Opening Ceremony of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032 in Iceland with the Vigdís Prize Recipients

Opening Ceremony of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032 in Iceland with the Vigdís Prize Recipients

Hátíðarsalur, University of Iceland, Main Building
22 April 2022, 9:00-12:30

Programme:

09:00-10:00     Launch of IDIL2022-2032 in Iceland and an Introduction to The Living Language Lab Exhibition 

• Moderator: Sæunn Stefánsdóttir, Chair of the Icelandic UNESCO Committee
• Tawfik Jelassi, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information
• Áslaug Dóra Eyjólfsdóttir, Secretary of the Icelandic UNESCO Committee
• Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector, University of Iceland
• Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Dean, School of Humanities, University of Iceland
• Ann-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud, Associate Professor of Danish, Chair of Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding
• Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Professor Emerita, Representative of Iceland in the Steering Committee of IDIL 2022-2032 and Director of The Living Language Lab
• Prof Peter K. Austin, SOAS, University of London

10:00-10:30     Break

10:30-12:30     Seminar: Cultural Production and Language Futures: Perspectives from the West
Nordics

• Moderator: Ann-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud, Associate Professor of Danish, Chair of Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding
• Jonhard Mikkelsen, Linguist, teacher, publisher and Vigdís Prize Winner 2020: On Faroese On-line Dictionaries
• Katti Frederiksen, Linguist, poet, writer, publisher, activist and Vigdís Prize Winner 2021: Greenlandic is not for sale!
• Prof Peter K. Austin, SOAS, University of London: Revitalising Indigenous Languages and Cultures: A Global Perspective

12:30             Refreshments in Veröld – House of Vigdís