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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Call For Papers Transmissions and Transformations of Italian Culture Society for Italian Studies Interim Conference Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, 25-26 April 2008 Organizers: Dr Guyda Armstrong, Department of Italian, University of Manchester, and Dr Rhiannon Daniels, Department of Italian, University of Leeds. Deadline for submission of individual abstracts and panel proposals: 17 December 2007 The shift within literary studies from author- and text-focused analyses to material and historicist readings has produced valuable new theoretical approaches, whose practical application has yet to be explored fully. A newfound emphasis on the (willed or accidental) inter-relations between texts, authors and readers has given rise to a theory of intertextuality focusing on networks of textual association, alongside which scholars have begun to plot networks of actual dissemination and association. Concern for the text (understood in the broadest sense) within its historical, cultural, social, and economic contexts has also highlighted issues relating to the way in which texts are 'reconstructed' and/or 'preserved' through editing, both in print and digitally. In this context, the text is viewed as an unstable, mobile entity, and the locus of meaning is constructed within aspects of the text's material manifestation and its consumers' readings, as much as within authorial intent. With this in mind, the aim of the conference is to consider the processes by which literary and other texts (non-literary, visual, audio etc) have been transmitted, received, and reproposed within (and beyond) Italian culture. We invite submissions which explore how texts are transformed through their movement into different cultural, linguistic and geographical contexts, historical periods, or media. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary and extra-literary approaches to the topic, and aim to involve those working not only in Italian Studies but also in cognate disciplines such as history, visual studies, screen studies, and translation studies. Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to: * Influence and intertextuality: the uses and transformations of themes, characters, motifs, texts, genres; the mechanisms through which texts are reproposed and transformed. * Translation: translation as reception; translation between Latin and vernacular cultures, between different linguistic or national cultures, translation between oral, written, and/or visual cultures. * Cross-media transformations: film adaptation and beyond: appropriations, digitization, transformations and circulation of film and media texts. * Cultural production and its susceptibility to political influence and ideologies; the ways in which literary culture interacts with other forms of cultural production. * Oral, manuscript and print history; history and mechanics of performing, reading and viewing; literary histories and historiographies. * Theoretical approaches to the mechanisms of transformation. Deadlines: We invite proposals of either individual 20-minute papers or full sessions of three papers. Please submit a title and 150-word abstract for each paper, including speaker's name and affiliation, to reach the organizers by Monday 17th December. Organizers of full sessions are requested to submit the names of all participants, titles and abstracts at the same time. Papers may be given in either English or Italian. A provisional programme will be published in February 2008 on the SIS website (www.sis.ac.uk) and circulated to the Italian Studies mailing list. All participants must be members of the Society for Italian Studies. For further details of how to join, please visit the Society's webpage: www.sis.ac.uk. All proposals and enquiries should be directed to the organizers: Dr Guyda Armstrong, [log in to unmask] Dr Rhiannon Daniels, [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html