CALL FOR PAPERS - Re/Presenting the Abstract, Abstracting Reality

49th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI; May 8-11, 2014

Sponsored by Early Drama, Art, and Music (EDAM)

Please submit papers/abstracts that examine the ways that art, drama, and music served either (1) to translate abstract understandings into a sensorial reality, or (2) to convert tangible realities into manageable abstractions. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):

Schemata, maps, models, charts, tabulae Performance (music, drama, lyric) Capturing/transcribing the ephemeral Incarnation Teleology (prophecy, the known or unknown future) Allegory/personifications Genealogy/heraldry diagrams Medieval data visualization

Please send papers/abstracts to:

Jesse Hurlbut EDAM Editorial Board jessehurlbut@gmail.com