{"id":850,"date":"2024-10-23T09:56:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T07:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cepam.cnrs.fr\/sites\/zoomathia\/?p=850"},"modified":"2024-10-23T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T07:56:33","slug":"colloque-zoomathia-il-ne-leur-manque-que-la-parole-sons-cris-et-voix-des-animaux-dans-les-cultures-antiques-et-medievales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cepam.cnrs.fr\/sites\/zoomathia\/2024\/10\/23\/colloque-zoomathia-il-ne-leur-manque-que-la-parole-sons-cris-et-voix-des-animaux-dans-les-cultures-antiques-et-medievales\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloque Zoomathia | \u00ab Il ne leur manque que la parole \u00bb : Sons, cris et voix des animaux dans les cultures antiques et m\u00e9di\u00e9vales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Colloque international du r\u00e9seau international de recherche ZOOMATHIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Programme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Jeudi 24, Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers), B\u00e2timent de recherche Nord, salle 0.010&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Accueil<strong>&nbsp;:&nbsp;<\/strong>9h00-9h30<br>9h30-10h00 Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 1&nbsp;: Antiquit\u00e9 gr\u00e9co-latine<\/strong><br>10h00-11h00 : Conf\u00e9rence<strong>&nbsp;inaugurale<\/strong>&nbsp;par Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Biville (Univ. Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2),&nbsp;<em>Repr\u00e9senter les \u00e9missions sonores animali\u00e8res dans les structures phoniques du langage humain.&nbsp;<\/em><em>Le t\u00e9moignage du monde romain<br><\/em>11h00-11h45&nbsp;: Oliver Hellmann (Trier Univ.),&nbsp;<em>Animal Sounds in Aelian\u2019s De Natura Animalium<br><\/em>11h45-12h30&nbsp;: Alessandra Scaccuto (Univ. de Siena, Univ. C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur), \u2018<em>Ergo si varii sensus animalia cogunt \/muta tamen cum sint, varias emittere voces\u2019\u2026&nbsp;<\/em><em>(Lucr\u00e8ce, 5.1087-1088) : les variations des chants des oiseaux dans les savoirs zoologiques latins<br><\/em>12h30-14h00 D\u00e9jeuner dans le patio<br>14h00-14h45&nbsp;: Maud Pfaff-Reydellet (Univ. de Strasbourg),&nbsp;<em>Le molosse et la corneille : explorer toute la gamme d\u2019\u00e9missions sonores des animaux chez Lucr\u00e8ce, Virgile et Ovide<br><\/em>14h45-15h30 : Thomas Galoppin (Univ. de Toulouse),<em>&nbsp;Quand les chiens aboient, la divinit\u00e9 les entend. Communications animales dans des pratiques divinatoires et des incantations d\u2019\u00e9poque romaine<br><\/em>15h30&nbsp;: Pause<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 2 : Moyen \u00c2ge et Renaissance<\/strong><br>16h00-16h45 : Donovan Giraud (Univ. de Lyon 2),&nbsp;<em>La voix des corbeaux au Moyen \u00c2ge&nbsp;: imitations et apprentissages intersp\u00e9cifiques<br><\/em>16h45-17h45 : Martha Beullens (Katholieke Univ. Leuven),&nbsp;<em>Des oiseaux et des hommes : signifier par le chant chez Albert le Grand<br><\/em>17h45-18h30 : Jean-Marie Fritz (Univ. de Bourgogne),&nbsp;<em>\u00c9crire l\u2019inarticul\u00e9 : \u00e9tude compar\u00e9e des onomatop\u00e9es animales en latin et dans les langues vernaculaires<br><\/em>19h30 D\u00eener au Campus Condorcet<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Vendredi 25 matin, Coll\u00e8ge de France, Paris V, salle de conf\u00e9rence, 3 rue d\u2019Ulm<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 3 : \u00c9thologie<\/strong><br>9h00 : accueil<br>9h15-10h15 : Conf\u00e9rence<strong>&nbsp;inaugurale<\/strong>&nbsp;par Dominique Lestel (\u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure, Paris),&nbsp;<em>Qu\u2019est-ce que l\u2019\u00e9thologie philosophique ?<br><\/em>10h15-11h00&nbsp;: S\u00e9bastien Deregnaucourt (Univ. Paris-Nanterre et Institut Francilien d\u2019Ethologie)&nbsp;:&nbsp;<em>Que disent les animaux&nbsp;? L\u2019approche \u00e9thologique<br><\/em>11h00-11h45&nbsp;: G\u00e9rard Leboucher (Univ. Paris-Nanterre),&nbsp;<em>\u00c0 quoi les sons articul\u00e9s par les animaux non-humains leur servent-ils ?