Presentations

Selected lectures and academic talks

• Weaponization of Conspiracy Theories in Populist Politics
  Presentation at PACT project conference, Populism and Conspiracy Theories in the Americas. University of Tuebingen, 16 September 2022

• Appeasing the angry masses? Deliberation in Wake of Crisis — Iceland, Ireland, Chile
  Conference proceeding. “Future of Europe in Debate: Insights from a Deliberative Democracy Perspective”. Held by Foster Europe on September 9 2022, at Diplomatische Akademie Wien-Vienna School of International Studies.

• Iceland & Ireland: Lessons from two island nations
  Presentation at the Final Conference of the COST ACTION 17135 on Constitution-making and deliberative democracy. Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. 9 September 2022

• Stjórnarskrárstund í kjölfar krísu – lærdómar af þátttöku borgara við stjórnlagagerð á Íslandi og Írlandi.
  Ráðstefna Félags stjórnmálafræðinga, Félagsfræðingafélags Íslands og Stofnunar stjórnsýslufræða og stjórnmála. Háskóli Íslands 25 ágúst, 2022

• Fourth Wave of Neo-Nationalism Rising?
  Presentation at the 28th International Conference of Europeanists, University Institute of Lisbon. 1 July 2022

• Women in Politics
  Presentation at the 28th International Conference of Europeanists, University Institute of Lisbon. 30 June 2022

• Vopnvæðing samsæriskenninga
  Erindi á málstofu Háskólans á Bifröst í samstarfi við Blaðamannafélag Íslands og Fjölmiðlanefnd. Upplýsingaóreiða á ófriðartímum. Reykjavík 18 maí 2022

• Lýðræði, valdboðshyggja, popúlismi, samsæriskenningar og loftslagsbreytingar
  Fyrirlestur á málstofu. Vísindanefnd um loftslagsbreytingar. 17 maí 2022

• Constituting Deliberative Democracy: The Cases of Iceland, Ireland, Chile and the European Union
  Conference presentation. Supranational Democracy Dialogue. Hosted by University of Salento in the Castello Svevo in Brindisi, Italy. 7 May 2022

• Three Cases of Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Wake of Crisis: Iceland, Ireland, and Chile.
  Presentation at CONSTDELIB workshop. Hosted by Foster Europe in the Esterhasy Palace, Eisenstadt, Austria. 28 April 2

• Neo-Nationalism and the politics of misinformation
  Keynote presentation at the Policy Futures International Webinar. University of Aarhus, 29 October 2021
• Þjóðarávarpið: popúlísk þjóðernishyggja í hálfa öld
  Erindi á Þjóðarspegli Háskóla Íslands, 29. október 2021
• Hin frjóa fræðivera
  Erindi á afmælismálþingi til heiðurs Gests Guðmundssonar sjötugum. Háskóli Íslands. 28. október 2021
• Nýþjóðernishyggja í hálfa öld
  Erindi á ráðstefnu Reykjavíkurborgar. Populism and Civic Engagement. Borgarbókasafnið, Menningarhús Gerðubergi. 26 október 2021
• Nordic Populist Nationalism
  Presentation at Faculty of Law, University of Valencia, Spain. Presented in the project: Democracias en la encrucijada. Populismo, autoritarismo, transparencia y supervivencia democrática. 18 October 2021
• Role of conspiracy theories in populist politics
  Conference presentation. Disinformation in memory politics. European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS). 12. May, 2021. Warsaw, Poland.
• Triangluar relationship between populism, conspiracy theories and fake news
  Media and misinformation, knowledge resistance program, external workshop. 13. April 2021. University of Gothenburg

• The Icelandic Deliberative Constitutional Process – lessons for Chile
  Keynote presentation. Workshop in the Deliberative Constitutional Process. Hosted by Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. See on Conexto.
• Falsfréttir og popúlísk pólitík
  Presentation at the Icelandic Science Web Anniversary Conference. 7. February 2020

