École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines

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).

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 [http://www.ens-lsh.fr École normale supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines] . The two schools are located in the same district of Gerland.

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

Research structures (as of January 1, 2008)

UMRs (CNRS-backed units run jointly with universities in the Rhône-Alpes region):
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/LAB_IAO/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES Institute of East Asian Studies – UMR 5062] Director: Eric Seizelettel. + 33 4 37 37 62 38
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/LAB_TRIA/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES Triangle: Actions, Discourses, Political and Economic Thought – UMR 5206] Director: Jean Claude Zancarini
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/LAB_CERP/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES Institute for the History of Classical Thought, from Humanism to the Enlightenment / CERPHI – UMR 5037] Director: Pierre-François Moreautel. + 33 4 37 37 62 54
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/LAB_GRS/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES Socialisation Research Group – UMR 5040] Director: Bernard Lahiretel. + 33 4 37 37 62 89
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/LAB_LARH/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES Rhône-Alpes Centre for Historical Research (Modern and Contemporary) – UMR 5190] Director: Jean-Luc Pinol
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/LAB_ICAR/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES Interactions, Corpuses, Learning and Representations – UMR 5191] Director: Lorenza Mondadatel. + 33 4 37 37 63 02
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/LAB_LIRE/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES Literature, Ideologies and Représentations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries – UMR 5611] Director: Sarga Moussa. French 19th Century group: Sarah Momberttel. + 33 4 37 37 64 15. English Studies group (Writing Systems of the English-Speaking World, SEMA): Frédéric Regardtel. + 33 4 37 37 61 81
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/LAB_CIHA/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES History and Archaeology of the Medieval Christian and Islamic Worlds – UMR 5648] ] Director: Denis Menjot. ENS-based strand: Genesis, Structure and Circulationof Languages and Texts in the Medieval Romance World:Carlos Heuschtel. + 33 4 37 37 62 60
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/LAB_GATE/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES Economic Theory and Analysis Group – UMR 5824] Director: Marie-Claire [e-mail]
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/UMR_5600/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES Environment, Town, Society – UMR 5600] Director: Paul Arnouldtel. + 33 4 37 37 63 41

Other research units and programmes:
* [http://cep.ens-lsh.fr/ Passages: 20th – 21st Centuries (contemporary poetics and literary studies)] Director: Dominique CarlatDeputy director of Passages and head of the Centrefor Poetry Studies: Jean-Marie Gleizetel. + 33 4 37 37 63 91
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/LAB_C2SO/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES Communication, Culture and Society] Director: Joëlle Le Marectel. + 33 4 37 37 65 68
*Centre for Research on the Roman West – EA 664Director: Bruno Bureau. ENS-based strand: Literary Genres and Sociopolitical Change in the Roman World: Gérard Salamontel. + 33 4 37 37 61 47
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/LAB_IEEO/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES East-West European Institute (Russian Studies)] Director: Sylvie Martintel. + 33 4 37 37 63 92
* [http://languesanciennes.ens-lsh.fr/ Institute of Ancient and Modern Oriental Languages] Director: Georges Bohastel. + 33 4 37 37 62 23
*Institute of Slavic and Asian Languages and Cultures] Director: Jean-Claude Lannetel. + 33 4 72 76 95 47
* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/LAB_SiRE/0/fiche___laboratoire/&RH=LABORATOIRES 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 CenturiesHead of group: Michèle Gally

Research resource centre:Institute of Human Sciences, LyonDirector: Gilles Pollet

Notable alumni

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

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External links

* [http://www.ens-lsh.fr/30556742/1/fiche___pagelibre/ Official website]