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Please share widely the following CFP. We still have space in the two Early Drama, Art, and Music sessions at Kalamazoo next May: Performativity I: Emotion, Mind, Body Performativity II: Color, Sound, Gesture Session I proposes to bring together papers that focus on the expression of emotional states through deployment of the body. Among these means of expression may be gesture and movement, posture/positioning of the body, and nonverbal vocal expression. Such manifestations may come from the visual, musical, or other performative modes of expression. Session II seeks to investigate the broad realm of performativity in early drama, art, and music in terms of the sensorial experiences of color, sound, and/or gesture. Papers in this session may answer questions such as: What role did color (or the lack of color, e.g., grisaille) play in establishing meaning in art and performance? What defined the soundscape of a medieval dramatic performance? How is sound represented graphically in medieval art? How does gesture convey meaning? What evidence suggests that gestures in art and drama benefited from liturgical models? Our Early Drama, Art, and Music session on performativity at the 2012 International Congress on Medieval Studies featured four excellent papers and an enthusiastic audience. We are hoping to build on this success with two sessions on different aspects of performativity at the 2013 Congress, and the EDAM editorial board hopes that these three sessions together will result in a future volume in MIP's Early Drama, Art, and Music series. Please send queries and/or proposals by September 17 to Patricia Hollahan <[log in to unmask]>.