Activities in 2025

  • New book: L'autochtonie comparée des Amériques. Droit et représentations culturelles
    • 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. Read more here.
  • Erasmus+ BIP: Knowledge from the Arctic in past and present - collecting and (co)-constructing cultural continuity and change
    • MIARC has organised an Erasmus+ BIP (Blended Intensive Programme): Knowledge from the Arctic in past and present - collecting and (co)-constructing cultural continuity and change in Versailles/ Paris, June 23-27, 2025.
    • Students and teachers from France, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Austria, Germany and Denmark met together to learn more about the circulation of knowledge between Europe and the Arctic and current challenges in conducting respectful cooperation with Indigenous people in the Arctic.
  • The Nordic Countries and the Arctic
    • Presentation and discussion at the annual Nordic Day arranged by Nora - intergovernmental organisation under the Nordic Council of Ministers - and the Faroese Foreign Ministry.
  • Thematic Network on Arctic Cultures and History held its international workshop "Aurora borealis - observations, descriptions and visualisations" in Versailles
    • An international workshop dedicated to the textual and visual representations of northern lights in the past and present was held at Panhard Pavillion on UVSQ’s science campus in Versailles, January 23, 2025. Read more here.