Maybe over coffee – or out walking around in the city – we decided that we liked the literary form of the abstract. Why is the abstract so beautiful? Is it because it is unformed, full of potential? Is the abstract more like a poem than an essay or an article? Is it because of its length that the abstract beckons? A “call” for papers, a “call” for sessions: this suggests that someone is out there, calling out, through a similar text, sometimes with just a few sentences, sometimes just a page.