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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 [...]

    Dale Kedwards is HM Queen Margrethe II Distinguished Research Fellow at the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute, the National Museum of Iceland, and the Museum of National History at [...]

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 [...]

The Nordic Intercultural Communication conference, previously scheduled for November 2020, has been postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19. The NIC conference will take place at the University of [...]

A conference on Changing regional identities and intercultural communication will be held at the University of Iceland 26-28 November 2020, as part of the network Nordic Intercultural [...]

On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Queen Margrethe on 16 April and the 90th birthday of former Icelandic President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir on April 15 this year, the Carlsberg Foundation [...]