Elin Darelius held The Nansen Memorial Lecture
The yearly lecture at the Norwegian Academy of Letters and Sciences.
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October 10th, on Frithjof Nansens birthday,聽, at University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, had the honour of holding the Nansen Memorial Lecture聽at the Norwegian Academy of Letters and Sciences.
"This is probably the first 鈥� and last 鈥� time I give a lecture in a long dress and high heels," says Darelius of the experience.
The lecture "" is the most recent in a yearly tradition, founded on Nansens 100th birthday in 1961.
She enters a long line of prominent lecturers, like Helge Ingstad, Thor Heyerdahl, Thorvald Stoltenberg and H氓kon Mosby. Everyone giving the Nansen memorial lecture gets the Nansen Medal 鈥� she鈥檚聽the 55th lecturer to receive one 鈥� but only the forth woman.
Elin Darelius together with Hans Darelius (left) and Hans Petter Graver (right)
- The Lecture and more pictures are found聽
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