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ICHTYA 2017 conference website is now open. The call for papers is open from the 7 March 2016 to the 31 May 2016. The selected papers will be published the 20 June 2016.

The conference "Animal worlds in Middle Ages and Renaissance” take place at the university of Amiens, 9-11 March 2016. Several papers given by the ICHTYA research group will talk about fishes in food, whales and marine monsters.

Members if the ICHTYA research project will be involved in the CTHS 2016 Congress, entitled “Animal and man”, 11-15 April 2016. Inside the congress, we will participate at the GDRI Zoomathia conference, devoted to “Ethological issues in Ancient and Medieval Documents (texts and images)”.

The research programme ICHTYA and CRAHAM organize a conference, on March, 25th, 2016 at the University of Caen Normandy, entitled “Identifying and describing aquatic animals in the Middle Ages”. Within the domain of Ichtyology, medieval sources give confusinf informations, sometimes contradictory, and thus far from our modern zoological classifications. Upon sources of varied nature (literature, encyclopaedias, archive documents, archaeology), we will study problems of the identification, the naming and the classification of aquatic species. The conference will confront various points of views from historians, art historians, philologists, archaeologists and zoo-archaeologists.