The EDDA Center at the University of Iceland is an interdisciplinary Center of Excellence in critical contemporary research, with emphasis on (in)equality and difference; the welfare state; societal transitions and transnational politics; and security and development.
Book Publication: Iceland’s Arctic Policies and Shifting Geopolitics
Iceland's Arctic Policies and Shifting Geopolitics: Embellished Promise has been published by Palgrave Macmillian. The book is written by EDDA researcher Valur Ingimundarson. The Arctic has gained increasing importance in international discussions due to climate...
Book Publication: Welfare and the Great Recession
Welfare and the Great Recession: A Comparative Study has been published by Oxford University Press. The book is edited by EDDA researcher Stefán Ólafsson along with Mary Daly, Olli Kangas, and Joakim Palme. The edited volume focuses on the consequences of the European...
EDDA‘s Grant Renewed for Four Years
EDDA is pleased to announce that the board of the Strategic Research Programme for Centres of Excellence and Research Clusters (Rannis) has decided – following a mid-term review – to continue to fund the Center for the next four years. The grant amounts to 35 million...
HÁDEGISFYRIRLESTRAR
Hádegisfyrirlestraröð RIKK er vettvangur kynningar á innlendum og erlendum rannsóknum sem snúa að kvenna- og kynjafræði og margbreytileika. Fyrirlestrarnir eru fluttir í hádeginu á fimmtudögum í samstarfi við Þjóðminjasafn Íslands, í fyrirlestrasal safnsins. Sjá dagskrá
VIÐBURÐIR
RIKK stendur reglulega að ráðstefnum, málþingum og öðrum viðburðum sem tengjast kvenna- og kynjafræðum og margreytileika.
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RANNSÓKNIR & ÚTGÁFA
RIKK í jafnréttisfræðum stendur að og tekur þátt í fjölda rannsóknarverkefna á sviði kvenna- og kynjafræða. Í ritröð stofnunarinnar, Fléttum eru birtar rannsóknir í kvenna- og kynjafræðum.
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FRÉTTIR FRÁ EDDU
A Seminar with Prof. Christopher Clark: The Historiography of the Origins of Wor...
Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, discussed the historiography of the origins of the First World War at the University of Iceland on August 27, 2025. The sem...
IABA World Conference 2024: “Fragmanted Lives”
The EDDA Research Center, in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature, University of Iceland, hosted the IABA (International Auto/Biography) World Conference titled Fragmented Lives. The conference took place on June 12...
ReNEW Conference in Reykjavík
The 2024 ReNEW Conference on the state of the Nordics and their place in the world concluded today in twenty panels, and Nordic political, social, cultural, and economic developments are placed in wide-ranging national, comparative, and transnational...