News
21 March 2024
Jan Borm (MIARC) and Joanna Kodzik (MIARC) together with Axel E. Walter, Director of Library in Eutin (Germany) published a collective volume with articles written by researchers from France, Germany, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Norway and Poland dedicated to the Representations of the West Nordic Isles : Greenland – Iceland – Faroe Islands.
19 March 2024
An interview by Raphaël Brun with Jan Borm, Vice-President in charge of international relations at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) and director of MIARC about Jean Malaurie's personal itinerary and scientific career as well as his legacy to research in the future has been published in Monaco Hebdo, March 12, 2024.
19 March 2024
The new project on science diplomacy in France and Turkey funded within the Bosphore Programme 2024 will be coordinated by Eda Ayaydin (MIARC). The main goal is to establish science diplomacy ties between a group of French and Turkish scientists by using examples from the Arctic.
13 March 2024
The international conference: « De nouveaux corpus littéraires dans le nord et l’arctique » (New Bodies of Literature in the North and the Arctic) will be held at the Cégep of Sept-Îles in Quebec, Canda, March 14-15, 2024. It brings together researchers from Canada-Quebec, France, the Faroe Islands and Norway interested in the uncovering of corpora through research, publishing, translation, the writing of literary histories, digital presentations, studies, and teaching.
9 March 2024
Eda Ayaydin, the IASC Fellow 2023, represented MIARC at the Polar Symposium 2024 “From Arctic to Antarctic: The Cold is Getting Hot!” held in Monaco February 22-23, 2024.
27 February 2024
Discover the Master 2 Arctic studies, an innovative programme that combines environmental sciences and humanities to provide a global understanding of Arctic issues.
16 February 2024
The jubilee 10th interdisciplinary Franco-German workshop “Gateway to the Arctic” co-organised by MIARC and AWI together with the Sudernes Science and Learning Center was held at the Centre’s premises in Sandgerði, Iceland, February 6-8, 2024.
15 February 2024
Professor Jean Malaurie’s exceptionally long and distinguished career as an internationally renowned anthropo-geographer and one of the foremost Arctic specialists was honoured by French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau during Jean Malaurie’s funeral ceremony held February 13, 2024, at the Cathedral of Saint-Louis-des-Invalides, in Paris.
5 February 2024
MIARC is very sad to announce the passing away of Professor Jean Malaurie in his 102nd year, February 5, 2024, at his home in Dieppe, France.
29 January 2024
Eda Ayaydin has been granted a prestigious visiting fellowship through the Åsgard program, a joint initiative supported by the Research Council of Norway and the Department for Scientific Cooperation of the French Embassy in Norway.
25 January 2024
The side-event "EUGLOH: Solutions for One Health Issues in Europe and the Arctic" is scheduled at Arctic Frontiers Monday January 29, 9am-10.30am. EUGLOH is the acronym of the European University Alliance for Global Health initiated by the University of Paris-Saclay that UVSQ is an associate member of. MIARC has been asked to organise this event to stage a discussion about One Health Issues and Solutions in the Arctic and Europe.
22 January 2024
Students from the Arctic Studies Master Program together with Jun.-Prof. Joanna Kodzik have developed a project about historical sources concerning Indigenous and local food traditions experienced and told by European travelers, scholars, or missionaries from the 17th -19th centuries.
- An exhibition of Jean Malaurie’s pastels at UNESCO
- “Using the North” in official religious communication
- “The Role of Polar Research in Strengthening Geopolitical Security”: a seminar organised by the Latvian Government
- Listen to Joelle Rostkowski and Jan Borm retracing Jean Malaurie’s extraordinary life (15th December)