<br><\/em>11h45-12h30&nbsp;: H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Courvoisier (Univ. Paris-Saclay),&nbsp;<em>La bioacoustique&nbsp;: \u00e9tude scientifique des sons produits par les animaux<br><\/em>12h30-14h30 D\u00e9jeuner traiteur \u00e0 l\u2019Institut catholique de Paris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Vendredi 25 apr\u00e8s-midi, Institut catholique de Paris V, salle V20, 74 rue de Vaugirard<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 4&nbsp;: Renaissance<\/strong><br>14h30-15h15 : Brigitte Gauvin (Pr. Univ. de Caen-Basse-Normandie),&nbsp;<em>De brutorum loquela agere infructuosum non est\u2026&nbsp;<\/em>: le&nbsp;<em>De brutorum loquela<\/em>&nbsp;de Girolamo Fabrizio (1601)<br>15h15-16h00 : Ir\u00e8ne Salas (\u00c9cole des Hautes \u00e9tudes en Sciences Sociales),&nbsp;<em>L\u2019\u00e9trange \u00ab&nbsp;voix humaine&nbsp;\u00bb du perroquet : perspectives zoo-po\u00e9tiques \u00e0 la Renaissance<br><\/em>16h00 Pause<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 5 : Patristique et Islam<\/strong><br>16h30-17h15&nbsp;: Meyssa Ben Saad (Univ. de la Manouba, Tunis),&nbsp;<em>Langage animal&nbsp;<\/em>versus<em>&nbsp;langage humain ou la distinction&nbsp;<\/em>fas\u012b\u1e25 a\u2018\u011fam<em>&nbsp;dans le&nbsp;<\/em>Kit\u0101b al-\u1e24ayaw\u0101n<em>&nbsp;d\u2019al-&nbsp;<\/em><em>\u01e6<\/em><em>\u0101<\/em><em>\u1e25<\/em><em>i<\/em><em>\u1e93<\/em><em>&nbsp;(776-868)<br><\/em>17h15-18h&nbsp;: Nicolas Payen (Ecole normale de Lyon) :&nbsp;<em>Le souffle et la production de sons chez les animaux en Islam m\u00e9di\u00e9val<br><\/em>18h&nbsp;: Conclusions du colloque<br>19h00 D\u00eener libre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pr\u00e9sentation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organisation<\/strong>&nbsp;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isabelle Draelants (CNRS-IRHT) \u2013 Jean-Charles Duc\u00e8ne (EPHE 4<sup>e<\/sup>&nbsp;section-UMR 7192) \u2013 Stavros Lazaris (UMR 8167 &amp; ICP-EA 7403) \u2013 Arnaud&nbsp;Zucker (Univ. C\u00f4te-d\u2019Azur-CEPAM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Comit\u00e9 scientifique<\/strong>&nbsp;:<br>Santiago Aragon, Elisabetta Carpitelli, Christophe Chanzedon, Jean-Charles Duc\u00e8ne, Isabelle Draelants, Michel Kreutzer, Stavros Lazaris, Baudouin Van den Abeele, Arnaud Zucker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><em>De naturis animantium :<br>Leonum est fremere uel rugire, tigridum rancare, pardorum felire, pantherarum caurire, ursorum uncare uel saeuire, aprorum frendere, lyncum urcare, luporum ululare, serpentium sibilare, onagrorum mugilare, ceruorum rugire, boum mugire, equorum hinnire, asinorum rudere uel oncare, porcorum grunnire, uerris quiritare, arietum blatterare, ouium balare, hircorum miccire, haedorum bebare, canum latrare seu baubari, uulpium gannire<\/em>.<br>Su\u00e9tone,&nbsp;<em>Prata<\/em>, frag. 161<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_13163\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cepam.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/zoomathia2024b.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cepam.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/zoomathia2024b.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13163\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ms. Cambridge, Trinity College, O.4.7, f. 75r<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cette liste de cris d\u2019animaux, conserv\u00e9e dans un fragment de Su\u00e9tone (I<sup>er<\/sup>&nbsp;EC) a fait l\u2019objet de tr\u00e8s nombreuses reprises et enrichissements, depuis l\u2019Antiquit\u00e9 jusqu\u2019aux temps modernes, en passant par Isidore de S\u00e9ville, les glossaires m\u00e9di\u00e9vaux et Alexandre Neckam, pour ne parler que du monde latin. Il est peu d\u2019enfants qui n\u2019ont appris \u00e0 d\u00e9signer par un verbe adapt\u00e9 le cri des principaux animaux\u2026 La sonosph\u00e8re humaine est peupl\u00e9e de&nbsp;<em>voces&nbsp;<\/em>animales : est-ce un v\u00e9ritable langage ? est-il propre ou partag\u00e9&nbsp;? est-ce un cri, une voix, une parole ? r\u00e9v\u00e8le-t-il une intelligence comparable \u00e0 celle des hommes ? \u00c0 peu pr\u00e8s toutes les cultures se sont pos\u00e9 ces questions et leur ont apport\u00e9 des r\u00e9ponses diverses, parfois complexes. Dans notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9 