Edinburgh City of Literature warmly welcomed First Lady of Iceland, Eliza Reid, yesterday with an exchange of culture and history between Reykjavik and partner organisations in the Auld Reekie. 🇮🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Iceland and Scotland are bound by strong historical ties, future interests, and, of course, by friendship. I was pleased to visit Edinburgh to strengthen yet further the relations with our good neighbours. Thank you First Minister Humza Yousaf. Always welcome in Iceland 🇮🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

International Relations #2 - Generous and thoughtful lecture today by Dr Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, President of Iceland President of Iceland, at LLCatEdinburgh The University of Edinburgh (with bonus points for working in The Proclaimers, Big Country & Skálmöld 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤘🇮🇸)

Hugely welcome visit to Scotland by Iceland‘s President Gudni Jóhannesson. Great opportunity to discuss further cultural, economic and regional cooperation between Northern European neighbours.
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How often do you walk past a 1000 year old rune stone?  The answer is every day, if you work or study near the Main Library! Find out more about the rune stone and the album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw (1793-1837) 🔗 libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/diu/2024/04/11…

During a visit to Scotland, President of Iceland, Eliza Reid and Icelandic Minister for Culture Lilja Alfreðsdóttir visited National Library of Scotland to view some of the cultural items from Iceland held in its collection.

150 years since the Icelandic national anthem was composed in Edinburgh, First Minister Humza Yousaf met President of Iceland and Eliza Reid to discuss the strong historic and modern policy links between Scotland and Iceland 🇮🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Looking for something new to watch? 📺

Stolen, the debut feature film from Elle Márjá Eira, arrives on @Netflix today. Based on the novel by Ann-Helén Laestadius, it portrays a young woman’s struggle to defend her Indigenous Sámi heritage

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🇮🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We're excited to share that the President of Iceland, His Excellency Dr Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, is coming to the University. The lecture by President of Iceland examines the power and pitfalls of patriotism in a globalised world.

Book for free here: iceland-the-brave.eventbrite.co.uk/?aff=s

Join us online for the upcoming #Research Seminar from BCLT #Translator in Residence, Kari Dickson: 'Active Listening – Music and Translation'

Wednesday 24 April 2024
4–5.30pm (BST)
#Online , FREE

Find out more & register: uea.ac.uk/web/groups-and…

Edinburgh! Andrzej Tichý will be in conversation with his translator smallnicky this week, where he'll be previewing his forthcoming debut collection of short stories, Purity! 🫧

Attending #assw2024 in Edinburgh? Stop by at the UArctic booth for a chat!

See here for details of our event on Thursday 28 March with Andrzej Tichý and Nichola Smalley, discussing transnational identities and belonging in literature and translation: ed.ac.uk/literatures-la…