CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLICATION Entity and Identity in Bioethics, Paris International Conference ENTIDENTIC 2012 The progress of genetics has strengthened the relation between body and identity at such an extent that a number of researchers have argued that DNA can be considered today what traditional religions and philosophical conceptions understood by one’s soul [...]
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Ars Identitatis Cultural Research Association intends to publish a series of paperback volumes entitled Contemporary Identities (two volumes per year, one on a specific subject, the other miscellaneous). In order to make the selection process for the volumes as competitive as possible, we will organise a preliminary conference, which will take place in Paris at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, from 13 to 16 April 2011.