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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
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

Defense of the habilitation by Joanna Kodzik

15 June 2025

Junior Full Professor Joanna Kodzik will defend her habilitation, HDR Habilitation à diriger des recherches, on 18 June 2025 at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne.

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MIARC on the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice

13 June 2025

On Sunday 8 and Monday 9 June, our PhD student Alexandre Delangle assisted to the third United Nations Ocean Conference held in Nice and contributed to the inauguration of the Cryosphere pavilion as a member of the Génération Cryosphère program.

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Guest lecture about Jean Malaurie at the festival of history films in Pessac

19 May 2025

Jan Borm, director of MIARC, has been invited by UNIPOP (Université populaire – The people’s university), the Jean Eustache cinema and the Festival of History Films in Pessac (near Bordeaux, France) to give a talk about Jean Malaurie.

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