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.
15 January 2025
Erki Tammiksaar, Associate Professor in history of science, Director of the Centre for Science Studies at the Estonian University of Life Sciences and history of geography at the Tartu University will give this lecture as a part of the Jean Malaurie guest lecture series at the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ.
31 December 2024
MIARC is proud to announce that the latest issue of Inter-Nord has just been published online. Inter-Nord 23 contains a special section dedicated to Iceland and also features artwork by Icelandic artist Þóra Sigurðardóttir.
19 December 2024
Eda Ayaydin will defend her PhD entitled "Performing and Reconstructing Sovereignty: Norwegian-Russian Relations in Contemporary Arctic Geopolitics" on Friday, December 20, 2024, at UVSQ/University Paris-Saclay.
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