On Saturday, October 18, Dr. Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Dean of the School of Humanities and professor of social history at the University of Iceland, will offer a lecture on “Icelandic emigration to the Americas, 1870–1914, seen from a Nordic comparative perspective.” This event will also take place at the University of Victoria’s Clearihue A207 at 2:00 p.m...

Elin Chambers (née Josephson) and her son Arni visited Iceland in the summer of 2024 when Arni ran in the Reykjavík Marathon’s Half Marathon, participating in Culture Night, two guided tours in Southwest Iceland, and a mother-and-son journey to North Iceland, visiting with family and friends along the way. For Elin, it was “a dream come true,” and for Arni, “the trip of a lifetime.” For the rest of us, their story reads as nothing less than a delightful adventure...

“A good university is one of the pillars needed to support a strong, sovereign society,” maintains Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, former president of Iceland. “This we can see here in the Faroe Islands. This you know better than I do, and this is certainly the case in the recent history of this small nation in the North Atlantic.” Guðni was speaking in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the University of the Faroe Islands (Fróðskaparsetur Føroya) in September...