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INTERNATIONAL MACHAUT SOCIETY, 60th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES, KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN, MAY 2025
The International Machaut Society will sponsor three sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies - Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2024.
NB: More information available at the Conference Site
- Guillaume de Machaut: Digital Resources for Teaching and Research (A Roundtable) (hybrid) (Session ID 6212)
Organizer: Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel (tmahoney-steel@uclan.ac.uk)
Modality: Hybrid
Session Type: Roundtable
Propose a contribution to this session
Machaut studies have benefitted from digitized manuscripts and projects that make text and music digitally available. Initiatives explore the structure and dissemination of those works through computational means, such as text mining and network analysis. Alongside such gains, we acknowledge the ephemerality of digital resources, the emergence of the digital divide and the threat of AI. We invite roundtable contributions on using digital resources for teaching and research on Machaut, his milieu and related topics, including, but not limited to digital dissemination; computational analysis; AI; innovative teaching; accessibility; and digital approaches to the fourteenth century, or medieval French music/literature/art history.
- Women in Machaut: Patrons and Protagonists (Session ID 6322)
Organizer: Elizabeth J. Harper (ejh5sp@virginia.edu) and Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel (tmahoney-steel@uclan.ac.uk)
Modality: In person
Session Type: Papers
Propose a contribution to this session
This session concentrates the role(s) of women within the historical, textual, musical, and material environments of Guillaume de Machaut’s corpus. We welcome contributions that explore any aspect of these roles, including but not limited to Machaut’s women patrons (both real and fictional); gendered approaches to power, desire, and agency within the poetic process; corporality and sexuality; the perception and expression of gender through voice and song; and the materialization of these issues on the manuscript page.
- Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Machaut (Session ID 6211)
Contact: Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel (tmahoney-steel@uclan.ac.uk)
Modality: Hybrid
Session Type: Papers
Propose a contribution to this session
Poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut's innovations in form and genre revolutionized musical and literary landscapes. Known for his experiments with musical notation, his concern for how his works would be circulated, and his influence on subsequent poets, Machaut's oeuvre embodies the qualities of translation, transmission, and transformation. The International Machaut Society invites proposals that address these qualities in the works of Machaut or his contemporaries, such as: manuscript transmission, Machaut's role in transmitting the ars nova notation style , the influence of other authors/composers on Machaut's works or vice versa, discussions of intermediality, the challenges of translating Machaut.