The “Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research – Monaco-UVSQ” (MIARC) is dedicated to the study of Professor Jean Malaurie's circumpolar work and research in the Arctic Humanities. Its activities are inspired by and valorize the Arctic collections of Jean Malaurie, France's most distinguished Arctic specialist, donated by him in 2021 to the Institute of Oceanography/Foundation Prince Albert I of Monaco and Jean Malaurie's extensive circumpolar scientific oeuvre and writings, as well as the egalitarian spirit of Terre Humaine, the prestigious book series of narrative ethnography and testimonies founded by Malaurie at Plon Publishers in 1955.
MIARC focuses on the history of representations of the circumpolar North in remembrance and as a continuation of Prince Albert I's major expeditions to the Far North, including the links between Arctic societies and animals in the cryosphere, in association with the Institute of Oceanography of Monaco.
MIARC organizes annual scientific and expert meetings in Monaco, France and the Arctic at the most advanced international level, edits the interdisciplinary review Inter-Nord created by Jean Malaurie, and the book series Arctic Humanities directed by Professor Jan Borm at Brill publishers.
MIARC is funded by a grant from the Institute of Oceanography/Foundation Albert I of Monaco and operated by the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), founding and associate member of the University of Paris-Saclay, in association with the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco/Foundation Albert I of Monaco.
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Jan Borm
Full Professor, Director of the Institute
Ben Ferguson
Post-doctoral Fellow
Joanna Kodzik
Junior Full Professor in Arctic Humanities
Alexandre Delangle
Early Stage Researcher
Eda Ayaydin
Teaching Fellow
Philippe Gruca
Director of the Editorial Board of Inter-Nord
Olga Lauter
Early Stage Researcher
