CfP: Aquatic Animals and Monsters of the Northern Seas: Imagination, Knowledge, Exploitation, from Antiquity to 1600 31 May-3 Jun 2017 Cerisy-la-Salle (France)

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:

1. Knowledge and the Transmission of Knowledge : Medical Knowledge, Zoological Knowledge, Descriptions, Identifications
2. Savoir-faire and Exploitation: aquatic farming, fishing, cooking, medicine
3. Explorations – real and imaginary

Read the detailed Call for papers: http://ichtya2017.sciencesconf.org/resource/page?id=1&lang=en

Submit a paper  http://ichtya2017.sciencesconf.org/user/submit

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

Scientific comitee

• Catherine Jacquemard (CRAHAM, Université de Caen)
• Brigitte Gauvin (CRAHAM, Université de Caen)
• Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel (CRAHAM, Université de Caen)
• Benoît Clavel (Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Archéozoologie et archéobotanique)
• Thierry Buquet (CRAHAM, CNRS)