Founded as an experimental academic centre in Vincennes in 1969, Université Paris 8 moved to Saint-Denis in 1980. The university has become a major teaching and research centre for humanities in the Île-de-France region and became a pioneer in fields that were usually not approached by other French universities : digital art, hypermedia, psychoanalysis, urban planning, geopolitics, cinema, plastic arts, gender studies, semiotics, etc.