Title: ?From nature to science: scientific illustration on marine mammals throughout the centuries. Old challenges and new perspectives? Organization: Ana Roque and Cristina Brito Contact email: ana.roque@iict.pt Abstract Describe, sketch and draw, take up since the dawn of humanity as part of the human nature and the relation man-nature. Among the apprehension and representation of reality, the building of an image of the world or the transmission of knowledge, the idea of associating an image to something that describes it remained as a necessity until today. The ways of doing it and the new technical ways to approach it have changed, but the idea persists, and today old techniques find new ways to emphasize the importance of the relationship between the reality and the image of that same reality. In this sense this workshop aims to look into the path of scientific illustration with regard to marine mammals, reflecting on its role as a working paper and outreach tool of scientific knowledge not only on the different species that over time have been known and studied, but also on those missing today, persisting only in descriptive and visual memories that still remain in our archives. How can we approach these documents? How can we combine historical evidence and science? What is the present day role of scientific illustration, and more specifically in the history of the marine mammals? research? This workshop is organized in the scope of the project ?Knowledge and recognition in areas of Portuguese influence: registries, scientific expeditions, traditional knowledge and biodiversity in Subsaharian Africa and Insulindia? (FCT_HC0075). Call for papers We expect submissions from people with different academic backgrounds to 15 minutes slots. Please send a 300 word abstract until the 28 of February to ana.roque@iict.pt. Full texts can be sent later to include a volume of digital proceedings from the workshop . http://projectofct.wordpress.com/workshops/workshops-2013/ http://www.escolademar.pt/ecs2013/workshops/ -- Cristina Brito Integrated Researcher at CHAM - FCSH, UNL http://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/ Researcher of Escola de Mar www.escolademar.pt Lisboa, Portugal +351217500483