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The International Sidney Society will sponsor two open sessions at the Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, May 14 – 17, 2015. We invite abstracts on any topics related to Phillip Sidney or the Sidney Circle, including family, friends and associates. Abstracts that address the topics of Sidneian Networks or Poetics will be of special (though certainly not exclusive) interest. Either topic should be considered broadly. Papers might consider literary networks from the vantages of recent digital work, editorial practice, the circulation of texts, patronage, authorship, politics or some other angle. Similarly, we invite work that values or re-evaluates sixteenth-century poetics, whether formalist, devotional, ideological or cultural, or that engages with recent rediscoveries in the area. In addition to the open paper sessions, the International Sidney Society will sponsor its biennial Van Dorsten lecture. This year’s lecture will feature the incomparable Mary Ellen Lamb, whose scholarship of the Sidney Circle, early modern women’s writing, and early modern culture has taught and inspired us all. Please submit an abstract of 300 words via email attachment to Andrew Strycharski ([log in to unmask]). Include your name and email address, as well as requests for special equipment such as a digital projector. Please also include a Participant Information Form (PIF), which you can download from the conference website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF Final papers are limited to twenty minutes reading time. You will receive a prompt response, and any papers not accepted will automatically be forwarded to the general call for the conference. Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2014. -- Andrew Strycharski President, International Sidney Society Instructor, English Department Interim Director, Film Studies Florida International University