Welcome to the opening of the Bureau-of-Poetrysymposium/conference - inspired by poetic philosophy of Gaston Bachelard. The opening will include talks by Anders Olsson from The Swedish Academy and the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto.

The opening evening is open for all. 

Register here by November 8 at noon.

Program for the evening of November 12:

18.30 Welcome by symposium organizers Jenny Helin, Uppsala University, Daniel Pedersen, Faethon Publishers and Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Stockholm School of Economics

18.35 Homage to Astrid Hjorth, first Swedish publisher of Gaston Bachelard's philosophy of poetry.

18.50 Anders Olsson on the Poetics of Homecoming

19.20 Short Break

19.30 Michelangelo Pistoletto on practical Poetics of a Third Paradise (On September 13 Pistoletto will install his "Terzo Paradiso" as a bureau-of-poetry together with SSE Art Division students in the school´s atrium).

More about the conference here.