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Today, the Nowruz festival begins in many countries of the world. The word Nowruz means “new day” and during the festival the renewal of nature and arrival of spring are celebrated [...]

With the aim of opening a platform for hearing the voices and experiences of refugees in Iceland with regard to languages and language rights, The Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism [...]

  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 [...]

  Í dag, 6. febrúar, er Alþjóðadagur Sama haldinn hátíðlegur um allt Sápmi eða Samaland. Á síðasta ári stóð Vigdísarstofnun fyrir málþingi um menningarsköpun og framtíð tungumála út frá [...]

Do you know what is commemorated globally on the 27th of January? Do you know what Shoah means? Have you ever heard the words Porrajmos or Samudaripen? On the 27th of January, the world marks the [...]

The focus of the 2023 EUROCALL conference is on inclusiveness of all languages, which is reflected in the main conference theme “CALL for all languages”. We particularly welcome papers that focus [...]

Technology has to support pedagogy, stated Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir during her contribution to the discussion “Promotion of Indigenous languages on cyberspace” organised today at UNESCO Headquarters [...]

The 2022 EUROCALL conference was held in Reykjavik on 16-19 August 2022 as a fully online event hosted by the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages, the Vigdís International [...]

The 27th Nordic Intercultural Communication 2022 (NIC) conference  was held in Veröld – House of Vigdís 24-26th November 2022. The conference is the main activity supported by the Nordic Network [...]

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 [...]

To celebrate UNESCO’s World Day of Romani Language, distinguished guests with decades of experience in support of Romani language, culture, and human rights, were invited by the Vigdís [...]

Indigenous languages of the Arctic were discussed yesterday at a seminar organized by Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding at the Arctic Circle Assembly [...]

The Minister of Culture and Business Affairs, Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir, visited the Vigdís Institute and International Centre in Veröld – House of Vigdís today.   Among the many projects [...]

  Mr. Juergen Boos, the President and CEO of the Frankfurt Book Fair, is the 2022 winner of the international Vigdís Prize, an award conferred for outstanding contributions to world languages and [...]

Over two hundred experts in the languages and cultures of the Middle East participated in the international conference  The Middle East in Myth and Reality, in Veröld – House of Vigdís [...]

Art and clothes, letters and documents, gifts from foreign heads of state. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, former President of Iceland, has donated all these items and more to the University of Iceland [...]

The 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐲 aims to raise awareness of the importance of professional translation as it brings nations together, facilitates dialogue, understanding and cooperation, [...]

The Vigdís International Centre, STÍL – The Association of Language Teachers in Iceland and the Language Centre of the University of Iceland join forces every year to celebrate the European Day [...]

The international conference Generation Asia 2022 was held in Veröld – House of Vigdís 22-26 Augst 2022. The event was organized by the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages at [...]

The EUROCALL 2022 Conference was held online on 16-19 August 2022. The European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning, EUROCALL, promotes the creation and sharing of knowledge in [...]

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 [...]

Call for pa­pers: Twelfth Nordic Conference on Middle East­ern Stud­ies “The Middle East in Myth and Reality” Reykjavik, Iceland, 22–24 September 2022 The Nordic Society for Middle Eastern [...]

The 2021 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 Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) and the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages at the University of Iceland are inviting scholars to submit panel proposals for [...]

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 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 [...]

    Photos: Sofiya Zahova and Roma school children  The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages is a partner in the newly launched project “Educated Roma women, empowered Roma [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

The Nordand 15 conference, previously scheduled for May 2021, has been rescheduled due to Covid-19 and will take place at the University of Iceland on 25-27 May 2022. A new deadline for proposals [...]

    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 [...]

Faroese linguist, teacher and publisher, Jonhard Mikkelsen, today received the first international prize in the name of Vigdís Finnbogadóttir. He received the prize for his unique contribution [...]

Photograph: Ari Magg Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, former President of Iceland, turns 90 on 15 April, and this year, in June, there are 40 years since her historical election as the first woman [...]

This is a call for papers for the twelveth volume (2020) of Milli mála. The journal welcomes academic articles in the fields of language, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and [...]

A new novel, Bákn, by Gregory Alan Phipps, assistant professor of English Literature at the University of Iceland, has just been released through Kindle Direct Publishing on Amazon.    [...]

