This public event will take place virtually at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on November 17, 2022, at 15:00 EEST (GMT+2). Press Release (in Romanian).
The event is being streamed online on the following YouTube channel.
Promotional materials for download: Poster, Brochure (Cover, Interior), Web banner.
Acad. Ioan-Aurel Pop (President, Romanian Academy)
Prof. Daniel David (Rector, Babes-Bolyai University; Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy)
Acad. Octavian Popescu (President, E.G. Racoviță Foundation)
Acad. Prof. Emeritus Patrick De Deckker (Australian National University, Canberra; Australian Academy of Sciences)
On the extraordinary achievements by the biologist Emil Racoviță during and after the Belgica expedition
Anders Bache (The Roald Amundsen House, Norway)
Roald Amundsen’s House and the Belgica expedition
Carol Smith (Executive Director, Frederick A. Cook Society, New York, USA)
Frederick Cook reimagined
Olivier de Schrevel and Charlotte Rolin Jacquemyns (Georges Lecointe Family, Belgium)
The Belgica expedition: some highlights of Emile Racovitza
Julian Sancton (book author)
“Madhouse at the End of the Earth” - live Q&A with the author
Prof. Peter Convey (British Antarctic Survey, NERC, UK) & Dr. Iryna Kozeretska (Natl. Antarctic Sci. Center of Ukraine)
Belgica antarctica – the Antarctic continent’s only true insect
Coves del Drac and the beginnings of biospeleology*
Prof. Emeritus David Culver (American Univ., Washington, USA)
E.G. Racoviță, the father of biospeleology
Prof. Bogdan P. Onac (Univ. South Florida and E.G. Racoviță Institute of Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Speleology: A look into its past and future
