Friday, 23 October<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- 09:30 \u2013 09:45<\/strong>: Participant registration and check-in<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 09:45 \u2013 10:00<\/strong>: Welcome and introductory remarks by S. Lazaris, S. Xenophontos, and A. Zucker<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 10:00 \u2013 10:50<\/strong>: Keynote Lecture by J. TRINQUIER \u2013 <\/strong>\u00ab\u00a0\u00catre n\u00e9 sous le soleil des Tropiques: le r\u00f4le des \u00e9l\u00e9ments et des facteurs environnementaux dans la formation des faunes tropicales\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Session I: Sensory Ecologies, Perception, and Umwelt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- 10:50 \u2013 11:20<\/strong>: Andreas MICHALOPOULOS \u2013 The acoustic Umwelt of the hive: sensory ethology in Vergil\u2019s Georgics 4<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 11:20 \u2013 11:40<\/strong>: Coffee break<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 11:40 \u2013 12:10<\/strong>: Jo\u00eblle SOLER \u2013 Le langage de la sensation animale dans les M\u00e9tamorphoses d\u2019Apul\u00e9e<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 12:10 \u2013 12:40<\/strong>: Georgia TSOUNI \u2013 Oikeiosis and Animal Interaction with the Environment in Hierocles\u2019 Ethike Stoicheiosis<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 12:40 \u2013 13:10<\/strong>: Cristiana FRANCO \u2013 Cognitioni hominum obscurior. How other animals experience the world<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 13:10 \u2013 14:30<\/strong>: Lunch break<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Session II: Eco-Pathology, Husbandry, and Habitat Vulnerability<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- 14:30 \u2013 15:00<\/strong>: Emmanuel BEAUJARD \u2013 Animals and health ecology in Antiquity: a survey of scientific and technical sources<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 15:00 \u2013 15:30<\/strong>: Jordan DELILA \u2013 Animal Disease in Roman Agricultural Writing<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 15:30 \u2013 15:40<\/strong>: Coffee break<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 15:40 \u2013 16:10<\/strong>: Duyen Phuong NGUYEN \u2013 Refuge or Trap? The Ecological Ambivalence of Animal Shelters in Antiquity<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 16:10 \u2013 16:40<\/strong>: Pietro Li CAUSI \u2013 Dolphins, Humans, and the Lagoon. Interspecies Environmental Interactions in Plin. NH 9.29\u201332<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Saturday, 24 October<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- 10:00 \u2013 10:50<\/strong>: Keynote Lecture by S. ARAPOSTATHIS<\/strong> \u2013 Bodies, Breeds and Infrastructures: A Multispecies Sustainability History of Livestock Production in Greece 1950-2020<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Session III: Avian Ecologies, Trophic Niches, and Representations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- 10:50 \u2013 11:20<\/strong>: Marie CHAIDRON \u2013 Oiseaux et \u00ab \u00e9quilibre naturel \u00bb : Penser les relations inter-esp\u00e8ces dans la Belgique du XIXe si\u00e8cle<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 11:20 \u2013 11:40<\/strong>: Coffee break<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 11:40 \u2013 12:10<\/strong>: Marie-Anne DRAGON \u2013 The Image as a Laboratory of the Living: Trophic Niches and Visual Ecology in the Work of Frans Post (1612\u20131680)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 12:10 \u2013 12:40<\/strong>: Marta LIETTI \u2013 The Birds over the Theatre of Dionysus: Towards a More-than-Human Dramaturgy in Attic Drama<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 12:40 \u2013 13:10<\/strong>: Charilaos MICHALOPOULOS \u2013 The Mimic from India: Avian Voice, Interspecies Communication, and Biodiversity in Ovid\u2019s Amores 2.6<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 13:10 \u2013 14:30<\/strong>: Lunch break<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Session IV: Human-Animal Interactions, Wildlife, and Landscape Dynamics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- 14:30 \u2013 15:00<\/strong>: Katharina EPSTEIN \u2013 Predator and Prey, Ancient and Modern: Aristotelian Zoology and the Ecological Concept of Rewilding<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 15:00 \u2013 15:30<\/strong>: Kaouthar Lamouchi CHEBBI \u2013 Connaissances arabes m\u00e9di\u00e9vales sur la migration des animaux<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 15:30 \u2013 15:50<\/strong>: Coffee break<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 15:50 \u2013 16:20<\/strong>: Maria LEONTSINI \u2013 In Forests and Fields: Depictions of Human\u2013Wildlife Interactions in Rural Landscapes<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 16:20 \u2013 16:50<\/strong>: Anastasija ROPA \u2013 Attitudes to Wild Horses in the Middle Ages and Today: Pests, Valuable Property or Land Managers?<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 16:50<\/strong>: Concluding remarks and official close of the conference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCall for Papers. Interdisciplinary Conference in Animal Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This conference aims, through a resolutely interdisciplinary approach, to explore the relations between animals and their environments. Bringing together scholars in ancient and medieval philology, the history of zoological knowledge, and contemporary ecological sciences, the event seeks to examine how living beings interact with their surroundings\u2014and how these interactions have been conceptualised, described, and modelled from Antiquity to the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two main thematic axes will structure the discussion<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n- Animals and Environments: Ancient and Modern Ecologies<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
