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Do Children Enjoy Data Protection in a Digital world?

18. October 2019 - 13:00 to 17:15

Aðalbygging

The Conference is a part of the Icelandic Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2019 and is organised in collaboration of the Law Institute of the University of Iceland, The Data Protection Authority, The Judicial Administration and the Ministry of Justice.

 

13:00 Welcoming remarks

Minister of Justice - Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir

13.15-14.45: Session 1- Risks of digitalisation in the administration and the courts

Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, Professor of Law & Informatics, LL.D, Sweden

  • Automated judicial decisions and privacy

Hörður Helgi Helgason, Partner, Landslög law firm, Iceland

  • New threats deriving from digital administration

Jari Råman, deputy data protection ombudsman, Finland

All kinds of everything at the University Researchers' Night

25/09/2019 - 10:27

The Icelandic eagle; sand box experiments with volcanoes and tectonics; the success of the Icelandic national teams in soccer, microorganisms at work in food, healthy diet, democracy in writing constitutions, the effect of smart technology on the Icelandic language, increased sustainability and recycling in textiles, and food security in the world in the world are among the challenges researcher and students at the University of Iceland will tackle during the European Researchers' Night in Laugardagshöll next Saturday, 28 September from 3 - 8 p.m. 

Engineering Research Institute: Monthly Seminar - Benedikt Helgason

30. October 2019 - 12:20 to 13:20

VR-II

Room 148

Engineering Research Institute: Monthly Seminar in VR II, room 148.

Title: Classifying hip fractures in the elderly population using image based computer models.

Speaker: Dr. Benedikt Helgason is a tenured senior scientist at the Institute for Biomechanics, at the ETH-Zurich. He leads a research group that studies Bone Pathologies and Treatments.

New needs and opportunities in foreign language teaching

13. November 2019 - 10:30 to 12:00

Stakkahlíð / Háteigsvegur

Room H-001

The diversification of societies, inclusion of different learners, and globalisation are some of the factors that are changing the platform for foreign language teaching (FLT) in the schools. In this session, we will bring up some of these factors in more detail and discuss the needs and opportunities for new didactical approaches in FLT. We will problematize these situations and discuss what challenges may lie ahead. The changing compositions of pupil groups demand new skills from teachers, including managing diverse learners and differentiating teaching. For example, early teaching of foreign languages has gained popularity in Europe in recent years and Finland will also start this country-wide in January 2020. However, this also brings about needs for teachers’ further education. This session welcomes active participation.

BMC Seminar - Role of ALKBH3 in the regulation of DNA DSB repair

4. April 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00

Læknagarður

room 201

BMC Seminar Thursday 4th of April at 12:00 in room 201 Læknagarður

Speaker: Dr. Þorkell Guðjónsson, senior scientis at Cancer Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Sturlugata 8, Reykjavik.

Title: The role of ALKBH3 in the regulation of DNA double strand break repair

Abstract: From the thousands of DNA lesions encountered daily by the human genome, DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) are considered to be the most cytotoxic. Unrepaired or incorrectly repaired DSB have the potential to alter the content and organization of the genome, which can have life-threatening consequences. ALKBH3 is a dioxygenase with a well-described function in DNA alkylation repair and RNA demethylation. In our previous work we showed clinically relevant epigenetic silencing of ALKBH3 in breast cancer suggesting potential tumor suppressive function.

Ten years on: Reassessing the Stoltenberg report

3. May 2019 - 14:00 to 15:30

The Culture House, Hverfisgata 15

Launch of a New Report: Ten years on: Reassessing the Stoltenberg report

This year marks ten years since the Stoltenberg report was published containing 13 proposals on how to strengthen Nordic cooperation in the foreign and security domain. How important was the Stoltenberg report for boosting Nordic foreign and security policy cooperation? What progress can we observe in the decade that has passed since the report was released?

To commemorate the ten year anniversary of the report the Nordic Foreign Ministers commissioned five Nordic institutes of international affairs to put together a brief report assessing the status of the thirteen proposals today.

We invite you to join us at the launch of the report on Friday May 3, from 14:00 - 15:30 at Safnahúsið/Culture House.

Flowering season becomes shorter in northern ecosystems in warmer climate

28/12/2018 - 09:13

Plants in the Arctic, that normally flower late in summer, respond to climate warming by speeding up the flowering faster than early flowering plants. This, in turn, leads to a shorter overall flowering period, affecting the survival of various species in the area. These results are published in a new scientific article by 38 plant ecologists in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution this December.

Their study is based on up to 20 years of phenological observations of 253 species at 23 sites across the Arctic and alpine tundra world-wide. Among the authors is Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir, Professor of Ecology at the Institute of Life- and Environmental Sciences. She has studied plant responses to climate warming both in Iceland and Svalbard.

Manuscripts of recent centuries

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon and Már Jónsson, professors at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, and Davíð Ólafsson, adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies. 

Archives all over the country contain hidden treasures that could shed light on the lives and history of ordinary Icelanders over the centuries. These documents and manuscripts have provided a solid foundation for the research of a group of scholars and students in the humanities. Their findings have more often than not been published in the series Sýnisbók íslenskrar alþýðumenningar (Anthology of Icelandic Popular Culture), which is published by the University of Iceland Press in collaboration with the Centre for Microhistorical Research at the University of Iceland History Institute. Last year, this series celebrated the 20th anniversary of its first publication. 

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