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In 2010, a scholarly conference on Emanuel Swedenborg's ideas and influence was held at the Center for the History of Science at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The conference was a celebration a recently completed digital catalog of the academy's Swedenborg archive, which in 2006 was designated as part of UNESCO's World Memory program. This was the first time that an academic conference on Swedenborg was hosted by a non-Swedenborgian institution. The conference attracted presenters from all over the world, including some top scholars. Papers were divided into three categories. Content describes Swedenborg's thought, from his use of spheres in his scientific writings to his views on sexuality and marriage to analyses of his theological writings. Context explores his times, putting Swedenborg in the context of eighteenth-century philosophy and looking at the organization of the earliest Swedenborgian church. Contribution looks at Swedenborg's influence on philosophy and the arts, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Czeslaw Milocz to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William James. These papers present a rare insight into Swedenborg. Although only a limited number of attendees were invited to the conference, now the research is available to all.

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Karl Grandin has been the director of the Center for History of Science at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm since 2008. He received a MSc. and a PhD from Uppsala University. He has been the editor of the Nobel Foundation yearbook since 2006 (Les Prix Nobel 2006-2010 and The Nobel Prizes 2012-). Among his recent publications are A Wireless World: One Hundred Years since the Nobel Prize to Guglielmo Marconi, eds. Karl Grandin, et al. (Florence University Press, 2012) and Going Digital: Evolutionary and Revolutionary Aspects of Digitization, ed. Karl Grandin (Stockholm, 2011).

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