This axis invites contributions on how animals are embedded within complex systems of relations\u2014habitats, ecological niches, environment-dependent behaviours, cooperation, climatic constraints, migration, and adaptation\u2014whether in ancient and medieval texts or in modern ecological theory. Ancient zoological traditions (Aristotle, Aelian, Pliny, the Physiologus<\/em>, medieval encyclopaedias and bestiaries) offer a rich repository of observations, explanatory models, and conceptual frameworks that allow us to question both continuities and ruptures between pre-modern forms of knowledge and contemporary ecological thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Animal Ecological Awareness: Perception, Umwelt, and Narrative Models<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
The second axis focuses on how animals perceive their environment, and how these perceptual worlds are represented in ancient and medieval sources: smell, vision, hearing, spatial orientation, and ecological cognition. Literary, philosophical, and natural-historical descriptions will be examined in dialogue with current research in ethology, behavioural sciences, and animal cognition. Particular attention will be paid to how ancient societies conceptualised or imagined animals\u2019 ecological sensitivity, and to how these representations may inform present-day debates on animal consciousness, environmental vulnerability, and biodiversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scientific Objectives<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe conference seeks to interrogate the epistemological continuities among ancient naturalistic observation, medieval representations of living beings, and modern ecological approaches. It aims to highlight the contribution of ancient traditions to contemporary ecological thinking, while offering biologists and ecologists a historically informed and critical perspective on models of animal\u2013environment interaction. In the current context of biodiversity collapse, this meeting intends to reaffirm the value of dialogue between the humanities and the life sciences in rethinking the place of animals as sentient, acting, and situated beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Submission of Proposals<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nWe welcome contributions from all disciplines (philology, history, literature, philosophy, anthropology, zoology, ethology, ecology, environmental studies). Talks will be delivered in English, French or Modern Greek. Note that a written version of the papers in (or translated into) English will be submitted promptly to an editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Session I: Sensory Ecologies, Perception, and Umwelt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Session II: Eco-Pathology, Husbandry, and Habitat Vulnerability<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Session III: Avian Ecologies, Trophic Niches, and Representations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Session IV: Human-Animal Interactions, Wildlife, and Landscape Dynamics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Call for Papers. Interdisciplinary Conference in Animal Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n This conference aims, through a resolutely interdisciplinary approach, to explore the relations between animals and their environments. Bringing together scholars in ancient and medieval philology, the history of zoological knowledge, and contemporary ecological sciences, the event seeks to examine how living beings interact with their surroundings\u2014and how these interactions have been conceptualised, described, and modelled from Antiquity to the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This axis invites contributions on how animals are embedded within complex systems of relations\u2014habitats, ecological niches, environment-dependent behaviours, cooperation, climatic constraints, migration, and adaptation\u2014whether in ancient and medieval texts or in modern ecological theory. Ancient zoological traditions (Aristotle, Aelian, Pliny, the Physiologus<\/em>, medieval encyclopaedias and bestiaries) offer a rich repository of observations, explanatory models, and conceptual frameworks that allow us to question both continuities and ruptures between pre-modern forms of knowledge and contemporary ecological thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second axis focuses on how animals perceive their environment, and how these perceptual worlds are represented in ancient and medieval sources: smell, vision, hearing, spatial orientation, and ecological cognition. Literary, philosophical, and natural-historical descriptions will be examined in dialogue with current research in ethology, behavioural sciences, and animal cognition. Particular attention will be paid to how ancient societies conceptualised or imagined animals\u2019 ecological sensitivity, and to how these representations may inform present-day debates on animal consciousness, environmental vulnerability, and biodiversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conference seeks to interrogate the epistemological continuities among ancient naturalistic observation, medieval representations of living beings, and modern ecological approaches. It aims to highlight the contribution of ancient traditions to contemporary ecological thinking, while offering biologists and ecologists a historically informed and critical perspective on models of animal\u2013environment interaction. In the current context of biodiversity collapse, this meeting intends to reaffirm the value of dialogue between the humanities and the life sciences in rethinking the place of animals as sentient, acting, and situated beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We welcome contributions from all disciplines (philology, history, literature, philosophy, anthropology, zoology, ethology, ecology, environmental studies). Talks will be delivered in English, French or Modern Greek. Note that a written version of the papers in (or translated into) English will be submitted promptly to an editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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