occidentale, la&nbsp;<em>doxa&nbsp;<\/em>\u00e9volue vers une position \u00ab&nbsp;antisp\u00e9ciste&nbsp;\u00bb, qui remet radicalement en cause, tant du point de vue moral que de celui des aptitudes et des performances sensibles, psychiques, sociales et culturelles, la \u00ab&nbsp;diff\u00e9rence&nbsp;\u00bb humaine. La requalification de l\u2019\u00eatre humain comme \u00ab&nbsp;animal humain&nbsp;\u00bb manifeste cette tendance \u00e0 r\u00e9ins\u00e9rer&nbsp;<em>homo sapiens&nbsp;<\/em>dans l\u2019ordre et la communaut\u00e9 animale, dans l\u2019esprit d\u2019un certain continuisme aristot\u00e9licien. Quelle place, quelle fonction et quelle signification donnaient les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s anciennes et m\u00e9di\u00e9vales aux&nbsp;<em>voces&nbsp;<\/em>animales ? Si par langage, on entend la facult\u00e9 qu\u2019a l\u2019humain d\u2019utiliser des sons distinctifs pour exprimer et communiquer des perceptions, des images mentales ou des sensations, les animaux, ou certains d\u2019entre eux, utilisent-ils, selon les Anciens, ce mode d\u2019interaction sonore ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le colloque ne vise pas \u00e0 reprendre la th\u00e9matique du cri et du son animal sous l\u2019angle lexicographique des&nbsp;<em>verba sonandi<\/em>, souvent bien \u00e9tudi\u00e9, mais \u00e0 explorer d\u2019autres aspects de la&nbsp;<em>vox<\/em>&nbsp;animale, dans l\u2019Antiquit\u00e9 grecque et romaine et dans le Moyen \u00c2ge latin, byzantin, arabe\u2026 Il entend aborder ainsi les conceptions d\u00e9velopp\u00e9es par les penseurs et observateurs anciens pour d\u00e9crire et\/ou interpr\u00e9ter les&nbsp;<em>voces&nbsp;<\/em>des animaux, et les cat\u00e9gories qu\u2019ils ont \u00e9labor\u00e9es pour distinguer le bruit du langage. Ont-ils ainsi, par exemple, distingu\u00e9 le ronronnement du chat de son miaulement&nbsp;? les variations circonstancielles des chants d\u2019un m\u00eame oiseau&nbsp;? De l\u2019observation et de l\u2019analyse, comment et par quel crible sont-ils pass\u00e9s \u00e0 la d\u00e9nomination du cri ou du chant&nbsp;? En vertu de quoi le son \u00e9mis par l\u2019oiseau a-t-il \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lev\u00e9 au niveau du chant alors que les quadrup\u00e8des, parfois domestiqu\u00e9s depuis longtemps, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duits \u00e0 pousser des cris, de l\u2019aboiement au b\u00ealement en passant par le hennissement&nbsp;? L\u2019enjeu de cette rencontre sera aussi de r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir aux raisons d\u2019avoir parfois donn\u00e9 la parole aux animaux pour exprimer une r\u00e9flexion sp\u00e9culaire sur la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 que des hommes, m\u00eames fictifs, n\u2019auraient os\u00e9 tenir. S\u2019il arrivait aux Anciens de transposer sur l\u2019animal les paradigmes \u00e9labor\u00e9s par eux pour l\u2019homme, ils mettaient parfois aussi en sc\u00e8ne ces animaux tenant des propos qu\u2019il aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 inconvenant ou dangereux de faire tenir \u00e0 des hommes. Enfin, comment ont-ils repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 et traduit par l\u2019image ou la musique cet univers sonore animal&nbsp;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aristote dans son&nbsp;<em>Histoire des Animaux<\/em>&nbsp;(IV.9.535a-b) distingue plusieurs types d\u2019\u00e9missions sonores (<em>dialektos, phon\u00e8, psophos<\/em>\u2026) et affirme que certains animaux ont une voix et que d\u2019autres ne produisent que des sons. Mais la distinction qu\u2019il propose repose sur un crit\u00e8re de production physiologique et non sur une valeur s\u00e9miologique. La capacit\u00e9, restreinte \u00e0 certains animaux \u00e0 la langue d\u00e9li\u00e9e, d\u2019articuler des sons comportant des phon\u00e8mes vocaliques et consonantiques, ne caract\u00e9rise ni ne conditionne l\u2019aptitude \u00e0 communiquer des messages par des sons. Sur cette base, les lettr\u00e9s et zoographes antiques et m\u00e9di\u00e9vaux ont pens\u00e9 le \u00ab&nbsp;langage&nbsp;\u00bb animal, ils l\u2019ont parfois d\u00e9crit et tr\u00e8s souvent d\u00e9nomm\u00e9 selon les esp\u00e8ces, inaugurant de loin une mimophon\u00e9tique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En