CFP: American Bach Society, Univ. of Notre Dame, Apr 2016

Call for Papers
Biennial Meeting of the American Bach Society
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
April 7–10, 2016
CFP Deadline: 1 Oct 2015

The American Bach Society invites paper proposals for its upcoming meeting, to be held at the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN), April 7–10, 2016. The meeting’s theme will be “J. S. Bach and the Confessional Landscape of His Time.”

During his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach came into contact with most of the religious currents in Germany. His time in Mühlhausen was overshadowed by tensions between Lutheran Orthodoxy and Pietism, in Köthen he served at a Calvinist court, and in Leipzig he was subject to a Catholic ruler. The program will explore the music of Bach and his contemporaries in relation to various religious and denominational currents in the early 18th century.

Paper proposals focusing on the conference topic will be given preference, but submissions on any aspect of musical culture in Bach's time will be considered.

Proposals (250 words) should be sent as an e-mail attachment by October 1, 2015, to the chair of the program committee: Markus Rathey (markus.rathey -at- yale.edu). The committee’s decisions will be announced by the middle of November 2015.

See the ABS website, www.americanbachsociety.org, for full details.