Coordinates: 45°43′59″N 4°49′58″E / 45.73306°N 4.83278°E / 45.73306; 4.83278 The École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, or ENS-LSH, is one of the two French École normale supérieure (ENS), an elite French grande école located in Lyon (69).

Contents 1 History 2 Overview 3 Research structures (as of January 1, 2008) 4 Notable alumni 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] History

It comes from the reorganization of two Écoles normales supérieures founded in 1880 and 1882, and formerly located in Fontenay-aux-Roses and Saint-Cloud, near Paris. Firstly male students went to Saint-Cloud and female to Fontenay-aux Roses, but after 1981, the schools became mixed. In 1986, in the frame of French decentralisation, the scientific students moved to Lyon in the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and, in 2000, the literary students followed them in Lyon in the École normale supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines. The two schools are located in the same district of Gerland.

[edit] Overview

This school trains high school and classes préparatoires teachers, and also many university professors and researchers.

Teaching subjects include :

• Humanities
  • Classics (Ancient Greek and Latin)
  • French and foreign literature
  • Musicology
  • Philosophy
  • Theater and Film studies

• Social Sciences
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • History
  • Linguistics
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Foreign languages et civilisations

[edit] Research structures (as of January 1, 2008)

UMRs (CNRS-backed units run jointly with universities in the Rhône-Alpes region):

• Institute of East Asian Studies – UMR 5062

Director: Eric Seizelet tel. + 33 4 37 37 62 38

• Triangle: Actions, Discourses, Political and Economic Thought – UMR 5206

Director: Jean Claude Zancarini

• Institute for the History of Classical Thought, from Humanism to the Enlightenment / CERPHI – UMR 5037

Director: Pierre-François Moreau tel. + 33 4 37 37 62 54

• Socialisation Research Group – UMR 5040

Director: Bernard Lahire tel. + 33 4 37 37 62 89

• Rhône-Alpes Centre for Historical Research (Modern and Contemporary) – UMR 5190

Director: Jean-Luc Pinol

• Interactions, Corpuses, Learning and Representations – UMR 5191

Director: Lorenza Mondada tel. + 33 4 37 37 63 02

• Literature, Ideologies and Représentations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries – UMR 5611

Director: Sarga Moussa . French 19th Century group: Sarah Mombert tel. + 33 4 37 37 64 15 . English Studies group (Writing Systems of the English-Speaking World, SEMA): Frédéric Regard tel. + 33 4 37 37 61 81

• History and Archaeology of the Medieval Christian and Islamic Worlds – UMR 5648

Director: Denis Menjot . ENS-based strand: Genesis, Structure and Circulation of Languages and Texts in the Medieval Romance World: Carlos Heusch tel. + 33 4 37 37 62 60

• Economic Theory and Analysis Group – UMR 5824

Director: Marie-Claire Villeval villeval@gate.cnrs.fr

• Environment, Town, Society – UMR 5600

Director: Paul Arnould tel. + 33 4 37 37 63 41

Other research units and programmes:

• Passages: 20th – 21st Centuries (contemporary poetics and literary studies)

Director: Dominique Carlat Deputy director of Passages and head of the Centre for Poetry Studies: Jean-Marie Gleize tel. + 33 4 37 37 63 91

• Communication, Culture and Society

Director: Joëlle Le Marec tel. + 33 4 37 37 65 68

• Centre for Research on the Roman West – EA 664

Director: Bruno Bureau . ENS-based strand: Literary Genres and Sociopolitical Change in the Roman World: Gérard Salamon tel. + 33 4 37 37 61 47

• East-West European Institute (Russian Studies)

Director: Sylvie Martin tel. + 33 4 37 37 63 92

• Institute of Ancient and Modern Oriental Languages

Director: Georges Bohas tel. + 33 4 37 37 62 23

• Institute of Slavic and Asian Languages and Cultures]

Director: Jean-Claude Lanne tel. + 33 4 72 76 95 47

• Interdisciplinary Seminar for Research into Medieval Spain

Head of group: Georges Martin

• Towards a Theory of Language and Literature: The Emergence of a Reflexive Discourse of Poetic Practice from the 14th to the 16th Centuries

Head of group: Michèle Gally

Research resource centre: Institute of Human Sciences, Lyon Director: Gilles Pollet

[edit] Notable alumni

• Alain Finkielkraut (1969)
• André Glucksmann (1957)
• Mazarine Pingeot (1994)

• List of the ENS Fontenay-Saint-Cloud-Lyon Alumni on Wikipedia

[edit] See also

• École Normale Supérieure

[edit] External links

• Official website

v • d • e The network of French écoles normales supérieures ENS (rue d’Ulm) • ENS Cachan • ENS Lyon • ENS Lettres et sciences humaines

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