Levent Yilmaz of Bilgi University (Istambul) is Professor of European cultural and intellectual history at Istanbul Bilgi University where he chairs the History Department. His research focuses on the evolution of historiography and on historical thinking in Europe between 14th and 18th centuries. He worked with François Hartog and received his Ph.D from EHESS with a dissertation on the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns. He also worked as senior editor for various publishers (Actes Sud, YKY etc.). His most recent monography is Le Temps Moderne (Gallimard, 2004). He also edited the Turkish version of Yves Bonnefoy's Dictionary of Mythologies (2 volumes, Dost Kitabevi, 2000) and published an edited volume on Giambattista Vico and the Basic Concepts of New Science (2007). He works on the concept of human nature in the natural law tradition and in historiography with a special emphasis on Giambattista Vico's work. His current research is on the historical-legal sources of the New Science.

Conférences

• Machiavel: Historien de la cité ?
  Dans le cadre du séminaire de François Hartog
  Mardi 17 décembre de 11h à 13h à l’EHESS, salle Jean-Pierre Vernant (Le France)

• Vico, historien -maladroit- des origines. Mais, pourquoi ?
  Dans le cadre du séminaire de Antoine Lilti et de Silvia Sebastiani
  Vendredi 20 décembre de 11h à 13h à l’EHESS, salle 3 (Le France)

Accueil

• Invité par François Hartog

Durée du séjour

1 mois (décembre)