Monthly Archives: September 2012

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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Anna Funder: Remembering the Victims

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

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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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Professor Stéphane Courtois: “Much work still to be done”

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

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Professor Oystein Sorensen: Breivik a Neo-Fascist

Professor Oystein Sorensen, of the University of Oslo, gave a lecture at the University of Iceland 21 September 2012 on “The Totalitarian Mindset of Anders Breivik”. Professor Sorensen maintained that the manifesto that Breivik left behind before he engaged in … 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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