News
20 September 2024
The exhibition “Infinite Horizons” features objects, original editions and documents from Jean Malaurie’s Arctic collections. It was opened on the occasion of the inauguration of the refurbished Panhard Pavillon on UVSQ’s science campus in Versailles by Gérard Larcher, President of the French Senate, on September 16, 2024.
30 August 2024
The impact of climate change in Sápmi raises serious concern over One Health issues in the region. The hybrid workshop held in Inari and Kevo Research Station in the Utsjoki Municipality was dedicated to current environmental and public health challenges including cultural and identity issues.
2 July 2024
Olga Lauter, member of MIARC, will defend her PhD thesis entitled Renegotiation of Urban Yup’ik Traditions in Anchorage, Alaska this Friday, July 5, 2024, at 5pm CET.
4 June 2024
The complete bibliography of Professor Jean Malaurie’ s works as well as texts written about and with him had been prepared by Alexandre Delangle (MIARC). It is available on MIARC’s website.
30 May 2024
Eda Ayaydin and Olga Lauter are presenting respectively the results of their research on Arctic geopolitics and introducing their networking activities within USAPECS on 1st June at the Arctic Congress 2024 in Bodø in Norway.
27 May 2024
UArctic Thematic Network ARCH’s session Writing and visualising the Arctic: travel writing, Indigenous life stories and historical sources, 18th-21st century convened by MIARC’ director Jan Borm and Jun.-Prof. Joanna Kodzik will take place at the UArctic Congress 2024 in Bodø, Norway.
17 May 2024
On 9-10 May 2024 the international and interdisciplinary conference The Arctic in Eastern and Central Europe. Knowledge, Perception and Communication in 17th -19th century organised by MIARC and UMK took place at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
29 April 2024
Junior Full Professor Joanna Kodzik of MIARC is organising an international and interdisciplinary conference about the reception of knowledge from the Arctic in Eastern and Central Europe together with colleagues from the department of German Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (UMK), together with Professor Włodzimierz Zientara and Dr. Anna Mikołajewska (both UMK) on 9-10 May 2024.
Podcast about the symposium on new literary corpora - Jan Borm interviewed by Radio Canada Côte Nord
24 April 2024
On March 14-15, the Cégep of Sept-Iles in Quebec hosted an international symposium on new Nordic literary corpora co-organized by the research center Imaginaire/Nord of the University of Quebec in Montreal, the research center GRENOC of the Cégep and the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ (MIARC) in Versailles, France.
22 April 2024
Jan Borm, director of the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ (MIARC) has been invited to give a guest lecture within the framework of the Nordic Blue Humanities guest lectures series at Sorbonne University / École pratique des hautes études in Paris on 26 April 2024.
15 April 2024
The Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ/University Paris-Saclay invites applications for a full-time doctoral position (100%) in the field of Arctic Humanities especially German studies or cultural history. The position is funded by the French Research Foundation (ANR), for 3 years, to start as soon as possible. Residence in France is expected. The thesis can be written in French, English or German.
11 April 2024
The exhibition “Arctic Twilight” held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, January 18 to 25, 2024 showed pastels by Jean Malaurie painted in the period from 1950s until now.
- New Book: Representations of the West Nordic Isles: Greenland – Iceland – Faroe Island
- Jan Borm: “Jean Malaurie was a convinced humanist” – interview in Monaco Hebdo
- New Project: "Science Diplomacy in France and Turkey: A New Prospect for Cooperation", Franco-Turkish Partnership Hubert Curien.
- “New Bodies of Literature in the North and the Arctic“ conference in Sept-Îles, Canada, co-organised by MIARC
