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.”
MIARC actively participates in various projects at national, bilateral and international level.
Among those projects that are finished are for example: MADONNA : Mise en Valeur des collections universitaires, GREEN GREENLAND, POLARIS, ERIS and EDU-ARCTIC.
Those projects that are ongoing are: Cartography of Arctic Collections in France and Monaco & Moravians in Iceland – “Moravian vision of the Arctic”.
The University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) is hosting the newly created UArctic Regional Centre for Continental Europe.
The UArctic Regional Centres were created to foster dialogue and engagement at the regional level. Liaison, networking and outreach activities are encouraged with local, national and international stakeholders.
27 June 2025
MIARC has organised an Erasmus+ BIP (Blended Intensive Programme): Knowledge from the Arctic in past and present - collecting and (co)-constructing cultural continuity and change in Versailles/ Paris, June 23-27, 2025.
24 June 2025
Beritt-Ellen Juuso, Associate Professor at the Saami University College in Kautokeino (Norway) gave the guest lecture within the Erasmus+ BIP: “Knowledge from the Arctic in the past and present - collecting and (co)-constructing cultural continuity and change” at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) on 24 June 2025.
23 June 2025
“What kind of peace should be imagined when speaking of a “restored” Arctic exceptionalism?” read the newest opinion piece by Eda Ayaydin, Post-Doc at MIARC and Visiting Fellow at the Mershon Center, Ohio State University published in High North News.
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