French cultural anthropologist, explorer, geographer, geomorphologist, and writer.
Quote Jean Malaurie: “Cultural diversity is a scientific reality which we must protect as much as possible, just like biodiversity. Otherwise, all of us in those megacities that keep on growing will become a people of ants, manipulated by words and images.”
MIARC actively participates in various projects at national, bilateral and international level.
Among those projects that are finished are for example: MADONNA : Mise en Valeur des collections universitaires, GREEN GREENLAND, POLARIS, ERIS and EDU-ARCTIC.
Those projects that are ongoing are: Cartography of Arctic Collections in France and Monaco & Moravians in Iceland – “Moravian vision of the Arctic”.
The University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) is hosting the newly created UArctic Regional Centre for Continental Europe.
The UArctic Regional Centres were created to foster dialogue and engagement at the regional level. Liaison, networking and outreach activities are encouraged with local, national and international stakeholders.
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.
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