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2nd Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS)

INTERACTING BODIES - CORPS EN INTERACTION

École normale supérieure Lettres et Sciences humaines Lyon-France June 15-18 2005


THE CITY OF LYON AND THE UNIVERSITY OF LYON

The City of Lyon

Lyon was the Capital of Gaul during the Roman Empire and a great cultural and economic center during the Renaissance period. During the XIXth century, Lyon became a powerful industrial city and has now become a large European metropolis still under the influence of its enriching history. Lyon is now a listed UNESCO Heritage Site like cities such as Venice, Prague and Saint-Petersburgh. Its location, its economic dynamism and the quality of its environment have favoured Lyon’s development.

http://www.mairie-lyon.fr or http://www.lyon-france.com

Higher Education in the Rhône-Alpes Region

The Rhône-Alpes region, which includes the cities of Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Grenoble and Chambery, has 150 000 students and is the second region for Higher Education in France. Twenty four under-graduate and graduate schools have been listed in the Lyon region only, as well as four universities coupled with foreign universities or colleges.

Research in the Rhône-Alpes Region

All the scientific departments of the CNRS (national Center for scientific Research) are represented in the Rhône-Alpes Region, which means 208 units (all types together), spread over 8 sites : Grenoble, Lyon, Annecy, Modane, Le Bourget-du-Lac, St-Etienne, Bourg-en-Bresse et Valence.

l’Ecole normale supérieure Lettres et Sciences humaines

[...]" Since 1880, the Ecoles Normales Supérieures of Fontenay and Saint Cloud have creatively participated in the pedagogical progress thanks to which France has made of primary education, and then secondary education, its priority. It now also helps the country face the challenge of the development of Higher Education and of Research. The two Schools have lived through a century of innovations. After the First World War, they banked on modernity, on the new pedagogical techniques, on audio-visual methods. They chose to require precise studies instead of a very general cultural varnish and insisted on promoting History, Geography, Linguistics as well as anthropology. By choosing to settle in a European metropolis (in 2000, the School moved to Lyon), the ENS stakes a new bet on national and regional development, on new technologies of communication and the future of intellectual redeployment. This re-localization must be a re-foundation. Since 1987, the ENS has been constructing a renovated identity for itself : it has become the only ENS solely dedicated to Humanities and Social Sciences. It proposes a curriculum in which literary creation, philosophical reflection, language learning and social sciences, harmonize in the best conditions. Those are the stakes of the changing social requirements and the new scientific fronteer. The refounding of the ENS means the construction of the intellectual environment which, thanks to new technologies of information and of communication will enable new generations of ENS students to blossom and feel fully prepared to face those questions. Refoundation means a new site, a new project open to a new life, without abolishing the dynamic current inherited from our past. "

Sylvain Auroux, Director of the ENS.

Rechearch in the ENS

L’Université Lyon 2

The Université Lyon 2 functions on two main sites : Berges du Rhône, the historic site in the centre of Lyon, on the left banks of the Rhône, the heart of the University ; Porte des Alpes, South-East of the city, in the towns of Bron and Saint-Priest. The Porte des Alpes campus, in addition to its teaching and research facilities, and the Lumière IUT (University Institute of Technology), is also home to a wide variety of sporting and cultural activities. For the 2002-2003 academic year, there were more than 26,000 students for 262 national and university diplomas. Ten Faculties and Institutes offer undergraduate ("1er and 2ème cycle") and postgraduate ("3ème cycle") course in human and social sciences, arts, languages, legal science, political science, economic science and management. In addition, there is the IUT (university technology institute), the Institut de Formation Syndicale (union training institute) and the IEP de Lyon (Lyon political science institute) which are associated. Developing the resources of the digital campus is one of the priorities in the teaching field.

The Université Lumière Lyon 2 has 41 contractual research teams, including 19 University-CNRS research laboratories and 5 doctoral schools. The Institut des Sciences de l’Homme (human sciences institute) and the Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée (institute of the Orient and the Mediterranean), which are part of the national Maisons des Sciences de l’Homme (human sciences institutes) network, are two federating poles for research.

The Université Lyon 2 is also continuing to strengthen international scientific cooperation, a field in which it is already well-represented, with 53 bilateral agreements in progress for training courses, numerous research contracts and a strong presence in local, national and international cooperation networks.