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.
NEW! Videos of the sessions were broadcast live on the internet, and are now available on demand. See links below!
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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 • VIDEO >>
10.30–11.00 David Dunér: Spheres and bubbles: Swedenborg's theory of matter – abstract • VIDEO >>
• Coffee break Linnéfoajén
11.30–12.00 Stuart Shotwell: Divine Order (Ordo) and Causation in Swedenborg – abstract • VIDEO >>
12.00–12.30 Richard Lines: Marriages made in Heaven: Swedenborg, sexuality and the spirit – abstract • VIDEO >>
• Lunch Klubbvillan
14.00–14.30 Inese Radzins: On Swedenborg's Critique of Theology – abstract • VIDEO >>
14.30–15.00 Anders Hallengren: Swedenborg’s Contribution to Psychology – abstract • VIDEO >>
• Coffee break Linnéfoajén
15.30–16.00 Jonathan Rose: Differences in Content, Terminology, and Approach within Swedenborg's Theological Latin Corpus – abstract • VIDEO >>
16.00–16.30 Maria Berggren: The Swedenborg Archives in perspective: A collection and a catalogue – abstract • VIDEO >>
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 • VIDEO >>
14.30–15.00 Staffan Rodhe: Geometrica et Algebraica: Contents and sources – abstract • VIDEO >>
• Coffee break Linnéfoajén
15.30–16.00 Lars Bergqvist: Controversies between Cousins: Swedenborg against Linnaeus – abstract pending • VIDEO >>
16.00–16.30 Francesca Crasta: The Metaphysics Compared: Swedenborg in the Context of Eighteenth Century Philosophy – abstract • VIDEO >>
16.30–17.00 Jane Williams–Hogan: The Swedish Lutheran Contribution to the Work Marriage Love – abstract • VIDEO >>
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 • No video
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 • VIDEO >>
10.00–10.30 Nina Kokkinen: Hugo Simberg's Art and the Widening Perspective into Swedenborg's Ideas – abstract • VIDEO >>
• 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 • VIDEO >>
11.30–12.00 Paul J. Croce: The Incarnation Writ Large. Lifting the Veil on Swedenborg's Influence – abstract • VIDEO >>
12.00–12.30 Tiina Mahlamäki: The Influence of Emanuel Swedenborg on the national literature of the 19th century Finland – abstract • VIDEO >>
• 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 • VIDEO >>
14.30–15.00 Harry Lenhammar: The Swedenborgian Tybeck: A Dismissed Clergyman – abstract • VIDEO >>
15.00–15.30 Friedemann Stengel: Swedenborg in German Theology in the 1770s and 1780s – abstract • VIDEO >>
• Coffee break Linnéfoajén
16.00–17.00 Concluding discussion • VIDEO >>
Wednesday 9 June, Beijer Hall, KVA – open lecture
18:00–19.00 Inge Jonsson: Swedenborg and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences • VIDEO >>
19.30– Dinner Gamla Orangeriet, Bergianska Trädgården.