DEJANIRAH COUTO
Current position : Professor of « Early Modern Portuguese Overseas History » and Early Modern Global History at École Pratique des Hautes Études (School of Advanced Studies), Section des sciences historiques et philologiques (EPHE), Sorbonne, Paris. She taught early modern and contemporary history of Portugal and its overseas Empire at the University of Paris 3-Sorbonne-Nouvelle (1976-2016). Dejanirah Couto holds two MA (Historical Geography, History of Art and Archaeology, University of Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne ; Early Modern History , University of Toulouse). She received a Ph.D in Byzantine History from the University of Toulouse (superv. Alain Ducellier) and a "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches"(HDR, second thesis to become full professor according the French system) in Early Modern History (Indian Ocean) (University of Paris X- Nanterre , 2006). A member of the research team EPHE /CNRS EA 4116 - SAPRAT (2000,-) she has been previously a member of the URA 1059 EPHE/CNRS - ERS 149 "Islamic and Oriental Studies Centre of Comparative History" . She was assigned in 2008-2010 as full time researcher at the CNRS/ UMR 7528 - "Mondes Iranien et Indien" (Iranian and Indian Worlds)". She learned Arab and Turkish at the French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO). She was a recipient of fellowships from the French government and the CNCDP (Portugal, 1999). She was appointed UNESCO expert in Angola after 1975. She is presently evaluator for the Portuguese Agency of Science and Technology (FCT). She has been involved in a number of International programs related to Early modern and modern history, maritime history, ship construction, underwater archaeology, archaeology and cartography (ANR/MeDIan, 2010-2013 ; Piri Reis University Maritime History Program ) as well as global exchanges (" Free Labor / Forced Labor, Local and Global Dynamic Constraints : Africa, Europe, Asia, from the 15th century to the present" , NExT, HeSam Université, 2016).
She is currently associated researcher at the IFEA -Istanbul (Institut Français d'Etudes Anatoliennes (French Institute of Anatolian Studies) where she held (2010-2015) an annual seminar on Ottoman Maritime History (Mediterranean and Indian Ocean). She is also vice-president of the International Association of Maritime Studies (IAMS), and Project Director at Piri Reis University, Istanbul ( 2012,-). Besides her seminars at the EPHE (Early Modern and Contemporary History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire) she organized and conducted an annual seminar at the École Française d’Extrême-Orient (2008-2015) and at the School of High Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), (2012-215). She is assoc. member of the Naval Academy of the Portuguese Navy (Lisbon, 2015) and has been appointed "officier des palmes académiques" by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (2015). A member of the board of several international peer reviews (Portugal, Italy, USA, Turkey) she supervised or co-supervised a number of MA and Ph.D thesis at the EPHE and abroad ; she convened a number of international workshops, conferences and congresses (see full list of publications on the SAPRAT website).
Her primary areas of interest are Portuguese-Ottoman-Arab-Indian political, economic and cultural interactions (Early modern age), maritime history (Mediterrranean and Indian Ocean) and underwater archaeology. She has published widely mostly on cross-cultural history, diplomacy, cryptography, cartography, maritime warfare, seafaring, port-cities and merchant networks in the Indian Ocean. Other topics adressed in recent writings include History of the Jewish/Iberian communities in the Ottoman Empire, intelligence networks, military history ( fortifications), European travels (Ottoman Empire, Safavid Persia) and Jesuit missions in South and Southeast Asia.
Selected Bibliography (books) - Les langues de la négociation, approches historiennes, Dejanirah Couto and Stéphane Péquignot (eds.), Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017; Empires en marche : L’Europe et la Chine, XVIe-XIXe siècle, Dejanirah Couto and François Lachaud (éds.), Paris : Ed. EFEO, 2017 ; Seapower, Technology and Trade : Studies in Turkish Maritime History, Dejanirah Couto, Feza Günergun, Maria Pia Pedani (eds.), Istanbul: Denizler Kitabevi, 2014, 604 p.; Harp ve Sulh. Avrupa ve Osmanlilar, Dejanirah Couto (ed.) Istanbul : Kitapyayinevi, 2010, 424 p.; Revisiting Ormuz. Portuguese Interactions in the Persian Gulf Region in the Early Modern Period, Dejanirah Couto and Rui Loureiro (eds.), Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008; Atlas historique du golfe Persique (XVIème-XVIIIème siècles) / Historical Atlas of the Persian Gulf / Târîhî Halig Fâris, Dejanirah Couto, Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont, Mahmoud Taleghani, (éds.) (coord. Zoltán Biedermann) Turnhout : Brepols, 2006, 490 p.
