a blog by Peter Leonard
The middle of October was taken up by the annual Swedish Teachers Conference, which came to Seattle this year. On offer were two days of language-teaching seminars, as well as a display of recently-published books brought by the Swedish Institute:
The guest speaker on the second day was Robert Charlson, professor emeritus in Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry at UW. He has written on an early 20th-century scientist, Svante Arrhenius, who accurately predicted global warming:
Also presenting was Paul Norlén, who read from his new translation of Selma Lagerlöf’s Gösta Berlings saga.