About this conference

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This symposium will enable participants to address a variety of topics, including but not limited to the following:

• Yeats and the Nobel Prize
• The influence and reception of Yeats – both in Scandinavia and elsewhere
• Yeats and the sacred
• Yeats and transcendence
• Yeats and tropes of elevation, including the flight of birds and tropes involving stars
• Yeats and the canon – for instance of either England, Ireland or other countries
• Yeats’s influence on the cultural milieu of his time
• Yeats as a public figure or intellectual
• The history of the Abbey Theatre

 The conference will be an in-person event (i.e., there are no plans for online or hybrid components).

The conference will mainly take place on the premises of the University of Stockholm. There will also be some outings and events in other locations in the city of Stockholm, including the Town Hall of Stockholm and the Nobel Prize Museum in the Old Town of Stockholm. The conference fee will be 100 euros, covering the conference dinner as well as coffee and lunches.

Please note that all participants must be payed-up members of the International Yeats Society. To sign up as a member, please use this link: https://internationalyeatssociety.org/members/

We are keen to support Doctoral students and unwaged academics. We do this by maintaining a reduced IYS membership fee for these groups and offering travel bursaries. If you would like to be considered for an IYS travel bursary please include, along with the abstract for your conference paper, a maximum 200-word statement outlining your case for support. This should include detail about your current research project and the relevance of the conference themes to your ongoing work. All applications will be considered by the conference organising committee/ IYS executive Board.