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Calls for Papers:
INTERNATIONAL MACHAUT SOCIETY, 62nd INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES, KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN, MAY 2027
The International Machaut Society will sponsor no sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in 2027
Other organiziations or societies sponsoring Machaut-related sessions at ICMS 2027 include:
- Literary Reception of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae
Modality: In-Person
Sponsor: International Boethius Society
Organizer: Megan Murton (murton@cua.edu)
This session addresses the multi-faceted influence of the Consolatio on medieval Latin
and vernacular writers such as Dante, Alain de Lille, Guillaume de Machaut, Gower, and
Chaucer. Papers are welcome on such topics as their use of prosimetric form;
deployment of the trope of Fortune and her wheel; engagement with the work’s
philosophical argumentation; and use of allegory. This robust reception history
continues in the works of modern-day writers influenced by medievalism, and papers
are equally welcome on the Boethian resonances of works such as C.S. Lewis’s The
Great Divorce and John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces.
- Machaut and His Musical World
Modality: Hybrid
Sponsor: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Melanie Batoff (batome01@luther.edu), Innocent Smith, Mary E. Wolinski
On this the 650th anniversary of his death in 1377, we welcome papers on the music of Guillaume de Machaut and the broader musical culture that he inhabited. As distinctive as his style was, his pieces included relatively old-fashioned genres, such as the lai and hocket, and current types including secular songs, polyphonic motets and chansons, and the first polyphonic Mass Ordinary by a single composer. With such a comprehensive corpus, both reaching back and moving forward, this session can include studies of Machaut’s predecessors, contemporaries, and successors in relation to the music of the fourteenth century