CFP - Societas Magica Sessions, International Congress of Medieval Studies

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)

Session II - Magic, Material Culture and Technology (co-sponsored with the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
Contact: László Sándor Chardonnens (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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)

Session IV - Magical Practices in Pre-Modern China
Contact: Dimitri Drettas (Collège de France)

If you have material suitable to one of these topics, please send anabstract (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 the Societas Magica website