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The Nordic Intercultural Communication conference, previously scheduled for November 2021, has been postponed to 2022 due to Covid-19. The NIC conference will take place at the University of [...]

The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing by Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Professor of second language aquisition at the University of Iceland, and Patricia Prinz, New York City College of [...]

Turkish-British novelist and women’s rights activist, Elif Shafak, recieved the Halldór Laxness International Literary Award today. The prize is awarded to an internationally-recognised [...]

A conference on Changing regional identities and intercultural communication will be held at the University of Iceland 25-27 November 2021, as part of the network Nordic Intercultural [...]

In collaboration with University of Iceland and The Árni Magnússon Institute, The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages is happy to host the 15th conference on Nordic Languages as [...]

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the former President of Iceland, launched Lexía, a new Icelandic-French online dictionary, at a formal ceremony in Veröld today in front of a large audience which included [...]

The Greenlandic linguist, poet and activist Katti Frederiksen, Greenland’s current Minister of Education, Culture and Church, was awarded the 2021 international prize for culture, named [...]

    Photos: Sofiya Zahova and Roma school children  The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages is a partner in the newly launched project “Educated Roma women, empowered Roma [...]

LEXÍA is an online bilingual dictionary between modern Icelandic and Spanish which is currently under development. The first part, Icelandic-Spanish legal dictionary, can be accessed here. [...]