François Hartog is director of studies at the École de hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), where he teaches ancient and modern historiography. He succeeded Jean-Pierre Vernant as director of the Centre Louis Gernet de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes (Louis Gernet Center for Comparative Research on Ancient Societies) and is a member of the Centre de recherches historiques. He was interim president of the EHESS in 2012. His work is characterized by a constant back and forth between past and present and is an intimate mixture of the intellectual history of ancient Greece, historiography and the study of historical forms of temporalization (his most recent works). He has greatly contributed to the formation and diffusion of the concept of the “regime of historicity” (cf. his eponymous book), which he defines as a “mode of articulating the three categories of past, present, and future”. His research sheds light on the contemporary waning of the “modern historicity regime”, due to a prevalence of the future and a belief in history, to the advantage of what he proposes to call “presentism”: a relation to time in which the present becomes the dominant category, and which gives priority to memory (traces left in the present by successive pasts) over history (reconstruction and distancing of these pasts).