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University Of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès (french: Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, formerly known as ''Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail'', also called Toulouse II) is a French public university located in Toulouse, France. It is one of the 3 successor universities of the University of Toulouse. History University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès was hastily conceived as a result of the saturation of the original buildings in the city centre and the events of May 1968. At that time it was decided to divide the University of Toulouse into three: The law faculty became Université Toulouse I, occupying all the old university buildings, the humanities faculty became Université de Toulouse II – Le Mirail, named after its new location, and the departments of science and medicine became Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III). In 1969, a fourth university in Toulouse was created, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, a school of engineering. Université de Toulouse II – Le M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Toulouse
The University of Toulouse (french: Université de Toulouse) was a university in the French city of Toulouse that was established by papal bull in 1229, making it one of the earliest universities to emerge in Europe. Suppressed during the French Revolution in 1793, it was re-founded in 1896 as part of the reorganization of higher education. It finally disappeared in 1969, giving birth to the three current Toulouse universities: the University Toulouse-I-Capitole, the University Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès and the University Toulouse-III-Paul-Sabatier. The current consortium of Universities and other institutions of higher education and research in the Toulouse area is also known as Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées. The three Universities, along with other Toulouse schools, are participating in the reconstruction of a University of Toulouse – a joint structure of 107,000 students including 4,500 doctoral students, approximately 17,000 staff, 145 research labor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Souriac
René Souriac (born 1941 in Saint-Frajou, Haute-Garonne) is a French scholar, a specialist of the history of Comminges. After studying history at Toulouse, René Souriac passed his agrégation of history in 1966, and joined the Université Toulouse le Mirail in 1969. A Doctor of Third Cycle in 1973, Doctor of State in 1987 on a subject concerning an example of administrative decentralization in the XVIth, the country of Comminges. Professor of the universities in 1989, he was interested in the cultural evolutions of European societies in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, hence his interest in the history of science at that time. Since 1999, he is the president of the research company of Comminges and the ' and the Central Pyrénées. Publications *1978: ''Le comté de Comminges au milieu du XVI° Siècle'', Toulouse, CNRS *1996: ''Histoire de France 1750–1995'', Toulouse, Presses Universitaires Mirail, 2 volumes. *2002: ''Les mots de la Renaissance'', To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sibi-Okumu
John Sibi-Okumu is a Kenyan actor and journalist, best known internationally for his role in ''The Constant Gardener''. Biography John Sibi-Okumu was born in 1954 in the Western part Kenya at a place called Budalangibr> He received his formal education first in the United Kingdom at William Patten School, London, later in Kenya at Muthaiga Primary School and for his secondary education, he joined Duke of York which was later renamed; Lenana High School, then later on University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail, France. For most of his professional life he taught French at elementary, middle and high school levels, being Head of Modern Languages’ Departments at various stages in a long career. Sibi-Okumu started acting in 1968 while a student at Lenana School, proceeding to act in various theatre productions. As a journalist, he hosted a popular TV program, ''Summit'' aired on Kenya Television Network (KTN), in which he interviewed Kenyan politicians. Over the years, he has be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aida Toledo
Aida Toledo (born 1952) is a Guatemalan poet, short story writer, non-fiction writer and educator. Biography Born in Guatemala City in 1952, Toledo studied literature at the San Carlos University. She then attended Pittsburgh University where she obtained both a master's degree (1997) and a doctorate (2001) in Latin American literature and culture. She has taught abroad at the University of Alabama, the University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail and the University of Arizona and in Guatemala at Rafael Landívar University and at the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA). One of Central America's most significant poets, Toledo's work exhibits an intimately sensual flavour of provocative feminism. In her ''Pezóculos'' (2001), the 14 short stories at the beginning of the book present female characters who suffer the kind of social pressures women so often experience. Then come 10 texts in poetic prose with philosophical reflections stemming from Toledo's academic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler (; 1 April 1952 – 5 August 2020) was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also the founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis; the founder in 2010 of the philosophy school, ''pharmakon.fr'', held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel; and a co-founder in 2018 of Collectif Internation, a group of "politicised researchers" His best known work is '' Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus''. Stiegler has been described as "one of the most influential European philosophers of the 21st century" and an important theorist of the effects of digital technology. Early life and education Between 1978 and 1983 Stiegler was incarcerated for armed robbery, first at the Prison Saint-Michel in Toulouse, and then at the Centre de détention in Muret. It was during this period that he became interested in philosophy, studying it by correspo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdelhak Serhane
