International Culture Awards and Jubilee
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, former President of Iceland, will turn 90 on 15 April 2020 and in June the same year forty years will have passed since her historic win in the presidential elections in [...]
Women and Leadership discussed in Veröld
Women leaders will convene in Veröld – House of Vigdís on Tuesday evening, 19 November, at 20:00 to discuss women, leadership and the sustainability of languages and cultures. Katrín [...]
Icelandic Online awarded by the Icelandic Language Council
The Icelandic Language Council has awarded the Survival course of Icelandic Online, for contributing to the enhancement of the Icelandic language. The course was one of three projects that [...]
UNESCO International Literacy Day Conference
Photos © UNESCO Ásdís R. Magnúsdóttir, Chair of the Governing Board of the Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding, represented the Centre at the [...]
Annual meeting of the Board of the Vigdís International Centre
The annual meeting of the Vigdís international Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding for the year 2018 was held on 6 September 2019. The board of the Centre met in Veröld – [...]
The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Gypsy / Romani Studies
The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Gypsy / Romani Studies was held in Veröld – House of Vigdís at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík, 15-17 August, [...]
Roma in the Centre Initiative
Roma family in Seyðisfjörður, 1912. Photo by Björn Björnsson. Source: National Musum of Iceland Sofiya Zahova, postdoctoral researcher. Roma in the Centre is an [...]
Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir new president of the Association of Language Teachers in Iceland
Dr Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir is the new president of STÍL – the Association of Language Teachers in Iceland. Hólmfríður completed her doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin [...]