Women leaders, including two women of indigenous and minority backgrounds with long-term experience in community and organisational leadership, came together in a conversation at the seminar The Voices and Languages of Indigenous and Minority Communities: What Can Women Leaders Do?
To celebrate UNESCO’s World Day of Romani Language, Romani language, culture, and human rights experts spoke at the seminar Romani histories and prospects: What can we learn from a minority language and culture?, held in Veröld – House of 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 in Reykjavík, as a contribution to the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022-2032).
The Minister of Culture and Business Affairs, Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir, visited the Vigdís Institute and International Centre in Veröld – House of Vigdís today.
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 cultures.
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 22nd-24th September.
Exhibition on the presidency of Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is to be opened in the Telegram Centre next to Veröld.
The European Day of Languages was celebrated in Veröld – House of Vigdís today.
The international conference Generation Asia 2022 was held in Veröld – House of Vigdís 22-26 Augst 2022.
The EUROCALL 2022 Conference was held online on 16-19 August 2022.
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 – House of Vigdís on 29 April 2022.
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.