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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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“Gateway to the Arctic” is an interdisciplinary forum for encounters of master students and early-stage researchers from different disciplines.

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

CfA: PhD Scholarship in Arctic Humanities at MIARC, (University Paris-Saclay, France)

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.

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New Video: “Arctic Twilight” exhibition of pastels by Jean Malaurie at UNESCO

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. 

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New Book: Representations of the West Nordic Isles: Greenland – Iceland – Faroe Island

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.

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