April 12-13, 2023
Global Digital Music Studies Conference
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Jennifer Bain, Julie Cumming, Ichiro Fujinaga, and Debra Lacoste, “SIMSSA Project and beyond: LinkedMusic and DACT.”

October 7, 2023 to mid-2024
(postponed from October 22, 2020 - March 13, 2021)
Exhibition: Centuries of Silence: the Discovery of the Salzinnes Antiphonal
Musée des Arts Anciens, Namur, Belgium
In partnership with the Société archéologique de Namur, an exhibition featuring the Salzinnes Antiphonal (owned by Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) in Namur, Belgium, its place of origin.

December 1, 2023
(postponed from October 24, 2020)
Namur University, Belgium
“Salzinnes Symposium”
A one-day symposium of papers and panel discussions by international scholars on topics related to the Salzinnes Antiphonal, developments in digital technology, and manuscript studies. Includes a tour through the “Centuries of Silence” exhibition at the Musée des Arts Anciens and a concert of some of the music contained in the manuscript.
Namur University, Belgium

November 18, 2022
CIRMMT - LinkedMusic Workshop 1: Music Databases
McGill University, Montréal, Canada
Debra Lacoste and Jennifer Bain, "Humanities Computing in the Cantus Database and Cantus Index: Online before it was popular ... and still going."

September 8, 2022
Music in Manuscript Cultures interdisciplinary forum, sponsored by the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures
The Queen’s College, Oxford
Debra Lacoste, “Methods for Metadata Collection in the Cantus Database: The Case of the Missing Rubrics.”
Watch the video abstract here.

July 6, 2022
MedRen (Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference)
Uppsala, Sweden (and online)
Debra Lacoste, “‘From Manuscript to Database’: An Introduction to Indexing in Cantus.” In the DACT-sponsored workshop session “Quandaries, Queries, and Quagmires: Plainchant Puzzles and How to Solve Them in the CANTUS Database.”
Watch Debra's video here.

May 22, 2022
DACT Workshop 8: Governance, Data Management, and Digital Sustainability
Halifax, Nova Scotia (and on Zoom)
Debra Lacoste, “FAIR Principles in the Cantus Database & Cantus Index from a Musicologist’s Point of View."

May 21, 2022
Music Encoding Conference, Keynote and Panel on Chant
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ichiro Fujinaga, Keynote Speaker, "Optical Music Recognition Workflow for Neume Notation and its Encoding" (Chair: Jennifer Bain), followed by the Invited Panel: "Encoding liturgical chant notations and meta-data," with speakers Jan Hajič, Stefan Morent, Niels Pfeffer, Fabian Königer, Rachel McNellis, Stefano Milonia, and Elaine Stratton Hild (Chair: Debra Lacoste).

May 19-22, 2022
Music Encoding Conference
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Hosted by Jennifer Bain at Dalhousie University.

May 14, 2022
International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022
Online from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Anna de Bakker, Jennifer Bain, Ichiro Fujinaga, and Debra Lacoste, “Piecing it Together: Analysis and Representation of Liturgical Fragments.”

July 23, 2021
Cantus Planus Study Group of the IMS
Research Forum (online)
Jennifer Bain and Debra Lacoste, "The DACT Project"

June 14, 2021
Canadian Society of Medievalists (online)
postponed from June 2, 2020 at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada [COVID]
Session: “Liturgical Fragments”
Papers by Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University), Kate Steiner and Debra Lacoste (University of Waterloo), and Meredith Bacola (University of Manitoba).

• “Analyzing Chant Manuscript Fragments held in Rare Books and Special Collections at McGill University,” Jennifer Bain, (Dalhousie University)
• “‘Turning the Page’ to a Positive: Digitization of Fragments as a Pedagogical Tool,” Kate Kennedy Steiner and Debra Lacoste (Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo)
• “Dominum magnificat: Discovering St. Guthlac within an Office of Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 198," Meredith Bacola (St Paul's College, University of Manitoba)

June 3, 2021
Software Tools in Chant Analysis Virtual Workshop
Online via Zoom from the University of Bristol
Jennifer Bain, “Analysing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen.”
Watch the video here.

June 3, 2021
Software Tools in Chant Analysis Virtual Workshop
Online via Zoom from the University of Bristol
Debra Lacoste and Jan Koláček, “Analysing Cantus: Tools for Discovery and Research."
Watch the video here.

May 28, 2021
Fragmentarium Video Conference
Online via Zoom from the Université de Fribourg
Jennifer Bain and Debra Lacoste, "Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT): A Case Study of Two Fragments from the Binding of the Riesencodex." Watch it here!

May 10, 2021
International Congress on Medieval Studies 2021
Online through Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
postponed from May 7, 2020 [COVID]International Congress on Medieval Studies 2020
“Fragments and the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (A Panel Discussion)”
A panel discussion with Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University), Alison Altstatt (University of Northern Iowa), and Debra Lacoste (Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant). Chair: Michael Norton.

April 15, 2021
American Musicological Society - New York State - St. Lawrence Chapter (NYSSL) Meeting
Online through Colgate University
"Lightning Talk—DACT Fragment Campaign"
Anna de Bakker (Dalhousie University).

planned for July 15-19, 2020 [COVID CANCELLATION]
Cantus Planus Study Group of the International Musicological Society
Telč, Czech Republic

• William Duba (Fragmentarium), Workshop session: “Dispersal Reversed? Uploading Your Manuscript Fragment Images and Cataloguing them Online”
• Jennifer Bain, Paper: “Traces of Liturgy: Analysing Manuscript Fragments from the Binding of the Riesencodex (D-WI1 2)”
• Debra Lacoste and Jennifer Bain, Poster Session: “The DACT Project, Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission”

planned for July 15-19, 2020 [COVID CANCELLATION]
Cantus Planus Study Group of the International Musicological Society
Telč, Czech Republic
Jennifer Bain, Inga Behrendt, Elsa De Luca, Ichiro Fujinaga, Kate Helsen, Alessandra Ignesti, Debra Lacoste, Sarah Long, and Gabriel Vigliensoni, “Refining computational approaches to digitized chant manuscripts.”

planned for July 1-4, 2020 [COVID CANCELLATION]
MedRen (Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference)
The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Jennifer Bain, Panelist, “Notated Fragments from Medieval Europe: Transregional Research and Digital Technologies”

March 5-6, 2020
Digital Humanities in Early Music Research I “Session I: Early music databases, encoding, analysing and OMR”
Masaryk Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
Presentations and hands-on workshops led by Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University) and Debra Lacoste (Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant).

October 18, 2019
Twelfth Annual Atlantic Mediaeval Association Conference
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada
Alessandra Ignesti (with Alessio Marziali Peretti, Université de Montréal), “A Dominican Medley: McGill, Medieval Manuscript 73.”

June 2, 2019
SIMSSA Workshop XVIII, at the Music Encoding Conference
Vienna, Austria
Jennifer Bain, “Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission.”