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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 [...]

This is a call for papers for volume thirteen (2021) of Milli mála. The journal welcomes academic articles in the fields of language, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and language [...]

This year, the annual Japan Festival of the Japanese Department of University of Iceland will be held online for the first time. A multitude of Japan-related events will be offered for a full [...]

The 2020 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 annual meeting of the Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding was held on 16 October 2020. Due to the unusual circumstances created by the Covid-19 [...]