University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès ( , formerly known as ''Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail'' , also called Toulouse II or UT2J) is a French

public university A public university, state university, or public college is a university or college that is State ownership, owned by the state or receives significant funding from a government. Whether a national university is considered public varies from o ...

located in

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

, France. It is one of the 3 successor universities of the

University of Toulouse The University of Toulouse (, ) is a community of universities and establishments ( ComUE) based in Toulouse, France. Originally it was established in 1229, making it one of the earliest universities to emerge in Europe. Suppressed during the ...

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 The following events occurred in May 1968: May 1, 1968 (Wednesday) *In Dallas, at its first meeting since its creation through a merger, the United Methodist Church removed its rule that Methodist ministers could not drink alcohol nor sm ...

. At that time it was decided to divide the

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 National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (, ; abbr. Toulouse INP) is a French university cluster based in Toulouse, France, part of the University of Toulouse. It was founded in 1969. The institute is composed of seven schools (six engineering ...

, a school of engineering. Université de Toulouse II – Le Mirail was subsequently renamed Université de Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès after the famous politician

Jean Jaurès Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 185931 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (; ), was a French socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became a social democrat and one of the first possibi ...

Campus

The campus, situated in Toulouse's grand architectural project of the 1960s, Le Mirail, was conceived and built by the team of architects Candilis, Josic, Woods. After the opening of many extensions (one of which was situated in military barracks) in order to free up the university in the city centre, the campus in Le Mirail opened one section at a time starting in 1971, and completed the transfer by 1973. Planned for 11,000 students, the university today is a victim of its own success, with a student population of roughly 27,500.

Organisation

As the humanities university of Toulouse, it is organised into many pedagogical components: UFRs (''unités de formation et de recherche'') and university institutes. School of History, Arts and Archeology * Department of Anthropology * Department of Documentation, Archives, Media and Editing * Department of History * Department of Art History and Archeology School of Languages, Literature and Foreign Civilisations * Department of Translation and Linguistic Interpretation * Department of Foreign French Language Studies * Department of Anglophone Studies * Department of Hispanic Studies * Department of Foreign Languages * Department of Applied Foreign Languages * Department of Linguistics School of Literature, Philosophy, Music, Arts and Communication * Department of Design * Department of Communication and Visual Studies * Department of Literature, Languages and Ancient Civilisations * Department of Music * Department of Philosophy School of Psychology * Department of Clinical Psychology * Department of Cognitive Psychology and Ergonomics * Department of Developmental Psychology * Department of Social and Organisational Psychology * Department of Psychopathology, Health Psychology and Neuroscience School of Science, Place and Society * Department of Geography and the Environment * Department of Informatics * Department of Education * Department of Economics and Management * Department of Sociology It also has two University Institutes of Technology and several other specialist institutes.

Research

Research is organised in a series of interdisciplinary research centres. These include: * Centre for Work and Organisations (CERTOP) * Centre for Cognition, Languages and Ergonomics (CLLE) * Centre for Education and Knowledge (EFTS) * Centre for the Study of France, the Americas and Spain (FRAMESPA) * Centre for Environmental Geography (GEODE) * Institute of Mathematics (IMT) * Institute of Information Technology (IRIT) * Centre for the Study of the Economy, Politics and Social Systems (LEREPS) * Centre for the Study of Societies (LISST) * Centre for Archaeology (TRACES).

Reputation

In 2022, it was ranked in the 1001-1200 band of universities in the world.

Notable faculty

* Bartolomé Bennassar (1929–2018) - historian and writer * Gérard Granel (1930–2000) - philosopher and translator * Alain Ducellier (1934–2018) - historian *

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 Toul ...

(born 1941) - historian *

Patrick Le Roux Patrick Le Roux (born 3 October 1943, in Morlaix) is a 20th–21st-century French historian. Biography Career After he obtained his agrégation d'histoire in 1967, Patrick Le Roux defended his State thesis entitle''L'armée romaine et l'orga ...

(born 1943) - historian * Michel Zink (born 1945) - writer, medievalist, philologist * Henry Fourès (born 1948) - historian of music and musician *

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 M ...

(born 1949) - Spanish historian * Christian Galan (born 1960) - Japanese language and civilisation * Jean-François Berdah (born 1961) - historian * Corinne Maury - film studies *

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 ...

(born 1961) - historian

Notable alumni

* Bartolomé Bennassar (1929–2018) - historian and writer *

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 Laca ...

(1940–2021) - philosopher *

(born 1943) - historian * Abdelhak Serhane (born 1950) - Moroccan novelist *

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 founder of the political and c ...

(1952–2020) - philosopher * Aida Toledo (born 1952) - Guatemalan poet, short story writer, non-fiction writer and educator * John Sibi-Okumu (born 1954) - Kenyan actor and journalist * Jacques Jaubert (born 1957) - prehistorian and Paleolithic archaeologist * Gilles Poux - politician * Mohammed Ameur (born 1959) - Moroccan politician * Joël Suhubiette (born 1962) - choral conductor * Christian Authier (born 1969) - novelist and journalist * Stéphan Perreau (born 1969) - contemporary musician and art historian * Maria Ubach i Font (born 1973) - Andorran diplomat * Ekaterina Velmezova (born 1973) - Russian and Swiss philologist, professor of Slavistics and of history and epistemology of language sciences * Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir - Icelandic professor in Career Guidance and Counselling * Judy Quinn (born 1974) - Canadian writer and editor * Marie-Sophie Lacarrau (born 1975) - journalist and TV presenter

References

External links

Université Toulouse II
{{DEFAULTSORT:Toulouse Jean Jaures, University University of Toulouse Universities and colleges in Toulouse Educational institutions established in 1969 Jean Jaurès