All events scheduled by the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages and the Vigdís International Centre for the next days, will be cancelled until further notice due to COVID-19. [...]

Icelandic Online Kids, a new online language course under development within the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of foreign Languages,  recently received a generous grant from the Ministry of [...]

No classes will be taught in Veröld – House of Vigdís on 14 February due to dangerous weather conditions, that have been forcasted by the Icelandic Met Office. The office in Veröld will be [...]

Polish Days will be held in Veröld – House of Vigdís 17-21 February. The events are organized by the Language Centre of the University of Iceland, The Vigdís Institute and International Centre in [...]

Do you want to meet someone who can speak fluently the language you are studying? Do you want to share your native language with someone who wants to master it? Café Lingua – Language [...]

Veröld – House of Vigdís was full of children, teenagers and adults on 18 January, who came to attend the annual Japan Festival of the University of Iceland. This year’s theme were [...]

This is a call for papers for the twelveth volume (2020) of Milli mála. The journal welcomes academic articles in the fields of language, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and [...]

The Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding has recently published the book Languages Open up Worlds – Words for Vigdís. The book is a translation of [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

  World renowned author Ian McEwan became the first recipient of the new Halldór Laxness International Literary Award today. The 15,000 euro prize is awarded to an internationally-recognised [...]

          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 [...]

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 was held in Veröld – House of Vigdís at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík, 15-17 August, [...]

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 [...]

    Roma family in Seyðisfjörður, 1912. Photo by Björn Björnsson. Source: National Musum of Iceland                      Sofiya Zahova, postdoctoral researcher.  Roma in the Centre is an [...]

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 [...]

Representatives from Tokai University in Tokyo, Japan, paid a visit to the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of foreign languages today, in Veröld – House of Vigdís.  Collaboration between [...]

The newest edition of Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institure for foreign languages’ online magazine, Milli mála, has been released and can be accessed here. Milli mála – Journal of Language and [...]

Seminar om hvordan det står til med det nordiske språkfelleskapet – ikke minst på universitetene i Norden. En ny utredning om undervisning av Nordens språk ved universiteter og høyskoler i Norden [...]

To celebrate the United Nations’ Year of Indigenous Langues 2019, Latin American Movie Days have a special focus on the indigenous people and languages of Latin America.

The International Mother Language Day was celebrated in Veröld – House of Vigdís today, 21 February. A big thank you goes to the school children from 3rd and 4th grade of Melaskóli that [...]

Italian movies will be screened in the main auditorium of Veröld – House of Vigdís, 7-28 February.  All are welcome and admission is free.

A bilingual publication of Pablo Neruda’s poetry, Hafið starfar í þögn minni: Þýðingar á ljóðum, has just been released by Háskólaútgáfan publishers. The editor of the book is Hólmfríður [...]

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 [...]

This is a call for papers for the eleventh volume (2019) of Milli mála. The journal welcomes academic articles in the fields of language, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and [...]

   A new book, Narratives of African American Women’s Literary Pragmatism and Creative Democracy, by Gregory Alan Phipps, Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of [...]

Greenlanders had hardly ever been seen in Iceland, but in 1925 just under 90 of them came on a visit to Ísafjörður. This exhibition reveals how this visit had its roots in a quarrel between [...]

The annual report of VIMIUC – Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding has been published and can be downloaded here.  

Grantees with Margareth II Queen of Denmark, representatives from the national museums in Iceland and Denmark, and the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages, rector of the [...]

In this first week of November, working groups of the International Standardization Organization (ISO) dedicated to the coding of languages met in Iceland for the first time. Language codes are [...]

In Other Wor(l)ds is the final seminar of the project Multilingualism and Diversity as a Resource in the Cultural Field, part of Norden 2020. The topics of the seminar are: “How can we [...]

Andrúm studio has been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2019, for their design of Veröld – House of Vigdís. Veröld [...]

The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages and The Nordic House, invite you to a Seminar on the innovation of the Danish New Wave of Cinema. The seminar is a part of a programme [...]

A statement from Sebastian Drude, the Managing Director of The Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding Yesterday evening, the world lost one of its major [...]

Some of the world’s leading experts and scholars on endangered languages, language documentation and language revitalization came together at the FEL Conference XXII – Endangered Languages [...]