Sorbonne Summer University - Cycles of courses program

Cycle in French

Week 2: 1 July to 5 July 2024 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 3: 8 July to 12 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 4: 15 July to 19 July 2024 from 2pm to 5pm

To reflect on the foundations of European civilization, Cycle 1 offers an introduction to philosophy in Greece and Rome as well as a study of its relations to politics. This cycle invites a reflection on the art in Antiquity and its influence on the power of the speech and covers an introduction to rhetoric.

• Telling the Past in Ancient Greece: Epic and History
  Sébastien Morlet, Greek, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Living Happily: An Introduction to Roman Stoicism
  Juliette Dross, Latin language and literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Reflection on art in Antiquity andits influence until today
  Valérie Naas, Latin language and literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The power of speech: Greco-Roman rhetoric and its contemporary extensions
  Juliette Dross, Latin language and literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Chuckle with the Greeks
  Yann Migoubert, Greek, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

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Cycle in French

Week 3: 8 July to 12 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 4: 15 July to 19 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm

This cycle will attempt to show how modernity operated in the 19th century on the world around us and what we still have of it today.

• How the French became modern
  Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

• The Opera Garnier
  Jean-Baptiste Minnaert, history of art, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

• Challenges and renewals: changing religion in Europe in19th century
  Rémy Heme de Lacotte, history, Faculty of Arts and at Sorbonne University

• State diplomacy in the 19th century, tradition and modernity
  Isabelle Dasque, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

• Modernity in literature (week 3 only)
  Boris Lyon-Caen, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

• Paris, capital of revolutions (week 4 only)
  Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

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 Cycle in French

Week 2: 1 July to 5 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 3: 8 July to 12 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 4: 15 July to 19 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm

This cycle of conferences offers a journey through the major works of French literature, to discover or rediscover emblematic texts, bases of a common culture. In particular, will be discussed the works that made an impact when they were published and are still relevant to this day. We will thus examine what a classic consists of, by considering the various ways in which literary productions play with aesthetic codes and fashion models - from the Renaissance to the contemporary period. Each conference deals with a particular period of French literature.

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Cycle in French

Week 2: 1 July to 5 July 2024 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 3: 8 July to 12 July 2024 from 2pm to 5pm

This cycle gives the keys to understanding some of the major themes in the field of philosophy.

• The social dimension of science
  Cédric Paternotte, philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Should science only describe the world? Logical positivism
  Cédric Paternotte, philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Humanism, Transhumanism, Posthumanism
  Pierre-Henri Tavoillot, philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Does it take all kinds to make a world?
  Elise Marrou, philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The overcoming of metaphysics (Heidegger)
  Vincent Blanchet, philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

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Cycle in French

Week 3: 8 July to 12 July 2024 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 4: 15 July to 19 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm

French history is full of iconic figures - men and women who are famous the world over. Each in their own way has left their mark and helped to shape the country we see today. This cycle looks at the indelible impression left by five famous French men and women who have achieved almost mythical status.

• Molière
  Sophie Marchand, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Louis Pasteur
  Gilles Fumey, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Joséphine Baker (week 3 only)
  Nathalie Duval, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Marie Curie and the women who lie in the Pantheon (week 3 only)
  Nathalie Duval, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Victor Hugo (week 3 only)
  Boris Lyon-Caen, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Charles De Gaulle (week 4 only)
  Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Le soldat inconnu (week 4 only)
  Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Geneviève de Paris, Jeanne d'Arc and Thérèse de Lisieux: three French saints seen by the 19th and 20th centuries (week 4 only)
  Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

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Cycle in English

Week 2: 1 to 5 July 2024 from 2pm to 5pm

• National memory: history and culture
  Yann Migoubert, Greek, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• From plate to pixel: a brief history of the photographic image
  Jagna Oltarzewska, English language and literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• General history of France
  Jean-François Dunyach, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Project management
  Yann Migoubert, Greek, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Reducing the carbon footprint of Olympic construction sites
  Patrizia Ingalline, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

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Cycle in French

Week 2: 1 July to 5 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 3: 8 July to 12 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm

This cycle presents the role of French women in the history of France and their influence in the arts and literature.

• French women and diplomacy from modern times to the present day
  Isabelle Dasque, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Women and writing
  Anne Tomiche, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The female body of the 19th century to the present day
  Nathalie Duval, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The Parisian between myth and reality
  Nathalie Duval, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Women at work, 19th-20th centuries: an emancipation?
  Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
  > Although women have always worked, a large number of professions and positions of power have been forbidden to them. After an overview of the conditions of women's work in nineteenth-century France, this course will focus on the transformations brought about by industrialization and the rise in the level of education. It will then address the resistance and obstacles to the development of women's work in the first half of the 20th century. It will conclude with a reflection on the new challenges of professional equality from the end of the 20th century to the present day. The course will focus on case studies and individual stories to study these women at work.

