15 october-6 november
Moderna Museet
Tue 1 november
13.00-17.00
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Tue 1 november
18.00-20.00
Grünewaldsalen,
Konserthuset
Wed 2 november
17.30
Grünewaldsalen,
Konserthuset
Thu 3 november
13.00-17.00
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Thu 3 november
17.30
Moderna Museet

THE SCHOCK DAYS 2011

Exhibition – Marlene Dumas


Paintings and work on paper from the studio of Marlene Dumas
Entrance fee

Symposium – Hilary Putnam's Views on Meaning


Lecturers: Prof Hilary Putnam, Harvard University, MA, USA, Prof Richard Boyd, Cornell University, NY, USA, Prof Tyler Burge University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA and Prof Åsa Wikforss, Stockholm University, Sweden. In English.
ProgrammePDF
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Seminar – Bach to the future


Violinist and conducor Andrew Manze takes us on a head spinning journey into the magic world of J. S. Bach, focusing on the Goldberg Variations. The music is performed by Cecilia Zillicaus, violin, Johanna Persson, viola and Kati Raitinen, cello. In English.
Free. No prebooking.

Award ceremony


You are welcome to see the four laureates receive their prizes. Note that you will have to register in advance. Please be on time as there will be no admittance once the ceremony has commenced. In Swedish.
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Symposium – The Classification of finite simple groups


Lecturers: Professor Michael Aschbacher, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA, Professor John Griggs Thompson, University of Cambridge, UK, Professor Stephen Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA, Professor Ronald Solomon, The Ohio State University, OH, USA.PDF In English.PDF
Programme and abstractPDF
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Meet Marlene Dumas


Marlene Dumas talks to Sune Nordgren about her art. In English.
Entrance fee

LAUREATES 2011

Hilary Putnam

Hilary Putnam – Logic and Philosophy

Andrew Manze

Andrew Manze – The Musical Arts

Michael Aschbacher. Photo: Pam Aschbacher

Michael Aschbacher – Mathematics

Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas – The Visual Arts

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