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9. September 2024
Icelandic Government Scholarships awarded to twelve students from foreign universities
This year, five new scholarships and seven continuing scholarships were awarded to students at foreign universities to study the BA Programme in Icelandic as a Second Language.
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9. September 2024
The International Summer School in Modern Icelandic Language and Culture held for the 38th time
Thirty students from different parts of the world including Asia, the Americas, Australia, and Europe, came to take part in this four-week intensive programme.
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4. September 2024
Conference on the use and reuse of paper in the pre-industrial world
The conferene was held at the University of Cork on August 27-28.
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26. April 2024
New Geophysics Terminology Collection
The Geophysics Terminology Collection is now online at the Icelandic Term Bank. An accessible bilingual terminology collection for geophysics is an essential resource for students, instructors and professionals in the field.
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20. February 2024
Short Papers from EUROCALL 2023
This volume includes 55 selected short papers delivered at the EUROCALL 2023 Conference.
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16. February 2024
Watermark scanning
Paper from the seventeenth century that was used in Iceland is being investigated as part of a fundamental research project.
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31. January 2024
Snorri Sturluson Fellows
The call for Snorri Sturluson Fellowships for 2024 was announced last July with a deadline of 1 December. The fellows for this year have been announced.
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15. January 2024
New Look for the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
The institute has moved almost entirely into the newly built Edda. It seemed an opportune time for a general redesign of the visual aspects that have come to distinguish the institute.
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Application deadline for Icelandic Government Scholarships
1. December
The Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs awards annually a number of scholarships for BA-studies in Icelandic as a second language at the University of Iceland. The scholarship program is administrated by the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.
Application deadline is December 1st each year.
For further information, please visit this website.
Application deadline for the Snorri Sturluson Fellowships
1. December
Annually, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies invites applications for the Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships. The Snorri Sturluson Fellowships are granted to writers, translators and scholars (not to university students) in the field of humanities, from outside Iceland, to enable them to stay in Iceland for a period of at least three months, in order to improve their knowledge of the Icelandic language, culture and society.
There is a special application form to be used when applying for the Fellowships. Applicants should submit a brief but thorough account of the purpose of their stay in Iceland, specifying period of stay, as well as details of education and publications.
Application deadline is 1st December each year. Application form is available here.
For further information, please contact Branislav Bédi via e-mail: branislav.bedi@arnastofnun.is.
Application Deadline for International Summer School in Icelandic
15. February
The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Iceland, organizes every year an International Summer Course in Modern Icelandic and Icelandic Culture. The course is to be held in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. Classes take place at the University Campus at Suðurgata.
The application deadline is 15 February. Courses begin on 1 July, 2025.
For further details, see the summer school's information page in Icelandic or in English.