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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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Discover the Master 2 Arctic studies program
New Book: Representations of the West Nordic Isles: Greenland - Iceland - Faroe Island
CfP: The mineral Arctic: imagination, communication and practices
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.
MIARC launches the Jean Malaurie guest lecture series
The Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ launches a new guest lecture series dedicated to Arctic and Nordic studies. Discover the guest lectures for 2024/2025 with researchers and specialists from Sápmi, Quebec/ Canada, Estonia and France.

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.

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”.

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UArctic Regional Centre

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.

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UArctic Regional Centre Continental Europe

News

MIARC on the 4th AASCO - Arena for the Gap Analysis of the Existing Arctic Science Co-Operations in Monaco

4 February 2025

Prof. Jan Borm, Director of MIARC and UARCTIC Chair in Arctic Humanities, is one of the invited participants of the 4th AASCO workshop held at the Oceanographic Institute/Prince Albert I Foundation in Monaco, February 4-5, 2025.

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JEAN MALAURIE GUEST LECTURE SERIES: Loss Northern. Reflections on Nostalgic Transformations of the Geographies of European Identities in a Long-Term Perspective

29 January 2025

Thomas Mohnike, Full Professor for Sacndinavian Studieus at the Univrsity of Strasbourg and Dean of the Faculty of Langues will give this lecture as a part of the Jean Malaurie guest lecture series at the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ.

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JEAN MALAURIE GUEST LECTURE SERIES: "The Blue Hour or The Mystic North"

27 January 2025

Monique Durand a writer and journalist from Quebec/ Canada, memberof the Groupe de recherche sur l'écriture nord-côtière GRÉNOC, Cégep de Sept-Îles will give this lecture as a part of the Jean Malaurie guest lecture series at the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ.

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