Call for papers: Societas Magica sessions IMC Kalamazoo

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Call for papers Societas Magica sessions IMC Kalamazoo

Sat Jul 7, 2012 7:34 pm (PDT)

The Societas Magica invites abstracts for four sessions to be held at

the next International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, MI, 9-13

May 2013. The four sponsored sessions are:

Session I – Astrology and Magic (co-sponsored with the Research Group on

Manuscript Evidence)

Contact: Dr. David Porreca (University of Waterloo) dporreca@uwaterloo.ca

Session II – Magic, Material Culture and Technology (co-sponsored with

the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)

Contact: László Sándor Chardonnens (Radboud University Nijmegen)

s.chardonnens@let.ru.nl

Session III – Water as Symbol, Sign and Trial: Aquatic Semantics in the

Middle Ages (co-sponsored with the Reseach Group on Manuscript Evidence)

Contact: Mihai-D. Grigore (University of Erfurt) grigoremihai@gmx.de

Session IV – Magical Practices in Pre-Modern China

Contact: Dimitri Drettas (Collège de France) hedansi@yahoo.fr

If you have material suitable to one of these topics, please send an

abstract (ca. 250 words) electronically to the contact person listed for

that session by 15 September 2012 along with the Participant Information

Form.

More detailed information about the sessions and a link to the

participant information form may be found at www.societasmagica.org

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