News
1 October 2026
Professor Jan Borm, UArctic Chair in Arctic Humanities, is hosted for a week starting September 28, 2026, by the University of Alberta in Edmonton, thanks to a Mourou-Strickland scholarship from the French Embassy in Canada.
28 September 2026
UArctic’s regional centre for continental Europe, operated by the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ (MIARC), held its kick-off meeting in Versailles, at Pavillon Panhard, Faculty of Science, of the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) on September 24, 2026.
16 June 2026
A book with unpublished texts by and on Jean Malaurie has just been published by Éditions Dépaysage in France. Entitled “INUA – l’imaginaire arctique de Jean Malaurie” (“INUA, Jean Malaurie’s Arctic Imaginary”).
22 May 2026
Marlene Payva Almonte, Senior Researcher at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland at Rovaniemi, Finland, has visited MIARC thanks to a scholarship from the prestigious Maupertuis programme of the French Institute in Finland. The visit took place May 11-15, 2026.
18 May 2026
Brill has published the volume Practices and Mediations of Sámi Culture: Indigeneity, Ethno-history and Art, edited by Jan Borm, the director of the Maulaurie Institute, as the third title in the Arctic Humanities series.
29 April 2026
MIARC’s Vice-Director, Joanna Kodzik, has been appointed as a visiting professor at Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland, where she will contribute to research and outreach within her project Arctic Life Stories.
13 April 2026
Eda Ayaydin, researcher at MIARC, will deliver the keynote address at the event “Arctic Security and Nordic Cooperation in Times of Geopolitical Instability” on 15 April at Sciences Po Paris.
1 April 2026
MIARC, in partnership with the Institute for Applied Geopolitical Studies (IEGA), is organising a seminar dedicated to the Arctic and the strategic reconfigurations taking place in the High North.
30 December 2025
MIARC is proud to announce that the international Arctic journal Inter-Nord 24 has just been published online. The new issue places a special focus on Alaska, presenting a rich blend of scientific research, cultural perspectives, interviews, and photographs.
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).
New op-ed: BRICS by BRICS: Brazil’s Accession to the Svalbard Treaty and the Politics of Partnership
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.
- MIARC at the Arctic Circle Assembly 2025 in Reykjavik
- From missionary writing to scientific observation: the travel accounts of the Moravian Brethren in the Far North
- “The North Pole“ - talk about Jean Malaurie at the historical library in Versailles
- The mineral Arctic: imagination, communication and practices
