Author Archives: HHG

Poverty in Iceland, Tuesday 9 October: 12–13

Tuesday 9 October 2012 the Association of Icelandic Historians holds a lunchtime meeting where Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson of the Politics Department of the University of Iceland will discuss “Poverty in Iceland 1991–2004”. The meeting takes place at the National … Continue reading

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Fisheries Conference, Saturday 6 October: 13–17.35

The next RNH event is an international conference on “Fisheries: Sustainable and Profitable” Saturday 6 October 2012 at the University of Iceland. Keynote speakers include the fisheries specialists of FAO, OECD and the World Bank, and three Icelandic internationally renowned … Continue reading

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Funder on the Totalitarian Experience, Monday 24 September: 12–13

Australian writer Anna Funder gives a lecture at a meeting of the Vigdis Finnbogadottir Institute of Foreign Languages at the University of Iceland Monday 24 September 2012 in Oddi, lecture room O-201 at the University, from 12 to 13. She … Continue reading

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Courtois on Communism, Saturday 22 September: 13–18

RNH holds a conference on “Europe of the Victims: Remembering Communism” Saturday 22 September between 13 and 18 at the University of Iceland, the Natural Science House Askja, N–132. The keynote speaker is Professor Stéphane Courtois, editor and one of … Continue reading

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Walker on Economic Freedom in Iceland, Monday 17 September: 8.30–10.30

The distinguished Canadian economist Dr. Michael Walker, former director of the Fraser Institute, will give a talk Monday 17 September 2012 on economic freedom in Iceland and elsewhere, at a breakfast meeting of the RSE in Grand Hotel, 8.30 to … Continue reading

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Sorensen on Breivik’s Totalitarianism, Friday 21 September, HT-102: 12–13

The next event in the lecture series jointly organised by RNH and AECR, the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists, on “Europe of the Victims”, will be a lecture given by Norwegian historian Dr. Oystein Sorensen on “Anders Breivik’s Totalitarian … Continue reading

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