New association named The Birch and the Star. Finnish Perspectives on the long 19th-century, chaired by Maija Tanninen, director of the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki and Riikka Stewen, from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, with a scientific committee composed of historians of art, music and literature working at the University of Helsinki  and in several Finnish museums and archives. We have decided to develop our international activity after the success of our first symposium, held in Helsinki, “Between Light and Darkness, International Symposium on Fin-de-siècle Symbolism”.

Symposium:The North, a Literary, Musical and Artistic Myth
This colloquium will take place  on 30-31 March 2012 More information can be found here