EUROPEAN CETACEAN SOCIETY CONFERENCE 2008 Announcement for the workshop: Marine mammals in the arts, social sciences and other disciplines On Sunday 9th of March 9.00-1700 hours, at the European Cetacean Society conference. Within the ECS we are most familiar with studies on marine mammals in the context of the natural sciences, often biology, or via such practical studies as veterinary medicine. There are, however, many past and present academic studies of marine mammals in disciplines like history, anthropology, art, social sciences, culture studies and so on (as can be seen from numerous sources on the internet). We would like to propose a workshop entitled: "Marine mammals in the arts, social sciences and other disciplines". The aim is to cover academic studies about marine mammals that are outside the general scope of the ECS. Just a few varied examples are (1)the use of iconography to document historical strandings and to document and discuss the representation of whales through the ages, (2) an investigation into folk classification by fishers concerning cetaceans (this specific example is from a Brasilian paper), (3) the social geography of whalewatching, (4) integrating natural and social science in studies that involve both types of research: different philosophies which direct how research should be carried out. In November when we put a preliminary proposal for this workshop on MARMAM we had some good responses, so we decided to go ahead with the workshop. We would like to invite anyone interested in attending the workshop to register with Marjan Addink. Addink@naturalis.nnm.nl <mailto:Addink@naturalis.nnm.nl>. If you would like to present a paper please contact her at the same address with details of your presentation. The cost per person will be around 15-20 Euro. The cost is to cover things like the rent for the workshop room and coffee, and will depend on the number of participants. Marjan Addink (Biologist) Graham Pierce (Biologist) Joost Schokkenbroek (Historian)