Between October 14 and 18, Andrea Poros visited the Royal Library-National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket) in Stockholm (Sweden) through an Erasmus+ mobility programme. At the library, she conducted research on Ellen Key’s legacy. During her work, she discovered a highly interesting document related to Ellen Key’s 1905 visit to Budapest.

On this occasion, the head of the library also gave her a tour of the staff community area, showing the iron columns, structural elements, and iron bookshelves of the building, which were designed in an industrial style inspired by the Eiffel Tower.

On October 17, Andrea Poros gave a presentation titled “Behind a Portrait” at the first event in the three-part series “The Century of Ellen Key – Aesthetics and Ethics,” organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ellen Key’s death. Her lecture examined the background surrounding the creation of Gyula Benczúr’s portrait of Ellen Key, which was made on April 1, 1905.

On October 18, the conference continued at the National Museum in Stockholm (Nationalmuseet), where Andrea attended the opening of the first solo exhibition since 1923 dedicated to Hanna Hirsch Pauli, Swedish woman painter, former student, and lifelong friend of Ellen Key. Hanna Hirsch Pauli painted most of the existing portraits of the writer. The event concluded with an art history symposium.