
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;"><strong>Prof.Dr. Dejanirah Couto</strong><br />Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes<br />Section des Sciences Historiques et philologiques</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;"><br />En Sorbonne, Paris.<br /></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;"><strong>"Globalization: a new appraisal of  Pîrî Reîs scientific network"</strong></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;">Pîrî Reîs, the famous Ottoman admiral and cartographer is someone whose scientific and intellectual legacy exceeds the borders of Turkey. A real cultural mediator, with numerous skills, interest for innovation and intellectual curiosity, the author of the <em>‘Kitab-ı Bahriyye’</em> connected scientific traditions and cultural heritages. He is, in this sense, a typical figure of the “Modernity”, a man of the Renaissance. However, even if Turkish and international historiographies devoted a great number of scholarly studies to him, we still need to better assess his methodology of work, his criteria to select information, and consequently to have a better knowledge of his <em>milieu</em> and of which scientific traditions he turned to. In order to obtain  a clearer dressing of this issues, the conference will  tackle the following points :</span></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;">° What do we know about his cartographic atelier and about his international scientific network ?</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;">°<strong> What sources  of information did he used to build up some parts - specially about Africa and Asia -  of his <em>‘Kitab-ı Bahriyye’</em> ?</strong></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;"><strong>Dejanirah Couto </strong>holds 2 Masters degrees,  a french Ph.D thesis in Byzantine History  and an<em> Habilitation </em>in Modern History at the Univ. of Paris X-Nanterre (2006). She is currently  teaching at the  École Pratique des Hautes  Études -  Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris, in the area of Maritime history, History of  Overseas European Expansion with a focus on early modern Asia and the Portuguese-Ottoman  interactions in the Mediterranean and  the Indian Ocean (16th-17th centuries).  She is interested in political, social and diplomatic  aspects and has published widely about the Arabian provinces of the Ottoman empire (Southern Iraq, Egypt,Yemen), the Persian Gulf, Iran and India (16<sup>e</sup> century), and on a number of subjects related to this topics (diplomacy, cartography, maritime warfare, merchant networks). She has also developed an interest in  historical and ethnographical writing (chronicles, geographies and travel accounts). Her current work is centred on Ottoman maritime warfare in the Indian Ocean, specially in the Red Sea and the comparative history of empires.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;">Between 2003 and 2006 she coordinated the international research project <em>Historical Atlas of the Persian Gulf</em> together with the <a href="http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr/">Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes</a></span></span></span> <span style="color: #888888;">Paris) and the University of Teheran (Iran). Member of the advisory board of five Historical Journals, she has been a member of the Team 3 of the European Science Foundation,  and is actually a part of the EU Evaluation Panel for european universities scientific projects in the area of History.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;">She is also part of the french ANR (National Research Agency) international program on the Indian Ocean and of the FCT team, working on a new edition of the <a href="http://www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt/garciasilvafigueiroa/resumo_eng.html"><em>Comentarios de Don Garcia de Silva y Figueroa</em></a>, (a Spanish  ambassador and travelogue to India and Persia dating from the early 17th century) and on the introduction of the french edition of the <em>Bahriye</em> of Pîrî Reîs directed by Prof. Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont (CNRS, Paris).</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;">She has taught in Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Germany, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, India,  the USA, Brazil, and participated extensively in conferences in Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Italy, France, Belgium,  the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Austria,  Russia, Turkey, Iran, Bahreïn, India, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Canada and USA.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;">She was awarded the <em>Palmes Academiques</em> from the French Republic in 2008.</span></span></span></p>
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