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Today, RANNÍS awarded a grant to the project RomIs: A history and ethnography of Roma in Iceland, led by Sofiya Zahova. The 3-year RomIs project has two overarching goals: to provide the first [...]

Call for pa­pers: Twelfth Nordic Conference on Middle East­ern Stud­ies “The Middle East in Myth and Reality” Reykjavik, Iceland, 22–24 September 2022 The Nordic Society for Middle Eastern [...]

The 2021 edition of Milli mála – Journal of Language and Culture is out and can be accessed at millimala.hi.is/en. The journal has been published by the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign [...]

The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) and the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages at the University of Iceland are inviting scholars to submit panel proposals for [...]

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 [...]