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Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson gave a lecture at the University of Iceland 26 October 2012 on “What Political Economy Can Tell Us About Icelandic Money Smell”. This is the smell emitted by fish processing plants in fishing villages in Iceland. Professor Gissurarson … Continue reading →

Norwegian journalist Jan Arild Snoen gave a talk about the bias against America in European media at a meeting organised by RNH and IABF — the Icelandic-American Business Forum — at the University of Iceland 15 October 2012. Snoen pointed … Continue reading →

Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson read a paper on “Poverty in Iceland 1991–2004” at a meeting of the Association of Icelandic Historians 9 October 2012. There he analysed claims by Professor Stefan Olafsson that poverty had been more extensive in Iceland … Continue reading →

RNH organised an international  conference on “Fisheries: Sustainable and Profitable” Saturday 6 October 2012 at the University of Iceland, a part of the joint RNH-AECR project “Europe, Iceland and the Future of Capitalism”. Keynote speakers included the chief fisheries specialists … Continue reading →

Australian writer Anna Funder gave a talk 24 September 2012 at a meeting arranged by the Vigdis Finnbogadottir Institute of Foreign Languages at the University of Iceland, on both her book on daily life in East Germany, Stasiland, and her new … Continue reading →

Five lectures were given at an international conference at the University of Iceland on “Europe of the Victims: Remembering Communism” 22 September 2012. In his keynote paper, Professor Stéphane Courtois, the editor of the Black Book of Communism, discussed the difficulties … Continue reading →