland), North Ronaldsay is remote, peripheral and highly exposed to the elements. Since 1832, its landscape has been defined by the so-called Sheep Dyke, a nearly 20 km-long drystone wall that snakes along the coastline and encircles the arable lands in the centre. 

Margaréta will tell us about the Sheep Dyke as a structure assembling an ecology of heritage around itself, entangling human and more-than-human beings. How we choose to encounter landscape colours what we see and what we learn. Margaréta will share embodied walking and ambulatory interviews as her ethnographic inquiry into the palimpsestic landscape of the North Ronaldsay Sheep Dyke.

Margaréta’s informal talk will be accompanied by her photographs of the drystone wall and the island. We’ll have time for questions and conversation. We will finish the evening with the invitation to write which will allow us to encounter our own immediate landscapes.

Hosts: Franek (Environmental Humanities PhD Fellow at Roskilde University)

            Ela (poet, artist, ‘creative ambassador’ for the Møn UNESCO Biosphere)

25 kr (fuss fee) paid in advance or at the door