• The Eurabia Conspiracy Theory
  Conference presentation. COMPACT Network final conference. Charles University, Prague. 21 September 2019.
• The People against The People: Three Waves of Nationalist Populism since the Second World War
  Conference presentation. Cultures of Populism. Witswatersrand University. Johannesburg, South Africa. 13. July, 2019
• From Social Liberalism to Danish Values
  Presentation in a seminar on the Danish general elections. The Nordic House. Reykjavik. 29. May 2019.
• Migration and Dangerous Outsiders
  Conference presentation. Cost Action network on Comparing Conspiracy Theories held at the University of Huelva, Spain on 23. May 2019.
• Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Populism
  Round table discussions at the DEMOS think-tank in London. 2. May 2019.
• The People against The People: Three waves of Nationalist Populism since WWII
  Keynote lecture. Rethinking Politics in Organisation. Copenhagen Business School (CBS). 28. March 2019.
• Iceland’s Post-Crisis Constitutional Process
  Conference presentation. Remaking the UK Constitution. Bonavero Institute, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK. 23. February, 2019. [Slides]
• Citizens Assemblies Vs. Populism: Two contradictory responses to Crisis of Democracy – and the Case of Iceland
  Conference presentation. Democracy in Crisis. European Public Law Organisation, Athens, Greece. 31. January 2019

• Sovereignty and its meaning in a new century [Fullveldið og merking þess á nýrri öld]
  Presentation at the 100 years celebration conference of the Icelandic Science Society. Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavik, 1. December 2018.
• Populism and Political Conspiracy Theories [Popúlismi og samsæriskenningar stjórnmála]
  Presentation at Þjóðarspegillinn [Annual conference of Icelandic Social Sciences]. Univeristy of Iceland. 26. October, 2018.
• Anti-Immigrant CT’s in the Nordic region
  Presentation at COMPACT Cost action conference in Dubrovnik. 19. October, 2018.
• Collaborative law – The case of the Icelandic Constitution after the 2008 crisis
  Smart Citizenship Academy. Nova School of Business and Economics. 12. October 2018
• Conspiracy & Populism – The Politics of Misinformation
  Book launch event. Icelands National Museum. Reykjavik 4. October 2018
• Samsæriskenningar og falsfréttir stjórnmála
  Conference of the Reykjavik Academy on Reykjavik’s Cultural Night, 18. August 2018.
• Conspiracy Theories and Populism
  Plenary presentation. Conference of the Cost action, Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories. Hotel de Bilderberg, Netherlands, 25. May, 2018
• Nationalist Populism and challenges to Liberal Democracy 
  Presentation at the conference Supranational Democracy Dialogue at University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, 27. April 2018.
• Erosion of Liberal / Democracy
  Presentation at the conference Alþjóðasamvinna á krossgötum. University of Iceland. 18. April 2018.

• Þjóðernispopúlismi okkar daga
  Málþing um þjóðernisstefnu. Siðmennt. Reykjavik, 14. október 2017
• Boom, Bust & Recovery
  Presentation at Copenhagen Business School. Seminar hosted by AlterEcos: Exploring Alternatives. 19. September, 2017
• Disrupting the Trust – Conspiracy Theories of Right-Wing Populists in Europe and the Fear of Islamist Occupation
  Presentation at Cost Action Conference, COMPACT, University of Tubingen, 29. July, 2017
• Populism in Scandinavia and in Iceland
  Nordisk Forum. Reykjavik. 28. July, 2017
• Participatory Constitutional Deliberation in the Wake of the Crisis
  Presentation at A Congress on Iceland’s Democracy. Berkeley Law Department, University of California. 3. June, 2017
• Populism in Politics and Globalisation; threats to democracy
  Conference of the The Nordic Association in Reykjanesbær. 19 May, 2017
• VIGDÍS & JÓHANNA – Role of Women in Icelandic Politics and International Relations
  Presentation at the EUSA conference. Miami, Florida on 4. May, 2017
• Roundtable book-discussion on Nordic Nationalism and Right-Wing Populist Politics
  Reading group. Conference of the Cost action, Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories. University of Turin, Italy, 23. March, 2017
• Lessons from the Trump Election?
  Plenary roundtable. Conference of the Cost action, Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories. University of Turin, Italy, 23. March 2017
• Anti-immigration politics in the Nordic countries
  Network of Mobilities and Transnational Iceland. University of Iceland, 14th March 2017
• Launch presentation for Nordic Nationalism and Right-Wing Populist Politics
  Reykjavik: Nordic House. 20th January 2017

