News
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.
15 April 2024
The Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ/University Paris-Saclay invites applications for a full-time doctoral position (100%) in the field of Arctic Humanities especially German studies or cultural history. The position is funded by the French Research Foundation (ANR), for 3 years, to start as soon as possible. Residence in France is expected. The thesis can be written in French, English or German.
11 April 2024
The exhibition “Arctic Twilight” held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, January 18 to 25, 2024 showed pastels by Jean Malaurie painted in the period from 1950s until now.
21 March 2024
Jan Borm (MIARC) and Joanna Kodzik (MIARC) together with Axel E. Walter, Director of Library in Eutin (Germany) published a collective volume with articles written by researchers from France, Germany, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Norway and Poland dedicated to the Representations of the West Nordic Isles : Greenland – Iceland – Faroe Islands.
19 March 2024
An interview by Raphaël Brun with Jan Borm, Vice-President in charge of international relations at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) and director of MIARC about Jean Malaurie's personal itinerary and scientific career as well as his legacy to research in the future has been published in Monaco Hebdo, March 12, 2024.
19 March 2024
The new project on science diplomacy in France and Turkey funded within the Bosphore Programme 2024 will be coordinated by Eda Ayaydin (MIARC). The main goal is to establish science diplomacy ties between a group of French and Turkish scientists by using examples from the Arctic.
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.
9 March 2024
Eda Ayaydin, the IASC Fellow 2023, represented MIARC at the Polar Symposium 2024 “From Arctic to Antarctic: The Cold is Getting Hot!” held in Monaco February 22-23, 2024.
27 February 2024
Discover the Master 2 Arctic studies, an innovative programme that combines environmental sciences and humanities to provide a global understanding of Arctic issues.
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.