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Cycle in French

Week 2: 1 July to 5 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 3: 8 July to 12 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm

France is one of those countries that has a particular passion for food. With the invention of catering and gastronomy at the beginning of the
Industrial Revolution, France moulded a relationship with food and the table that set it apart from its neighbors. This is one of the reasons why
wines, cheeses, charcuterie and pastries are France's best ambassadors to the world.

• History of french gastronomy and cuisine (part 1)
  Fabien Faugeron, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• History of french gastronomy and cuisine (part 2)
  Fabien Faugeron, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Bread, wine and cheese: cultural bestsellers
  Gilles Fumey, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The contemporary consumer revolution
  Jean-Pierre Williot, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Gastronomy, a french exception
  Gilles Fumey, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

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Cycle in English

Week 2: 1 July to 5 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 4: 15 July to 19 July 2024 from 2pm to 5pm

• The Opéra Garnier
  Jean-Baptiste Minnaert, history of art, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• From the royal Louvre to the republican Concorde
  Jean-François Dunyach, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The Latin Quarter
  Jean-François Dunyach, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• La Sorbonne
  Yann Migoubert, Greek, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Screening the City of Lights: Holywood in love
  Claire Dutriaux, English-languaage studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

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Cycle in French

Week 3: 8 July to 12 July 2024 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 4: 15 July to 19 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm

• The Eiffel Tower
  Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Department stores (Samaritaine)
  Jean-Baptiste Minnaert, history of art, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Les Halles
  Reynald Abad, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• La Sorbonne
  Reynald Abad, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The Louvre and its territories: advancing towards an XXL Louvre (week 3 only)
  Edith Fagnoni, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The Arc de Triomphe (week 4 only)
  Antonin Durand, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

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Cycle in French

Week 2: 1 July to 5 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
OR
Week 3: 8 July to 12 July 2024 from 2pm to 5pm
OR
Week 4: 15 July to 19 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm

Are the French a rebellious people? We will see that there was not only one French revolution in 1789 through different disciplines.

• The French Revolution
  Jean-François Dunyach, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• When Factories become Heritage: World Recognition for the Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining Basin (week 2 only)
  Edith Fagnoni, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• A new tourism revolution: an example of the construction of the Greater Paris Metropolis (week 3 only)
  Edith Fagnoni, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The automobile revolution
  Alice Milor, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Paris, capital of revolutions
  Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The consumer revolution in contemporary times (weeks 2 and 3 only)
  Jean-Pierre Williot, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Women as actors and victims of the French Revolution (weeks 2 and 3 only)
  Nathalie Duval, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• May - June 68, a French revolution (week 4 only)
  Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• 1848 (week 4 only)
  Antonin Durand, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

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Cycle in French

Week 2: 1 July to 5 July 2024 from 2pm to 5pm

• Breathing Easier in the City: Public Space and Active Mobility in Paris - A Controversial Approach
  Patrizia Ingalline, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• History of the environment
  Nestor Herran, history of sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The fathers of ecology: from Humboldt to Haeckel
  Gilles Fumey, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Energy companies and climate change
  Yves Bouvier, history, University of Rouen-Normandie
• Climate change in the literature
  Judith Sarfati, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

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Cycle in French

Week 3: 8 July to 12 July 2024 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 4: 15 July to 19 July 2024 from 2pm to 5pm

• Legal aspects
  Arnaud Latil, private law, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Analyzing Textual Data in the Humanities and Social Sciences using Artificial Intelligence
  Motasem Alrahabi, Research Engineer in Digital Humanities, Sorbonne University
• The historical challenges of artificial intelligence
  Benjamin Thierry, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The ethics of Artificial Intelligence (week 3 only)
  Adrien Tallent, philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Philosophical genealogy of Artificial Intelligence (week 3 only)
  Adrien Tallent, philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• The Relational Challenges of Artificial Intelligence (week 4 only)
  Clotilde Chevet, Project Manager at the Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI), Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
• Networking the world. From Arpanet to Tiktok, a history of the Internet from the 1960s to today (week 4 only)
  Benjamin Thierry, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

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Cycle in French

Week 4: 15 July to 19 July 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm

Rhetoric is the art of convincing and persuading through speech. This cycle, which explores rhetoric in all its aspects, deals with substance (content of speech) as well as form (manner of delivery) and articulates theory (rhetorical method) as well as practice (application of this method).

This course requires a very good mastery of french (minimum level C1).

Juliette Dross, Latin language and literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University

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