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.
17 November 2025
This publication in Icelandic “Hve aumir og blindir þeir eru: Dionysius Piper á Íslandi 1740–1743” by Joanna Kodzik (MIARC), Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson and Gunnar Kristjánsson provides the first study and edition of German handwritten sources about Iceland from the 18th century which has never been published until now.
1 November 2025
Eda Ayaydin (MIARC) and Andreas Raspotnik (High North Center, Nord University (Bodø) are organising the workshop as an outcome of the Franco-Turkish Partnership Hubert Curien bringing together reserchers and PhD students from Malaurie Institute, Norway and Turkey on 6 November 2025 at the Yeditepe University, Istanbul (Turkey).
26 October 2025
“The Brazilian government has submitted the proposal to sign the Svalbard Treaty to the National Congress, which is now under consideration.” – new op-ed by MIARC’s Post-Doc Eda Ayaydin.
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