• Finding the winning formula of Nordic nationalist populism
  Þjóðarspegillinn. Reykjavik. University of Iceland. 28. October, 2016
• Comparing Nationalist Populism in the Nordic Countries
  Conference presentation. IPSA World Congress. Poznan, Polland, 26. July 2016
• Key note on Nordic Nationalism and Right Wing Populist Politics
  Key note lecture. Icelandic Political Science Association Annual Conference, 2016
  University of Iceland, 16. June 2016
• BREXIT – effects on Europe, effects on Iceland
  Open lecture at University of Iceland, 20. May 2016
• The Icesave dispute
  Conference presentation: “No-one is an Island”. University of Akureyri. March 19. 2016
• Tillaga stjórnarskrárnefndar um þjóðaratkvæðagreiðslur – Virk þátttaka almennings?
  Seminar hosted by University of Iceland Law Institute. Reykjavik 16. March 2016

• Citizen Assemblies in Response to Crisis of Democratic Representation
  Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Moscow, June 2nd 2015
• Iceland: A Post-Colonial Sovereignty Project
  Paper presentation in Sovereignty Games panel. At academic journal Cooperation and Conflict 50th anniversary Symposium: “The Past, Present and Future of Nordic IR-Research”
  Lund University, Sweden, 7th and 8th of May 2015.

• Citizen assemblies and crisis of democratic representation: The case of Iceland
  Work shop proceeding. Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe. Université Catholique de Louvain. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. 23. October 2014
• Iceland and the International Financial Crisis: Boom, Bust and Recovery
  Open lecture. Université Catholique de Louvain. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. 23. October 2014
• Iceland and the International Financial Crisis: Boom, Bust and Recovery
  Reykjavik City Council. 9. October 2014
• EUKRAINE
  Conference presentation. Reykjavik International Film Festival. Reykjavik: Nordic House. 1. October 2014
• The Icesave dispute — resolving international dispute in national referendums
  Conference presentation. ECPR general conference. Glasgow University. 4. September 2014
• Participatory democracy in Europe
  Conference presentation at ITS RIO event. Democracy & Technology Expert Meeting. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 29. August 2014
• Integrated outsiders – ideas of democracy and eurozone crisis in Iceland and Norway
  Presentation together with dr. Lise Rye at the 7th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics (SGEU_ECPR), Leiden University campus in The Hague, Netherlands. 5. June 2014
• Togstreita íslenskra stjórnmála (e. Internal tension of Icelandic politics)
  Presentation to Association of Public Administrators. Reykjavik: University of Iceland. 22. May 2014
• Iceland and the international financial crisis
  Presentation to group of Norwegian rectors. Reykjavik: Bifröst University. 8. May 2014
• Ísland og alþjóðlega fjármálakrísan (e. Iceland and the International Financial Crisis).
  Presentation to Association of Registered Icelandic Accountants. Reykjavik: Grand Hotel. 7. May 2014
• Citizens Assemblies in response to crisis of democratic representation: The Case of Iceland
  Conference presentation, presented in workshop Economic Recession, Democratic Recession? at ECPR joint sessions in Salamanca, Spain, April 11. 2014
• Iceland and the International Financial Crisis: Boom, Bust & Recovery
  Conference presentation, presented at 21st International Conference of Council for European Studies. Washington DC, 15. March 2014
• Citizens Assemblies and crisis of democratic representation: The case of Iceland
  Conference presentation. Democracy, Rights and Reason(s). Westminister University. 13. – 14. February 2014
• Iceland and the International Financial Crisis: Boom, Bust & Recovery
  Book launch presentation. Bifrost University, Reykjavik. 6. February 2014

