Category Archives: Events

Allocating fishing rights: catch history or auctions?

RNH is organising, with others, an international conference in the meeting hall of the National Museum Monday 29 August between 14 and 17 on a topic hotly debated in Iceland: Two ways of allocating fishing rights, on the basis of … Continue reading

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Publication Party: Books on the Baltics

The Icelandic Public Book Club (Almenna bokafelagid) hosts, with the honorary consuls in Reykjavik of the three Baltic republics, a meeting and a publication party Friday 26 August 2016 between 17 and 19 at Litlatorg in the University of Iceland. … Continue reading

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Putin’s Enemy No. 1 Gives a Talk

US investor and writer Bill Browder gives a talk in the Festivities Hall of the University of Iceland Friday 20 November 2015 at 12–13, sponsored by RNH, the Public Book Club (Almenna bokafelagid) and the Institute of International Affairs at … Continue reading

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Online Anti-Totalitarian Literature

Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, RNH Academic Director, attends the annual meeting of the European Platform of Memory and Conscience in Wroclaw, Poland, 17–19 November 2015. At the meeting he gives a presentation on a joint project of RNH and AECR, … Continue reading

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The Oddsson Era

Three talks are scheduled at a meeting of Politica, the Association of Politics Students at the University of Iceland, Thursday 12 November 2015 at 19.30 in Room O-101 in Oddi, the Social Sciences House, on “The Oddsson Era”: Mayor of … Continue reading

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Creative Joy instead of Parasitical Existence

In a lecture Thursday 5 November 2015, at 16.30 in Oddi House, Room O-101, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson analyses and criticises the moral defence of capitalism provided by Ayn Rand, the most influential female philosopher ever. Admission is free and … Continue reading

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