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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 [log in to unmask]