• The Icesave dispute: Study into crisis of diplomacy and international legality of the financial sector during the Credit Crunch
  Conference presentation, presented at COST action 1003 conference: Globalization and the Boundaries of Legality. Hosted by Erfurt University in Weimar, Germany, December 11.–13. 2013
• Iceland and the International Financial Crisis: Boom, Bust & Recovery
  Conference presentation. Research in Social Science XIV. University of Iceland. October 25th 2013
• Hrun! Hvaða hrun? – áhrif efnahagsmála á sjálfsmynd þjóðar (og öfugt)
  Conference presentation. Icelandic History Association and the Reykjavik Academy. Reykjavik. October 5th 2013
• Crisis in Representation and Democracy: Is participatory democracy the answer?
  Conference on Crisis in Representation and Democracy, hosted by the Governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. September 6th 2013.
• Vigdís & Jóhanna – Role of Women in Icelandic Politics and Foreign Relations
  Conference proceeding. Role of Women in International Relations Conference. Italian Cultural Institution. Brussels. July 11th 2013.
• Public Participation in Iceland’s Constitutional Project
  Presentation at Brazils Presidents Palace in Brasilía City. May 27th, 2013
• Iceland and the International Financial Crisis: Boom, Bust & Recovery
  Conference proceeding. National Conference in Social Sciences. Bifröst University. May 3d, 2013
• Reconstituting Iceland
  Conference proceeding. Political Legitimacy and the Paradox of Regulation. Leiden University, January 25th, 2013.

• Deliberation in practice: the use of mini-public’s in contemporary democracies
  Round table discussions. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Organized by University College, Dublin, November 2nd, 2012
• The new Icelandic constitution
  Icelandic association of Political Science. University of Iceland, Reykjavik. October 15th 2012
• The new Icelandic constitution
  Bifröst University, Iceland. October 10th 2012
• The 2011 Constitutional Council
  Presentation at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. University of Iceland. June 26^th 2012
• Iceland’s nationalism and the European connection
  Presentation at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. University of Iceland. June 26^th 2012
• Iceland’s new constitution
  Presentation to delegation of Finish local authorites at Iceland’s Prime Ministry. Reykjavik, June 25^th 2012
• Iceland, EEA and EU‘s regional policy
  Presentation at the EFTA states local forum. In Isafjordur, Iceland. May 21^st 2012
• Iceland, EU, EEA, the financial crisis and democracy
  Work shop proceeding. Distant Voices project. Paris: The Norwegian Research Centre in Paris. April 26-27, 2012

