News
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.
15 October 2025
The Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research will contribute to the Arctic Circle Assembly 2025 in Reykjavík. Our Director, Professor Jan Borm, and our researcher Dr. Eda Ayaydın will moderate three sessions exploring how cooperation and dialogue continue to shape the future of the Arctic.
13 October 2025
Joanna Kodzik (MIARC) is invited to give a paper on missionary travel writing during the workshop « Travelogues and scientific discourse in Europe (18th–19th centuries) », « Récits de voyage et discours scientifique en Europe (XVIIIe – XIXe siècle) » organisend by the École normale supérieure in Lyon on 16 October 2025.
9 October 2025
Jan Borm, director of MIARC, has been invited by the “Friends of the Library of Versailles” to give a talk at the historical Bibliothèque Choiseul on October 9, at 6pm.
4 October 2025
Junior Full Professor Joanna Kodzik is organising an international and interdisciplinary conference together with the MIARC team and in cooperation with the research group Nordic Blue Humanities at the Sorbonne University from 8-10 October 2025 in Versailles / Paris and on-line.
1 October 2025
The editorial committee invites scientific articles, pieces of creative writing, interviews, book reviews or other writings about the Arctic to be submitted to the international, peer-reviewed journal Inter-Nord 25. Deadline: 31 March 2026.
23 September 2025
Jan Borm is presenting a paper: “To be Subject to the Winter in Labrador: Two Missionary Accounts from the 19th and early 20th Century in Comparison” at the conference “The Season of Winter in Literature and Visual Art”, 22-23 September 2025 at the University of Umeå and on-line.
15 September 2025
The 11th workshop of the Franco-German series "Gateway to the Arctic" was held at the research station "Schneefernerhaus", close to the summit of the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, September 9 through 11.
1 September 2025
Eda Ayaydin, Post-Doc at MIARC and Andreas Raspotnik, Director of the High North Center for Business and Governance at Nord University (Bodø, Norway) published new article about Geopolitics in and outside the Arctic in the Journal E-International Relations.
19 August 2025
Jean Malaurie‘s ashes were inhumated in the cementery of Siorapaluk, North-West Greenland, during a ceremony on August 15, 2025, in the presence of his son Guillaume and the latter‘s three sons as well as numerous members of the local community.
- New Book: Ethics of Alaska Travel Writing since 1959. An Ecocritical Study
- Alexandre Delangle on the One Ocean Expedition to transit the Northwest Passage
- Key-Note: The Territory as Source of First Nations’, Identities - Linking Nature, Culture and the Climate
- Alexandr Grigorev - new PhD fellow at MIARC
