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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 [...]

Scholars are invited to submit proposals for the 41st annual conference of the Society of Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies (SE-17), which will be held in Reykjavík October [...]

The International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic diversity and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism. The [...]

The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages, the University of Iceland, and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies invite scholars to submit proposals for the EUROCALL [...]

Ann-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud has been appointed as the new Chair of the governing body of Vigdís International Centre, replacing Ásdís Rósa Magnúsdóttir, who was Chairperson from May 2018 until end [...]

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 [...]