proposant d\u2019interroger sur ces questions les&nbsp;documents anciens (\u00e9crits ou imag\u00e9s) et les mat\u00e9riaux arch\u00e9ologiques \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re des r\u00e9flexions contemporaines, ce colloque a aussi pour objectif de favoriser, dans l\u2019esprit qui a pr\u00e9sid\u00e9 \u00e0 la cr\u00e9ation du r\u00e9seau international Zoomathia,&nbsp;le dialogue avec les sciences de la vie et du comportement, c\u2019est-\u00e0-dire les croisements avec la zoologie ou encore l\u2019\u00e9thologie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quatre perspectives principales sont propos\u00e9es pour accueillir les communications&nbsp;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Langage animal&nbsp;<em>versus&nbsp;<\/em>langage humain&nbsp;(approche th\u00e9orique)&nbsp;: Comment d\u00e9finir le mode d\u2019expression vocale des animaux avec des instruments th\u00e9oriques pens\u00e9s pour l\u2019homme&nbsp;? Cri et son constituent-ils un \u00e9l\u00e9ment sonore communicationnel partag\u00e9&nbsp;? Le cri chez l\u2019homme est-il une expression hypolinguistique, paralinguistique&nbsp;? Comment les Anciens marquaient-ils la diff\u00e9rence entre \u03b6\u1ff7\u03b1 \u1f04\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b1,&nbsp;<em>animalia muta<\/em>&nbsp;ou&nbsp;<em>muta bestia&nbsp;<\/em>(\u00ab&nbsp;bestes mues&nbsp;\u00bb), d\u2019une part, et animaux \u00ab&nbsp;parlants&nbsp;\u00bb, de l\u2019autre&nbsp;? Que disent les mythes originels de l\u2019apparition du langage animal et humain et de leurs diff\u00e9rences&nbsp;?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sonosph\u00e8re animale&nbsp;et compr\u00e9hension&nbsp;(\u00e9changes intra-sp\u00e9cifiques et extra-sp\u00e9cifiques)&nbsp;: La question de&nbsp;l\u2019intelligibilit\u00e9 du son et de la voix articul\u00e9e (p. ex. dans les d\u00e9bats philosophiques et grammaticaux)&nbsp;; celle des rapports entre langage, compr\u00e9hension et apprentissage du langage (les d\u00e9bats sur le&nbsp;<em>logos&nbsp;<\/em>et la<em>&nbsp;prudentia,&nbsp;<\/em>et la pr\u00e9\u00e9minence possible du sens de l\u2019audition sur celui de la vue)&nbsp;; celle de la possibilit\u00e9 de l\u2019intercommunication homme\/animal&nbsp;(p. ex. chez certains saints)&nbsp;et plus largement de la communication intersp\u00e9cifique&nbsp;; les fonctions des voix animales dans les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s humaines et animales (p. ex. cris des oiseaux de proie, \u00e9colocalisation)&nbsp;; l\u2019effectivit\u00e9 des cris animaux sur la vie et l\u2019\u00e9motivit\u00e9 humaines et animales (p. ex.&nbsp;les effets du chant du coq, du ronronnement du chat)&nbsp;; les interpr\u00e9tations des manifestations sonores des animaux, en particulier dans les pr\u00e9sages.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cris, chant, imitation, musicalit\u00e9(\u00e9criture du son, \u00e9criture de la voix)&nbsp;: Les \u00e9missions non linguistiques&nbsp;; l\u2019homologie sonore entre cris animal et humain&nbsp;; les bruitages animaux&nbsp;; l\u2019acculturation de ces bruits (dans les litt\u00e9ratures, la po\u00e9sie, le chant et la musique)&nbsp;; la place des cris d\u2019animaux dans le folklore (p. ex. les concours de chants d\u2019oiseaux)&nbsp;; les instruments et appeaux&nbsp;; les voix, vocalises, vocalisations, chants et productions musicales&nbsp;; la valeur s\u00e9miotique des onomatop\u00e9es et les \u00e9tymologies onomatop\u00e9iques&nbsp;; la mimophonie&nbsp;(o\u00f9 le son signifiant imite le son signifi\u00e9)&nbsp;; la distinction onomastique des animaux entre eux par le cri \u00e9mis (p. ex. les zoononymes,&nbsp;<em>verba sonandi<\/em>)&nbsp;; l\u2019apprentissage du langage humain par l\u2019animal (p. ex. avec les perroquets ou les singes).