Research center dedicated to the study of Professor Jean Malaurie's circumpolar work in the Arctic Humanities and to the representations of the North. @uvsq
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"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".
Jean Malaurie, geomorphologist & explorer.
Jr. 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 online.
Program on our website: miarctic.org/news/the-minera…
At the conference “The Season of Winter in Literature and Visual Art” organized by @umeauniversity 22 to 23 september, our director Jan Borm presented a paper “To be Subject to the Winter in Labrador: Two Missionary Accounts from the 19th and early 20th Century in Comparison”.
As accounts of wintering in the circumpolar regions strongly impacted the European imagination of the Arctic, he discussed the narrative of a dog-sled ride in the 1860s by the Moravian missionary Theodore Bourquin and the 1918-19 published journal of Reverend Henry Gordon.
More info on our website: miarctic.org/news/symposium-…
On 15 August, Jean Malaurie‘s ashes were inhumated in North-West Greenland, in the presence of his son Guillaume and numerous members of the local community of Siorapaluk, the town where Jean Malaurie spent the winter of 1950-51 and lived his most transformative experience.
At this occasion, our Director Jan Borm read the message written by S.A.S. Prince Albert II of Monaco and members of the local community sang a hymn at the end of the ceremony before saying a final prayer.
More info on our website: miarctic.org/news/jean-malau…
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The ashes of French explorer and anthropologist Jean Malaurie were laid to rest in Siorapaluk, North-West Greenland, where he lived with the Inughuit in 1950–51.
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[New Book 📚] Jan Borm together with Daniel Chartier, Martina Lourdes Rojo and Leila Devia published a collective volume with multidisciplinary comparative articles on indigeneity in the Americas focusing especially on law and cultural representations.
This publication is part of the project "Quebec-Argentina-France: Territoriality, Resources, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Representations,‘ supported by the ’Inter-University Solidarity Projects in the Americas" programme of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF).
More info on our website: miarctic.org/news/new-book-l…
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Read Mershon postdoctoral visiting fellow, @miarctic researcher, and @uol_paris teaching fellow @EdaAyaydin op-ed on Arctic Exceptionalism in @HighNorthNews highnorthnews.com/en/arctic-…
On Wednesday 14 May, our Director Jan Borm gave a guest lecture on the French presences in the polar regions in the 19th century, focusing on the "La Recherche" expedition of the 1830s, at the Department of Geography of the @unitartu , Estonia.
More info on our website: miarctic.org/news/guest-lect…
Our Junior Professor Joanna Kodzik recently presented a paper on “Changing Arctic Epistemic Frontiers" from her study of Moravian work in Greenland, Labrador and Alaska in the 18th-19th centuries at the conference organized by the University of Oslo in late April 2025.
More info on our website: miarctic.org/news/miarc-at-t…
On March 26, our Institute co-organized the "Interdisciplinary Research on Health and Well-Being in the Arctic" panel at the Arctic Science Summit Week in Boulder, Colorado, to explore ways of bridging gaps between natural sciences and humanities in the study of Arctic changes.
More info on our website: miarctic.org/news/miarc-orga…
Our director Jan Borm contributed an article on “‘The Land Looks Empty.’ – Writing the Far East in Colin Thubron’s The Amur (2021)” to a new collective volume entitled Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies (2025).
More info on our website: miarctic.org/news/new-articl…
