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Sun and sand: Icelandic travels to the Canary Islands

By |2021-11-09T12:47:51+00:00November 5th, 2021|

The article "Sun and Sand: Icelandic travels to the Canary Islands" (translation from Icelandic) has been published in the Icelandic peer-reviewed journal Tímarit um viðskipti og efnahagsmál (Research in Applied Business and Economics).  The article is co-authored by Kristín Loftsdóttir, project leader, in collaboration with Auður Arna Arnardóttir, associate professor at the University of Reykjavík, Már [...]

Hvernig sagan birtist í brjóstmyndum

By |2021-11-09T12:48:24+00:00July 6th, 2021|

Raddir margbreytileikans er mannfræðihlaðvarp þar sem rætt er við íslenska mannfræðinga. Í þessum þætti ræðir Kristín Loftsdóttir, prófessor við Háskóla Íslands, um grein sem fjallar um gifsafsteypur og brjóstmyndir frá liðnum tíma sem varðveittar eru á El Museo Canario. Kristín setur þessa safnmuni í sögulegt og pólitískt samhengi nýlendutímans og sýnir hvernig margvísleg söguleg tengsl valds, [...]

Investing in the Future: Post-Crisis Migration Between Spain and Iceland

By |2021-11-09T12:49:01+00:00March 25th, 2021|

The IUAES 2020 congress, Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology, hosted by the Institute for Anthropological Research (CROATIA), took place online from March 9-14, 2021. Kristín Loftsdóttir and her PhD student Sigrún K. Valsdóttir, participated in the panel Imagining Europe - Fantasies Around Migration to Europe, chaired by Sophia Thubauville (Goethe [...]

Racism – in a nutshell

By |2021-11-09T12:49:29+00:00February 19th, 2021|

Kynþáttafordómar - í stuttu máli (e. Racism - in a nutshell), by Kristín Loftsdóttir, has been published in 2021 by Háskólaútgáfan. Not long ago, many in Europe and the United States argued that racism was a thing of the past. Political upheavals and the rise of populist parties in recent years have, in turn, brought [...]

Mobility and Transnational Iceland

By |2021-11-09T12:49:54+00:00January 5th, 2021|

Mobility and Transnational Iceland: Current Transformations and Global Entanglements edited by Kristín Loftsdóttir, Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir and Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, has been published by University of Iceland Press. Iceland has increasingly been tangled in a dense network of various mobilities, leading to the growing transnational character of Icelandic society. This means that Iceland is involved [...]

CERM- Research Project

By |2021-11-09T12:52:13+00:00July 15th, 2020|

CERM - Creating Europe through Racialized Mobilities The research project Creating Europe through Racialized Mobilites - CERM - was launched in 2020 at the University of Iceland. Dr. Kristín Loftsdóttir leads the project, which is supported by funding from Rannis and the University of Iceland research fund. The project examines racism and mobility [...]

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