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13 March 2024
The international conference: « De nouveaux corpus littéraires dans le nord et l’arctique » (New Bodies of Literature in the North and the Arctic) will be held at the Cégep of Sept-Îles in Quebec, Canda, March 14-15, 2024. It brings together researchers from Canada-Quebec, France, the Faroe Islands and Norway interested in the uncovering of corpora through research, publishing, translation, the writing of literary histories, digital presentations, studies, and teaching.
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15 February 2024
Professor Jean Malaurie’s exceptionally long and distinguished career as an internationally renowned anthropo-geographer and one of the foremost Arctic specialists was honoured by French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau during Jean Malaurie’s funeral ceremony held February 13, 2024, at the Cathedral of Saint-Louis-des-Invalides, in Paris.
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25 January 2024
The side-event "EUGLOH: Solutions for One Health Issues in Europe and the Arctic" is scheduled at Arctic Frontiers Monday January 29, 9am-10.30am. EUGLOH is the acronym of the European University Alliance for Global Health initiated by the University of Paris-Saclay that UVSQ is an associate member of. MIARC has been asked to organise this event to stage a discussion about One Health Issues and Solutions in the Arctic and Europe.
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22 January 2024
Students from the Arctic Studies Master Program together with Jun.-Prof. Joanna Kodzik have developed a project about historical sources concerning Indigenous and local food traditions experienced and told by European travelers, scholars, or missionaries from the 17th -19th centuries.
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11 January 2024
New article on construction of the Far North used in printed sources of the Moravian Brethren in the 18th c. by Jun.-Prof. Joanna Kodzik has been published in Deshima, journal dedicated to global history, culture, arts and societies of the Nordic countries (University of Strasbourg press, PUS).
- “The Role of Polar Research in Strengthening Geopolitical Security”: a seminar organised by the Latvian Government
- Listen to Joelle Rostkowski and Jan Borm retracing Jean Malaurie’s extraordinary life (15th December)
- The Arctic, Moravian missionaries, and the scholarly world - new publication
- The Arctic Yearbook 2023 has just been released!