She is currently associated researcher at the IFEA -Istanbul (Institut Français d'Etudes Anatoliennes (French Institute of Anatolian Studies) where she held (2010-2015) an annual seminar on Ottoman Maritime History (Mediterranean and Indian Ocean). She is also vice-president of the International Association of Maritime Studies (IAMS), and Project Director at Piri Reis University, Istanbul ( 2012,-). Besides her seminars at the EPHE (Early Modern and Contemporary History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire) she organized and conducted an annual seminar at the École Française d’Extrême-Orient (2008-2015) and at the School of High Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), (2012-215). She is assoc. member of the Naval Academy of the Portuguese Navy (Lisbon, 2015) and has been appointed "officier des palmes académiques" by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (2015). A member of the board of several international peer reviews (Portugal, Italy, USA, Turkey) she supervised or co-supervised a number of MA and Ph.D thesis at the EPHE and abroad ; she convened a number of international workshops, conferences and congresses (see full list of publications on the SAPRAT website).
Her primary areas of interest are Portuguese-Ottoman-Arab-Indian political, economic and cultural interactions (Early modern age), maritime history (Mediterrranean and Indian Ocean) and underwater archaeology. She has published widely mostly on cross-cultural history, diplomacy, cryptography, cartography, maritime warfare, seafaring, port-cities and merchant networks in the Indian Ocean. Other topics adressed in recent writings include History of the Jewish/Iberian communities in the Ottoman Empire, intelligence networks, military history ( fortifications), European travels (Ottoman Empire, Safavid Persia) and Jesuit missions in South and Southeast Asia.
Selected Bibliography (books) - Les langues de la négociation, approches historiennes, Dejanirah Couto and Stéphane Péquignot (eds.), Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017; Empires en marche : L’Europe et la Chine, XVIe-XIXe siècle, Dejanirah Couto and François Lachaud (éds.), Paris : Ed. EFEO, 2017 ; Seapower, Technology and Trade : Studies in Turkish Maritime History, Dejanirah Couto, Feza Günergun, Maria Pia Pedani (eds.), Istanbul: Denizler Kitabevi, 2014, 604 p.; Harp ve Sulh. Avrupa ve Osmanlilar, Dejanirah Couto (ed.) Istanbul : Kitapyayinevi, 2010, 424 p.; Revisiting Ormuz. Portuguese Interactions in the Persian Gulf Region in the Early Modern Period, Dejanirah Couto and Rui Loureiro (eds.), Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008; Atlas historique du golfe Persique (XVIème-XVIIIème siècles) / Historical Atlas of the Persian Gulf / Târîhî Halig Fâris, Dejanirah Couto, Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont, Mahmoud Taleghani, (éds.) (coord. Zoltán Biedermann) Turnhout : Brepols, 2006, 490 p.
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Based on the itinerary and works of an original figure of the Portuguese imperial society, Manuel Godinho de Erédia (1558?-1623), the article reflects on the complex relations between two capitals, between two Romes of the second half of the 16th century : that of the spiritual empire of post-
Tridentine Catholicism founded on the ruins of the great ancient empire, which can be seen on the maps of our ordinary historiography; and that of the second capital of a Portuguese empire in the process of expansion, towards the East, and eventually extended to the whole world. It highlights the double system of references that nourishes and aims to reinforce the scholarly credentials of Erédia, a man of the Rome of the East : the humanist soil of a culture shared with his contemporaries across distances; the renewed horizon, carried by the Iberian crown, of an imperial construction that does not equal but surpasses that of ancient Rome. The proposed reading of Erédia’s numerous productions, in particular his Atlas or his Summa de Arvores e Plantas da Índia intra Gangez, aims to shed light on this double system of references, which thus weaves another vision of the production of knowledge, with, against or from Rome, at the end of the 16th century.