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.
23 September 2025
Jan Borm is presenting a paper: “To be Subject to the Winter in Labrador: Two Missionary Accounts from the 19th and early 20th Century in Comparison” at the conference “The Season of Winter in Literature and Visual Art”, 22-23 September 2025 at the University of Umeå and on-line.
15 September 2025
The 11th workshop of the Franco-German series "Gateway to the Arctic" was held at the research station "Schneefernerhaus", close to the summit of the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, September 9 through 11.
1 September 2025
Eda Ayaydin, Post-Doc at MIARC and Andreas Raspotnik, Director of the High North Center for Business and Governance at Nord University (Bodø, Norway) published new article about Geopolitics in and outside the Arctic in the Journal E-International Relations.
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