The New Sorbonne University (french: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, also known as Paris III) is a public university in Paris, France. It is one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was completely overhauled and restructured in 1970. Paris III offers courses in a wide range of Arts and Humanities subjects, areas in which – according to the 2018 QS World University Rankings – the university is the 71st best worldwide.

History

The historic University of Paris first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was reorganised in 1970 as 13 autonomous universities after the student protests of the

French May Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting some seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, as well as the occupation of universities and factories. At the height of events, which ha ...

. Sorbonne Nouvelle, or "Paris III", is one of the inheritors of University of Paris faculty of humanities ("arts et lettres").

University sites

The Sorbonne Nouvelle has sites at various locations in Paris. The main university centres are: Central Sorbonne Building — central administration offices, Literature. Censier — the main teaching site, named after the adjacent street Bièvre — houses teaching and research facilities for language study and the main staff and student refectories Rue Saint Jacques — French as a Foreign Language Rue des Bernardins — Linguistics and Phonetics Rue de l' Ecole de Médecine — English Studies 200px, Entrance of the main building of the "new" Sorbonne university, built in by Henri-Paul Nénot, rue des Écoles, Paris. 200px, Entrance of one of the buildings of University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III, 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, Paris. Formerly buildings for the royal school of drawing under Louis XV 200px, Entrance of the university Sorbonne Nouvelle, Campus Censier Rue Saint Guillaume — Latin American Studies Place du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny — Houses the E.S.I.T (School of Interpreting and Translation) Asnières -- located outside of Paris, where the German Studies department, now closed, was housed.''Asnières c'est fini : le département d'Etudes Germaniques s'installe au Centre Universitaire Censier''
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University libraries

The Sorbonne Nouvelle has one central and five specialised libraries (Foreign language and culture and French literature). It is also connected to the Library of Saint Genevieve, the Central Sorbonne Library, the Inter-University Library for Oriental Languages and the Library of Saint Barbara.

University Press

The ''Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle'' publishes research carried out by the university.

Accommodation and refectories

The ''CROUS de Paris'' ( Centre régional des œuvres universitaires et scolaires) is the organisation responsible for both student accommodation and refectories in Paris. It runs various student halls of residence and student restaurants both in central Paris and in its outskirts. The ''Restaurant Universitaire Censier'' is the student refectory which is used by the large majority of Paris III students due to its proximity to the Censier university site.

Sorbonne Paris Cité

New Sorbonne University is a member of the

Sorbonne Paris Cité Sorbonne may refer to: * Sorbonne (building), historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities. *the University of Paris (c. 1150 – 1970) *one of its components or linked institution, ...

, an alliance of the following Parisian universities: *Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3) *

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* Université Paris Nord (Paris 13) *

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* Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (''Langues O'') * École des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP) *

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Notable alumni

* Alan García - President of Peru *

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- French film director and screenwriter * Jacques Aumont - Film Professor * Latifa Ben Mansour - Algerian writer and linguist *

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- French film director * Jean Bessière - Academic and writer * Frédéric Bozo - Academic * Bruno della Chiesa - Linguist * Arnaud Desplechin - French film director *

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, Film producer * Cédric Klapisch - French Film Director (L'Auberge Espagnole, Les poupées russes, Paris) *

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (2 July 1949 – 27 December 2010) was a French actor. Biography Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu studied theater and film at the Sorbonne Paris III and began his career in film at the age of 25 by making appearances with accl ...

- French actor * Olivier Ducastel - French film director *

Mireille Guiliano Mireille Guiliano (born April 14, 1946, in Moyeuvre-Grande, France) is a French-American author and former corporate executive at LVMH. Education Mireille Guiliano was born in 1946 in Moyeuvre-Grande, France. She completed a year of her educatio ...

- French-American author * René Gutman: Ph.D., a former philosophy student, Rabbi of Strasbourg *

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- Croatian Foreign Minister * Hüseyin Latif - Novelist and Aujourd'hui la Turquie's Director of publication * Sarah Lelouch - Daughter of Claude Lelouch *

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- French film director *

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- Mexican social activist *

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- Icelandic author * Pedro Paulet - Peruvian scientist * Homa Sayar - Iranian Poet * Jean-Pierre Thiollet - French author *

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- Peruvian writer * Maryse Condé - French (Guadeloupean) novelist

Professors and former professors

Henri Adamczewski Henri Adamczewski (January 12, 1929 – December 25, 2005) was a French linguist of Polish origin. He is the founder of the Metaoperational Theory, also called "The Theory of Phases", which he taught at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvel ...

* Jacques Aumont *

Louis Bazin Louis Bazin (20 December 1920 – 2 March 2011) was a French orientalist. Biography Born in Caen, he entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1939. When he graduated in 1943, he became a senior research fellow at the French National Centre for ...

* Raymond Bellour *

* Jean Bessière *

Pascal Bonitzer Pascal Bonitzer (; born 1 February 1946) is a French screenwriter, film director, actor, and former film critic for '' Cahiers du cinéma''. He has written for 48 films and has appeared in 30 films since 1967. He starred in Raúl Ruiz's 1978 fi ...

* Frédéric Bozo *

Linda Cardinal Linda Cardinal (born July 13, 1959) is a Franco-Ontarian political scientist. She is a University Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie and Public Policies at the University of Ottawa. Cardinal was elected a Fellow of ...

Michel Chion Michel Chion (born 1947) is a French film theorist and composer of experimental music. Life Born in Creil, France, Chion teaches at several institutions in France and currently holds the post of Associate Professor at the University of Paris III ...

* Serge Daney * Latifa Ben Mansour *

Michel Marie Michel Marie is a Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. I ...

Stéphane Michaud Stéphane Michaud (born 1944) is a French scholar specializing in comparative literature. He is Professor Emeritus of the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris where he taught since the 1990s. He has written or edited more than ten books, a body of wor ...

Luc Moullet Luc Moullet (; born 14 October 1937 in Paris) is a French film critic and filmmaker, and a member of the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave. Moullet's films are known for their humor, anti-authoritarian leanings and rigorously primitive aesthetic, ...

* Annie Ousset-Krief *

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Josette Rey-Debove Josette Rey-Debove (November 16, 1929 – February 22, 2005), was a French lexicographer and semiologist. She was the first female lexicographer in France, and held many prominent posts in this field, where she used her influence to promote feminist ...

Jean-Pierre Sarrazac Jean-Pierre Sarrazac (born 1946) is a French playwright, stage director, drama trainer and university teacher. In his works he has been influenced by Bernard Dort. He has published several studies and books on drama and dramaturgy. He directed sev ...

Danica Seleskovitch Danica Seleskovitch (December 6, 1921 – April 17, 2001) was a French conference interpreter, teacher and prolific academic writer on translation studies. Among other career milestones, she founded the Interpretive Theory of Translation. B ...

References

External links

Research site of the Sorbonne Nouvelle

Forum de Paris 3
news by and for Censier students
Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle

CROUS de Paris
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