Abdelhak Serhane (born in Sefrou in 1950) is a Moroccan novelist writing in French. Serhane grew up in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco, in the village Azrou. Early life He studied psychology at the University of Toulouse II and taught at the University Ibn Tofail in Kénitra, Morocco before he went to Canada to escape from the political oppression of the Moroccan government. Since that time he has split his time between Morocco, Canada and the United States where he teaches French literature at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Serhane has been a vociferous critic of the regime of Hassan II Hassan, Hasan, Hassane, Haasana, Hassaan, Asan, Hassun, Hasun, Hassen, Hasson or Hasani may refer to: People *Hassan (given name), Arabic given name and a list of people with that given name *Hassan (surname), Arabic, Jewish, Irish, and Scottis ... and has denounced the violent and oppressive nature of the government at that time in novels like ''Mesouda'' and ''Le Soleil d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy ( , ; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was ''Le titre de la lettre'' (''The Title of the Letter'', 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Nancy is the author of works on many thinkers, including ''La remarque spéculative'' in 1973 (''The Speculative Remark'', 2001) on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ''Le Discours de la syncope'' (1976) and ''L'Impératif catégorique'' (1983) on Immanuel Kant, ''Ego sum'' (1979) on René Descartes, and ''Le Partage des voix'' (1982) on Martin Heidegger. In addition to ''Le titre de la lettre'', Nancy collaborated with Lacoue-Labarthe on several other books and articles. Nancy is credited with helping to reopen the question of the ground of community and politics with his 1985 work ''La communauté désoeuvrée'' (''The Inoperative Community''), following Blanchot's ''The Unavowable C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marc Olivier
Jean-Marc Olivier is a French historian born in 1961 in the town of Champagnole ( Jura). Biography and career Olivier received the French agrégation in history and is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Toulouse. He was director of the CNRS research group FRAMESPA (Social history from the Middle Ages to today) from 2005-2013. He was elected Vice-President of International Relations at this university in June 2012. Olivier specializes in small-scale industries (watchmaking, making eyeglasses, hat making) and in different models of economic development. His habilitation compared the French, Scandinavian, and Swiss cases of economic development in the 19th century. He has written a number of books and articles on these subjects, and created the concept of "soft industrialization", a process by which small production units, often in rural areas, played a large role in the industrialization of Continental Europe in the 19th century. His current research focuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinne Maury
Corinne Maury is a French lecturer in film studies as well as a film director. Career Maury defended her doctoral thesis ''Habiter le monde : figures poétiques dans le cinéma du réel'' at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2008. Since 2009, she has been a teacher-researcher at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. In 2008-2009 she taught at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University - Paris 3 and from 2005 to 2008 at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. She is also an associate researcher with the IRCAV – Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her research focuses mainly on contemporary cinema, the relationship between literature and cinema, the forms of everyday life in cinema and the aesthetics of images. She has directed several documentary essays. She co-edited a collective book on the Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Publications General books * * * * Scientific editions * 2016: '' Béla Tarr. De la colère au tourment'', under the direction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Berdah
Jean-François Berdah is associate professor at the Department of History at the University of Toulouse II - Le Mirail (since 1998). Biography Jean-François Berdah was born in Paris in 1961. He first studied at the University of Paris X Nanterre (1981–1985), at the University of Göttingen (1983–1984), at the European Institute of High International Studies in Strasbourg (IHEE) (1987–1988) and finally at the Casa de Velázquez (Institute for High Hispanic Studies, Madridbr> (1992–1994). He held German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD scholarships in 1983–1984 and 1988, and promoted in 1996 at Paris 12 Val de Marne University. He was elected at the University of Toulouse II - Le Mirail in 1998. His lectures are focused on Modern European history (19th–20th century), and more specifically on the history of European peripheries in a comparative perspective. He was offered an external senior fellowship at the School of History of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Galan
Christian Galan (born in 1960) is a French Japanologist and professor of Japanese language and civilization at Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès University (formerly Toulouse-le Mirail) and a researcher at the Japanese Studies Center (CEJ) of the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco, Paris). He has devoted most of his work to the study of the Japanese education system. Within the CEJ, he directs the research group "Education, Childhood and Society in Contemporary Japan" and co-directs with Emmanuel Lozerand the research group "Speech and debates of the Meiji era". He is also director of the Toulouse branch of the CEJ, co-director with Emmanuel Lozerand of the "Japan" Collection at Belles-Lettres Editions and, since 2010, is in charge of a general inspection mission for teaching Japanese in France for the Ministry of National Education. Biography A graduate of the Ecole Normale in Toulouse (1982), Christian Galan has a doctoral dissertation in Japanese St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángel Bahamonde Magro
Ángel Bahamonde Magro (born 1949) is a Spanish historian. He is professor of Contemporary History at the Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M). Biography Born in Madrid in 1949, he earned a PhD in history from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), reading a dissertation titled ''El horizonte económico de la burguesía isabelina. Madrid 1856-1866'', supervised by José María Jover. In 1992, he was appointed to a chair in the area of "Contemporary History" at the UCM. He moved to the UC3M in 2003. Prior to that he was also a lecturer at Toulouse-Le Mirail and Paris-Saint Denis. He has worked on the research topics of the social history of cities during the 19th century, history of communications and their role in the modern Spanish state building, the study of the elites in Spanish society, the Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
