CFP!! Come to beautiful @maynoothuniversity.ie for the #BROKENSONG conference! 14-16 May 2026: 'Fragmented Musical Cultures c.1150–c.1350'. CFP deadline 30 Sept 2025. More info and the full CFP: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/i... @erc.europa.eu

In early June, Karen traveled to London where #BROKENSONG convened a very productive pre-MEC workshop to move forward on encoding pre-mensural notation in MEI - thanks to all involved! She also presented a paper at the 2025 MEC conference #music-encoding ‪@music-encoding.bsky.social‬

Later in May Karen and Johanna travelled to the amazing Centre for Manuscript Studies @uni-hamburg.de to learn multispectral imaging processing techniques and best practices. We are very excited to start the MSI processing of BROKENSONG's images!! #MSI #manuscripts

#BROKENSONG has had a busy month. In May the team traveled to the U. of Cambridge for a joint workshop with the #ERC-BENEDICAMUS project at beautiful St John's, & several intensive meetings with experts in plainchant, palaeography, bookbinding & multispectral imaging. A productive 5 days!

This week, the #BROKENSONG team enjoyed a very good time studying the medieval fragments and books preserved in the Worcester Cathedral Library. #medievalbluesky @erc.europa.eu @worcestercathedral.bsky.social

And you'd also be working side-by-side with members of the #ERC #brokensong team!

Last weekend, Professor Karen Desmond attended the Leading Women in Medieval Religious Communities conference, with a paper titled 'Networks of Polyphony in 14th-Century England, and Possible Connections to Shouldham’. The event took place at the University of Notre Dame London, UK.

Job alert!! Come work with us @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social on my Pathway project, 'Power and patronage in medieval Ireland: Clonard from the 6th to 12th centuries' @researchireland.bsky.social. Apply below. Email me for details. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Getting ready to teach my medieval manuscripts class this semester. First week of class we learn...the beautiful, condensed language of catalogue entries. I made this annotated graphic of one to show everything we learn from this brief entry.

Delighted to be giving a talk today at the #DCU musicology seminar series and introducing my #ERC BROKENSONG project!

Deadline fast approaching!! Apply by February 25: spread the word...

Come join us! We're hiring a new senior postdoc for the #BROKENSONG project. Closing date Feb 25, 205. Background in computational musicology #DH, computer science, AI, and/or mathematics/statistics. Full details and a link to the job posting here: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Brilliant to be able to combine my BL manuscripts visit, in preparation for the paper I’ll give at the upcoming #ND ‘Leading Women’ conference (isla.nd.edu/news-and-eve...), with a visit to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social ’Medieval Women’ exhibition!

Members of #BROKENSONG are in beautiful York and London this week, working at the York Minster Library, the British Library, The London Archives, and the National Archives. #medievalbluesky (literally)

Prof. Karen Desmond will be presenting a paper at this fabulous conference on Leading Women in Medieval Religious Communities hosted by Notre Dame London March 8-9, 2025: isla.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

PhD student on the #Brokensong project at The SMI/ICTMD-IE Postgraduate Conference! @sminews1.bsky.social On January 16th, Inês Trindade presented her research ‘The Veneration of Saint Scholastica in the British Isles: The Worcester Gradual F. 160 as Case-Study’, at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Prof Karen Desmond (@maynoothuni.bsky.social) will give a talk tomorrow afternoon at University College Dublin @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social Research Seminar Series introducing the #brokensong project

Inaugural lecture's focus is Prof Desmond's research on medieval music fragments & music reconstruction and the #Brokensong project at @maynoothuni.bsky.social #medievalsky: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Brilliant inaugural lecture by Prof Karen Desmond @brokensong2023.bsky.social (Maynooth Music) in @maynoothuni.bsky.social this afternoon: manuscripts, fragmentary music, multispectral imaging, musical reconstruction - what more can one want?

@maynoothuni.bsky.social’s amazing Professor Karen Desmond talking about her @brokensong2023.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu project this evening

@brokensong2023.bsky.social Prof. Karen Desmond's inaugural professorial lecture at Maynooth this afternoon was one of the most interesting & inspirational lectures I have ever heard. Fragments & music from medieval England brought alive in modern Ireland. #ERC #medievalsky

Prof. Karen Desmond will give her Professorial Inaugural Lecture. She'll present her research and introduce the #Brokensong project @maynoothuni.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/professori...

BROKENSONG has a website! ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/