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The University of Iceland Press recently published a book by Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, The Icelandic Fisheries: Sustainable and Profitable, containing four papers which the author has published in English on the most beneficial utilisation of natural resources such as … Continue reading →

The festivities hall of the University of Iceland was crowded Friday 20 November when US investor Bill Browder told his story at a meeting arranged by RNH, the Public Book Club (Almenna bokafelagid) and the Institute of International Affairs at … Continue reading →

RNH Academic Director Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson gave a talk at the annual conference of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience in Wroclaw City Hall in Poland 17–18 November 2015, describing the  joint project by RNH and AECR, the … Continue reading →

Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, former government minister Ogmundur Jonasson of the Left-Green Party, and Dr Vilhjalmur Egilsson, presently President of Bifrost College and a former Member of Parliament, discussed the David Oddsson Era at a meeting of Politica, the association … Continue reading →

At a meeting organised by the Icelandic Pen Club and the Reykjavik Municipal Libary Saturday 10 October the poet and blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo gave a talk on human rights violations in Cuba. Writer Sjon was in the chair. … Continue reading →

Environmental protection can be reasonable, whereas demands for it have often been characterised by fanaticism and irresponsibility, Professor Rognvaldur Hannesson argued at a conference held in his honour by RNH and the School of Social Sciences and the Economics Faculty … Continue reading →