• Alhrun íslenskra stjórnmála. (e. Collapse of Icelandic politics)
  Bifrost University. December 13, 2011
• Sjópróf á strandstað fjölmenningarstefnunnar. (e. Multiculturalism in Europe)
  Lecture at the conference Tearing Down the Walls (e. Brjótum múra) in Akranes, Iceland. November 4^th 2011
• Role of the republic President in the new draft constitution
  Intervention and panel discussions. Law department seminar. University of Iceland. November 4^th 2011
• A reluctant participant – the root‘s to Iceland‘s EU relations
  Work shop proceeding. European Integration: ideas of Europe in trans- and supranational communities. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Trondheim 9-10 September 2011.
• Imagined Recovery: Justificatory Regimes Following the Crash of Icelandic Viking Capitalism.
  Conference proceeding. ECPR general conference. Reykjavik: University of Iceland. August 25^th, 2011. [With Berry, David and Belfrage, Claes]
• Iceland’s imagined recovery
  Conference proceeding. Crisis and Renewal conference. Reykjavik: University of Iceland. June 3d 2011
• Iceland’s National Discourse and the EU – a Reluctant Participant
  Conference proceeding. Micropolities in the Margins of Europe – Postcolonial Sovereignty Games (MEPS). Nuuk: University of Greenland. April 20-21 2011
• Iceland’s EU application
• Open lecture at Oslo University. [Auditorium 4 – SV-fakultetet]. January 21st 2011
• Europe’s Half Way House: Iceland and the EEA 1994-2010
  Workshop lecture. Europautredningen. Voksenåsen Conference Centre. Oslo. January 20th 2011
• Icelandic Financial Crisis: From Independence Struggle to Viking Capitalism
  Conference proceeding. SGIR 7th Pan-European International Relations Conference. ECPR conference in Stockholm. September 9-11, 2010. [With Berry, David and Belfrage, Claes]
• Imagined Recovery: The Justification of Worth in the Icelandic Financial Crisis
  Conference proceeding. “Imagined Recovery”: Cultural Political Economy and the 2007-2009 Finance-Led Crisis. Workshop at Swansea University. June 4th 2010. [With Berry, David and Belfrage, Claes]
• The root’s to Iceland’s foreign relations
  Conference proceeding. Microstates in the margins of Europe: Postcolonial Sovereignty games. Centre for European Studies. Copenhagen University. May 31st 2010
• Why Iceland has been reluctant to join the EU
  Keynote speech in Eduskunta [Finish parliament]. Helsinki. May 6th 2010
• Yfirburðaþjóðin og umsátrið. (e. Influence of national sentiments on decision making in Icelandic politics)
  Reykjavik University and University of Akureyri. April 24^th and 25^th 2010
• Sense of Sovereignty: Iceland, a reluctant participant in the European project
  Conference presentation. Globalization and European integration – the nature of the beast. Warwick University. June 6th 2009
• The sovereign state – Iceland and the EU
  Presentation at SENT project conference. University Fernando Pessoa. Oporto April 28. 2009
• Is Iceland Sovereign?
  Conference proceeding. University of Akureyri. December 1^st 2008
• Guide for adopting the euro
  Efling [labor union]. October 31^st 2008
• The Euro way
  Conference proceeding. [Framtíð Ísland í samfélagi þjóðanna]. University of Iceland, Reykjavik University and Bifrost University. Hosted in the Nordic House. October 28^th
• Automatic euroization
  Presentation in a conference held by the Ministry of commerce on September 23, 2008.
• It‘s cold up north
  Presentation at the Global International Studies Conference in Ljubljana, July 23–27, 2008
• What about the euro?
  Open lecture organized by Bifrost University in Grand hotel Reykjavik.  Mars 12, 2008
• Is Iceland in Europe?
  Open lecture. Association of Icelandic historians. National museum. September 11 2007
• Why is Iceland reluctant in international cooperation?
  The society of political scientists. Þjóðminjasafninu 27. apríl 2007
• Why do we fair immigrants?
  Department of humanities. University of Iceland. March 10^th 2007
• Open land
  Groska festival. Reykjavík. January 20^th 2006
• The contractor in Brussels
  Conference proceedings. Bifrost University. November 15^th 2006
• Iceland pays for EUs enlargement
  Conference proceedings. University of Iceland. [Þjóðarspegillinn] October 27^th 2006
• Unilateral Euroization
  Lecture at yearly meeting of the Icelandic Labor Association (ASÍ). October 26^th 2006
• Dynamics of the European union
  Lecture at Lund University, Sweden. August 2nd 2006
• Iceland and the European project
  Lecture at summer course on small states. University of Iceland. 30. June 2006
• Draumalandið Litháen
  Erindi á málþinginu Draumar og martraðir. Bifröst May 13^th 2006
• Iceland and the EU
  Seminar lecture. Zemaitijos College. Rietavas, Lithuania. May 2006
• Sleeping beauty
  Reykjavik academy conference on immigration. Reykjavik. April 8^th 2006
• Geta Íslendingar orðið tvítýngdi?
  Erindi á ráðstefnu um stöðu erlendra mála í hátíðarsal HÍ March 22^nd 2006
• Why EEA but not EU?
  Seminar organized by PhD-students within the Social science department. University of Iceland. Mars 14. 2006
• Deep inside the European project
  Conference proceedings. University of Iceland. [Þjóðarspegillinn] October 28^th 2005
• EUs påvirkning på islandsk forvaltning
  Erindi á RAKO ráðstefnu norrænna fjármálaráðuneyta í Turku August 31^st 2005
• Iceland in European integration
  Summer course on small states in Europe. University of Iceland. June 27. 2005
• Icelandic economy and the EU
  Conference proceedings. University of Iceland. [Þjóðarspegillinn] March 31^st 2005
• Political appointments
  Political Science Association. Reykjavik. March 18^th mars 2005