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Seventh Cologne Whaling Meeting

Alle drei Jahre veranstaltet der Kölner Walfanghistoriker Klaus Barthelmess ein Symposium zum Thema Walfang. Die Themen des diesjährigen Treffens vom 10. - 12. November 2006 sind seiner Ankündigung zu entnehmen.

Köln, 16. Juni 2006 - The triennial Cologne Whaling Meetings are one of only two regular international conferences on the cultural history of human-cetacean relations, worldwide, from prehistoric times to the present day.

In the past, they have attracted between 60 and 80 participants from up to a dozen countries.

Friday evening starts with the traditional greasy gossip, a casual warm-up reunion in a Cologne pub, where you can meet old friends and make new ones from all over the whaling world.

Saturday will feature an all-day conference programme of eight presentations, with coffee and lunch breaks in between. There will be a Saturday night dinner (at participants' own expense), hopefully - as in previous years - followed by a concert of whaling-related music, which currently, though, is not yet scheduled (suggestions welcome).

Sunday morning will be devoted to four more presentations. The conference will close around 1:30 PM.

As usual, participants can expect to see a specially arranaged exhibition. Current plans aim at compiling a pioneering, ambitious exhibition on Baleen in Art and Artifacts from Seven Centuries.

Presentations cover the entire range of human-cetacean relations, from mythology, literature, art, archaeology, music, law, technology of whale products and whaling methods, the history and maintenance of whaling collections and monuments, historical strandings, early cetology, whaling history, personal recollections of whaling veterans, to current whaling policy.

Participation, however, is by personal invitation of the organizer only! Applications to participate, outlining your specific interest in whaling history, can be in German or English and will be forwarded by the editor of Fluke, Alfred Schmidt (). The participation fee will probably be in the range of 75 Euros, and will cover break snacks and beverages, as well as the conference pack including a souvenir. The dinner on Saturday is at participants' own expense.

Program
updated October 31st

Friday, 10 November 2006

18:00 Casual warm-up reunion of conference participants for greasy gossip at a Cologne pub, location to be disclosed to registered participants.

Saturday, 11 November 2006

Conference venue to be disclosed to registered participants.

09:00 admission & registration

09:30 Klaus Barthelmess, Cologne: opening remarks

09:40 Vicki E. Szabo, PhD, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee: The archaeology of medieval whale use: new approaches

10: 25 Dr. Uwe Schnall, formerly German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven: Whale food, Vinland, Anno 1002: The literary tradition of the first whale recorded to have been eaten in the New World

11:10 coffee break

11:25 Ingvar Svanberg, University of Uppsala, Sweden: Troll whales in Scandinavian folklore and mythology

12:15 Jorge Guzman-Gutierrez, PhD, visiting scholar, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, & ambassadorial secretary, Embassy of Chile in Oslo: Whales and whalers of the Southern Seas: Testimonies from cartography and travel accounts of the 16th and 17th centuries

12:55 lunch break

14:00 Karin Gille-Linne, historian, & Sandra Juwig, architect, Hannoversch Münden, Germany: How did the narwhal get to Hannoversch Münden? Carvings in 17th-century half-timbering in the South of Lower Saxony, Germany

14:45 Nicholas B. Redman, whale bone researcher, Teddington, England: The whale bone inventory project - progress report

15:30 coffee break

15:45 Thierry du Pasquier, whaling historian, Paris: The changing uses of baleen in people's daily lives

16:30 Tony Dumitru, Nantucket Historical Association: Whaling and the spermaceti candle industry on Nantucket

17:15 adjourn

19:30 dinner buffet at Restaurant.

21:00 approx. Stuart M. Frank, PhD, director emeritus, Kendall Institute of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts: Concert: Shakespeare and the Gingham Gown, or, a sailorÕs night on the town

Sunday, 12 November 2006

location at previous day's conference venue

09:30 conference venue opens

09:55 Klaus Barthelmess, Cologne: hangover remarks

10:00 Joost Schokkenbroek, Nederlands Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam: Too hot to handle? Dutch whaling and seal hunting in the Arctic during the nineteenth century

10:45 Susan Lebo, PhD, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii: Nineteenth-century whaling trade with Pacific indigenous communities

11:30 coffee break

11:45 Jan-Erik Ringstad, Christensen's Whaling Museum, Sandefjord, Norway: Sandefjord's development to the world's whaling capital

12:30 Klaus Barthelmess, Cologne: An international campaign against whaling and sealing prior to World War One

[supernumerary, in case a presenter drops out at short notice:
Stuart Frank, PhD, director emeritus, Kendall Institute of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts: t.b.a.]

13:15 Klaus Barthelmess: Closing remarks, adjourn till November 2009