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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Apologies for cross posting. Please circulate widely. 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 ********************************************************************** 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