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Kathleen Christian has co-edited the volume The Muses and their Afterlife in Post-Classical Europe which was published by the Warburg Institute in 2014. Her contribution to the book is titled The Multiplicity of the Muses: The Reception of Antique Images of the Muses in Italy, 1400–1600'.

Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Art History) is organising the 48^th Spring Byzantine Symposium, hosted at the Open University from 28 to 30 March 2015.  The symposium is entitled: ‘Whose Mediterranean is it anyway? Cross-cultural interaction between Byzantium and the West 1204-1669’.

The next conference of the Handel Institute on the theme of Handel and His Eighteenth-Century Performers, will take place at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ, on 21–22 November 2015.

Leah Clark’s article ‘Collecting and Replicating Antiquities: Casts, Substitutions, and the Culture of the Copy in the Quattrocento’ has just been published in the Journal of the History of Collections, available in print in 2015.