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New educational website for children activities Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir, Minister of Culture and Business Affairs opened the new language learning website Icelandic Online Börn in Veröld – [...]

  School children from Hólabrekkuskóli visited Veröld – House of Vigdís on the International Mother Language Day, 21 February. The day started with a brief introduction to the Living [...]

The Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding was proud to present its work and activities at the Icelandic stand during the celebration of International [...]

Women leaders, including two women of indigenous and minority backgrounds with long-term experience in community and organisational leadership, came together in a conversation on inspiring [...]

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 [...]

The Nordic Intercultural Communication conference, previously scheduled for November 2021, has been postponed to 2022 due to Covid-19. The NIC conference will take place at the University of [...]

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 [...]

Ebba Þóra Hvannberg, Oddný Sverrisdóttir, Branislav Bédi, Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Hrafn Loftsson and Guðmundur Hálfdánarson. Branislav Bédi with his PhD supervisor, Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir. On [...]

Roma people and researchers of the Roma culture assembled in Veröld – House of Vigdís today, for an international workshop, held in the Romani and English languages. The workshop is the [...]

Anna Rabczuk from the University of Warsaw will be visiting the Language Centre of the University of Iceland, in Veröld – House of Vigdís in February. On this occasion, we invite you to a [...]