Session Sponsor at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI , May 2011: "Perspectives on the Digital Humanities and Liturgical Chant Research."
Lacoste, Debra. "The CANTUS Database." Presented at the eCodices Colloquium, Fribourg, Switzerland, 24 June 2010.
Lacoste, Debra. "The CANTUS Database: Mining for Chant Traditions." Presented at the conference The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching and Research, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York City, 16 June 2010.
Lacoste, Debra and Stafleu, Gerard. "A New Online Resource for Comparisons of Chants in Series." Presented by Debra Lacoste at the meeting of the IMS Study Group Cantus Planus, Dobogókö, Hungary, 25 August 2009.
Lacoste, Debra and Helsen, Kate. "The Music Font ‘Volpiano' and its Usefulness in the CANTUS Database." Presented at the 4th Annual Colloquium of The Gregorian Institute of Canada, "Traditions in Western Plainchant," 14 August 2009.
Session sponsor at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 9 May 2009: "Liturgical Chant and Electronic Resources."
Lacoste, Debra and Stafleu, Gerard. "Medieval Chant Meets Cluster Analysis: Demonstrating Manuscript Affinities." Presented by Debra Lacoste at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 9 May 2009.
Lacoste, Debra and Helsen, Kate. "Medieval Musicology on the Internet: Websites Devoted to Medieval Musicology." Presented at the poster session co-sponsored by the Digital Medievalist and the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources and Electronic Editions Advisory Board at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 7 May 2009.
Lacoste, Debra and Mitchell, Andrew. "Electronic Research Tools for Chant Scholarship: The CANTUS Database." Presented by Debra Lacoste at the meeting of the IMS Study Group Cantus Planus at the 18th Congress of the International Musicological Society, Zürich, Switzerland, 16 July 2007.
Session Sponsor at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 2007: "Electronic Resources and Medieval Liturgy." Andrew Mitchell delivered the report "The CANTUS Database."
Lacoste, Debra. "New Tools for Old Sources: Online Databases for Liturgical Manuscript Research." Presented at the meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Toronto, Ontario, 13 April 2007.
Lacoste, Debra. "Maintaining Data Integrity in a Growing Online Chant Resource." Presented at Antiphonaria, a conference sponsored by the research group of the same name (funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung), Regensburg, Germany, 28 September 2006.
Lacoste, Debra. "The Fluid Format of Electronic Musicological Resources." Presented at the meeting of the IMS Study Group Cantus Planus, Niederaltaich, Germany, 3 September 2006.
Published as: Lacoste, Debra. "CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant." In Cantus Planus: Papers Read at the 13th Meeting of the IMS Study Group, Niederaltaich, Germany, 2006 Aug. 29 - Sept. 4., pp. 379-389. Ed. by Barbara Haggh and László Dobszay. Budapest: Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2009.
Lacoste, Debra. "The Cantus Database & NEUMES." Presented at NEUMES 2006: Oxford Conference on Computerised Transcription of Medieval Chant Manuscripts, St. Anne's College, The University of Oxford, 28 June 2006.
Lacoste, Debra and Mitchell, Andrew. "Documenting the Medieval Office in the Cantus Database." Presented in the session entitled “Medieval Matters” at the meeting of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, York University, Toronto, ON, 30 May 2006.
Lacoste, Debra. "About the Classification of Responsory Verse-Tones," presented in the session entitled "New Directions in Office Chant Research" at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7, 2006.
Session Sponsor at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, 7 May 2006: "New Directions in Office Chant Research." Andrew Mitchell delivered the paper "CANTUS: Nearing a Decade at the University of Western Ontario."
Lacoste, Debra; Mitchell, Andrew, and Sander, Elizabeth. "The CANTUS Database and its Role in Medieval Chant Studies." Presented at the University of Western Ontario Colloquium Series, London, Ontario, 23 September 2005.
"Computer-Aided Repertory Studies: Online Access to Chant Sources," in the session entitled "New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III: Reference Resources and Electronic Publishing I" at the meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, Canada, 28 March 2003.
Lacoste, Debra. "The CANTUS Database: Progress Report." Presented at the meeting of the Cantus Planus Study Group (held in conjunction with the meeting of the International Musicological Society), Leuven, Belgium, 7 August 2002.
Published as: Lacoste, Debra and Mitchell, Andrew. "The Cantus Database: Progress Report." [Cantus Planus: Papers Read at the Tenth Meeting, Leuven, Belgium, 1-8 August 2002]. Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 45/1-2 (2004): 119-129. (11 pp.)
Also published as: Lacoste, Debra and Mitchell, Andrew. "The Cantus Database: Progress Report." Cantus Planus-2002; The Russian Version. Vol. 1, pp. 212-226. St. Petersburg: Russian Institute for the History of Arts, 2004. (15 pp.)
Mitchell, Andrew. "The CANTUS Database: A Progress Report." Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2 May 2002.
de Loos, Ike. "Mapping the Modes." Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2 May 2002.
Boyce, James, O.Carm. "The CANTUS Index as Microanalysis: The Significance of Detail for Understanding Practice." Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2 May 2002.
Steiner, Ruth. "Scholarship Concerning the Divine Office in the 21st Century." Paper given at the meeting of the American Musicological Society, Toronto, 4 November 2000.
Andrew Mitchell was called upon by panelist Prof. Ruth Steiner to discuss and answer questions about CANTUS at the meeting of the American Musicological Society in Toronto during the session entitled "Plainchant Studies in the Twenty-First Century," November 5, 2000.
Debra Lacoste was a panelist and CANTUS representative for the roundtable discussion entitled "Resources for the Study and Teaching of Hagiography" at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5, 2000.
Steiner, Ruth. "CANTUS: A Database for Gregorian Chant." Report and demonstration presented at Chung Chi College of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 22 May 1998.
Steiner, Ruth and Collamore, Lila. "Medieval Tonaries and the CANTUS Database." Report presented at a graduate seminar at Harvard University, 19 November 1997.
Steiner, Ruth. "The CANTUS Database." Report presented at a general faculty meeting of The Catholic University of America, 21 March 1997.
Steiner, Ruth. "The CANTUS Database and the Chants of the Divine Office in Piacenza 65." Paper given at the conference Il Libro del Maestro in Piacenza, Italy, 15 March 1997.
Steiner, Ruth. "The Lessons of CANTUS." Paper presented at the conference Die Erschließung der Quellen des mittelalterlichen Gesangs at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, 27 March 1996.
Lacoste, Debra. "INTERNET Resources: The CANTUS Project" read at the University of Western Ontario Colloquium Series, London, Ontario, 9 February 1996.
Steiner, Ruth."Minimalkursus in Using the CANTUS Database." Demonstration for the meeting of Cantus Planus in Sopron, Hungary, 6 September 1995.
Steiner, Ruth. "Die CANTUS Datenbank der Catholic University of America." Report presented to the Associazione Internazionale Studi di Canto Gregoriano (AISCGre) in the Prälatensaal of the Schottenstift, Vienna, 9 June 1995.
Mathiesen, Thomas J. and Steiner, Ruth. "The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum and CANTUS." Demonstration at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society(Minneapolis, Minnesota), 28 October 1994.
Steiner, Ruth. "CANTUS: A Data Base for Gregorian Chant." Status report read to a meeting of the American Musicological Society, Capital Chapter (George Washington University, Washington, D.C.), 8 February 1992.