Levent Yilmaz a enseigné l'histoire intellectuelle et culturelle à l'Université Bilgi d'Istanbul et à l’Université Koç où il a aussi dirigé Akmed-Centre de recherche sur l’histoire méditerranéenne. Ses recherches portent sur l'historiographie européenne (du XVI^e au XVIII^e siècles). Il a travaillé avec François Hartog à l'EHESS où il a défendu sa thèse de doctorat sur la Querelle des Modernes. Ses travaux récents portent sur les théories de la sociabilité, l’historiographie des origines et la formation du contrat social (de Machiavel à Vico) et le politique comme objet des sciences humaines. Il a été Senior Braudel Fellow (European University Institute), Directeur d'études invité à l'EHESS et Mellon Fellow à Harvard University, Villa I Tatti. Il a obtenu la bourse Prestige 2016-2017 et la bourse Marie Curie Fellow et sera accueilli au GEHM.

Parcours universitaire

• January 2017 : Prestige & Marie Curie Fellow, EHESS, Paris.

• Since July 2015 : Full Professor. Koç University. History Department

• Since January 2016:  Director, Suna & İnan Kıraç Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations Antalya-NYC.

• 2015 : (6 months) Mellon Fellow, Harvard University, Villa I Tatti.

• 2014-2015 (9 months) Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Paris.

• 2013-2014 :Tübitak Fellow. Visiting researcher, Freie Universität, Berlin.

• 2013 : Directeur d’études invité. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

• 2013 : Senior Braudel Fellow. European University Institute, Florence.

• 2010-15 : Full Professor and Chair. İstanbul Bilgi University. Department of History (also member of Cultural Studies MA and Comparative Literature programs).

• 2002-2010 : Associate Professor. İstanbul Bilgi University. Department of History (also member of Cultural Studies MA and Comparative Literature programs).

• 2003-2005 : Postdoctoral fellow, Centre Louis Gernet & Centre de recherches historiques, EHESS, Paris.

• 2003 : Research fellow, Foundation for Intellectual History, Chicago, USA.

• 2003 : Qualification for « maître de conférences » by Conseil National des Universités (CNU, the 10th section, “comparative literature” and the 22nd section, “early modern and modern history”).

• 1994-2002 : Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Ph.D. dissertation in «History and civilisations » prepared under the supervision of Mr François Hartog and defended in November 2002. The jury: Mr Roger Chartier (president), Mr Marcel Gauchet, Ms Françoise Waquet, Mr Quentin Skinner. Title of the thesis : « La Querelle des Modernes. Temps, nouveauté et histoire à travers la Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes ».  Grade: “Summa Cum Laude”.

• 1996-1999 : Scuola di Alti Studi in Scienze della Cultura della Fondazione San Carlo, Modena (Italy). «Dottorato di ricerca» in Sciences of Culture. Title of the dissertation : « La Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes et le rapport au temps ». Supervisor: M. François Hartog. Date: 18-2-2000. Members of the jury: Lea Ritter Santini, Maurice Olender, Tullio Gregory, Remo Bodei, Francisco Jarauta, Wolfgang Schluchter.

• April 1996 and May 1997Fellow. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (Napels). Seminars of Paul Ricoeur.

• 1993-1994  Diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA). Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) ; Dissertation supervisor: Mr François Hartog.

• 1993 : BA. Faculty of communications. University of Ankara.

• 1987 : Oak Park High School, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

• 1986 : Tevfik Fikret French High School, Ankara, Turkey.

Responsabilités éditoriales

Historia Philosophica; Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna; Kült; Adalya.

Refereeship for Toplum ve Bilim, International Law Studies, Journal of Genocide Studies, Journal of Classical Studies.

Enseignement

• Pourquoi écrit-on - toujours - l’histoire ? Considérations sur l’innovation et le passé
  4 cours au Collège de France (Mars 2018)

Sélection de publications

• Politikon. On Human Sociability (from Machiavelli to Vico), forthcoming

• Ada ile Brunik(Poems), forthcoming, 2017.

• The Vico Road (ed. L. Yilmaz, M. Sanna), Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2016.

• Modern Zamanın Tarihi, Batı’da Yeni’nin Değer Haline Gelişi(History of the Modern. How novelty became a value, revised translation of Le temps moderne with a new introduction), 2010, İstanbul, Metis Yayınları (Arabic, Bulgarian, Italian and English translations are forthcoming).

• A Retrospective of Yüksel Arslan. Catalogue of the exhibition curated by LY at santralistanbul, September 2009-March 2010, 612 pages.

• Turkish Society and Advertising. 20 years of Turkish Advertisement. June-July 2009. Catalogue of the exhibition edited by Levent Yılmaz, Haluk Mesci and Emre Senan.

• Afrika(Poems), 2009, İstanbul. Metis Yayinlari.

• Giambattista Vico ve Yeni Bilim’in Temel Kavramları(Vico and the founding concepts of the New Science), 2007 (edited by LY), İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul.

• Saturn. Selected Poems, 2006, New York, The Sheep Meadow Press.

• Düşünen Söyleşiler(book of interviews with Lévi-Strauss, Umberto Eco etc.), 2005, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları.

• Le temps moderne. Variations sur les Anciens et les contemporains, 2004, Paris, Editions Gallimard.

• Turkish translation of the Dictionnaire des Mythologies, Yves Bonnefoy, (Flammarion, 81), Mitolojiler Sözlüğü, edited by L. Yilmaz, Ankara, Dost Yayinlari, 2000.

• Sonülke(Poems), Istanbul, Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, 2000; 2nd edition, 2004, Istanbul, Metis Yayinlari.

• Tiraje. Exhibition catalogue. Milli Reasürans Art Gallery, 1997.

• Kaplan Zamanı ve Geçiş(Poems), Istanbul, AltıKırkbeş Yayınları, 1997.

•  Kayıp Ruhlar Isimsiz Adalar (Poems), Istanbul, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 1994.

• 1945 Sonrası Fransız Şiiri Antolojisi(Anthology of French Poetry since 1945, translations from Jabes, Bonnefoy, du Bouchet, Pichette, Jaccottet, Dupin, Deguy, Roche, Pleynet, Roubaud, Prigent and interviews with poets), Istanbul, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 1994.

• Hayal ile Fırtına(Poems), Ankara, Gece Yayınları, 1991.

• Anthologie de la Poésie Turque Contemporaine(with Jean Pinquié), Paris, Editions Publisud, 1991.

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