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4 novembre 2016 • MSHS, SJA3, Amphi 31 Syriac and Arabic zoological literature (8-15 cent. AD). Studies on Arabic transmission of Greek zoology have mainly focused on Aristotelian tradition (which appears, by the way, to be often indirect). But the influence of Greek zoological texts, usually through Syriac translations, goes Lire la suite…

Présence et usages du chameau (Camelus dromedarius) entre le Tigre et le Nil du milieu du Ier millénaire av. J.-C. à l’époque romaine Affiche programme

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2016 Decision notification due: 30 September 2016 Deadline for papers (for moderators only): 20 January 2017 Date & Place: 7-8-9 February 2017 – CEFRES Prague Language: English, possibly French

Research on nonhuman species has remarkably flourished over the last three decades in the Humanities and Social Sciences, suggesting new perspectives and approaches which go beyond the traditional study of animals as either sources of practical benefits (food, raw material, labor work, hunting) or arbitrary cultural representations to be used Lire la suite…

Conrad Gessner, Zurich doctor, naturalist, and polymath, was the father of book history, the first to describe the flora of the Alps, the founder of modern zoology, a pioneer of biology, and author of the most richly illustrated book about minerals and fossils produced in the sixteenth century.