Emanuel Swedenborg—Exploring a “World Memory”
Context, Content, Contribution

International symposium, June 7–9, 2010 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.

Enquiries about participation, contact:

Maria Asp, Center for History of Science, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel.: .+46-8-673 96 12/+46-8-673 95 23

E-mail: maria.asp@kva.se

Limited number of participants and registered participants only, except final lecture Wednesday. Fee for non speakers SEK 700 includes lunches, dinners, excursions and public transport.

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CONTENT

Monday 7 June, Linnaeus Hall, KVA

09.00–10.00 Registration Linnéfoajén
10.00–10.30 Welcome/Introduction Svante Lindqvist, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Karl Grandin, Director of the Center for History of Science
10.30–11.00 David Dunér: Spheres and bubbles: Swedenborg's theory of matter – abstract
• Coffee break Linnéfoajén
11.30–12.00 Stuart Shotwell: Divine Order (Ordo) and Causation in Swedenborg – abstract
12.00–12.30 Richard Lines: Marriages made in Heaven: Swedenborg, sexuality and the spirit – abstract
• Lunch Klubbvillan
14.00–14.30 Inese Radzins: On Swedenborg's Critique of Theology – abstract
14.30–15.00 Anders Hallengren: Swedenborg’s Contribution to Psychology – abstract
• Coffee break Linnéfoajén
15.30–16.00 Jonathan Rose: Differences in Content, Terminology, and Approach within Swedenborg's Theological Latin Corpus – abstract
16.00–16.30 Maria Berggren: The Swedenborg Archives in perspective: A collection and a catalogue – abstract
16.30–17.00 Display of manuscripts from the Swedenborg collection

17.30– Dinner Klubbvillan

CONTEXT

Tuesday 8 June, The House of Nobility

10.30–12.30 Excursion to The House of Nobility

Tuesday 8 June, Linnaeus Hall, KVA

• Lunch Klubbvillan (12.30–)
14.00–14.30 Hjalmar Fors: Swedenborg’s Matrix: Spirits and Science at the Swedish Board of Mines – abstract
14.30–15.00 Staffan Rodhe: Geometrica et Algebraica: Contents and sources – abstract
• Coffee break Linnéfoajén
15.30–16.00 Lars Bergqvist: Controversies between Cousins: Swedenborg against Linnaeus – abstract pending
16.00–16.30 Francesca Crasta: The Metaphysics Compared: Swedenborg in the Context of Eighteenth Century Philosophy – abstract
16.30–17.00 Jane Williams–Hogan: The Swedish Lutheran Contribution to the Work Marriage Love – abstract

Tuesday 8 June, The Observatory Museum, Drottninggatan 120

18.30–19.00 Göran Appelgren: The Genesis of the New Church: The Emergence of Different Denominations Within the New Church – abstract

19.00– Dinner The Observatory Museum

CONTRIBUTION

Wednesday 9 June, Linnaeus Hall, KVA

09.30–10.00 Devin Zuber: Hieroglyphics of Nature: Swedenborg and the American Environmental Imagination – abstract
10.00–10.30 Nina Kokkinen: Hugo Simberg's Art and the Widening Perspective into Swedenborg's Ideas – abstract
• Coffee break Linnéfoajén
11.00–11.30 Piotr Bukowski: Harmony and Openness to Many Levels of Reality – The Thought of Emanuel Swedenborg in the Writings of Czeslaw Milosz – abstract
11.30–12.00 Paul J. Croce: The Incarnation Writ Large. Lifting the Veil on Swedenborg's Influence – abstract
12.00–12.30 Tiina Mahlamäki: The Influence of Emanuel Swedenborg on the national literature of the 19th century Finland – abstract
• Lunch Klubbvillan
14.00–14.30 Sylvia Montgomery Shaw: Art's Fiery Finger: Use and Passion in the Swedenborgian Poetics of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Dean Howel – abstract
14.30–15.00 Harry Lenhammar: The Swedenborgian Tybeck: A Dismissed Clergyman – abstract
15.00–15.30 Friedemann Stengel: Swedenborg in German Theology in the 1770s and 1780s – abstract
• Coffee break Linnéfoajén
16.00–17.00 Concluding discussion

Wednesday 9 June, Beijer Hall, KVA – open lecture

18:00–19.00 Inge Jonsson: Swedenborg and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

19.30– Dinner Gamla Orangeriet, Bergianska Trädgården.