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>La parole donn\u00e9e aux animaux(repr\u00e9sentation non sonore de la voix des animaux)&nbsp;: La mise en sc\u00e8ne de l\u2019animal parlant dans les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s animales et humaine&nbsp;: par exemple dans les fables et les romans byzantins (\u1f49\u03a0\u03bf\u03c5\u03bb\u03bf\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2, \u03a3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03be\u03ac\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03b7\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b3\u03b1\u03b4\u03ac\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5, \u0394\u03b9\u03ae\u03b3\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b1\u03b9\u03b4\u03b9\u03cc\u03c6\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u1f76 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u03c4\u03b5\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u03c0\u03cc\u03b4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b6\u03ce\u03c9\u03bd\u2026), les fabliaux, le roman de Renart, la \u00ab&nbsp;Conf\u00e9rence des oiseaux&nbsp;\u00bb de Farid al-Din Attar (dans la 22<sup>e<\/sup>&nbsp;\u00e9p\u00eetre des Ikhw\u00e2n al-Saf\u00e2)\u2026&nbsp;; la repr\u00e9sentation du son, de la voix, de la parole dans l\u2019iconographie (p. ex.&nbsp;: avec Esope ou Adam parlant aux animaux), l\u2019\u00e9pigraphie, la litt\u00e9rature.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Les&nbsp;<strong>propositions de communication<\/strong>&nbsp;feront l\u2019objet d\u2019une s\u00e9lection par le comit\u00e9 scientifique. Les communications pourront \u00eatre prononc\u00e9es en fran\u00e7ais, anglais, allemand, italien ou espagnol.<br>Elles peuvent \u00eatre envoy\u00e9es&nbsp;<strong>avant le 1<sup>er<\/sup>&nbsp;mai 2024<\/strong>&nbsp;aux adresses suivantes&nbsp;:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:isabelle.draelants@irht.cnrs.fr\">isabelle.draelants@irht.cnrs.fr<\/a>&nbsp;;&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:jean-charles.ducene@ephe.psl.eu\">jean-charles.ducene@ephe.psl.eu<\/a>&nbsp;;&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:stavros.lazaris@college-de-France.fr\">stavros.lazaris@college-de-France.fr<\/a>&nbsp;;&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:arnaud.zucker@univ-cotedazur.fr\">arnaud.zucker@univ-cotedazur.fr<\/a>&nbsp;Le&nbsp;<strong>programme<\/strong>&nbsp;sera communiqu\u00e9 d\u00e9but juin 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publier rapidement<\/strong>&nbsp;les r\u00e9sultats du colloque est un des objectifs des organisateurs&nbsp;; les contributions \u00e9crites seront donc&nbsp;<strong>demand\u00e9es peu de temps apr\u00e8s la cl\u00f4ture<\/strong>&nbsp;du colloque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le colloque sera suivi d\u2019une demi-journ\u00e9e de r\u00e9union entre les partenaires du r\u00e9seau international de recherche (IRN) Zoomathia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00ab&nbsp;They only lack speech&nbsp;\u00bb, Animal Sounds, Voices and Language in Nature and in Ancient and Medieval Texts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organisation<\/strong>&nbsp;:<br>Isabelle Draelants (CNRS-IRHT) \u2013 Jean-Charles Duc\u00e8ne (EPHE 4<sup>e<\/sup>&nbsp;section-UMR 7192) \u2013 Stavros Lazaris (UMR 8167 &amp; ICP-EA 7403) \u2013 Arnaud&nbsp;Zucker (Univ. C\u00f4te-d\u2019Azur-CEPAM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scientific Committee<\/strong>&nbsp;:<br>Santiago Aragon, Elisabetta Carpitelli, Christophe Chanzedon, Jean-Charles Duc\u00e8ne, Isabelle Draelants, Michel Kreutzer, Stavros Lazaris, Baudouin Van den Abeele, Arnaud Zucker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><em>De naturis animantium :<br>Leonum est fremere uel rugire, tigridum rancare, pardorum felire, pantherarum caurire, ursorum uncare uel saeuire, aprorum frendere, lyncum urcare, luporum ululare, serpentium sibilare, onagrorum mugilare, ceruorum rugire, boum mugire, equorum hinnire, asinorum rudere uel oncare, porcorum grunnire, uerris quiritare, arietum blatterare, ouium balare, hircorum miccire, haedorum bebare, canum latrare seu baubari, uulpium gannire<\/em>.<br>Su\u00e9tone,&nbsp;<em>Prata<\/em>, frag. 161<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_13163\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cepam.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/zoomathia2024b.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cepam.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/zoomathia2024b.