- What changes in education can we expect in the next few years or decades and what effect might these changes have on teaching and learning?
- Are portmanteau words frequent in Icelandic?
- Is there some way to predict the future?
- When were rats first known in Iceland?
- Do elves exist?
- SVG og PNG myndir test?
- Why are people in Iceland not named after fish like Bleikja (arctic char) or Urriði (trout)?
- Why do male last names in Icelandic end with -son instead of -sonur?
- When did the first Icelandic mass medium come into existence, and when was it launched?
- Did Icelandic outlaws live alone in the mountains or did they gather into bands? Were people generally frightened of them?
After the gold rush
Deadline for submission of abstracts was February 25th 2010
Keynote speakers
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Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík will host a conference on the current financial crisis May 27th-28th, 2010.
The conference will emphasize both global and local aspects of the current financial crisis, as well as their intersection. Furthermore, we will be asking how the current crisis compares historically with other such events, and how different crises connect to each other.
Keynote speakers:
- Fantu Cheru, Professor Emeritus and Research Director, the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.
- Karin Ho, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The University of Minnesota, US
- Stefán Ólafsson, Professor of Sociology, University of Iceland.
- Kathryn L. Norsworthy, Professor of Counseling Psychology, Rollins College in Florida, US
Please see the following message from the Icelandic Tourist Board for updates and information on the volcanic activities in Iceland