Yeats and Elevation: The Nobel Prize Centenary Conference 2023
25-28 October 2023 Stockholm, Sweden
Yeats and Elevation: The Nobel Prize Centenary Conference 2023
25-28 October 2023 Stockholm, Sweden
W. B. Yeats and Elevation: The Nobel Prize Centenary Conference
Social activities
Pub gathering at Wirströms Pub in the Old Town (Gamla stan)
Wednesday 25 October – evening from 20:00
No program. Come as you are and if you are not too tired after travelling. Drink and food at your own expenses.
Address: Stora Nygatan 13, Old Town
WIRSTRÖMS – A GENUINE IRISH PUB IN STOCKHOLM
Poetry reading at Rönnells Antikvariat
Thursday 26 October – evening at 19:00
Keynote Meg Harper and poetry reading by Paul Muldoon together with his Swedish translator Lars-Håkan Svensson. Drinks and snacks will be served, but no food, so make sure you have something to eat beforehand.
Address: Birger Jarlsgatan 32
Rönnells antikvariat
Nobel Prize Museum (registration needed)
Friday 27 October – evening at 18:00
Conversation about Yeats between Roy Foster, Meg Harper and Swedish Academy member Anders Olsson. Readings of Yeats poems. Possible to buy something to drink at your own expenses.
Address: Nobel Prize Museum, Börshuset, Stortorget 2, Old Town
Nobel Prize Museum
Arranged transport from the museum to Stadshuskällaren where we have our conference dinner.
Nobel Dinner (registration needed)
Friday 27 October – evening at 19:30
Nobel Menu 2022
Starter
Seaweed baked pike-perch and tomato stuffed with marinated pike-perch, parsley emulsion, kohlrabi and bread spices with dill seed pearls and flower crisp
NV Champagne Legras & Haas Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru, France
Main Course
Swedish venison filled with morel and sage, golden beetroot with cold-pressed rapeseed oil and mustard seed, Jerusalem artichoke and thyme emulsion, accompanied by potato terrine and wild game gravy with star anise
2021 Grattamacco Bolgheri Rosso, Tuscany, Italy
Dessert
Baked cheesecake and plum compote, flavoured with star anise, plum creme, mirabelle meringues and oat crisp, accompanied by mirabelle sorbet flavoured with ginger
2021 Brännland Iscider, Västerbotten, Sweden
(If any dietary restrictions, please indicate when you register for the conference.)
Guided tour in the City Hall (Stadshuset) (registration needed)
Saturday 28 October – at 10:00
Stockholms stadshus
Address: Hantverkargatan 1
Stadshuset/City Hall
Conference Funded By
Conference Funded By
Contact
Box 7059
750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: + 46 (0) 18 67 10 03
E-mail: yeatsnobel2023@akademikonferens.se
Important dates
6 October 14:00 - deadline for registration
25-28 October - Conference dates
Organised by
Stockholm University and the International Yeats Society