by Svanhildur Anja Ástþórsdóttir | Oct 16, 2026 | Conferences, News
The EDDA Research Center at the University of Iceland and LSE IDEAS at the London School of Economics host an international conference on the changing world order and its implications for the Arctic and Antarctica. The conference, entitled World Order and Polar...
by Svanhildur Anja Ástþórsdóttir | Mar 19, 2026 | Events, News
Andriy Danylenko, a Professor of Linguistics at Pace University in New York, will give a lecture – on 23 March 2026 – on the vagaries of linguistic “colonization” of Russian-ruled Ukraine from the mid-17th century to 1914. Sponsored by the EDDA Research Center and the...
by Svanhildur Anja Ástþórsdóttir | Oct 22, 2025 | Events, News
EDDA Research Center hosts an open lecture with Nadia Urbinati, Professor at Columbia University, and Cristina Lafont, Professor at Northwestern University, discussing their book The Lottocratic Mentality. The event will take place in Auðarsalur, Veröld – House of...
by Svanhildur Anja Ástþórsdóttir | Aug 29, 2025 | Events, News
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 seminar was sponsored by the EDDA Research Center and the Institute...
by Svanhildur Anja Ástþórsdóttir | Dec 6, 2024 | Academic Forum, News, Public Forum
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...
