Program
The Summer University offers several cycles, each lasting one week, in French and in English, taught by academics from the Sorbonne Université cluster. The Sorbonne University offers, in collaboration with SIAL, French courses (as a foreign language). Each course is 2 weeks long.
Cycles of Courses
There are 15.0 hours of lectures per week, 3.0 hours a day, Monday to Friday, in the morning or afternoon, depending on the course. This rythm allows participants to enjoy classes, and also visit Paris afterwards.
You can register for more than one course.
Cycle in French
Week 2: 3 to 7 July 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 3: 10 to 13 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 4: 17 to 21 July 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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 and its influence until today
Juliette Dross, Latin language and literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - The power of speech: Greco-Roman rhetoric and its contemporary extensions
Sébastien Morlet, Greek, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Chuckle with the Greeks
Yann Migoubert, Greek, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
Cycle in French
Week 1: 26 to 30 June 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 4: 17 to 21 July 2023 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.
- Paris, capital of revolutions
Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Modernity, a new world and philosophical fictions: the "natural law school" (Rousseau, Locke, Hobbes and so on). God and science.
Louis Dupont, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - How the French became modern
Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Modernity and the visual arts (week 1)
Arnaud Maillet, history of art, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - The Opera Garnier (week 1)
Jean-Baptiste Minnaert, history of art, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Challenges and renewals: changing religions in Europe in 19th century (week 4)
Rémy Heme de Lacotte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - State diplomacy in the 19th century, tradition and modernity (week 4)
Isabelle Dasque, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
Cycle in French
Week 1: 26 to 30 June 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 2: 3 to 7 July 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 3: 10 to 13 July 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 4: 17 to 21 July 2023 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.
- The 16th century
Paul-Victor Desarbres, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University (weeks 1 and 2)
Adeline Lionetto, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University (weeks 3 and 4) - The 17th century
Delphine Amstutz, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University (weeks 1 and 4)
Tiphaine Rolland, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University (weeks 2 and 3) - The 18th century
Sophie Marchand, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University (weeks 1 and 4)
Stéphanie Géhanne, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University (weeks 2 and 3) - The 19th century
Boris Lyon-Caen, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University (weeks 1 and 2)
Christophe Pradeau, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University (week 3)
Anaïs Goudmand, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University (week 4) - The 20th and 21st centuries
Judith Sarfati-Lanter, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University (weeks 1 and 2)
Fabien Gris, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University (weeks 3 and 4)
Cycle in French
Week 2: 3 to 7 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 3: 10 to 13 July 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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 - German idealism (Kant, Hegel)
Pierre-Henri Tavoillot, philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - The overcoming of metaphysics
Vincent Blanchet, philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
Cycle in French
Week 1: 26 to 30 June 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 2: 3 to 7 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 4: 17 to 21 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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.
- Charles de Gaulle (week 4)
Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Louis XIV (week 1)
Lucien Bély, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Joséphine Baker
Nathalie Duval, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Napoléon (weeks 1 and 2)
Jacques-Olivier Boudon, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Richelieu
Alain Tallon, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Victor Hugo (weeks 2 and 4)
Boris Lyon-Caen, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Marie Curie and the women who lie in the Pantheon
Nathalie Duval, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Molière (week 4)
Sophie Marchand, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
Cycle in English
Week 2: 3 to 7 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 4: 17 to 21 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
What are the main characteristics of France (art, literature, geography, history, and science)?
- Can we sell culture as a product? France responds
Yann Migoubert, Greek, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - The transformation of modern societies
Louis Dupont, geography, 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 - Upcoming courses
- Upcoming courses
Cycle in French
Week 2: 3 to 7 July 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 3: 10 to 13 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 4: 17 to 21 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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 (weeks 2 and 3)
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 - The power of letters in the 17th century: Sévigné et Maintenon, letter writers (week 4)
Delphine Amstutz, French and comparative literature, 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.
Cycle in french
Week 1: 26 to 30 June 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 2: 3 to 7 July 2023 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
Fabien Faugeron, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Gastronomy, a French exception
Gilles Fumey, geography, 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 - What is a "local product"?
