News
19 December 2024
Eda Ayaydin will defend her PhD entitled "Performing and Reconstructing Sovereignty: Norwegian-Russian Relations in Contemporary Arctic Geopolitics" on Friday, December 20, 2024, at UVSQ/University Paris-Saclay.
16 December 2024
The editorial committee invites scientific articles, pieces of creative writing, interview, book review or other writings about the Arctic to be submitted to the international, peer-reviewed journal Inter-Nord 24. Deadline: 31 March 2025.
10 December 2024
The Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ launches a new guest lecture series dedicated to Arctic and Nordic studies. Discover the guest lectures for 2024/2025 with researchers and specialists from Sápmi, Quebec/ Canada, Estonia and France.
9 December 2024
Pigga Keskitalo, Full Professor of education at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi (Finland) and the Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Kautokeino (Norway) and adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki will inaugurate the Jean Malaurie guest lecture series at MIARC on 12 December 2024.
4 December 2024
Jan Borm, director of the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ will deliver the guest lecture as part of the Fridays brown bag lecture series at the OVSQ/ University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelins on 6 December 2024, 12:30-13:30.
2 December 2024
Jan Borm, director of the Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ, will deliver a guest lecture in the research seminar at the Centre des savoirs sur le politique : recherches et analyses (CESPRA), EHESS : École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France) on 4 December 2024.
14 November 2024
From 13 to 23 November 2024, Le Mouffetard, France’s National Marionette Theater in Paris, is exhibiting a panorama of pastels by Jean Malaurie to coincide with the show ‘Racontars arctiques, chroniques rocambolesques de la banquise’ (‘Arctic tales – fantastic chronicles from the ice pack’), adapted from the writings of Danish author Jørn Riel (1931-2023) by the Quebec collective La Ruée vers l'or.
7 November 2024
The Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ (MIARC) is organising an international and interdisciplinary conference “The mineral Arctic: imagination, communication and practices” in association with UArctic Thematic Network Arctic Cultures and History (ARCH) and UArctic Regional Centre for Continental Europe at UVSQ in Versailles on 8-10 Octobre 2025.
26 October 2024
A new UArctic Regional Centre, the UArctic Regional Centre Continental Europe, was established October 17, 2024 in Reykjavík, Iceland.
7 October 2024
Dr Joanna Kodzik, Junior Full Professor at MIARC, has been invited to give a guest lecture and discuss the circulation of knowledge about the Arctic together with the research group KLIMER: Climate, environment and Energy at the University of Oslo (Norway) on Wednesday Oct. 9, 4:15 PM, Håndbiblioteket, Niels Treschows Hus.
26 September 2024
Jan Borm, director of MIARC and UArctic Chair for Arctic Humanities, as well as other MIARC members and colleagues from different countries shared their experience on this year’s UArctic Congress which took place in Bodø, Norway. Watch the videos, one in English and the other in French, made by the communication service of UVSQ on the university’s Youtube channel.
24 September 2024
How has the contact with Europeans impacted health in the Arctic in the past and how do contemporary phenomena like climate change and pandemics affect pubic health up North? These are questions addressed by UArctic Chair of Arctic Humanities Jan Borm (MIARC) and Arja Rautio UArctic Emerita Chair in Arctic Health (University of Oulu) during their guest lectures at the UVSQ’s Faculty of Health within the conference cycle “One Health et Santé globale”.
