News
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.
27 June 2025
MIARC has organised an Erasmus+ BIP (Blended Intensive Programme): Knowledge from the Arctic in past and present - collecting and (co)-constructing cultural continuity and change in Versailles/ Paris, June 23-27, 2025.
24 June 2025
Beritt-Ellen Juuso, Associate Professor at the Saami University College in Kautokeino (Norway) gave the guest lecture within the Erasmus+ BIP: “Knowledge from the Arctic in the past and present - collecting and (co)-constructing cultural continuity and change” at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) on 24 June 2025.
23 June 2025
“What kind of peace should be imagined when speaking of a “restored” Arctic exceptionalism?” read the newest opinion piece by Eda Ayaydin, Post-Doc at MIARC and Visiting Fellow at the Mershon Center, Ohio State University published in High North News.
22 June 2025
Doctor Nadezhda Filimonova, Postdoctoral Researcher at Arctic Center, University of Lapland in Rovaniemi (Finland) is curently visiting scholar within the framework of the Franco-Finnish mobility Programme Maupertuis at MIARC.
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.
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.
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.
12 May 2025
Jan Borm is going to give a guest lecture on "French polar presences - the 'La recherche' expeditions of the 1830s in their historical French and international context" at the University of Tartu, Estonia, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 4.15pm, in the Department of Geography.
22 April 2025
Joanna Kodzik, Junior Professor at MIARC, is presenting a paper on the “Changing Arctic Epistemic Frontiers: Moravian Knowledge Production in Greenland, Labrador, and Alaska” at the conference organized by Department of Archaeology, Conservation & History (IAKH), University of Oslo, 22-24 April 2025.
28 March 2025
MIARC had co-organised the panel “Innovative Perspectives of Interdisciplinary Research on Health and Well-Being in the Arctic Co-Constructed with Indigenous and Local Communities” at the International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) during the Arctic Science Summit Week in Boulder, Colorado, March 26, 2025.
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).
- New exhibition featuring objects from Jean Malaurie’s Arctic collection opened in Lausanne
- Guest lecture on “The Sami culture in Eastern and central Europe”
- Eda Ayaydin - visiting researcher at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University
- “Greenland, the Arctic: issues and desires” - debate on French TV with Jan Borm director of MIARC
