June 27-29, 2024 (in-person)
Digital Technologies Applied to Music Research
Conference sponsored by the project: Echoes from the Past: Unveiling a Lost Soundscape with Digital Analysis
School of Social Sciences and Humanities – NOVA University Lisbon
Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University), Keynote Speaker, "Digital Technologies Applied to Music Research: Methodologies, Projects and Challenges."

June 27-29, 2024 (in-person)
Digital Technologies Applied to Music Research
Conference sponsored by the project: Echoes from the Past: Unveiling a Lost Soundscape with Digital Analysis
School of Social Sciences and Humanities – NOVA University Lisbon
Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University), Guest Speaker, "The 'Cantus Index' Tool: Its History and a Roadmap for the Future."

July 20 to August 3, 2024 (in-person)
Cantus Planus Study Group of the International Musicological Society
Gödöllő, Hungary
Jennifer Bain and Debra Lacoste, "Projects, Platforms, and Partnerships: Linking Digital Chant Tools."

July 20 to August 3, 2024 (in-person)
Cantus Planus Study Group of the International Musicological Society
Gödöllő, Hungary
Roundtable Session, "Beyond Online: Exploring the Adaptation of Digital Data for Performing and Critical Editions"
Co-organizers: Jean-François Goudesenne (IRHT-CNRS) and Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University)

June 14, 2024 (in-person)
Canadian Society of Medievalists' Annual Meeting
Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
David Watt (University of Manitoba) and Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University) presenting, with Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University) and Kate Kennedy Steiner (Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo), "The DACT Project: Chant Manuscripts and Fragments in Canadian Collections."

May 11, 2024 (in-person)
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
Sponsored by: Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission
"Chant from Manuscript: Singing the Office from a Mexican Cantoral." A workshop led by Christina Kim (Stanford University), and Alison Altstatt (University of Northern Iowa)
Presider: Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University); Organizers: Debra S. Lacoste (Dalhousie University), Alison Altstatt (University of Northern Iowa), Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University)

May 10, 2024 (virtual)
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
Co-sponsored by: Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission and M@K (Musicology at Kalamazoo)
A roundtable discussion with David Andrés-Fernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Brittany G. Roberts (Princeton University), Silvia Salgado Ruelas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Lucia M. Denk, Princeton University, "Cantorales in the Americas (A Roundtable)."
Presider: Virginia Blanton (University of Missouri–Kansas City); Organizers: Alison Altstatt (University of Northern Iowa), Debra S. Lacoste (Dalhousie University), Christina Kim (Stanford University), Virginia Blanton (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

May 9, 2024 (virtual)
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
A roundtable discussion with Catherine Saucier (Arizona State University), Debra S. Lacoste (University of Waterloo / Cantus Database), Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University), Cara Jean Aspesi (University of Notre Dame), Daniel J. DiCenso (College of the Holy Cross), "Pedagogical Resources and Approaches for Medieval Music (A Roundtable)."
Presider: Henry T. Drummond (KU Leuven); Organizers: Andrea Kate Klassen (University of Texas–Austin), Rebecca Maloy (University of Notre Dame), Henry T. Drummond (KU Leuven), Alison Altstatt (University of Northern Iowa), Christina Kim (Stanford University)

March 10-13, 2024
Local Elements – Transregional Connections: Medieval and Early Modern Age Culture and Education in Central Europe
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University), "Developing Policies and Processes: A Revised Manual for Indexing Chant Manuscripts in the Cantus Database."

February 14, 2024
Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (CESEM), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Martha E. Thomae Elías (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and Virginia Blanton (University of Missouri - Kansas City), "Cantorales in the Americas & Beyond: An Introduction."

February 3, 2024 (on Zoom)
Canadian Society of Medievalists' Online Research Forum
Lucia Denk (Princeton University), "Clavis Sequentiarum: Revising, Crowdsourcing, and Maintaining a Database for the Study of Medieval Liturgical Sequences."

January 30, 2024 (on Zoom)
Medieval Academy of America's Graduate Student Committee's Digital Humanities Showcase
Anna de Bakker (Dalhousie University), "Cantus Ultimus and Fragments."

January 24, 2024 (on Zoom)
North American Academy of Liturgy
Kate Kennedy Steiner (Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo), "Cataloguing Chant Sources in Central and Eastern Canada."

January 10, 2024
Lecture series “CODAMUS: Computational and Digital Approaches to Music Scholarship”
Würzburg University, Germany
Elsa De Luca (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), "Encoding Early Music: The Challenges and Beauty of Neumatic Music Scripts."

November 23, 2023
David Schroeder Music & Culture Lecture Series
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University), “Computational Analysis as a Tool for Contextualizing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen.”

November 10, 2023
American Musicological Society's Skills and Resources for Early Musics Study Group, Business Meeting
Denver, Colorado, USA
Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University), Invited Keynote Speaker: "Harmonizing Content in the Cantus Database and DIAMM."

November 10, 2023
Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado, USA
Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University), Kate Helsen (Western University), and Mark Daley (Western University), Poster: "Contextualizing Hildegard of Bingen’s Compositional Style through Computational Analysis."

November 9, 2023
American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Roundtable Session: Early Sacred/Liturgical Musics and Digital Humanities: Skills and Resources
Denver, Colorado, USA
Nicholas Bleisch (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven), Henry Drummond (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven), Richard Haefer (Arizona State University): “Collaborative, Crowdsourced Digital Humanities Initiatives, Databases for the Study of Chant in the Americas and the Low Countries.”

October 21, 2023
LinkedMusic Project Meeting II
McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University) and Jacob deGroot-Maggetti (McGill University), "CantusDB & the DACT Project."

October 7, 2023 to February 12, 2024
(postponed from October 22, 2020 - March 13, 2021)
Exhibition: “Des siècles de silence: la découverte de l’antiphonaire de Salzinnes” (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 in its place of origin. The Salzinnes Antiphonal is held by the Patrick Power Library at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, shelfmark M2149.L4 1554.

September 8, 2023
Encoding Cultures – joint MEC and TEI Conference
Heinz Nixdorf Institut of Paderborn University, Germany
Elsa De Luca, Maria Alexandru, and Ichiro Fujinaga, “Brainstorming on the Encoding of Eastern Neumes: Middle-Byzantine Notation as a Case-Study.”
(PDF on Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/groups/encoding-cultures-joint-mec-and-tei-conference/)

September 8, 2023
Encoding Cultures – joint MEC and TEI Conference
Heinz Nixdorf Institut of Paderborn University, Germany
Elsa De Luca, Inga Behrendt, Ichiro Fujinaga, Kate Helsen, Stefan Morent, “Visual or Symbolic? Best Practices for Encoding Neumes.”
(PDF on Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/groups/encoding-cultures-joint-mec-and-tei-conference/)

August 1, 2023
International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress
Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University) and Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University), Poster Session I: "The digital analysis of chant transmission (DACT), and Cantus."

July 27, 2023
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference
Munich, Germany
Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University), Participant in Roundtable Session: "Finding musical sources before 1600: RISM, Handschriftenportal, Cantus et al. - Part 2."

July 25, 2023
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference
Munich, Germany
Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University), "Text, melodies, and metadata: The development of chant analysis in the Cantus Database."

July 19-22, 2023
Lost & Found: Traces of Early Music, An International Colloquium on Fragmentology
Cascais, Portugal
Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University), Invited Keynote Speaker: "Lost, Then Found in Canada."

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

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 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.”