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Graft and Transplant: Identities in Question
The editorial board of Skepsi is pleased to invite contributions for
the inaugural issue of the Interdisciplinary Online Journal of
European Thought and Theory in Humanities and Social Sciences, based
in the University of Kent, to be released in Autumn 2008.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The practices of grafting and transplanting, understood both literally
and metaphorically, raise a series of questions with regard to the
concept of identity: the unity of the subject; becoming; the Other;
the in-between. Grafts and transplants set up a relationship between a
donor and a receiver, be they human beings, texts, literary genres,
images, languages, concepts, cultures, genders or historical periods.
It involves the transposition of a part of something into something
else. How might these different entities be said – or made – to co-
exist? In what sense might the existence of such aggregates involve
(or indeed require) a form of grafting and transplanting? Is their co-
existence the result of an act of intrusion and violence or a mark of
hospitality?
Our aim is to explore the process of becoming-other or (re-)building
an identity which the graft and transplant entail – to consider the
switches, relays and connectivities at work in a wide variety of
literary, artistic, philosophical, cultural and linguistic assemblages.
We invite proposals for articles which interpret the topic as widely
as possible. The following list, which is neither prescriptive nor
exhaustive, may serve as inspiration:
- Otherness and transculturality
- Ethics of transplants
- Subject, unity and self-identity
- Inter-textual processes, uses of quotations
- Transplanted and translated text
- Effects of transplants: rejection and acceptance
- Hybridism in texts, films and works of art; textual/visual
interactions
- Gender studies
Contributions – including an article (3000/5000 words, written in
academic English), an abstract proposal (approximately 300 words, with
a short list of keywords) and a C.V. (with your name, institution,
stage of study and email address) – should be sent to Skepsi editorial
board via e-mail ([log in to unmask]), as Microsoft Word
attached documents. Skepsi uses a version of the MHRA referencing
style. Please refer to the MHRA online guide.
The deadline for all applications is Friday 25th July 2008. Please
note that a postgraduate conference was held on the same topic in May
2008 at the University of Kent. A selection of its papers will be
published in the inaugural issue of Skepsi.
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/journals/skepsi
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