
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: left;"><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><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><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><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><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><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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