News
16 February 2024
The jubilee 10th interdisciplinary Franco-German workshop “Gateway to the Arctic” co-organised by MIARC and AWI together with the Sudernes Science and Learning Center was held at the Centre’s premises in Sandgerði, Iceland, February 6-8, 2024.
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.
5 February 2024
MIARC is very sad to announce the passing away of Professor Jean Malaurie in his 102nd year, February 5, 2024, at his home in Dieppe, France.
29 January 2024
Eda Ayaydin has been granted a prestigious visiting fellowship through the Åsgard program, a joint initiative supported by the Research Council of Norway and the Department for Scientific Cooperation of the French Embassy in Norway.
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.
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.
15 January 2024
The exhibition “Arctic Twilight” showing pastels by Jean Malaurie and organized by UNESCO in cooperation with MIARC and Galerie Orenda (Paris) is held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, January 18 to 25, 2024.
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).
20 December 2023
On 14th December 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia organized a seminar on “The Role of Polar Research in Strengthening Geopolitical Security” in conjunction with the Polar Research Centre of the Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Latvia. The event gathered scientists, civil servants and businessmen.
14 December 2023
Jean Malaurie will celebrate his 101th birthday next week on 22th December. Ahead of the occasion, Joelle Rostkowski and Jan Borm will share their thoughts on Jean Malaurie’s life and career.
5 December 2023
Jun.-Prof. Joanna Kodzik has published a paper on Moravian knowledge about humans and nature in Greenland, Lapland, and Iceland and its reception among German, French and Polish scholars.
5 December 2023
MIARC researcher Eda Ayaydin contributed to this volume with a briefing note on "Discussing Arctic Geopolitics in Bosphorus".
- UArctic Chairs workshop 'One Health in the Arctic' took place at the University of Versailles in France, Nov 27-28, 2023
- The Arctic in International Relations (Turkish edition)
- Greenland: a strategic location for receiving data from the UVSQ-Sat and Inspire-Sat 7 satellites
- Call for Papers: International Colloquium on Literature in the Arctic (in French)
