Daniel Chartier is full professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and director of the International Laboratory for Research on Images of the North, Winter and the Arctic. In recent years, he has published and directed some thirty books and a hundred articles on the representation of the North, the Arctic and Winter, Québec, Inuit, First Nations Arctic and Nordic cultures, cultural pluralism, including The End of Iceland's Innocence (2010), Le froid [Cold] (2018), The Northern Forest (2022) and a multilingual essay in 16 Northern languages on What is the ‘Imagined North’? Ethical principles (2018-2023). He has co-directed the collective project ‘Iceland and Images of the North’ at the Reykjavik Academy, an International Polar Year project to promote the written Inuit heritage of Nunavik (2008-2011), a project on the literary history of Nunavik (2015-2027) and a project for cooperation and reflection on the future literature in the northern cultures of Québec and Norway (2012-2028). He intensively worked on cultural and academic cooperation between Greenland, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Canada, the Faroe Islands, Denmark and Sweden. His current main research program aims to create links between different circumpolar cultures, including Indigenous cultures, and to reflect on the conditions of representation of images of the North and the Arctic.