On Saturday, February 7th, from 1–4 p.m., a symposium on Hafstein Guðmundsson will be held at the National Library and an exhibition about his life's work will be opened.

The exhibition Printing Press Copies will also be opened.

Seminar agenda :

Swan Johannesson
about printing houses in Iceland and an introduction to Hafstein

Bragi Thordarson
at Hafstein in Hólaprent

Thorgeir Baldursson
about Oddi and the collaboration between his father Baldur and Hafsteinn

Throstur Jonsson
about bookbinding studies at Hafstein

Thora Elfa Bjornsson
about a sentence by Hafsteinn Guðmundsson in Hólar

Harald Olafsson
about cooperation with Hafstein and Icelandic national culture

Helgi Grimsson
about the folktales of Sigfús Sigfússon, the last group of folktales

Good
about the modernist Hafstein

Moderator: Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir, National Librarian