News
26 September 2024
Jan Borm, director of MIARC and UArctic Chair for Arctic Humanities, as well as other MIARC members and colleagues from different countries shared their experience on this year’s UArctic Congress which took place in Bodø, Norway. Watch the videos, one in English and the other in French, made by the communication service of UVSQ on the university’s Youtube channel.
24 September 2024
How has the contact with Europeans impacted health in the Arctic in the past and how do contemporary phenomena like climate change and pandemics affect pubic health up North? These are questions addressed by UArctic Chair of Arctic Humanities Jan Borm (MIARC) and Arja Rautio UArctic Emerita Chair in Arctic Health (University of Oulu) during their guest lectures at the UVSQ’s Faculty of Health within the conference cycle “One Health et Santé globale”.
20 September 2024
The exhibition “Infinite Horizons” features objects, original editions and documents from Jean Malaurie’s Arctic collections. It was opened on the occasion of the inauguration of the refurbished Panhard Pavillon on UVSQ’s science campus in Versailles by Gérard Larcher, President of the French Senate, on September 16, 2024.
30 August 2024
The impact of climate change in Sápmi raises serious concern over One Health issues in the region. The hybrid workshop held in Inari and Kevo Research Station in the Utsjoki Municipality was dedicated to current environmental and public health challenges including cultural and identity issues.
2 July 2024
Olga Lauter, member of MIARC, will defend her PhD thesis entitled Renegotiation of Urban Yup’ik Traditions in Anchorage, Alaska this Friday, July 5, 2024, at 5pm CET.
4 June 2024
The complete bibliography of Professor Jean Malaurie’ s works as well as texts written about and with him had been prepared by Alexandre Delangle (MIARC). It is available on MIARC’s website.
30 May 2024
Eda Ayaydin and Olga Lauter are presenting respectively the results of their research on Arctic geopolitics and introducing their networking activities within USAPECS on 1st June at the Arctic Congress 2024 in Bodø in Norway.
27 May 2024
UArctic Thematic Network ARCH’s session Writing and visualising the Arctic: travel writing, Indigenous life stories and historical sources, 18th-21st century convened by MIARC’ director Jan Borm and Jun.-Prof. Joanna Kodzik will take place at the UArctic Congress 2024 in Bodø, Norway.
17 May 2024
On 9-10 May 2024 the international and interdisciplinary conference The Arctic in Eastern and Central Europe. Knowledge, Perception and Communication in 17th -19th century organised by MIARC and UMK took place at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
29 April 2024
Junior Full Professor Joanna Kodzik of MIARC is organising an international and interdisciplinary conference about the reception of knowledge from the Arctic in Eastern and Central Europe together with colleagues from the department of German Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (UMK), together with Professor Włodzimierz Zientara and Dr. Anna Mikołajewska (both UMK) on 9-10 May 2024.
Podcast about the symposium on new literary corpora - Jan Borm interviewed by Radio Canada Côte Nord
24 April 2024
On March 14-15, the Cégep of Sept-Iles in Quebec hosted an international symposium on new Nordic literary corpora co-organized by the research center Imaginaire/Nord of the University of Quebec in Montreal, the research center GRENOC of the Cégep and the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ (MIARC) in Versailles, France.
22 April 2024
Jan Borm, director of the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ (MIARC) has been invited to give a guest lecture within the framework of the Nordic Blue Humanities guest lectures series at Sorbonne University / École pratique des hautes études in Paris on 26 April 2024.
- CfA: PhD Scholarship in Arctic Humanities at MIARC, (University Paris-Saclay, France)
- New Video: “Arctic Twilight” exhibition of pastels by Jean Malaurie at UNESCO
- New Book: Representations of the West Nordic Isles: Greenland – Iceland – Faroe Island
- Jan Borm: “Jean Malaurie was a convinced humanist” – interview in Monaco Hebdo
