Fréttasafn

Art and clothes, letters and documents, gifts from foreign heads of state. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, former President of Iceland, has donated all these items and more to the University of Iceland [...]

The 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐲 aims to raise awareness of the importance of professional translation as it brings nations together, facilitates dialogue, understanding and cooperation, [...]

The international conference Generation Asia 2022 was held in Veröld – House of Vigdís 22-26 Augst 2022. The event was organized by the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages at [...]

The EUROCALL 2022 Conference was held online on 16-19 August 2022. The European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning, EUROCALL, promotes the creation and sharing of knowledge in [...]

The annual meeting of the Vigdís Institute of Foreign Languages and the Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding for the year 2021 were held in Veröld [...]

A group of three representatives of the Canadian and French Commissions for UNESCO visited the Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding (VIC) today. In the [...]

Sofia Zahova, researcher and member of the board of the Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding, presented the Centre’s Institutional Plan for the [...]

Perspectives on Language and Context is a Festschrift written in honor of Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir to celebrate her academic achievements as a professor of Second Language Studies at the University [...]

    There was a large gathering of people today in Veröld – House of Vigdís for the 70th birthday celebration of Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University [...]