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New Sorbonne University

Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle
Motto	Hic et ubique terrarum (Latin)
Motto in English	Here and anywhere on Earth
Type	Public
Established	1971 - following the division of the University of Paris
Chancellor	François Weil Chancellor of the Universities of Paris
President	Carle Bonafous-Murat
Students	19,360
Undergraduates	7,572
Postgraduates	7,904
Doctoral students	3,252
Location	Paris, France 48°50′23″N 2°21′13″E / 48.839766°N 2.353731°E / 48.839766; 2.353731
Affiliations	Sorbonne Paris Cité
Website	http://www.univ-paris3.fr
France Paris

The New Sorbonne University (French: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, also known as Paris III) is a public university in Paris, France.

It is one of the inheritors of the faculty of humanities of the old University of Paris^[1], which ceased to exist in 1970.

Paris III offers courses in a wide range of Arts and Humanities subjects, areas on which - according to the 2018 QS World University Rankings - the university is the 71st best worldwide^[2].

History

La Sorbonne in the 17th century

The historic University of Paris first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was reorganised in 1970 as 13 autonomous universities after the student protests of the French May. Sorbonne Nouvelle, or "Paris III", is one of the inheritors of University of Paris faculty of humanities ("arts et lettres")^[1].

University sites

The Sorbonne Nouvelle has sites at various locations in Paris. The main university centres are:

Central Sorbonne Building - central administration offices, Literature.

Central Sorbonne Building

Censier - the main teaching site, named after the adjacent street

Bièvre - houses teaching and research facilities for language study and the main staff and student refectories

Rue Saint Jacques - French as a Foreign Language

Rue des Bernardins - Linguistics and Phonetics

Rue de l' Ecole de Médecine - English Studies

Entrance of the main building of the "new" Sorbonne university, built in by Henri-Paul Nénot, rue des Écoles, Paris.

Entrance of one of the buildings of University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III, 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, Paris. Formerly buildings for the royal school of drawing under Louis XV

Entrance of the university Sorbonne Nouvelle, Campus Censier

Rue Saint Guillaume - Latin American Studies

Place du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny - Houses the E.S.I.T (School of Interpreting and Translation)

Asnières - located outside of Paris, where was housed the German Studies department is now closed.^[3]

University libraries

The Sorbonne Nouvelle has one central and five specialised libraries (Foreign language and culture and French literature). It is also connected to the Library of Saint Genevieve, the Central Sorbonne Library, the Inter-University Library for Oriental Languages and the Library of Saint Barbara.

University Press

The Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle publishes research carried out by the university.

Accommodation and refectories

The CROUS de Paris (Centre régional des œuvres universitaires et scolaires) is the organisation responsible for both student accommodation and refectories in Paris. It runs various student halls of residence and student restaurants both in central Paris and in its outskirts. The Restaurant Universitaire Censier is the student refectory which is used by the large majority of Paris III students due to its proximity to the Censier university site.

Sorbonne Paris Cité

The Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle is member of the Sorbonne Paris Cité, a union of the following Parisian universities:

• Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3


• Université Paris Descartes (Paris 5)


• Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7)


• Université Paris 13|Université Paris Nord (Paris 13)


• Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)


• Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales|INALCO (Langues O)


• École des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP)


• Institut de physique du globe de Paris

Notable alumni

• 
  Olivier Assayas - French film director and screenwriter


• 
  Jacques Aumont - Film Professor


• 
  Latifa Ben Mansour - Algerian writer and linguist


• 
  Alain Bergala - French film director


• 
  Jean Bessière - Academic and writer


• 
  Frédéric Bozo - Academic


• 
  Bruno della Chiesa - Linguist


• 
  Arnaud Desplechin - French film director


• 
  Cédric Klapisch - French Film Director (L'Auberge Espagnole, Les poupées russes, Paris)


• 
  Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu - French actor


• 
  Olivier Ducastel - French film director


• 
  Mireille Guiliano - French-American author


• 
  René Gutman: Ph.D., a former philosophy student, Rabbi of Strasbourg


• 
  Alan Kirby (writer) - British cultural critic


• 
  Miro Kovač - Croatian Foreign Minister


• Hüseyin Latif - Novelist and Aujourd'hui la Turquie's Director of publication


• Sarah Lelouch - Daughter of Claude Lelouch
  


• 
  Laila Marrakchi - French film director


• 
  Predrag Matvejevic - Writer and academic


• 
  Imanol Ordorika Sacristán - Mexican social activist


• 
  Sigurður Pálsson - Icelandic author


• 
  Pedro Paulet - Peruvian scientist


• 
  Homa Sayar - Iranian Poet


• 
  Keyvan Sheikhalishahi - French film director, writer and producer


• 
  Jean-Pierre Thiollet - French author

Professors and former professors

• Henri Adamczewski


• Jacques Aumont


• Louis Bazin


• Raymond Bellour


• Alain Bergala


• Jean Bessière


• Pascal Bonitzer


• Frédéric Bozo


• Michel Chion


• Serge Daney


• Latifa Ben Mansour


• Michel Marie


• Stéphane Michaud


• Luc Moullet


• Annie Ousset-Krief


• Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz


• Josette Rey-Debove


• Jean-Pierre Sarrazac


• Danica Seleskovitch

See also

• Education in France


• University of Paris


• Sorbonne

References

External links

• Research site of the Sorbonne Nouvelle


• 
  Forum de Paris 3, news by and for Censier students


• Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle


• CROUS de Paris