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13163\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ms. Cambridge, Trinity College, O.4.7, f. 75r<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The list of animal vocalizations preserved in a fragment of Suetonius (1<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;cent. CE) has undergone numerous revisions and additions over the ages, spanning from Antiquity to modern times. Notable contributors include Isidore of Seville, medieval glossaries, and Alexander Neckam, among others in the Latin world. Within the human soundscape, animal voices populate our auditory experience. This begs the question: do these voices constitute a genuine language? Are they exclusively ours or shared with other species? Are they mere cries, voices, or perhaps even words? Do they betray an intelligence akin to that of humans? Such inquiries have intrigued diverse cultures, each offering nuanced and sometimes intricate answers. In Western society, prevailing beliefs are shifting towards an \u00ab&nbsp;anti-speciesist&nbsp;\u00bb stance, challenging the notion of human exceptionalism both morally and in terms of cognitive, emotional, social, and cultural capacities. This trend towards reclassifying humans as \u00ab&nbsp;human animals&nbsp;\u00bb reflects a desire to reintegrate&nbsp;<em>Homo sapiens<\/em>&nbsp;into the broader animal realm, echoing certain Aristotelian continuist philosophies. What roles, functions, and meanings did ancient and medieval societies attribute to animal vocalizations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The colloquium\u2019s objective isn\u2019t to approach the theme of animal cries and sounds solely from a lexicographical perspective, as often explored, but rather to delve into other dimensions of animal vocalizations. Specifically, the focus lies on examining Greek and Roman antiquity, as well as the Latin, Byzantine, and Arabic Middle Ages. It aims to explore the concepts formulated by ancient thinkers and observers to describe and interpret animal vocalizations, along with the frameworks they devised to distinguish between mere noise and structured language. Did they differentiate between a cat\u2019s purr and its meow, or the contextual variations in a bird\u2019s song? Through observation and analysis, how did they transition from identifying sounds to labeling them as cries or songs? What criteria elevated birdcalls to the status of song, while quadrupeds, despite being domesticated, were relegated to mere cries, from barks to bleats to neighs? Additionally, the symposium seeks to ponder why animals have occasionally been endowed with voices to express societal reflections that even fictitious humans might hesitate to voice. While ancient societies occasionally applied human paradigms to animals, they also depicted animals articulating sentiments deemed inappropriate or perilous for humans to express. Lastly, how did ancient cultures represent and interpret this realm of animal sounds through imagery and music?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his&nbsp;<em>History of Animals<\/em>&nbsp;(IV.9.535a-b), Aristotle discerns various types of sound emission (<em>dialektos, phon\u00e8, psophos<\/em>\u2026), positing that some animals possess voices while others produce mere sounds. However, his distinction rests on physiological grounds rather than semiotic value. The capacity to articulate sounds containing vowel and consonant phonemes, limited to select animals with mobile tongues, neither defines nor governs the ability to convey messages through sound. Building on this, ancient and medieval scholars and zoographers pondered the notion of animal \u00ab&nbsp;language,&nbsp;\u00bb at times describing and often naming it according to species, thus initiating the field of mimophonetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By scrutinizing ancient documents\u2014written or pictorial\u2014and archaeological artifacts through the lens of contemporary scholarship, this symposium aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue with life and behavioral sciences, aligning with the ethos underpinning the international research network Zoomathia, advocating for cross-pollination between zoology and ethology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The symposium invites contributions exploring four main perspectives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Animal language&nbsp;<em>versus<\/em>&nbsp;human language (theoretical approach): How do we define animal vocal expression using theoretical frameworks developed for humans? Is there a shared communicative element in cries and sounds? Is human crying a hypolinguistic or paralinguistic phenomenon? How did ancient thinkers distinguish between mute animals (\u1ff7\u03b1 \u1f04\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b1,<em>animalia muta<\/em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>muta bestia<\/em>, \u00ab&nbsp;bestes mues&nbsp;\u00bb) and those capable of \u00ab&nbsp;speech&nbsp;\u00bb? What insights do original myths offer on the emergence and divergence of animal and human languages?