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The Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research - Monaco
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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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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

MIARC guest lecture in Oslo: Circulation of knowledge about the Arctic in 18th century Germany

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.

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Two new videos summing up the UArctic Congress in Bodø 2024

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.

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One Health and Arctic Well-Being : two guest lectures by Arja Rautio and Jan Borm

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”.

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