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Of Horses and Men Symbolic Value of Horses in Icelandic Art
FILM/SZTUKA/MEDIA „Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies” Nr 6/2020 Mity – stereotypy – uprzedzenia issn 2451-3849 DOI: http://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2020.06.25 Emiliana Konopka http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4527-2689 University of Gdańsk Faculty of Arts Of Horses and Men Symbolic Value of Horses in Icelandic Art O koniach i ludziach. Symboliczne О лошадях и людях. Символическое znaczenie konia w sztuce islandzkiej значение лошади в исландском искусстве Abstrakt Абстракт Konie stanowią jeden z najpopularniejszych Изображение лошадей является одной из tematów w sztuce islandzkiej. Figura konia самых популярных тем в исландском ис- islandzkiego (Icelandera) może być intepre- кусстве. Образ исландской лошади можно towana jako część tożsamości narodowej интерпретировать как элемент националь- Islandczyków: od czasów osiedlenia Islandii, ного самосознания исландцев: начиная konie były obecne podczas budowania pań- с времен заселения Исландии лошади stwa oraz tworzenia narodu. Stąd poniższy участвовали в строительстве государства tekst przedstawia symboliczne znaczenie ko- и формировании общества. В статье автор nia w Islandii poprzez przyjrzenie się dwóm иллюстрирует символическое значения ло- strefom: sacrum (wierzenia oraz mitologia шади в Исландии, ссылаясь на две сферы: nordycka) i profanum (praca, życie codzien- священную (верования и скандинавская ne). Motyw konia rozpatrywany jest tutaj мифология) и светскую (труд, повседнев- zarówno w tradycyjnych przedstawieniach ная жизнь). Мотив лошади рассматрива- (w sztuce i literaturze), jak również we współ- ется как в традиционных представлениях czesnej narracji sztuk wizualnych (malarstwa (искусство и литература), так и в современ- i filmu). Wywód oparty jest na (ko)relacji ko- ном повествовании изобразительного ис- nia i człowieka w Islandii, ze szczególnym кусства (живопись и кино). -
Quality Board for Icelandic Higher Education Annual Report 2020
Quality Board for Icelandic Higher Education Annual Report 2020 March 2021 Table of contents ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................................................................... 3 Mission and principles ..................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 5 The strategy and the rolling action plan ........................................................................................... 6 QEF2 ................................................................................................................................................ 6 Specially commissioned work ........................................................................................................... 8 The Research Evaluation Advisory Committee (REAC) ...................................................................... 9 Communicating with the sector and partners in Iceland and abroad ................................................ 9 Annex 1: Quality Board Membership ............................................................................................. 12 Annex 2: Research Evaluation Advisory Committee Membership ................................................... 12 Annex 3: Quality Council ............................................................................................................... -
Curriculum Vitae Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae Embla Eir Oddsdóttir Email: [email protected] Mobile phone: +354 864 5979 Personal information Citizenship: Icelandic Born: 31.12.1968 Children: Son Robert Tandri Francis, born 1992 Languages: Icelandic, fluent English, medium Danish, elementary Spanish & French Professional activities January 2013 – Director, Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network (current) January 2016 Lecturing and supervision Course: Introduction to the Circumpolar World, University of Akureyri. (current) August 2015 Western Kentucky University Adjunct Professor of Geography and Environmental Science Unspecified date National Science Foundation Served as research applications´ reviewer on three panels with the National Science Foundation (panel and dates confidential) January 2014 University of Akureyri Supervision and lecturing - in collboration with Tom Barry, Executive Director of the Arctic Council Working Group CAFF (Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna) – a course on Environmental Governance in the Arctic. The Polar Law MA program. February 2013 Lecturing on ´Socio- economic impacts of Global Change in the Arctic´ & ´Shipping and extraction of resources, perception and resilience´ Peoples and Cultures of the Circumpolar North University of Akureyri graduate course, Polar Law. Oct – Dec 2012 Northern Research Forum and University of Akureyri, special project 1 University of Akureyri et. al multi-partner grant application for the funding of the development and implementation of a Knowledge and Research Centre ; Integration of Opportunities and Sustainable Development ; Cooperation, coordination and preparation of an application for a grant from the European Commission under the IPA call (Instrument for Pre-Accession; preparing implementation of structural funds in Iceland). Jan – Dec 2012 Acting Director of the Northern Research Forum. Jan11 – Dec 2013 Chairman of Preparatory Board of Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network and project manager of preparatory phase. -
NEWSLETTER ICELAND-US FULBRIGHT COMMISSION Issue 12
NEWSLETTER ICELAND-US FULBRIGHT COMMISSION Issue 12 Newsletter Iceland-US Fulbright Commission ICELANDIC GRANTEES WITH FULBRIGHT BOARD MEMBERS AT THE US EMBASSY SEPTEMBER 2018 VISITING UNIVERSITIES AROUND ICELAND With a little help from our friends Message from Executive Director Belinda Theriault Dear Fulbrighters and friends of Fulbright, Iceland-NSF partnership. Chargé d´Affaires Hreinn Pálsson hosted the lunch at the I want to use this opportunity to give special Ambassador´s residence on a beautiful day in thanks to Anna Kerttula, who recently retired June of this year. This was a welcome ED visit to the Agricultural University from NSF, where she was Program Director of opportunity to thank our partners at NSF, not the Arctic Social Sciences Program. Anna and I least Anna for all her efforts over the past The Commission works to ensure that all collaborated to start the partnership between years and our more recent partner in cyber- universities in Iceland are aware of Fulbright the Fulbright Commission in Iceland and NSF security, Ralph Wachter. opportunities and to create a level playing to start the Fulbright-NSF Arctic Research We have had a busy spring and summer. A field. To this end the ED visits all universities Scholar Program. Without Anna´s commit- number of grantees and specialists were here in the fall and gives presentations both for ment, this project would never have gotten off through the summer. In fact, there was never students and faculty, where she discusses the ground, nor would it be the success that it a time during the past years that we did not Fulbright opportunities as well as study in the is. -
2016 Arctic Circle Assembly Program
2016 ARCTIC CIRCLE ASSEMBLY PROGRAM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 10:00 – 20:00 REGISTRATION Location: Harpa 09:00 – 12:00 PRE-EVENT – 2nd ANNUAL AMBASSADORIAL PANEL ON THE ARCTIC HIGH SEAS Location: Reykjavík University, Nauthólsvík, Room V102 Organized by Pan-Arctic Options and Reykjavík University OPENING Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Chairman Arctic Circle PANELISTS Ari Kristinn Jónsson, Rector, Reykjavik University Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Special Envoy on Ocean Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland Robert Cushman Barber, Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Iceland Paul Arthur Berkman, Professor of Practice in Science Diplomacy, Tufts University; Director, Arctic Futures Initiative, International Institute for 1 Applied Systems Analyses Herbert Beck, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Republic of Iceland Hannu Halinen, Former Ambassador of the Republic of Finland to the Arctic Bosse Hedberg, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Republic of Iceland Cecilie Landsverk, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway to the Republic of Iceland Laurent Mayet, Deputy Ambassador for the Polar Regions, Republic of France Michael Nevin, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Republic of Iceland Bob Paquin, Head of Canadian International Artic Centre Anton Vasiliev, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Iceland Weidong Zhang, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Iceland MODERATOR: Þórdís