Dormoy-Rajramanan Christelle

• University of Lille

This article studies the department of sociology at the University of Paris Nanterre, from its creation in 1965 until the aftermath of the "May '68" events, during which time the intellectual field underwent strong politicization. This period was a founding moment, both for this local institution and for the academic development of the discipline,...

Based on archives, interviews, and testimonies, this study aims to follow the trajectory of Jacques de Chalendar, a senior official from the Finance Inspectorate during the French “May 68” events. This Gaullist aristocrat, at the time in disgrace, took advantage of the crisis situation to become an expert on the matter of university reform. He succ...

Institutionalization of multidisciplinary studies around May 1968 At the intersection of scholarly, economic and miliant interests This article offers a socio-historical analysis of the institutionalization of multidisciplinary studies by examining the demand for and availability of these types of programs in higher education and research institut...

Off-Center or Off-the-Wall ? Positions of the University of Vincennes in the 1970s French Political Science Studying the department of political science at the University of Vincennes from 1969 until 1980, this article presents the history of the discipline by taking into account : institutions that are considered secondary ; disciplinary departme...

The process of opening the University toward the wider world is an old one. Based on archival sources and testimonies, we will reconsider the actors that participated in die debate on the professionalization of the French universities during the 1950-60s. We will analyze their points of convergence and divergence, as well as the effects of the may...

The aim of this chapter is to revisit the creation of the experimental university centre known as ‘Vincennes’, which subsequently became the current Paris VIII-Saint Denis University. The history of this university, built during the summer of 1968 and instituted by decree on 7 December 1968, is still essentially unknown, or at best merely glimpsed...