University of Paris VIII

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Building with the lettering "université paris 8 saint-denis"

The University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis , mostly written University of Paris VIII , formerly known as the University of Vincennes ( Center universitaire expérimental de Vincennes ), is a French state university founded in 1969 near Paris .

history

The university's history began in Vincennes in the late 1960s. The university was founded as the Center universitaire expérimental de Vincennes as a more immediate consequence of the student May 1968 whose ideas it was to spread. In January 1969, the first students were welcomed there on land rented by the army. In this new model university, professors and students saw themselves as colleagues who work together. There were hardly any frontal lectures here, the interaction between students and professors was democratic, and there was self-administration in the individual faculties. You met greats like Hélène Cixous , Gilles Deleuze , Jean-François Lyotard , Roland Barthes , Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault ; philosophy was consciously taught anti-academic and opened to society and politics.

In 1980 the Experimental University was relocated from Vincennes to Saint-Denis by order of the French University Minister Alice Saunier-Seïté, against the opposition of students and staff . The buildings were torn down within a few days and facts were quickly created.

Today it has around 26,000 students in Saint-Denis . The university's focus is on the humanities and social sciences. In the beginning, some faculties, such as economics and law, had a difficult time being taken seriously by the anti-conformist and left-wing faculty. The philosophical and artistic faculties as well as geography and literary studies, on the other hand, were - and perhaps still do - the top group. Exceptional courses offered at Paris VIII are, for example, women's studies and teaching in the Berber language Amazigh .

Subject groups and number of students (2004)

Distribution of students (2004)

Faculty	Subject groups	1. Study section	2. Study section	3. Study sections	Others	total
1 - ARTS	Art and philosophy	1,629	2,050	698	203	4,580
2 - PAE	law Sciences	1,052	1,737	482	23	3,294
3 - TES	Economy, sociology, geography	888	1,070	202	56	2,216
4 - HLS	History, literary studies, sociology	779	1,038	613	99	2,529
5 - LLCE-LEA	Linguistics and applied languages	876	1,218	321	78	2,493
6 - LIT	Computer science, mathematics, linguistics	658	816	425	63	1,962
7 - PPCS	psychology	523	642	351	17th	1,533
8 - CAPFED	Communication, psychoanalysis	515	1,570	397	41	2,523
IFU	French Institute for Urban Development	0	75	296	6th	377
IEE	European studies	0	343	147	0	490
IED	Distance higher education	2,570	1,034	93	0	3,697
IUT Tremblay		244	0	0	0	244
IUT Montreuil		174	28	0	0	228
IF Geopolitique		0	16	160	0	176
Outside of faculties		0	0	154	0	154
total		9,908	11,637	4,341	586	26,472

Well-known professors and lecturers

• Alain Badiou (* 1937), philosopher, dramaturge
• Daniel Bensaïd (1946–2010), philosopher and political activist
• François Châtelet (1925–1985), philosopher, co-founder of the Philosophical Faculty of Paris VIII
• Hélène Cixous (* 1937), writer and philosopher
• Michel de Certeau SJ (1925–1986), historian and theologian
• Daniel Defert (* 1937), sociologist
• Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), philosopher
• Michel Foucault (1926–1984), philosopher, co-founder of the Philosophical Faculty of Paris VIII
• Félix Guattari (1930–1992), philosopher, psychoanalyst
• Guy Hocquenghem (1946–1988), philosopher, writer and homosexual activist
• Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), psychoanalyst
• Pierre Lévy (* 1956), philosopher
• Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), philosopher
• Jacques-Alain Miller (* 1944), philosopher and psychoanalyst
• Antonio Negri (* 1933), philosopher and politician
• Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979), Marxist state theorist
• Jacques Rancière (* 1940), philosopher
• René Schérer (* 1922), philosopher
• Norbert Waszek (* 1953), Germanist and philosopher
• Jean-Marie Vincent (1934–2004) philosopher

Former students

• François Bon (* 1953), French writer
• Boubé Gado (1944–2015), Nigerien historian and politician
• Suhaib Gasmelbari (* 1979), filmmaker
• Alice Schwarzer (* 1942), German feminist and publicist
• Slavoj Žižek (* 1949), philosopher, psychoanalyst, essayist

documentary

• Vincennes, l'université perdue (Eng. Vincennes - The revolutionary university ), by Virginie Linhart, France 2016, 95 minutes, Arte France et Agat Films & Cie
• Vincennes - The revolutionary university , a report by ARTE, 96 min.

Web links

Commons : Category: University of Paris VIII  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lukas Wieselberg: Political agitation and new teaching: 40 years Uni Vincennes . ORF.at , March 6, 2009
2. ↑ Vincennes - The revolutionary university , ARD.de , broadcast June 1, 2016 on Arte