News
17 March 2025
Jan Borm has contributed an article on “‘The Land Looks Empty.’ – Writing the Far East in Colin Thubron’s The Amur (2021)” to a new collective volume entitled Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies, edited by Samia Ounoughi, Emmanuelle Peraldo and Anne-Florence Quaireau (Routledge 2025).
15 March 2025
After having been seen by a stunning total of 1.7 million visitors at the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco, the exhibition “Mission polaire” has moved to the Aquarium Vivarium Aquatis in Lausanne.
18 February 2025
Dr Joanna Kodzik, Junior Full Professor at MIARC, will deliver the guest lecture as a part of the of research seminar “Diversity in Teaching and Education: Embracing Cultural Heritage, Inclusivity, and Pedagogical Innovation” at the University of Lapland, on 18 February 2025.
13 February 2025
Eda Ayaydin, Post-Doc at MIARC, will spend time as a visiting researcher at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University during the Spring and Summer terms of 2025.
8 February 2025
A debate about the past and future of Greenland with Jan Borm, Director of MIARC, as one of the panelists will be held on the live TV show “Club International”, hosted by Philippe Gélie on the French daily newspaper Le Figaro’s TV channel, February 11, 3-4pm CET.
4 February 2025
Prof. Jan Borm, Director of MIARC and UARCTIC Chair in Arctic Humanities, is one of the invited participants of the 4th AASCO workshop held at the Oceanographic Institute/Prince Albert I Foundation in Monaco, February 4-5, 2025.
29 January 2025
Thomas Mohnike, Full Professor for Sacndinavian Studieus at the Univrsity of Strasbourg and Dean of the Faculty of Langues will give this lecture as a part of the Jean Malaurie guest lecture series at the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ.
27 January 2025
Monique Durand a writer and journalist from Quebec/ Canada, memberof the Groupe de recherche sur l'écriture nord-côtière GRÉNOC, Cégep de Sept-Îles will give this lecture as a part of the Jean Malaurie guest lecture series at the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ.
20 January 2025
An international workshop dedicated to the textual and visual representations of northern light in past and present, organised Junior Full Professor Joanna Kodzik (MIARC) together Per Pippin Aspaas, head of library research, (UiT, University of Tromsø - Arctic University of Norway), will be held at Pavillion Panhard UVSQ/ University Paris Saclay on 23 January 2024.
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.