Vincent Moriniaux, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
Cycle in English
Week 1: 26 to 30 June 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 3: 10 to 13 July 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
- Notre-Dame in the Middle Ages, from construction to the Renaissance (week 1)
Dany Sandron, histoire de l'art, Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université - Opus Magnum : the present restoration of Notre-Dame (week 1)
Dany Sandron, histoire de l'art, Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université - The Opera 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 - Screening the City of Lights: Hollywood in Love
Claire Dutriaux, applied foreign languages, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
> Paris has always been much loved by Hollywood filmmakers and fantasized upon. Representing an exotic location for many Americans who dream of Europe and think of Paris as the City of Love and the City of Lights, movies featuring the French capital have always been sure to draw crowds to movie theaters. About 800 films were shot in Paris, particulary in the 1950s, when the Blum-Byrnes agreements of 1946 meant that Hollywood majors fully focused on a European market that became more accessible to them. This conference will provide a history of Hollywood's ventures in Paris, starting with Classical Hollywood Cinema all the way through to the contemporary era. Classic films glorifying Paris, such as An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951), Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939), or Les Girls (George Cukor, 1957) will be examined, and compare them to French movies which have explored a darker side of Paris (for example La Haine, and more recently, BPM). Lastly, the conference will dwell on the very popular movies of the 2000s, when Paris became again the vessel of American fantasies, through Marie Antoinette of The Da Vinci Code, and conclude on the recent phenomenon of the TV series Emily in Paris, which has brought to Paris thousands of tourists looking to replicate Emily's experiences in an idealized city. - Upcoming courses
Cycle in french
Week 1: 26 to 30 June 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 2: 3 to 7 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 3: 10 to 13 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
- 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 - The Louvre Museum
Edith Fagnoni, géographie, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - The Sorbonne
Reynald Abad, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
Cycle in french
Week 2: 3 to 7 July 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Week 3: 10 to 13 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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 - Women as actors and victims of the French Revolution
Nathalie Duval, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - May - June 68, a French revolution
Arnaud Houte, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - The consumer revolution in contemporary times
Jean-Pierre Williot, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - The revolution on the plate
Vincent Moriniaux, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
Cycle in french
Week 1: 26 to 30 June 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 3: 10 to 13 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
How was Europe built? What will be the consequences of Brexit on the rest of Europe in the more or less short term? Are the current borders of Europe logical? These are some of the questions that will be debated in this cycle.
- Managing the health crisis through the European media
Juliette Charbonneaux, communication, CELSA at Sorbonne University - Continental history of Great Britain, from the origins to Brexit
Jean-François Dunyach, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - History of European construction and its recent challenges
Olivier Forcade, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - What borders for Europe?
Olivier Mihaud, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - The European idea versus the national ideology
Olivier Dard, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
Cycle in french
Week 2: 3 to 7 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
- The consequences of climate change on wine in France
Vincent Moriniaux, 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 - Alexander von Humboldt
Gilles Fumey, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Climate change in the literature (week 2)
Judith Sarfati, French and comparative literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Upcoming courses
Cycle in french
Week 3: 10 to 13 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm
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Week 4: 17 to 21 July 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30pm
- Legal aspects
Arnaud Latil, private law, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Understanding and evaluating (differently) intelligence and artificial
Michel Puech, philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - Morality in uncharted waters: artificial intelligence versus the human mind
Pierre-Henri Tavoillot, philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - The historical challenges of artificial intelligence
Benjamin Thierry, history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University - From A.I. as an extraordinary Singularity to ordinary A.I. today
Michel Puech, philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
> We have to adapt our values systems, our behavior and maybe our emotions to emerging forms of "intelligence" dubbed "artifical". Philosophically clarifying these notions and examining the many relevant moral values, drawing from recent research in ethical philosophy, allows to resist technophilic as well as technophobic biases and excessive enthusiasm as well as anxiety.
Cycle in french
Week 3: 10 to 13 July 2023
> Monday: from 9.30am to 12.30pm and from 2pm to 5pm
> Tuesday: from 9.30am to 12.30pm
> Wednesday: from 9.30am to 12.30pm
> Thursday: 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).
Juliette Dross, langue et littérature latine, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University
This course requires a very good mastery of french (minimum level C1).
French as a foreign language (FLE)
The Sorbonne University offers, in collaboration with SIAL, French courses (as a foreign language). Each course is 2 weeks long.
6 levels are available: level A1.1, A1.2, A2, B1, B2 and C1 (check the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
Unless you are a beginner, testing is compulsory if you cannot provide official proof of your level in French. Please contact us to take the test online: lettres-ftlv-universite-ete@sorbonne-universite.fr
Please note that seats are limited.
Program
The hours of courses for these levels consist of general French courses only, during which students work on several skills: oral comprehension, written comprehension, oral expression, and written expression. The chosen themes and media further enable participants to become familiar with different aspects of French cultural life, including lifestyles, the French education and University system, and the history of the Latin Quarter.
Schedule
40 hours in total
From Monday to Friday
From 26 June to 7 July 2023 : from 9.30am to 12pm and from 1pm to 2.30pm
No classes on Friday 14 July 2023, French bank holidays
From 10th to 13th July 2023 : from 9.30am to 12pm and from 1pm to 3.30pm
From 17th to 21st July 2023 : from 9.30am to 12pm and from 1pm to 2.30pm
Program
General French courses, consisting of 3 hours session in the morning and 1 hour 30 minutes in the afternoon, during which students work on several linguistic skills: written comprehension, oral comprehension, written expression, and oral expression. The chosen themes and media further enable participants to become familiar with different aspects of French cultural life, including lifestyles, the French education and University system, and the history of the Latin Quarter.
Culture and civilization course consisting of 10 sessions / 1 our 30 each which provide points of reference in the fields of French culture and civilization. The main trends in critical thinking and French artistic movements from the Renaissance to the present day will also be presented; various types of media - literary, musical, pictorial, cinematographic or architectural will be used.
Schedule
60 hours in total
From Monday to Friday (No classes on Thursday, July 14, French national day)
> B2 : 26 June to 7 July 2023 from 9.30am to 12.30am and 2pm to 5.30pm
> C1 : 10 to 21 July 2023 from 9.30am to 12.40am and 2pm to 5.30pm
Contact
Université d’été
1 rue Victor Cousin
75230 Paris Cedex 05
