News
4 October 2025
Junior Full Professor Joanna Kodzik is organising an international and interdisciplinary conference together with the MIARC team and in cooperation with the research group Nordic Blue Humanities at the Sorbonne University from 8-10 October 2025 in Versailles / Paris and on-line.
1 October 2025
The editorial committee invites scientific articles, pieces of creative writing, interviews, book reviews or other writings about the Arctic to be submitted to the international, peer-reviewed journal Inter-Nord 25. Deadline: 31 March 2026.
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.
19 August 2025
Jean Malaurie‘s ashes were inhumated in the cementery of Siorapaluk, North-West Greenland, during a ceremony on August 15, 2025, in the presence of his son Guillaume and the latter‘s three sons as well as numerous members of the local community.
6 August 2025
The 1st volume of the series Arctic Humanities entitled Ethics of Alaska Travel Writing since 1959. An Ecocritical Study by Benjamin Ferguson has been published in Leiden and Boston by Brill.
4 August 2025
On Tuesday, 5 August, our PhD student Alexandre Delangle will embark on the One Ocean Expedition, sailing from Nuuk, Greenland, to Cambridge Bay, Canada, aboard the Statsraad Lehmkuhl – one of the world’s largest and oldest three-masted barques still in operation.
23 July 2025
Jan Borm will give a key-note during the 2025 Atlantic Symposium of the Canadian Association on Water Quality (CAWQ), PEOPLE 2025 Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Sustainability under Climate Change in St. John’s, Canada, on July 24, 2025, 13:30-15:00.
17 July 2025
Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ welcomes Alexandr Gregorev as a new PhD student. His dissertation project is dedicated to “Queer Indigenous Identities in the Arctic”.
7 July 2025
Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ welcomes Laura Njunnas as a new PhD student. Her dissertation project is dedicated to the importance of mother tongue education for well-being in Sámi communities.
3 July 2025
Jan Borm together with Daniel Chartier, Martina Lourdes Rojo and Leila Devia published a collective volume with multidisciplinary comparative articles on indigeneity in the Americas focusing especially on law and cultural representations.