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Animal soundscape and comprehension (intra- and extra-specific exchanges): Examining the intelligibility of animal sounds and articulated voices (e.g. in philosophical and grammatical debates); the relationship between language, comprehension, and language acquisition (the debates on&nbsp;<em>logos<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>prudentia<\/em>, and the possible pre-eminence of the sense of hearing over that of sight); exploring the potential for human-animal intercommunication (e.g. in certain saints); evaluating the functions of animal vocalizations in human and animal societies (e.g., the cries of birds of prey, ecolocalization), and their emotional impact(e.g., the effects of rooster crowing, cat purring); interpretating animal sounds, particularly in the context of omens.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cries, songs, imitation, musicality (depicting sound, depicting voice): Exploring non-linguistic sound emissions; drawing parallels between animal and human vocalizations; examining the cultural assimilation of animal sounds in literature, poetry, song, and music; investigating the role of animal cries in folklore (e.g., bird-singing competitions) and their onomatopoeic significance (mymophony); exploring the onomastic distinction of animals from one another by the cry they emit (e.g. zoononyms,<em>verba sonandi<\/em>); exploring how animals learn human language (e.g. parrots or monkeys).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Animal speech (representations of animal voices beyond sound): Analyzing depictions of talking animals in various societies through literature, iconography, and epigraphy (e.g. in Byzantine fables and romances as \u1f49 \u03a0\u03bf\u03c5\u03bb\u03bf\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2, \u03a3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03be\u03ac\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03b7\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b3\u03b1\u03b4\u03ac\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5, \u0394\u03b9\u03ae\u03b3\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b1\u03b9\u03b4\u03b9\u03cc\u03c6\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u1f76 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u03c4\u03b5\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u03c0\u03cc\u03b4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b6\u03ce\u03c9\u03bd\u2026 , in fabliaux, Renart\u2019s novel, in Farid al-Din Attar\u2019s \u00ab&nbsp;Conference of Birds&nbsp;\u00bb as in the 22nd epistle of the Ikhw\u00e2n al-Saf\u00e2); considering the portrayal of sound, voice, and speech in cultural artifacts (e.g. Aesop or Adam talking to animals); exploring instances of animals assuming roles typically reserved for humans in storytelling traditions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The scientific committee will select proposals for papers. Papers may be presented in French, English, German, Italian, or Spanish. Submissions can be sent&nbsp;<strong>before May 1, 2024<\/strong>, to the following addresses:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:isabelle.draelants@irht.cnrs.fr\">isabelle.draelants@irht.cnrs.fr<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:jean-charles.ducene@ephe.psl.eu\">jean-charles.ducene@ephe.psl.eu<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:stavros.lazaris@college-de-France.fr\">stavros.lazaris@college-de-France.fr<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:arnaud.zucker@univ-cotedazur.fr\">arnaud.zucker@univ-cotedazur.fr<\/a>. 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