The "Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research - Monaco - UVSQ" (MIARC) is dedicated to the study of Professor Jean Malaurie's circumpolar work and research in the Arctic Humanities.
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Arctic Studies are a fast-growing field that increasingly draws media and public attention due to global warming and climate change.
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“Gateway to the Arctic” is an interdisciplinary forum for encounters of master students and early-stage researchers from different disciplines of the natural sciences and the Humanities who share interest in the circumpolar Arctic regions.
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About us
The Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research - Monaco
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Publications
Arctic Studies are a fast-growing field that increasingly draws media and public attention due to global warming and climate change.
Outreach thumbnail
Outreach
“Gateway to the Arctic” is an interdisciplinary forum for encounters of master students and early-stage researchers from different disciplines.
Jean Malaurie Bibliography
Discover the Master 2 Arctic studies program
CfA: PhD Scholarship in Arctic Humanities at MIARC, (University Paris-Saclay, France)
New Book: Representations of the West Nordic Isles: Greenland - Iceland - Faroe Island

Jean Malaurie

French cultural anthropologist, explorer, geographer, geomorphologist, and writer.

Quote Jean Malaurie: “Cultural diversity is a scientific reality which we must protect as much as possible, just like biodiversity. Otherwise, all of us in those megacities that keep on growing will become a people of ants, manipulated by words and images.”

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Jean Malaurie
Inuit sled dogs in the arctic

Projects

MIARC actively participates in various projects at national, bilateral and international level.

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Archives

Find here programmes of previous events, as well as other relevant documents.

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Collection of old historic books

News

Exhibition of Jean Malaurie’s pastels at France’s National Marionette Theater in Paris

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.

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CfP: The mineral Arctic: imagination, communication and practices

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.

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UArctic regional centre for Continental Europe established at UVSQ

26 October 2024

A new UArctic Regional Centre, the UArctic Regional Centre Continental Europe, was established October 17, 2024 in Reykjavík, Iceland.

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