The Colloquium is devoted to the history of fish, aquatic monsters and mammals in the northern seas (the English Channel, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea, the North Atlantic), from antiquity to 1600. The colloquium is based on three themes:
- Transmission of Knowledge: naming, classifying, identifying
- Products of the Sea : fishing, cooking, transforming
- Iconography: representing marine monsters through centuries
- Between fantasy and reality: marine creatures in literature
- Whales: demography and migration
Publication of the proceedings in the journal Anthropozoologica : https://ichtya2017.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/8
Download programme booklet (25 mai 2017) (PDF) : https://ichtya2017.sciencesconf.org/data/e_livret_Ichtya.pdf
Download poster (PDF) : https://ichtya2017.sciencesconf.org/data/Affiche_Ichtya_2017.pdf
Download booklet programme (PDF) : https://ichtya2017.sciencesconf.org/data/FlyerAnimaux2017_cerisy.pdf
Read the detailed Call for papers: http://ichtya2017.sciencesconf.org/resource/page?id=1&lang=en (Call for papers is closed since June 2016).
Program - Timetable : https://ichtya2017.sciencesconf.org/program
List of speakers (with abstracts) : https://ichtya2017.sciencesconf.org/browse/speaker
The event is organised by the Centre for Research in Archaeology, Ancient History and the Middle Ages (CRAHAM, University of Caen Normandy, UMR6273) as part of the research programme ICHTYA and that of the International Research Group, GDRI Zoomathia. It belongs to the cycle of colloquia on Medieval Normandy, organised by the Office Universitaire d’Etudes Normandes in partnership with the Centre Culturel International of Cerisy la Salle
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